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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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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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How to Deal with Skeletons in your Closet

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This is part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital. They are issues, though, that your VC would certainly find out during due diligence or at a minimum you’d be ethically obliged to tell them. Your CTO and leading technology visionary has just announced he’s quitting.

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Attracting a CTO to your startup

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links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup. That would be my due diligence on you if I was a technical partner--lots of people saying yes. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Valuations 101: Scorecard Valuation Methodology

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Working within a network of angel investors also expands the pool of expert resources and helps divide the work of screening companies and investment due diligence. Experience as a COO, CFO, CTO. +. Experience in sales or technology. – Need venture capital. Experience. +. Experience as a CEO. ++.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

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Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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I think the real moral of this story is, (1) if you want to work at a startup, make sure the CTO cares about problem solving and not technology religion, (2) if you’re cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, starting looking for a new job.

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