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. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Then, as I suggested before, it’s time to establish a formal agreement or contract to cement the partnership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Then, as I suggested before, it’s time to establish a formal agreement or contract to cement the partnership.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 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. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Then, as I suggested before, it’s time to establish a formal agreement or contract to cement the partnership.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Gregg was a graduate of Stanford and a Wharton MBA and had worked at the consulting firm BCG so I knew he was smart and capable. The rest of our team included the founding CTO of Maker Studios (Ryan Lissack) and the CEO of DataSift (Tim Barker) so we seemed to all be in good company of ex Salesforce execs looking to make a difference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Then, as I suggested before, it’s time to establish a formal agreement or contract to cement the partnership.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Financing a Small Business. Office and Operations. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. SALES & MARKETING. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? Science and Technology Technology.

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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 his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. So naturally we’re pushing for him to drop critical information when their paths cross organically.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. Not my problem.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

I got this formula from a big compensation consulting firm. But it is based on a common practive in compensation consulting. This "best value" can be the valuation on the last round of financing. Whatever approach you use, it should be the value of your company that you would sell or finance your business at right now.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Very enthusiastic about the potential for the NY tech ecosystem, leveraging our strength in finance. Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. Maria Gotsch.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

It’s why raising a round of capital often feels like a hollow victory because it almost feels like a temporary reprieve from the Grim Reaper and in a way every new round just sets the bar higher to clear for the next round of financing or the hope of reaching profitability. VCs suck as sales and raising money is a sale.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

I had always wanted to do consulting but was waiting until my son went off to college. After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. Thanks to Kristie Jones, Sales Acceleration Group ! #4-Giving 4-Giving back and helping others.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. If yes, hire a contract developer. They can easily get great benefits and a six figure salary.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

If you have a technical background and you are focused on product development, consider a co-founder with a sales and marketing background that can focus on selling your world class product. Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network.

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