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 needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Based on my posts Startup CTO or Developer and Acting CTO , Chris O’Meara wrote an interesting post Startup CTO: Could It Work? They tend to know where to find good help in terms of employees and consultants. If you think that's person you need, the question becomes "what else do you expect a CTO to contribute?"

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. How the leaders of your company handle adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the law will be seen by all employees, customers, and investors. Carry minimal historical baggage.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

This week they set out to create their cap table and hire a CTO. As first time entrepreneurs they did not create an employee options pool; we’ll fix that in a little while. Jane and Dick want to bring in their friend Praveena as CTO, but they don’t know how to structure the compensation.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company? So what is the CTO job? First it is to ensure that the company has the best technology. This is where you should see the CTO. Tricks of the trade. Woe be the average man.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2018

by Alastair Brown, Chief Technological Officer at BrightHR. When one of your employees forwards you a friend’s resume, they might simply be doing them a favour. Paragraph one is your employee helping a friend. Paragraph two is your employee wanting to help their employer by helping their friend.

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Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

In order to be a successful tech startup, the team must consist of a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) level member to help with the technology plan. This is generally achieved in one of the following ways: CTO Level Co-Founder (Equity). CTO Level Board Member or dedicated Adviser (Free or Equity).

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

But as the start-up scales and you hire employees, your day-to-day is taken over by more managerial tasks, like hiring and managing people, running company meetings, etc. the difference between becoming a CTO who provides technical direction vs. VP of Engineering who manages the whole dev team).

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Todd Park convened the team that saved Obamacare. He’ll bring us real-world advice.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to the private sector. Below is the first of her three-part series. It wasn’t a big jump.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. How the leaders of your company handle adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the law will be seen by all employees, customers, and investors. Carry minimal historical baggage.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Chris OMeara Main | Probing Code Quality » 01/31/2010 Startup CTO: Could It Work? A CEO friend of mine recently asked my opinion about Tony Karrers Startup CTO or Developer article. I think the part time CTO could work. They tend to know where to find good help in terms of employees and consultants.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Today, he serves as Chief Technology Officer of CognitiveScale, which has raised $50 million to date and has 150 employees with 90 in Austin. It also has offices in New York, London, and Hyderabad, India. Five years ago, Matt Sanchez founded CognitiveScale, a fast-growing artificial intelligence startup in Austin.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

I never built a Google-sized business but I did build an organization from scratch that grew to 120 employees in 5 countries before we sold it. As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You should also focus heavily on his or her former employees. I would take a strong employee referral from an existing employee I trust 10x over a person more qualified on paper (given similar skill levels). Many teams pay bonuses to employees who bring in people they know. In many ways that can be way more telling.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2024

Kenneth Wenger – Unveiling the Future of AI Kenneth Wenger is an author, a research scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University, and CTO of Squint AI Inc. His research interests lie at the intersection of humans and machines, ensuring that we build a future based on the responsible use of technology.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Honor Technology, Inc. , the world’s largest senior care network and technology platform which recently acquired global home care provider Home Instead , today announced it has raised $70 million in Series E funding and $300 million in debt financing.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Entrepreneurs have the propensity to give employees big, lofty titles. That new kid handling the social media is given the title “Chief Marketing Officer.” Employees with lofty titles will inevitability believe that their role is equivalent to their title. It feels nice, until it backfires.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Boulder CTO December Lunch with Tim Wolters with 5 comments The Boulder CTO Lunch meets once a month with a guest speaker and covers topics and questions that startup CTOs should find interesting. The Role As a CTO, you paint a landscape of the product and market. There are two kinds of CTOs: tactical and visionary.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? In that time, the company has grown from 3 to 104 employees (and growing!). The ideal candidate has experience with eCommerce systems, emerging mobile and social technologies, as well as RoR. How do you like them apples?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

by Saumya Bhatnagar, CTO and Co-founder of InvolveSoft. Saumya Bhatnagar is the CTO and Co-founder of InvolveSoft , a workplace community platform which helps employees volunteer in the community. Over the years, the rapid growth of startup networks is seen in almost every sector.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 10, 2011

A long-time friend and colleague, Steve Wexler, who is great at visualization took my Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data and produced a really need interactive visualization via Tableau. For example, if you hover over the big circle in California you can see that there were 303 responses for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

, we are strongly encouraging the majority of our workers to work from home as soon as possible, leaving behind the minimum possible in-office presence. we are restricting work travel by our employees, both domestically and internationally.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Finally, collaboration tools can keep employees happier and free them up to focus on important work. What’s more, employees say these tools are causing notable improvements in productivity, the speed of problem-solving, and employee engagement. They increase productivity, lower costs, and even increase ROI.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. How the leaders of your company handle adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the law will be seen by all employees, customers, and investors. Ethical and diversity boundaries.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 10, 2011

A long-time friend and colleague, Steve Wexler, who is great at visualization took my Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data and produced a really need interactive visualization via Tableau. For example, if you hover over the big circle in California you can see that there were 303 responses for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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View from Seed

JULY 5, 2016

Yoav was first employee at CarGurus, a founding executive of HubSpot, CTO at Happier, CTO at Jana, and more. Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts: The post Veteran CTO on How the Tech Side of Startups Has Evolved [Traction #25: Yoav Shapira, Operator.VC] appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A Part-Time CTO Technology. Communication - Hiring a technical employee early on can sometimes result in a founder developer gap. In the end, I think there are two preferred routes: either find a development partner or hire a technical advisor or CTO-type person to manage an outsourced, development shop relationship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. How the leaders of your company handle adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the law will be seen by all employees, customers, and investors. Carry minimal historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. How the leaders of your company handle adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the law will be seen by all employees, customers, and investors. Ethical and diversity boundaries.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Employee Equity: How Much? The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. Once you have assembled a core team that is operating the business, you need to move from art to science in terms of granting employee equity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The concept of a Chief Marketing Officer comes from large enterprises, but it is a role that has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. Hiring, managing, and sometimes promoting employees are commonly known responsibilities of a fractional CMO. A fractional CMO is basically a part-time version of this position.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

The event, devoted exclusively to the intersection of consumer technologies and the enterprise, will explore the ways companies are embracing consumer-inspired technology to engage employees, drive innovation, and attract and empower the next generation workforce. Events & Happenings CITE event innovation IT technology'

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The Alliance identifies different “tours of duty” an employee/employer can embark on based on the motivators of the employee. For example, an early employee or engineer that identifies personally with the company’s mission will be well suited for a “foundational tour.”

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