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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you’ll need and vice versa. The VC’s $1 million still buys them 25% of your company – it’s you who has diluted to 60% ownership rather than 75%. That’s normal. This is a shame.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

However, at the very early stage, they are taking as much risk with their future as the founders. Every time a startup raises capital, all common shareholders are diluted. In a CTO Salary and Equity trends report by Safire Partners, it finds non-founder equity compensation to settle out below 2 percent. Engineer #1?

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. Having too many co-founders will only lead to your eventual dilution. You shouldn’t hire a senior executive from an established company for an early stage startup. Early Stage. Seed to Series A.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. Here’s the problem: this opportunity doesn’t exist for early-stage startups, because, by definition, they have no users or customers. Startups die due to a variety of causes.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor the Dutch outperform the EU big five in terms of early stage entrepreneurial activity.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

At the same time, a direct equity investment (one where the dev shop acquires a share in the company immediately) puts the founders in a potentially uneasy position of having to dilute their company before a product is built. During and after fundraising, we team with the founder to recruit for a full-time CTO to join the company.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Update Link to Questions, Topics and People Add Find Questions, Topics or People Comment Jason Crawford , Co-founder & CTO at Kima Labs 25 votes by Abinash Tripathy , Anon User, Dean Blackburn , (more) Chris Dixon says it all in a post titled "There Are Two Kinds of Pe. How much equity do early employees typically get?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

If that’s the Chief Technology Officer, or the sales chief, or the marketing person, whoever is the best public speaker, you should always put your best foot forward.”. We saw a few quite recently where founders had given up 70 percent of equity to a really early stage seed investor,” Campbell said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity. This means they will be metered out month-by-month, and a partner who changes his mind or defects early will not walk away with half the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Providing the major funding source for an early-stage startup is a totally different dimension, but it usually trumps all the items above in demanding some equity. This means they will be metered out month-by-month, and a partner who changes his mind or defects early will not walk away with half the company.

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