rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To reduce the impact of dilution, the expectation is that startup valuation should more or less double between the pre-seed to the seed, and seed to series A (ideally backed by reasonable traction/ revenue multiples). We’d like to see that the relevant functions are covered (who’s writing code?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

However, when you do this, you sacrifice your credibility and dilute your link authority. Finding the right partners within an industry is crucial. This is more of a technical SEO tactic, but still very important. Rather, write valuable content that educates your audience. 4) Claim and manage your client’s local listings.

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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. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2018

You get to have interesting conversations with founders and review business plans and then see how these businesses evolve over the years. A firm like ours has almost 100 different investments across all the various partners so we get to see some businesses very intimately. Things happen, people tire, sometimes tragedies.

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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. Startups die due to a variety of causes. I have witnessed startup failures that were due to predictable co-founder conflicts. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. Some disgruntled younger partners left to go start a new firm in 1965 called Greylock.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on startups. So, here goes.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Angels whove made money in technology are preferable,for two reasons: they understand your situation, and theyre asource of contacts and advice.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

I frequently see promising startups with a great product and strong initial economics hit a wall due to the piling up of problems relating to these questions, or what I like to call the ‘DTC death by a thousand cuts’. Bloggers are especially valuable in the early days when consumers are looking for actual reviews that are searchable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

20:05] Why wouldn’t you use a resource plan with your white label partners to some degree? [20:52] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Sometimes you might be using white label or outsource partners. [16:00] Everyone in the organization should be tracking their time. Yes or no? [17:51] Like this show?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. No, I have many ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. But in our first year of sales (and those were really shitty years to be selling software) we sold $2.1 I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted. You may also want to consider measuring social media engagement and keeping an eye on your online reviews. Speaking with people who have only glowing reviews is great, but does not paint the entire picture. Social media.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. Make sure you treat people as partners, not as paid help. Go to tech (or other relevant industry) events.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

  When one studies the (admittedly highly technical) benefits of Series Seed vs. price debt, Series Seed is a better solution. price based anti-dilution). Ive gotten very good feedback from my partners and other practitioners about the Series Seed Documents. How’s it going otherwise? Id love to hear about it. million.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 1M/1M, we offer a case-study-based online educational program, video lectures, and methodology, online strategy consulting at public and private online roundtables, as well as introductions to customers, channel partners and investors (pre-seed, seed, angel, VC, bank, alternative financing).

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