Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened positively to many companies in the last few years. Thus, stock doesn’t “pay the mortgage” today, so to speak. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. Always seek input.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for startup stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened positively to many companies in the last few years. CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5%

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2015

Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for startup stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened positively to many companies in the last few years. CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5%

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Stock Options Stock Advisory Board Startup 120

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. Interesting to note that Hafner and English own common stock but also made meaningful investments in the Series A & B rounds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2010

Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened to many companies in the last few years. Thus, stock doesn’t “pay the mortgage” today, so to speak. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The limited partners could put their money in the stock market, but instead, they give it to you, the venture capitalist, which is much more risky, but you’re promising them huge returns. Therefore a venture capitalist needs to invest in startups that can turn into billion dollar companies. Want to be a guest on the show?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

If you have invested $100,000 worth of your time in writing a business plan, and your partner, a young engineering student, has invested $25,000 worth of her time in building a prototype, it doesn't mean the market value of your startup is $125,000. Market value doesn't equal the sum of sweat equity invested by you and your partners.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Precept Software, another of her startups, was bought by Cisco just prior to the company's stock price run-up, "so we had a great outcome for our investors.".

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CTO Hire Startup Algorithm Leadership 118

The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

A company that can employ thousands of engineers and designers, acquire companies, and support a creative working environment. An engineer. This person needs to be incredibly skilled in engineering, and should ideally be an experienced CTO. Try to be the next Steve Jobs, the next Elon Musk, the next Bill Gates.

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Cofounder CTO Hire Startup Europe 119

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It was my ex boss from Convergent Technologies, “Steve we’ve all just resigned from Convergent and we’re starting a new company. My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2011

Many employees forget that there isn’t even a market for stock, until after the company has gone public, which hasn’t happened to many companies in the last few years. Thus, stock doesn’t “pay the mortgage” today, so to speak. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 14, 2013

I have a client who spends a lot of time creating very detailed specs for all of their engineering openings, and in doing so I find their real needs get lost. For example, I was doing a search for a VP of Engineering for a company that was building a stock-trading platform. Hire Winners. -

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. Our team includes 12 top-notch engineers from NVidia, Microsoft, Stanford, Berkeley and Cornell. We have a deep technology stack. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet.

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San Francisco CTO Hire Developer EC2 92

www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The first bracket is the senior management team; the CFO, Chief Revenue Officer/VP Sales, Chief Marketing Officer/VP Marketing, Chief Product Officer/VP Product, CTO, VP Eng, Chief People Officer/VP HR, General Counsel, and anyone else on the senior team.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2012

Ranjith Kumaran, founder and CEO of PunchTab (which creates instant loyalty platforms), and co-founder of YouSendIt , where he was the Chief Technology Officer (he’s still on the board) acknowledges the “topic of unique, creative and alternative titles keeps coming up as of late.” Is that really a smart move?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Quip has redesigned office-productivity software for the mobile age. For small-business owners who ship things infrequently and don’t want to hire warehouse help or stock packing supplies, it could make a lot of sense. The disagreements over Docker just highlight how much is at stake.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

So let’s take stock: What do we offer? We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology. 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).

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Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

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). If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

“It kinda sucks to be engineer #1.”. That’s what a couple of my friends – engineers at Google and Bloomberg who have been following the rise of startup culture with intrigue – told me recently. They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Engineer #1?

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Engineer Dilution Option Pool Vesting 129

The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

After launching our Windows online backup service five years ago, our CTO pitched that we should focus on launching our Mac version next. Three of my cofounders are engineering masterminds (with various skillsets.) We split our stock one-fifth each. Sometimes I’m wrong. And sometimes, they’re right. The last is a designer.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Kenya Dilution 143

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Strong support from serial founders, engineers, and other specialized resources that are particularly relevant to the earliest days of a company can overcome that hurdle and (in theory at least) yield companies that otherwise wouldn’t be built. HappyFunCorp employs 80 engineers and product architects. Rock Health).

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

According to a Google study (2008), the detection capability of the anti-virus engines is lacking, with an average detection rate of 70% for the best engine. billion, a 54% premium over the stock’s value since late August, when reports first surfaced that the company was seeking a buyer. billion times per month.

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Cloud Intellectual Property Software Review 75

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That not only signifies the missed opportunity that BlackBerry is desperately trying to make up for now — following its botched weekend launch of BBM for iOS and Android — but it sees Livingston’s own startup over take the company that gave him his start in the technology world. “I I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering.

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Entrepreneur CTO Hire Startup Mobile 167

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Lead Engineer 0.5 - 1. 5+ years Experience Engineer 0.33 - 0.66. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. I am being offered a single digit percentage of outstanding shares, which I believe is based on the founder’s application of a share distribution as though I am in a CTO or a Director Of Engineering role.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The design reinforces our commitment to small teams, as well as designers and engineers working alongside one another.”. Viktoras Jucikas, co-founder and CTO of Yplan , says allowing employees to personalize the space can be inspiring to others with similar mindsets. Fully stocked options at the HotelTonight Bar.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Delaware law gives preferred stock investors of a corporation certain voting rights and control over the corporation. Even though Konstantinos Bratanis, co-founder and CTO of Goodvidio, and his partner started the business with their own hard-earned money, they were able to eventually raise VC funding. Pick a name for your business.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Lots of business-y, idea-type people who say they’re looking for a co-founder are, in reality, looking for what is best described as an “engineering bitch.&# Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid.

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Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

As a company grows, corporate leaders must become fixated on the stock price, internal politics and compliance. I met with the president of the men’s group (a billion-dollar business by itself), the group’s CTO and some of their support team. The president was totally dismissive of our technology and manufacturing solution.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire China Silicon Valley 147

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 1, 2009

Head of Technology/CTO 1.19%. Head of Engineering 1.32%. 2008 CompStudy Report in Technology. Tags: Stock options. For example, below are the 2008 results for average equity granted at time of hire in IT companies: CEO 5.40%. President/COO 2.58%. Head of Sales 1.20%. Head of Marketing 0.91%.

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