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What does a CTO do?

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Finance and budgeting. Metrics for cyclical businesses. 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. Let the Games Begin!

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How I Found a Great CTO

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Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Dove Ad Casts Spotlight On Madison Avenue.

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16 Great Startup Posts from March

SoCal CTO

How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents? Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

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. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. . Further Reading.

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Tracking the Hiring Funnel

This is going to be BIG.

You have trackable metrics for sales, site conversions, traffic, etc., This is what you create when you hear that a certain company can't get financing, is winding down, or when you make your list of 25 top people in the market at a certain position. Potential candidates and leads go in the top, hired employees come out the bottom.

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Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief

Duct Tape Marketing

You know, they could probably run some areas of the business, but they don't necessarily have the pure domain expertise to be a chief marketing officer or a chief technology officer in a similar size company. So now it's the chief revenue officer, right. They could probably run chart.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. While 20th century metrics were revenue and profit, today it’s common for companies to get acquired for their user base. A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. Schmidt had been the CEO of Novell and previously CTO of Sun Microsystems.

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