Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Every investor expects to see some business traction, both before and after a funding event. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Talk descriptions, speakers, workshops, evening events, Ignite, Office Hours…but we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves. We actively sought out great stories, not just big names, and we found people who had compelling experiences to present. But other than that, it’s all there. That’s no accident.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

MAKE SURE to talk with your existing investors about how they feel about your burn rate, discuss with them early what the back-up plan may be and whether they think they’d be able to get support in the unlikely event that fund raising proves difficult. Never stop in the ink is dry on the contract and the money is in your bank account.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2021

eve is Coming to Austin How an event insurtech startup not only survived, but thrived during COVID Building a startup is risky at the best of times. Building an event insurtech startup during COVID is downright insane, but here we are. As I mentioned, eve is an event insurtech startup. The story of eve Why?

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Avoid events that are never timely, i.e. anniversaries, holidays and “Go blue for/Go red for [insert cause here]” months. You can introduce the reporter to other entrepreneurs, or key him or her into events before they become news. You have a new hire (if they’re not the CEO or CTO, reporters probably won’t care).

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. They didn’t wait until their universities hired a director of this new program. A name change—that’s all I wanted… to make the name more reflective of what was actually being taught.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Every time a startup raises capital, all common shareholders are diluted. In cases where a startup is sold within a few years time, there is often acceleration agreements for unvested shares. How much do they cough up?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Every investor expects to see some traction, both before and after a funding event. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

We will be hiring people with mental and physical disabilities in the near future. 13- Take the middleman out of event staffing. I started Tend with a simple goal: to take the middleman out of event staffing. This job involved putting on recruiting events in various places and making sure all the logistics were squared away.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

For example: Dropbox, Reddit, and Birch Box, to name a few. Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. Greenhorn Connect: Excellent hub of BOS tech events and resources. Join their online community and attend their excellent events.

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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. David Cohen deserves much credit for building TechStars into an internationally recognized brand name for innovation. They need somebody bending their ears.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager. Deep Instinct was named “Cool Vendor in 2016” by the Gartner Research Group.

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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? Each document has a from-language, to-language, and a name. Hire one from each.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The name of your company, Every Two Minutes, reflects that every two minutes in the United States, a person is sexually assaulted. Anyone you surround yourself with, whether advisors or mentors, biz partners, potential hires, programmers, business incubator, anyone you give equity to, etc.?—?treat For example, I just brought on a CTO.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Let me drop a few names and you will get the picture: Adyen, Booking.com (acquired by Priceline), Distimo, Mendix, Shapeways, Spilgames, Takeaway.com, TravelBird, WeTransfer and Qandidate. Bringing macro back down to micro – there are Dutch techies and executives ‘ kicking ass and taking names ‘ around the globe.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because - lets face it - PHP can be pretty painful. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire.

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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? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Would love to get in touch.

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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. I was at a Verne har event about 14 years ago and I came off stage speaking and someone came up to me said, oh my gosh, you're Cameron. John Jantsch (06:55): Yeah.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

That’s the first time I’ve seen that name, actually. And actually before we even get into that, I like how you pronounce my name correctly the first time. Jono Bacon: I was named Jono by a kid who lived opposite a new house that my parents moved into when I was seven. No, my real name is Jonathan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

Software Review 68

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. It strokes your ego. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. We tried obvious competitors as well as long-shots. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Check if the currently logged-in user is part of this experiment already. If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. If the user is not part of this experiment yet, pick a hypothesis using the weightings passed in as parameters. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

I responded by saying attending an event like this was a good start and then asked him if his VC company was interested in interests outside of Technology and Medical. I would like to see more women come together in the name of innovation, business and artistic expression in a way that we empower one another.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. Pivotal Labs doesn't carry "Pivot" in its name by accident. I'm glad there's a 'name' for this part of the process Eric. I think i must have read this article a few times since you first posted it - mainly as a theoretical excercise.

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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. The importance of a domain name. For Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin, finding a good domain name was a key part of his branding strategy. The business model.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

GeekWire Events. TECH EVENTS. NAME THAT TECH TUNE. 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. . -->.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Most of my time in the store is spent scrolling through endless lists. All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. But even clicking through to see a screenshot and some reviews is incredibly time consuming, given the hundreds of apps in most categories. I cant really tell.

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Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

You need to build a relationship with someone over time before they’re convinced to go join your startup. I think most new entrepreneurs severely underestimate the time it takes to recruit talent. How in the world do all my actor friends live here if you’re saying you can’t hire a developer because you have to pay them too much? >

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

8 – You cant change the world working part time. You can’t change the world working part time. This quote is from Oleg Vishnepolsky the global CTO at DailyMail Online and Metro.co.uk. Especially, when you don’t fully know if events will happen, or change along the way.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We hired three guys from that batch and paid them in iPhones. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. It builds trust and earns buy-in from the people you hire. When you’re hiring folks, don’t promise equity upfront. Tiny, contracting market. You’ll be the only startup there.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met in New York meetups and events that fit this description.

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Simply put, we upload all the tasks and assign a name to each task. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. 1 comments: Josh Moore said. Our business uses a similar system but using excel (about to move to Google Docs).

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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. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Now you go: Name (required). Friday, August 20, 2010 Veena says: Nice job with this post and very timely for me as I’ve been searching for a Technical Co-founder for the past few months through networking events and online job classifieds, and haven’t found “the one” yet. Email (required; not published).

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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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