Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2014

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology or money. Even with an agreed initial equity split, it’s smart to have founder’s stock actually issued or vested over a period of at least two years, on a month-by-month basis. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. Even with an agreed initial equity split, it’s smart to have Founder’s stock actually issue or vest over a period of at least two years, on a month-by-month basis. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. It is typical for employees to vest their options over four years with a one year cliff, which means a new hire must stay on the company for at least one year to see any shares. percent to 3 percent range for engineer #1s.

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blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A Part-Time CTO Technology. Thus, they typically take a vested interested in ensuring whatever they build will be able to evolve with the company. In Plain English. Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource? One of the main challenges of starting a products based company is how do you build your product?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge.

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Scalable Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Talking to CEO and CTO about role as co-founder/COO. Vesting? > If you really want to be in a startup, want to have the COO title, love their strategy and technology, trust them, and aren’t working right now, maybe go for it. . > Don’t agree to deferred cash, you usually never see this. > Keeping it?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Science and Technology Technology. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , That way, he says, "Vesting is an encouragement for the project to be completed.". Advertising.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills. 5% vest at clickable prototype. 5% vest at beta launch.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Stock vests for 4 years. So when the Stanford MBA, the ex senior technology developer or the former Chief Revenue Officer of a company is calling me and asking my advice on their next gig you can see why I start with “are you ready to earn or to learn? you won the lottery). Wait a second. Sorry bud.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 4, 2010

Some great posts from April 2010 that talk to me in terms of being a CTO at a Startup. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

At Ockham Technologies, all of the founders were aware of the imminent arrival of idea-person Ken’s first child. At Ockham Technologies, all of the founders were aware of the imminent arrival of idea-person Ken’s first child. He cofounded and served as CTO of IMVU. How should founders deal with such developments?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”. Failure post-mortems often lamented that “I wish we had a CTO from the start, or wished that the startup had “a founder that loved the business aspect of things”. 3 – Not the right team. Francis, Great points.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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