CTO Hire Hiring Revenue Stock 
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.
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SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. Paul Graham provides what is roughly the core formula for equity at any point in The Equity Equation : You can use the same formula when giving stock to employees, but it works in the other direction.
www.lanceglasser.com
MAY 13, 2012
Growth, Profitability, and the Stock Price. Stock buybacks. What does a CTO do? Growth, Profitability, and the Stock Price. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company? So what is the CTO job? This is where you should see the CTO. What goes around.
This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here: [link].
The Next Web
AUGUST 12, 2013
Starting a global tech business with international, well-educated and highly-skilled people, generating millions of revenue per month, is incredibly hard. They should be able to hire great designers to help build a better product. This person needs to be incredibly skilled in engineering, and should ideally be an experienced CTO.
www.avc.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. First, a caveat.
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