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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

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.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. Go to user groups.

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Is Going for Rapid Growth Always Good? Aren’t Startups So Much More?

Both Sides of the Table

Growing too slowly is particularly dangerous in a business with network effects, which the best startups usually have to some degree.” “Lean” is great in the early days but if you discover an attractive market opportunity you need to get “fat” really quickly or somebody else will.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

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. This is one of the bedrock practices of any lean startup , and so its a common piece of advice I give out.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

One major theory that has influenced the way I think about processes comes from Lean Manufacturing , where they use these same techniques to build cars. Customers found it confusing and it turned out to be at odds with our fundamental value proposition (which really requires an independant IM network). Talk about waste. Expo SF (May.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

However, valuing the intangibles of time saving, expertise, network, etc. Partnering with a source of capital, connections, and expertise for a large equity chunk is often worth it in those scenarios (e.g., I spoke with Thatcher Bell , Managing Partner, CoVenture. There’s a huge caveat to the above comments. Rock Health).

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“Regardless of who is in the White House, we have work to do from the bottom up and from the outside in” – Five Questions With Jennifer Pahlka of Code for America

Hunter Walker

More than a non-profit, though, we are a network. More than a non-profit, though, we are a network. More than a non-profit, though, we are a network. Many of them have been carried on by the cities, counties or states we partnered with. He had part time help from one or two of the other fellows.

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