CTO Hire Early Stage Engineer Product Development 
firstround.com
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. First Round Capital.
Business Plan Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2013
This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. A bonafide team is the assurance that the idea can be executed and that the business can scale when the time is right. 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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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. The earlier stage the more likely it is 10 meetings and the later stage the more likely it is 6.
Hippoland
OCTOBER 9, 2016
If you’re still in the early stages of your entrepreneur-education/journey, you may even think you need to protect your idea and not share it with anyone. This is one of my favorite startup presentations of all time by Mike Cassidy on going fast. As an entrepreneur, you think your idea is unique. And convey this in your pitch.
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 wrote about it on their engineering blog pretty extensively. Introducing Jonas Weigert and LawnStarter.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
These are particularly relevant to first-time founders, since the learnings they go through often inhibit them from successfully launching a company. When the value of the studio’s participation is effectively a commodity (like office space, engineering, capital, etc), the equation flips and should be to the advantage of the founders.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
Later, when the company was much larger, we had everyone on our engineering team agree to sit in on one usability test every month. It wasnt a huge time commitment, but it meant that every engineer was getting regular contact with an actual customer, which was invaluable. Dont confuse passion with volume.
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