This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You will initially spend majority of time personally working with individual accounts and coaching sales team. CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? How do you like them apples?

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All Things Distributed Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The first thing thatalways comes up when you want to discuss the role of a CTO is that there is no wellestablished definition of what a CTO actually does. I am posting it here as it might be of generalinterest.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

But while Amazon blew away existing physical distribution channels to deliver products to you, we are blowing away existing physical infrastructure to help you store the things you want to keep – just not at your home. I wrote about that experience here without giving away the details of the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 13, 2013

It’s the age-old debate among start-up circles: which is more important to the success of a start-up: the strength of the sales/distribution strategy or the quality of the product? To be successful, a stand-alone company needs a top-notch product and a clever distribution/sales strategy. Today, it’s a different story.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

In addition, the founder Darin Oliver, also took in Kim Lumbard, the Blockdraw’s current CTO. They bring high performance with robust distributed accounting, however they suffer security flaws and they don’t have a built-in compliance features. system to run the most advanced distributed casino platform in the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. Sacrifice and time commitment. A part-time commitment, while holding down a “real” paying job, is obviously not the same as a full-time executive role, especially if the cash compensation is nonexistent, deferred, or at high risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better. Build qualified advisory board.

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Aline Lerner's Blog. Jun 21, 2013.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better. Build qualified advisory board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. Sacrifice and time commitment. A part-time commitment, while holding down a “real” paying job, is obviously not the same as a full-time executive role, especially if the cash compensation is nonexistent, deferred, or at high risk.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days of Rocket Science I realized that we needed high-level advice on multiple fronts; technology, game development, video game distribution, etc. One of the first potential advisors I reached out to was someone who 10 years earlier tried to hire me as the VP of Marketing of his new division at Sun Microsystems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The difference between “remote” and “distributed” is that in a remote team, there is a company office(s) where some team members are based full-time. A distributed team has no location base – everyone is in a different place. But distributiveness solves a lot of problems, including that of being remote. legal issues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better. Build qualified advisory board.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer. Belief #3: Outlier Companies Can Be Built Anywhere.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

SaaS data integration is the process of distributing applications to your team or anyone within your company conveniently, securely, without configuration. Onboarding goes beyond hiring new employees. Passing the employee’s details to the IT department to notify them of the new hire is half the battle.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

In response, venture capital firms like Sequoia and Andreessen/Horowitz are hiring new partners just to work with their portfolio companies and match them to corporations. A business model is all the parts of a strategy necessary to deliver a product to a customer and make money from it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Files you need to collaborate on with others, sometimes across different time zones. And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better. Build qualified advisory board.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

While some investors will be willing to help you build your team, they will not be willing to invest in your startup if you are not willing to distribute responsibility and bring on diversified expertise. Don’t hire people with skills and qualifications similar to yours. Hiring the right people at the right time is key.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. You have to ensure that the right people come in at the right time, and you have the right decor, ambiance and music.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? The one thing that I think is missing is distributing equity to every single employee in the company regardless of title.

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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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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. New CXO advisors join?—?

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

We will be hiring people with mental and physical disabilities in the near future. I build social media platforms, help procure contracts, assist with infrastructure and more. Today, Virtual Vocations lists more than 20,000 remote job openings at any given time, all of which are vetted for legitimacy by our expert team.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

At the time, RIM was the dominant smartphone company and Livingston settled into a “process-heavy” job within the company, where he worked tirelessly all hours. “By At the end of my four-month term, they brought me on part-time to run a team that built out a system around the software I’d developed at night.”.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 17, 2017

LawnStarter is one such company, so we sat down with their CTO, Jonas Weigert , to learn about how they experiment across their product and communication and how they deal with optimization as a company. They have a ratings system and build distribution algorithms to best distribute lawn care providers to customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company. The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you’ll need and vice versa. This states how the proceeds from a sale or dissolution of the company will be distributed.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. You have two avenues open to you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. The main contribution of the open-source Docker software is to simplify the distribution of applications by standardizing their properties and shipping them together with their entire environment in neat containers.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January. came together in Kenya around March 2016, hired the first Pawame employees shortly thereafter, and we sold our first solar home system, to the mother of one of our early employees, in July 2016. The founders?—?Alex

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer. Belief #3: Outlier Companies Can Be Built Anywhere.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

SXSW Panel: Elevating Blacks in Tech Rodney Sampson (@rodneysampson) | Twitter Mark Mathewson Managing VP & CTO Small Business & Canada Technology Capital One Mark is immensely passionate about diversity, especially in the technology industry. As the third U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided. “Some people weren’t comfortable because it wasn’t as fun, and one senior engineer thought we’d be losing the part of kaChing that was an enabler for anyone who wanted to make it as a pro,&# Rachleff recalls. Which is a nice story.

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