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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 had a partially built product.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). People had to actually pay you for your product.
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David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you want a slice of the pie, there isn’t a better time to get involved. Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 30, 2014
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. This year’s hottest startups were all about boosting our productivity and well-being. A rival company has launched a competing version based on its underlying open-source code. Product Hunt. MyFitnessPal.
thinkspace.com
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
David Crow writes in his article “ Founders versus Early Employees “, “Remember the goal is to incent early employees to have an emotional ownership of the product and company they are building. I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding.
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
“By day I did my job, but at night I wrote a piece of software to automate my job,” he recalls. “At At the end of my four-month term, they brought me on part-time to run a team that built out a system around the software I’d developed at night.”. That was an amazing experience and opportunity… and an awesome company.”.
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