www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. This time, I decided to handle the process myself.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). ” I answered, “Deal.” Matt was still CEO.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

I had the good fortune to attend and participate in GTK Partners and Pillsbury's Internet of Things (IoT) Executive Event in Palo Alto last week. What GTK's and Pillsbury’s IoT event taught me last week is that we can make money in it, be safe in it, and with a little help from our Internet friends, enjoy it too. New Business Models.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. No Financing/Investor Interest – 8%. He has experience in Internet of Things, M2M, Oil and Gas, and Industrial Controls. The reasons for startup failures are well documented in numerous sources. Ran out of Cash – 29%. Burn Out – 8%.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It is also a function of the stage of much of our careers where we aren’t interested in playing small ball with incrementalism on how to squeeze out an extra 5% of margin by optimizing the Internet slightly better. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. And finally it comes down to the good old instinct test.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. 4. Founder-friendly VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. Yes, you have to figure out how to finance inventory and sure, it’s harder to iterate products when it involved physical production?—?but we were sold on the concept immediately.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Cyber-Physical Systems Working with government and industry to create standards for a new generation of interoperable, dynamic, and efficient “smart systems” – an “industrial Internet” – that combines distributed sensing, control, and data analytics to help grow new high-value American jobs and the economy. ProjectOpenData on Twitter.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

They set about registering an internet domain name and preparing for the release of a Beta version of their app later that year. This is a hugely significant sea-change: Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, believes that this will have a game-changing effect on the world’s economy and culture in the early 21 st century [3].

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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. More in Financing.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Yes, even bootstrappers. liquidation preference.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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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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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Finance, IT, Legal). How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

[ Editors Note: GroupSpaces, of which Andy Young is co-founder and chief technology officer, and Twilio, which is mentioned in the copy above, are both launch sponsors of The Kernel.]. He is cofounder and chief technology officer of GroupSpaces. I’m glad the internet is finally growing up.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. What will it cost to build your project? It depends on the scope of the project, of course. But let me put it this way.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. It is cosmopolitan and packed with startups, accelerators and financiers, from tiny VCs to big development finance institutions.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Office and Operations. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. TECHNOLOGY. Internet and Online Business. Technology. Consider whether or not youll be raising financing down the road. Start-up | Mondays.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Next major event? Future M on Oct 16.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I have raised capital 3 times before so I knew the drill.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

I started Walletero as an independent personal finance site offering free tools and resources. We workshopped a lot of names, polled friends, and searched the internet. I was brainstorming names with my co-founders CTO Jesse Forrest and CMO Matt Reilly. Thanks to Benjamin Ross, My Active Agent ! #14- Photo Credit: Mitch Dian.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 18, 2012

BloomReach addresses what is at the heart of what has made the Internet so revolutionary: allowing consumers and providers of goods, services, and content to find each other. All the big outcomes in the Internet – Google, Amazon, eBay, iTunes, Netflix – address this opportunity at their essence.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For example, if you are the CTO, know that you are responsible for any questions related to the product and infrastructure. If you are the CEO, know that you are responsible for any questions related to GTM and finances. No smudges, grainy image quality, or cracks that make it difficult to see you as you present.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Im an ex-Googler, and now a CTO of a small company with lots of talented people ([link] I discovered your site not long ago, and I am learning a lot from it. where an initial bad impression affects a significantly larger percentage of potential customers. May 11, 2009 9:42 PM Artem said. Interesting article, Eric.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Colin Hayhurst , CTO co-founder then CEO of start-up b. Having said that, if we must generalize the start-up with the best chances of succeeding are likely to have a CEO and a CTO. You don't necessarily need a team of specialists in each field (product, management, marketing and finance). The former focussed on biz.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It launched late in 2006 as a web app to help people manage their personal finances. He’s paid his dues: … an entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media …VP of Engineering at Sana Security… CEO of Popular Power … founder and general manager of Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm, Ltd. Did you Know Wesabe?

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

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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. Business & Technology (18). Finance (1). But software engineers also pay a price for working by themselves. I have side projects, and I hold entrepreneurial ambitions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

But the main reason this happened in my mind was that the access to internet really made a big change in my life, because even when you're in the place of lowest access to education having access to other people online, mathematic problems, it allowed me to self-study. ER : That's really interesting.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. From No To CTO. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense. Sunday, August 15, 2010. Startup Life. Monster Killer.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? Trying to regain internet connection. If your question is available, choose it from the list.

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Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I started out my career as a geek, very good with edge technology,which at the time was desktop computers and a few years later the Internet. Cameron Lester, General Partner, from Azure joins Wendy Lea, CEO, Thor Muller, CTO and Co-founder and Bryce Roberts, Managing Director from OATV on Get Satisfaction’s board of directors.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. We are also building an audience from our Poogling Internet Safety Seminars, soon to be an online Webinar/video for broader reach. Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the part that people hate the most, unless you’re a finance geek. Maybe you have a quick question about a pitch, you can surely shoot that over to me, and that’s what’s great about the internet today. That’s where, those are a few places that you can get started so hopefully that helps.

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