Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

“I need somebody to run operations.&# I never said you shouldn’t have a VP of Operations. I think people understand this title to mean more somebody who handles operational issues rather than somebody who is more like a “chief of staff&# as a COO often is. . and my favorite]. What will it do?

Operations 292

Operations CTO Hire Startup Early Stage 292

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2023

Cofounders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. The challenge is for real cofounders to keep their equity percentage above 50%, or they effectively lose control of operational decisions.

Technical Cofounder 247

Technical Cofounder Equity Distribution Cofounder 247

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

by Saumya Bhatnagar, CTO and Co-founder of InvolveSoft. Although several startups were able to sustain themselves, others shut down within a few months of operating. A study shows that female founders fear that they are less capable of running a business than men, and therefore, fear that they will lapse into chaos.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Founder United States Cofounder 113

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations?

Developer 396

Developer Founder Viral Oauth 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations?

Developer 384

Developer Founder Viral Oauth 384

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

Fractional CTO 195

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 195

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I always tell entrepreneurs that two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want.

Equity 238

Equity Cofounder Technical Cofounder Intellectual Property 238

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Main July 11, 2007 The Different CTO Roles I was putting together a short panel presentation on the roleof a Chief Technology Officer in corporate innovation and I once again realized that there is quite a bit of confusion around the role of the CTO. My job at Microsoft is to worry about technology in thefuture.

CTO 40

CTO CTO Hire Syndicate Syndication 40

SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

Solving the Founder-Tech Gap that came out of some fun conversations that Bob and I have been having. You can’t afford and don’t want to hire a full-time CTO or architect. Getting someone who’s fully employed somewhere else to work with you on a limited basis to help close the gap is hugely important for the non-technical founder.

Advisory Board 241

Advisory Board Fractional CTO CTO Hire Startup 241

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder. The “product roadmap”.

Part-Time VPE 195

Part-Time VPE Seed Stage CTO Hire Forecast 195

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. Stuart was a co-founder at my first startup company and ended up running global operations. We already had a genius tech founder in Nick Halstead.

CTO Hire 320

CTO Hire Cofounder San Francisco Silicon Valley 320

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The funding will be used to further invest in hiring remote workers, with an emphasis on the greater Austin and San Francisco areas due to Honor’s existing office footprints, and to expand Honor’s groundbreaking operations and technology capabilities across the Home Instead network, which has three offices in the greater Austin area.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Engineer Finance Technology 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” Operate with a comparable level of integrity.

Partner 140

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Cofounder 140

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.

CTO Hire 40

CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

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. If you think thats person you need, the question becomes "what else do you expect a CTO to contribute?"

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Hire Startup Cofounder 40

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

We therefore call on others in Colorado — and in other startup communities across the country — to follow our lead and implement these procedures, effective immediately. The post Joint Statement by Colorado High-Tech Companies on COVID-19 appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

Colorado 168

Colorado Fractional CTO Silicon Valley Cofounder 168

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

This applies to both founders and to VC’s that work with them. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. But I knew that to be a good decision maker I needed first hand knowledge rather than just a summary from my CTO.

CTO Hire 308

CTO Hire Management Technical Review Part-Time VPE 308

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The technical mastermind behind Replay is Brian Hackett (CTO, co-founder) who has been thinking about and working on this concept for a long time… in fact, his PhD at Stanford 10+ years ago laid the foundation for Replay. And that leads us to why we’re so excited: the team! on their blog post here. And of course, they are hiring!

CTO Hire 78

CTO Hire Web Cofounder Software Engineering 78

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

In the early days the CEO is the jack-of-all-trades, doer-of-all, famously the “chief janitor” or coffee maker. Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. Most companies that are scaling have CFOs, heads of HR or talent.

CTO Hire 385

CTO Hire Entrepreneur Technical Review Leadership 385

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

Fractional CTO 70

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 70

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2015

by Tal Segalov, CTO & co-founder of Mintigo. The message should always be consistent, and that means keeping your colors, visuals and business logos in line with your brick and mortar operations. Never neglect mobile operations. Hire the right marketing team. Remember Coca-Cola’s #ShareACoke marketing strategy?

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Cofounder Social Media Mobile 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

I always tell entrepreneurs that two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want.

Equity 120

Equity Cofounder Technical Cofounder Intellectual Property 120

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2011

He was also previously CTO of Vivendi Mobile Entertainment, which operates a subscription based PC/Mobile/TV service for music and movies in France and Germany. Bitsmedia currently develops iPhone applications for Universal Music in Europe and Australia.

Fractional CTO 174

Fractional CTO Germany France Singapore 174

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). In a startup, that’s your job as founder, and it’s a job you can’t afford to delegate.

CTO Hire 252

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Angel Investor Public Relations 252

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Fractional CTO Cofounder Early Stage 150

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. Founders are building small, focused teams based on people they worked with previously and referrals from their networks. And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days.

Technical Review 117

Technical Review CTO Hire Finance Stealth 117

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. Marketing Podcast with Cameron Herold. 3:38] How would you define the job title COO? [5:02] This is John Jantsch.

CTO 79

CTO Cofounder Networking Operations 79

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

What gets lost when a large company looks at the rationale for an acquisition (IP, team, product, users) is that startups are run by founders searching for a business model. And as part of their transition to predictable processes, their founders may or may not still be at the helm. Predicting Success or Failure of an Acquisition.

Acquisition 332

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

Gust

AUGUST 23, 2012

Startups usually begin with one or two founders who play many roles. The lead founder is likely to wear the hats of Founder, Chairman, CEO, President, CFO, CRO and CMO, while a co-founder may well be CTO, Chief Product Officer, and Programming Team Lead.

CTO Hire 118

CTO Hire Cofounder Startup Founder 118

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

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). In a startup, that’s your job as founder, and it’s a job you can’t afford to delegate.

CTO Hire 244

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Angel Investor 244

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization. Startups that succeed with this approach tend to have founders with deep connections in the industry they serve, and often previously worked for one of the large incumbents in the market. These are long sales cycles, often with multiple departments and stakeholders involved. Final thoughts.

Fractional CTO 154

Fractional CTO Software Review Viral Sales Cycle 154

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2017

Yet, in my role as a small business advisor, I still see many founders and executives who see data and analytics primarily as a measurement device on current results, rather than using it to evolve the business strategy and direction. Make sure you have team members covering both domains, to balance your decision input.

Analytics 149

Analytics Channel Small Business Demand 149

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. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. It says what?!”).

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC., and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. Dr. Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO of TechEmpower Dr. Tony Karrer is the CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web, and eLearning development firm.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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). In a startup, that’s your job as founder, and it’s a job you can’t afford to delegate. Marty Zwilling.

CTO Hire 227

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Angel Investor 227