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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ? He needed some kind of CTO and as well Developers.

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We’re Programming Around Your Needs: Highlights of Lean Startup Week 2017

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. For eight years, our flagship conference has focused on sharing stories and lessons of putting Lean Startup’s entrepreneurial methodology into practice. Lean Startup Week (Oct. 31 ( limited to the first 200 Gold Passholders.)

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What's Next for "The Startup Way"

Startup Lessons Learned

An important reminder: Lean Startup Week is in San Francisco October 30 - November 5 The Lean Startup Week team has been working around the clock to put together a program that will suit the needs of any entrepreneur in any organization, all themed around The Startup Way.

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Open Innovation in DC

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, it doesn't fit any of our stock ideological categories very well. They are leveraging the same kinds of new technology, management thinking, and big data to improve lives that we routinely use here in Silicon Valley. (For Something interesting is happening in Washington, DC right now. But some have.

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How many cofounders should your startup have?

The Next Web

Shoulder – not to cry on, but to lean on. After launching our Windows online backup service five years ago, our CTO pitched that we should focus on launching our Mac version next. We split our stock one-fifth each. When things have to happen, your co-founders are the ones who will step up. Sometimes I’m wrong.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.]

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

After releasing the MVP, we work on a lean scrum to iterate based on early data/feedback until we start to see signs of product-market fit. During and after fundraising, we team with the founder to recruit for a full-time CTO to join the company. The process usually goes as follows: Founder approaches us with an idea.