Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Complementary skills.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? The terms “CTO” and “VP Engineering” have such stigmas associated with what they are that I’m sure some people will feel uncomfortable with the definitions I’ve put forward. I’ve heard both arguments from CTO’s.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Complementary skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Risk Officer. Chief Diversity Officer. Chief Legal Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Risk Officer. Chief Diversity Officer. Chief Legal Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Complementary skills.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Complementary skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

In this article, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. Complementary skills.

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Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Risk Officer. Chief Diversity Officer. Chief Legal Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Risk Officer. Chief Diversity Officer. Chief Legal Officer.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

As the company’s Commercial Manager, Hortensius was armed with the responsibility of setting up the office’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur as well as growing the local team. Upon realising this, it definitely helped to speed up the hiring process and we now work with a multicultural team of 14. Being too direct during meetings.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. He is a highly creative game designer and idea person, and I am a very strong planner and executor. I also wanted to reflect my new, remote and off-grid lifestyle as part of the name.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. No revenues, no costs. break the silos!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Examples of this are well-known, and (in my definition) include any product that causes new customers to sign up as a necessary side-effect of existing customers normal usage: Facebook, Myspace, AIM/ICQ, Hotmail, Paypal. For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

they need a developer more than they need a CTO. What happens when you have a really good developer is that a gap exists where you may not ask the right questions to specify the right system, consider appropriate 3rd party technologies, etc. Many are not interested in 3rd party technologies that can streamline development.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Celebrate the female geek; meet your favorite artists, writers, and game designers; make lasting connections and friends; and play the latest console and board games. Join Corum Group President Nat Burgess at the offices of Davis Wright Tremaine on July 18. Get the education you need at the definitive Tech M&A conference, July 18.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

Blockdraws Technologies COO, Konstantinos Despotakis is a former online casino CEO and also a former Deputy Director of Compliance at the AGCC. In addition, the founder Darin Oliver, also took in Kim Lumbard, the Blockdraw’s current CTO. algorithms mechanics, Blockdraw can provide a definitive black-box verification.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

This is definitely not the norm in accelerator programs; I’d be curious to know the logic. My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker. It’s part of the product.” Jono Bacon: Because the companies that tend to fail in this is they hire a community manager and that community manager essentially acts as like an ambassador to the community. So it definitely has that aspect.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Yes, the idea gets things started and definitely excites. I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

Landon Ray: No, I definitely have not. The opportunity to make a difference for these hundred and change people that work for us is a really profound and important part of what we’re up to here. I spend probably half my time designing the software which is what I love to do and it hasn’t been that way always.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager.

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We spent a lot of time asking everyone we knew if they knew anyone who would be looking to intern with a startup. We’ve had some success with hiring interns for fashion design and editorial work, so we were hoping to replicate that with a coder, even in basic HTML, CSS and PHP. On a bootstrapped budget free is great.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? It is definitely written in a condescending manner. You don't need a self-designated 10x imbe. But you definitely need more than a beginner. Rockstar v. Creative, innovative, or dreamy (not so sure about the last one), green 'get started' button or orange?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We just held our eighth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. Expensify Blog.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Youll notice a pattern: most of the key features that enabled PHPs success are considered among its defects by experts in language design. Ironically, as PHP has grown up, its designers have been busy "fixing" these shortcomings. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, I was really interested in programming, design development, but I didn't realize the kind of business aspect for a very, very long time. But then on the negative side, the whole world of raising money, investors, that part felt intimidating. So, there's definitely the feeling that you just, sometimes you didn't belong.

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