Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

VCs and angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

How about documentation that nobody reads? All of these are true waste, and they generally happen because somebody is optimizing for their particular part of the puzzle, not for the team as a whole. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? the data on a regular basis.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. The business model. Schedule.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire. In my role as a CTO, Ive always tried to choose the right tool for the right job.

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