Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Keep in mind the difference between marketing and sales: to present the product and encourage sales vs. the selling of the product. Operate on due diligence from this point: Identify your potential key crew members — background checks, personal references, past business review are all vital.

Software Review 54

Software Review Technical Review CTO Hire San Antonio 54

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions.

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 414

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Some of the most creative technology coming out of Silicon Valley is designed to do exactly that. This has resulted in dramatic increases in sales. In the process, everyone understands that SAS Canada software was an important contributor. Traditional approaches to marketing and sales will only screw up customer advocacy.

Customer 154

Customer Fractional CTO Canada Technical Review 154

bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Social Marketing and Sales. Sales Activity Management. B2B Sales Process. Technology. Affordable Technology. Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. 1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. Bike Tours.

Framework 42

Framework Cloud Software Review Azure 42

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful demand generation campaigns break down silos between marketing and sales. I see this happen far too often when people submit products to me for review to post on Product Hunt.

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post).

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? If youre highly technical and drive the technology vision of the company, people will get it without you tacking on the CTO title. If youre highly technical and drive the technology vision of the company, people will get it without you tacking on the CTO title.

Technical Review 41

Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup 41

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. So now it's the chief revenue officer, right. The Second in Command Podcast.

CTO 78

CTO Cofounder Networking Operations 78

Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

trillion in sales. I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing). I’ve had to put in many hours to learn my own equipment due to a lack of interest in even training me.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur CTO Hire 48

The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

You don’t need to collect the full set (tech, industry, product, customer, etc). If the founding team is non-technical and you can’t figure out whether you are being screwed by your developers or whether your potential new CTO is amazing, a tech advisor can help by joining you in interviews and reviewing commits.

Technical Review 38

Technical Review CTO Hire Cap Table Software Review 38

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. It seems remiss, therefore, to not shed light on this issue. A rare success. Giadha Aguirre de Carcer has had an impressive career.

Venture Capital 82

Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

San Francisco 166

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment 166

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea. The business model.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. Hire a CEO to Go Public.

Founder 274

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 274

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. Nexpense - you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? Tags: Business Technology. CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding.

CTO Hire 49

CTO Hire Cofounder Fractional CTO San Francisco 49

firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The Review. The Review. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google.

CTO Hire 52

CTO Hire Engineer Software Review Part-Time VPE 52

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

For example, “I have over 10 years of software experience in this space, how do you plan to have a strong barrier to entry in this crowded space?&#. Nexpense – you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology? CEO of Obopay has raised $200M in funding.

CTO Hire 40

CTO Hire Cofounder Fractional CTO San Francisco 40

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I had dinner recently with a former colleague and good friend, let’s call him Al, who has recently transitioned from CTO to CEO of an early stage company he founded; he’s struggling with every aspect of his new job. His frustration is that this doesn’t happen to him in technical matters – he’s brilliant at those decisions.

Early Stage 20

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Founder 20

Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Those types of tools actually require work in the initial days of the sales motion. The success of the foundation is can you get to the first PLG conversion and actually have a user or prospective customer without talking to sales?

Product 78

Product CTO Hire Startup Fractional CTO 78

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When I want to know about some concurrency issues between services in his cluster, he doesnt blink an eye when I suggest we get the source code and take a look. He throws off volumes of code, and it works. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering.

Software Review 94

Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco 94

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

I couldn’t write a single line of code, and I didn’t have any clue how to start a business. People told me it was impossible to have our product launch featured on one of the top tech blogs without spending $3,000 on some fancy PR agency. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding. Learn to code. You’re not alone.

Netherlands 159

Netherlands Technical Review Software Review Cofounder 159

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

The Marketing department is “in charge” of eCommerce, but eCommerce sales results aren’t doing anything. Iztok said, “We ensured the CEO that conversion optimization would increase sales. Sendi Widjaja, CTO of Avvo, first brought up CRO when he realized that different page types converted ad clicks differently.

Conversion 124

Conversion eCommerce Technical Review Software Review 124

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

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. Having recurring revenue allows you to keep the original purchase price down, which in turn increases sales. we were sold on the concept immediately.

Security 247

Security Los Angeles Silicon Valley Video 247

ConversionXL

AUGUST 12, 2014

Notice how the size of the photo, reviews & “See Options & Buy” are the main elements of this page? A simple example of this is flash sales, which take advantage of the immediacy and personal nature of a smartphone. The user can tap to read reviews of the product and potentially order it through Amazon.com.

Mobile 99

Mobile eCommerce Design Analytics 99

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

I’ve known Landon for about a dozen years and I’ve really watched the evolution of Landon and his buddy starting a company going out there trying to figure out how to sell it to now a hundred people in the campus in Santa Barbara with a piece of software that is really second to none in the marketing automation space.

Software Review 36

Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software 36

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I’m looking for somebody who can sell, but not better than our head of sales. You do a startup and decide you want somebody to step in and run the company so you can focus on technical excellence. You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations.

Leadership 363

Leadership CTO Hire Technical Review Cofounder 363

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" If you can't find what you are looking for, hit enter or click "Add Question" again.

Developer 42

Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

How should one go about pricing their software product? 9 Tech Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets to Success | Entrepreneur – [link]. 9 Tech Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets to Success | Entrepreneur – [link]. Misfit Entrepreneurs | Dan Pallotta-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Quora – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business CTO Hire Design 105

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Buy it now, for real: eBay to refer sales to nearby stores – [link]. Pandora CTO Reveals Half of The U.S. Hilarious Caricature Illustrations – [link]. Pays $0 For Music – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design CTO Hire 94

www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Huge upfront software licensing fees. Imagine you’re a highly-trained software engineer. Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post ! Recruit college kids.

Founder 51

Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

I’ve reviewed hundreds of startup pitches and I can tell you that everyone makes the same types of errors. Ignoring Your Faults You might have all sorts of shortcomings — it’s your first startup, you’re inexperienced, ignorant about how “sales&# works, you have buggy software, etc. Have an account?

Programming 86

Programming Startup Technical Review Software Review 86