SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. You are looking for someone who cares about the look, but you are hiring the development firm for it''s development skills not its graphic design skills.

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Web Development Web Developer Los Angeles 204

Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

To be fair, this number includes pitch emails like this (incl a response from my former colleague Sean Percival). (In fact, the vast majority of pitches I’ve seen probably fall under this category and these only take a few seconds to read and archive, so this is how you get to see 20k pitches!) Meandering email copy is not a good sign.

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Seed Stage CTO Hire Email Later Stage 48

adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? Adamac Attack! Yeah me neither.

Technical Review 41

Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup 41

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One of my favorite episodes who should be your first hire, what's your funding plan, Dr. Lisa Cravin shares her top advice from building spotlight oral. One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox.

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CTO Cofounder Networking Operations 77

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will 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? Google also unveiled plans to double its NYC employee base to 14k.

Stealth 79

Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. When it comes time to grow your team, Jeff Jordan and Eric pointed out three hiring mistakes to avoid.

Lean 245

Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

When I started my studio, I didn’t think of it as particularly innovative but now I go to conferences and get comments about being the rare woman in tech, interviewees who say it drew them to our studio, or a nice email from an agency in Dallas wanting to connect simply because we’re both woman-led.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur CTO Hire 48

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) That institution will touch many people in its life: customers, investors, employees, and everyone they touch as well. Please email me if you are interested. My first time at your blog.

San Francisco 155

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

“Everybody felt the burden of supporting all those transactions every day,&# says Pascal-Louis Perez, kaChing’s CTO. “It took a ton of our time, and just wasn’t contributing to our long term vision.&# “It took a ton of our time, and just wasn’t contributing to our long term vision.&#

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Daily email digest. The company is hiring 300 employees in 2012, particularly software engineers with talent in key areas such as interactive analytics, mobile applications, internet scale distributed systems, high performance graphics, user experience and human oriented design. . -->. email protected] | (206) 913-7926.

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Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering 42

blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Max Shapiro s People Connect Staffing has an innovative program called Employees Without Paychecks. Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. Email This BlogThis! at 3:54 PM.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Software Engineering 40

firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. Subscribe by Email. Also relevant: the problem with email. Product and Engineering.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

Product 78

Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO 78

ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

Additionally, in many organizations, the Microsoft Active Directory (AD) functions as the administrative user directory that grants access to essential IT services, in particular email and file sharing. Reduce the Time Spent Onboarding New Employees. Onboarding goes beyond hiring new employees.

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CTO Hire Cloud Software Review Employee 138

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Joel is focused on the fact that in many environments, programmers are considered "just the hired help" akin to manual labor, and not treated properly. I would add, though, a further question: Do new employees write code on their first day? Do programmers have quiet working conditions? Completely necessary.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. Email (required; not published). If yes, hire a contract developer. You may be able to find a student or part-timer who is willing to work for a reduced rate. - They can easily get great benefits and a six figure salary. Finance (1).

Technical Cofounder 42

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Jono Bacon: So in the business world, when you can get your team to collaborate together and to work together and everybody feels connected by the mission of the business, then you tend to get happier, more effective, more proactive employees. And he sent me an email basically saying that he would earn money around his village doing chores.

Community 54

Community Social Media Africa Kansas City 54

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email.

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

CTO Hire 150

CTO Hire Vesting Venture Capital Startup 150

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. 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? Equity for Employees. Office Space. Virtual Office.

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Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. You can be part of the creative destruction. But who else is going to get out there and close your big biz dev deals with you? He’s why I came this week.

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Hire everyone you need as an employee. A couple years in, I got married and left on my honeymoon for two weeks to Kenya – where I had no email or phone connectivity much of the time. After launching our Windows online backup service five years ago, our CTO pitched that we should focus on launching our Mac version next.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Kenya Dilution 143

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. 8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank. It’s great advice.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. Worst of all, your teammates are constantly wanting to have meetings.

Software Review 94

Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco 94

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

We eventually discovered (via five whys ) that we also had to get each new employee acculturated to a fearless way of thinking. For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. Because this was such a big cultural change for most new employees, we didnt leave them to sink or swim on their own.

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Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean 131

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

We chat with them online but we don’t get to hang out with our customers that much except for once a year with our annual event, ONTRApalooza but we do get to hang out with our employees. The primary reason I have it so good is because I made a really extraordinary hire back in 2010 right after we started getting traction.

Software Review 35

Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software 35

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He started Stackify to solve the biggest challenge he had as the CTO of VinSolutions, so Matt, thanks for joining me. I was that hired gun in some senses. Matt Watson: It is a hard skill to learn and I love our employees dearly, but managing employees is hard. It’s definitely, it’s the hardest part.

Kansas City 38

Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Software Developers 38

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. Even though Konstantinos Bratanis, co-founder and CTO of Goodvidio, and his partner started the business with their own hard-earned money, they were able to eventually raise VC funding.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We hired three guys from that batch and paid them in iPhones. Doubtful we’d have access to such a rich employee pool any other way. Lots of the attendees will be wearing suits for the first time––and hating it. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. It builds trust and earns buy-in from the people you hire.

Founder 51

Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

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.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Sure, it garners the "winning " reply above, but in reality I find this answer that directs the asker to go hire an inexpensive prototype development team much more helpful than the "leading answer" that gives the "Quora rockstar engineer" point of view.

Developer 42

Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. Expensify Blog. Some additional comments at the end.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

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? Feel free to include your URL and email for anyone to contact you. Hire one from each.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

And that rep doesn’t just send an email to his boss – he has coffee with the head of customer service. CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location. This is a topic that comes up often in Los Angeles because many CEOs are tempted to hire their tech teams in the Bay Area. What about call centers?

Distribution 335

Distribution Offshore CTO Hire Bulgaria 335

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.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Increasingly powerful systems cracked open the door for real-time predictive analytics. A world of real-time predictions. For some, the age of “real-time” predictive analytics is here. A simple predictive analysis is your arrival time in Waze. which segment, test, or personalization a user is most likely to respond to.

Analytics 131

Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131