Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2022

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Offers near the high end of a range will likely come with a lower cash salary, maybe even 50% of the going rate. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

You'll be responsible for the successful management of the sales organization in order to meet the objectives of the Company. You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

One of the greatest ways to do so is hiring a CMO or Chief Marketing Officer, an experienced, result-driven executive responsible for all your marketing efforts. But with an average annual salary of over $330,000 many small to mid-sized businesses can’t easily afford a CMO. Find a certified fractional CMO.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 16, 2020

Being relatively a new service trend in today’s tech-driven world, CTO-as-a-Service (CaaS) is notably gaining its momentum. Though CTO as a traditional full-time position exists for decades, some companies do not feel they need a technology executive. Ideal scenario assumes there’s a CTO in house. By referring to ?TO-as-a-Service

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 85

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 14, 2012

If a candidate for your technical lead was a CTO at a big company, for example, but he or she says they want to manage and not code, then he or she is not the right fit for an early-stage startup]. Focus on candidates’ real hands-on experience and accomplishments. It’s worth spending time on recruiting.

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Technical Review CTO Hire Software Review Startup 159

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. So, a CEO or CTO, would get a much higher stake than an office manager or a graphic designer, as an example. Is this person taking a salary or not?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Offers near the high end of a range will likely come with a lower cash salary, maybe even 50% of the going rate. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Equity Stock Options Advisory Board Stock 237

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. 8) Angry Birds. 9) Tumblr. “On

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

Plus, my fear is that there are barriers in those areas that may be difficult to scale—namely salary and lifestyle. If you’ve already got someone that optimized for making the most annual salary, joining a startup might be a difficult sell. Create a model for learning that is both effective and economically efficient.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 14, 2009

you can get to know Mark a bit more in my post Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller ). First, early in the post, Mark mentions: The idea behind the meetup is to connect technology startups with prospective hires who may be interested to work for “alternative compensation”–e.g., reduced salary, partial equity, good experience, etc.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Developer 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2017

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Offers near the high end of a range will likely come with a lower cash salary, maybe even 50% of the going rate. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2013

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Offers near the high end of a range will come with a lower cash salary, maybe even 50% of the going rate. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Stock Options Stock Advisory Board Startup 224

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Offers near the high end of a range will come with a lower cash salary, maybe even 50% of the going rate. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Stock Options Stock Advisory Board Startup 230

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2011

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Offers near the high end of a range will come with a lower cash salary, maybe even 50% of the going rate. Your compensation is the total package, stock plus salary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2015

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Offers near the high end of a range will likely come with a lower cash salary, maybe even 50% of the going rate. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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Stock Options Stock Advisory Board Startup 120

www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The first bracket is the senior management team; the CFO, Chief Revenue Officer/VP Sales, Chief Marketing Officer/VP Marketing, Chief Product Officer/VP Product, CTO, VP Eng, Chief People Officer/VP HR, General Counsel, and anyone else on the senior team. Director Level: 0.25x.

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Equity Employee CTO Hire Fractional CTO 64

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

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. I would learn a ton from Gordon for over a decade, not only about practical heuristics for managing complex engineering projects (i.e.

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North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 125

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2010

CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% Offers near the high end of a range will come with a lower cash salary, maybe even 50% of the going rate. Your compensation is the total package, stock plus salary.

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Stock Stock Options Advisory Board Startup 144

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Jono Bacon: Because the companies that tend to fail in this is they hire a community manager and that community manager essentially acts as like an ambassador to the community. And everybody else thinks, “I can safely ignore the community and just go through that community manager.” They answer a question.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. One of the common requests I get as an adviser is the help interview and vet potential CTO candidates. So what are you to do?

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

They can easily get great benefits and a six figure salary. I have been self-funding the business and have the commitments of a few angels to help pay salaries for some months when I find the right person/people, because I have come to appreciate that offering at least some salary helps a lot. If yes, hire a contract developer.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A founder’s lack of credibility/experience in growing and managing a large company hindered a company that wanted to go public. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. In the 20th century the only way the founder made any money (other than their salary) was when the company went public or got sold.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Impossible to manage.”. After launching our Windows online backup service five years ago, our CTO pitched that we should focus on launching our Mac version next. To start Backblaze, all five of us committed to a year without salary. You know what is definitely the wrong number of cofounders? Too many.”. Too dilutive.”.

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Altgate

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

For one, the base salaries and total compensation for non-founder executives, which had grown at a 5% CAGR for the past 9 years, screeched to a halt and had nearly zero growth (for Tech companies). The webinar for technology companies is here and the one for life sciences companies is here. Bookmark the permalink.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. I have heard many founders — even in the first few months of product development — expect to raise seed rounds, pay themselves salaries, etc. Startups die due to a variety of causes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Managing status rivalries, negotiating group dynamics, understanding social norms, navigating the distinction between self and group — these and other social tests impose cognitive demands that blow away any intense tutoring session. You have a part-time lead architect, a part-time developer and a part-time community manager.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Early employees are paid a salary from day 1, don't have to have the reputation/connections to raise money, take on much less risk, and often have much more information about the company (team so far, financials, product traction/progress) when they decide to join than the founders do when they found the company.

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Equity Employee Founder Cofounder 40

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. The salary offered (and accepted) was quite low. I am being offered a single digit percentage of outstanding shares, which I believe is based on the founder’s application of a share distribution as though I am in a CTO or a Director Of Engineering role. Title Range (%). CEO 5 - 10.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The post-mortem of ArsDigita takes the cake for candor and illustrating in graphic detail what goes on when investors and startup management have a falling out from the startup’s perspective. During this year they. spent $20 million to get back to the same revenue that I had when I was CEO. before finishing the new product (ACS 4.x);

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Started in 2009, Enigmai built and deployed a simplified workforce management SasS tool that enables SMBs and large companies to better manage their human resources. Sys admin management. I also opened the Israeli branch for Adbrite (a US based ad agency) and managed the technical team, Comverse for a few years.

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Altgate

APRIL 26, 2009

Basically the survey collects salary, cash bonus and equity information for the top executives in private companies (mostly venture- and preventure-backed companies). If you haven’t seen the results of this survey before, I’m including both of last year’s unabridged reports results below. Bookmark the permalink.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Previously, Steve was CTO at Deluxe Entertainment , the provider of production, post-production and distribution services to the movie and TV industry; and EVP and Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at Rovi , where he led the media company’s transition from physical technologies to e-commerce, connected home and subscription services.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’ Maybe you can be the project manager and team up with someone else who is a prgrammer. how did you guys manage through that? Maybe I’m wrong or just know all the wrong people.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Scoping the prpject down to something manageable is really hard. I am starting a big web project, and have been thinking about how to break it down into manageable chunks. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).

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