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Initial Conversation with a CTO or Technical Advisor

SoCal CTO

Are you a non-technical startup founder who’s about to go have a conversation with a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) or Technical advisory type person? Maybe you are trying to determine what technologies might apply that you should be evaluating. Of course, when you go to have this conversation be prepared.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

My basic claim is that you MUST HAVE LOTS OF EARLY CONVERSATIONS. What's also interesting in Niel's piece is that he defines Stealth Mode not as not having conversations, but rather he says it's not make public pronouncements. This will only be disclosed when there is an NDA in place. But let's leave that aside for a minute.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

My basic claim is that you MUST HAVE LOTS OF EARLY CONVERSATIONS. What's also interesting in Niel's piece is that he defines Stealth Mode not as not having conversations, but rather he says it's not make public pronouncements. This will only be disclosed when there is an NDA in place. But let's leave that aside for a minute.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Actually, David’s taking even broader roles than I generally do as he’s CEO for at least one startup.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

Tiny, contracting market. Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post ! Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Paul Nelligan Really amazingly good post. To go back to our original conversation, entrepreneurs want to focus on accomplishment rather than idle praise.

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