CTO will also want to ensure that the businesspeople on their team will understand important product and technical decisions. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology Every business person with a dollar and a dream these days thinks they’re a technical co-founder away from interweb stardom. That’s not entirely far off. MORE >>

And Greg Pass will become Twitter's first CTO. Tags: Venture Capital and Technology In July 2008, Twitter acquired a company called Summize. The stated reason was to bring search into Twitter. And that was the main reason that Twitter did the deal. But Twitter also got a very strong engineering team in that acquisition. MORE >>

have two and half partners at Union Square Ventures. We had both been in the venture business for more than a decade, had made a fair bit of money, but were still hungry to prove ourselves. After that sale, he joined USV as a venture partner and as a general partner when we raised our second fund in 2008. We never vote. MORE >>

Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. Such comparisons can only be made for companies at the same stage of development, in this case, for pre-revenue startup ventures. Experience as a COO, CFO, CTO. +. million. RANGE. 0-30%. MORE >>

This is part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital. Your CTO and leading technology visionary has just announced he’s quitting. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice Skeletons in the Closet are these types of issues.  I don’t think so.  MORE >>