CTO Hire Hiring Portfolio Reference 
TechEmpower
DECEMBER 11, 2023
This vast pool of talent showcases a wide range of experience and portfolios, quality of work, and inquisitiveness. Here's what to consider Experience and Portfolio: What type of projects has the company completed? Who was involved in those projects, and are they still part of the firm? cto , product , saas
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 21, 2014
The truth is you really don’t know how your teammates or your bosses will perform in good times and bad. You hire people who look good on paper. So one of the surest signs you’ve hired a leader is the willingness of his or her former team to re-assemble. After 6 months – you know. You REALLY know.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on.
SoCal CTO
APRIL 9, 2013
They''ve been in talks with some consulting companies, but don''t quite the know the criteria for evaluating them and things like references(and where to get them). And they should not get to count items in their portfolio that were done at another company/job - yes, that''s quite common, especially in new firms. References.
Cracking the Code
MARCH 24, 2015
We were fortunate to host very talented speakers from our portfolio (Ilya Sukhar from FB/Parse, Steve Marx from Dropbox, Bill Ready from Braintree, Ali Rayl from Slack, Eric Wittman from Atlassian, Sam Mac Donnell from HotelTonight.) gathered at the event. It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 28, 2010
kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.
Seeing Both Sides
JULY 13, 2011
Only after the first year, as we settled into a more stable organizational structure and I recruited senior executives who were more obviously going to serve as my direct reports on the executive team did I begin to give out titles (CTO, CMO, CFO, etc.). Don't let your founding team and early hires get too attached to titles and hieararchy.
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