rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The innovation function is dedicated to iterative search through experimentation. To support the three Cs, ING has also developed their own iterative practice named PACE. 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.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

A copywriter looking to see how to write email subject lines for holiday campaigns will likely look at headings, searching for the most relevant information to their task. Think about your playbook from the perspective of a new hire. The accountant tells the CTO about your great product, who then green lights the purchase.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Files you need to collaborate on with others, sometimes across different time zones. And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

One of the first potential advisors I reached out to was someone who 10 years earlier tried to hire me as the VP of Marketing of his new division at Sun Microsystems. For lots of reasons that never worked out, but I liked him so much that the following year I tried to hire him as the VP of Engineering of Ardent. (He But I was crushed.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I n its first investment in Israel, Russian search engine Yandex is rumoured to invest $3.4 The tagging widget uses faces.detect to automatically place tags on people's faces, and allows users to add names. million in Israel’s Face.com , a startup developing face recognition technology. The total amount is $4.3M

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

A quick search on Quora , for example, reveals lots of good questions and answers on the topic. A search on Google shows there are over 54 million results containing the terms startup and advice (a smaller number, about 287,000, containing the phrase “startup advice”). There is no shortage of startup advice.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

Read up on the tech news sites you’re pitching, then do a little soul-searching. You have a new hire (if they’re not the CEO or CTO, reporters probably won’t care). You have a new, big name advisor (unless it’s a big , big name this rarely works).

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

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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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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

We will be hiring people with mental and physical disabilities in the near future. I was surprised that there wasn’t a name brand company that had people available anywhere and at any time, along with transparent booking, payment, and really great staff that you could choose from. Helping others is what makes my heart full.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Based on past experience, the penalty will carry a sweet name (I vote for “One-Eyed Weasel”) and affect any website that has its entire link profile based on guest posts – most of them in medium to low quality websites. Are you finding hundreds and even thousands of search results for guest articles that carry your name?

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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.

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ithacaVC

MAY 30, 2011

So the board fires Al and, after a search process, hires Brett as the new CEO; Brett is thus hired in as a non-founder CEO. After the management change there are 5 directors, namely Brett, Jim, 1 VC rep and 2 independents. The interesting conflicts arise for Jim.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

This is one of my favorite startup presentations of all time by Mike Cassidy on going fast. Demonstrate that you can pull the trigger on things quickly — whether it be getting customers, hiring / firing employees, or product development. Use a company domain name as opposed to a Gmail / Yahoo / Hotmail / AOL email address.

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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. Only talking to real-life people will help you figure out whether you’ve got a good product, or just a solution in search of a problem, or a product in search of a market.

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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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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. More often than not, they know only one name: Julliard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. Labels: search engine marketing 4comments: Tauya said.

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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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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2015

We ended up with a product that was searching for a market instead of first spending the time to figure out who our ideal customer was and building a product specifically for them. Or, your target market might be a certain type of employee at another company, such as a CTO or head of marketing.

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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.

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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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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. It strokes your ego. You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic.

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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. And I really wanted a place where the CEOs could go and spend two full days talking about interviewing and hiring and onboarding of people. John Jantsch (06:55): Yeah. powered by.

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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. Another question that always comes up when talking about customer development, is whether VCs and other financial backers are embracing this way of building companies.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Michael is not his real name. I get many emails in the spirit of this one and thought it was about time I wrote a proper post about it. Another reason for writing the post now is that it is always a good time to think about your career path, but never more so than the current economic circumstances. Please stick with me.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Quora Home About Login Sign Up Add Question Before adding a question, search for it above. Smart teams understand quickly that all three skills are essential - if you can't recognize the need, you won't be able to hire for it or value it. Add Comment • Dec 7, 2010 View All 2 Comments Cannot add comment at this time.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Now you go: Name (required). Now, however, it really is time to have some dedicated partners on this project to build the vision, and I’m starting the search for technical co-founder again. If you found this post useful, please consider sharing it. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it. Email (required; not published).

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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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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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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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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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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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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. Name (required). 25 Best Startup Post-Mortems of All Time. 3 – Not the right team. Thanks Andrew.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

I personally believe that the best way to hire, find partners, and find a job is through a network. It's probably better to ask for help that way than to say "help on a job search." Since, I've given them the same advice, I thought it was worth putting in my blog. So the key question is: How can I leverage my network?

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