mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Lisa Nicole Bell , Inspired Life Media Group.)

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JUNE 9, 2021

The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). I was the lead investor for Veripost. It’s off to a great start.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Refer a friend?

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Refer a friend?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Email updates frequently. Rob Bailey is the CEO of DataSift.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Email address: Home. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Managing Creativity. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? Science and Technology Technology. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Tools & Research.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

In the Internet startup space, some companies choose to develop enterprise solutions they hope will attract large corporate contracts. Here are some tips for enterprise startups looking to snag those big enterprise contracts. Do not make pure cold calls or emails. Avoid Cold Calls. "Do They wont get any result," said Wang.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

CSG offers its clients both an outsourced Chief Technology Officer and an entire I.T. department for a fraction of the price of hiring these resources in-house. Email Kristina or Mike! CSG offers its clients both an outsourced Chief Technology Officer and an entire I.T. Email Kristina or Mike!

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Hi, I’m Todd.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. In your email? Business contracts are a pain for entrepreneurs and small businesses.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

I had the pleasure of co-hosting a free Bplans webinar with Lara Galloway, a business coach and time management expert. In the webinar, Lara offered some excellent time management tips and productivity hacks. Raise your hand if you are the CEO of your company, and by “CEO,” I mean “chief everything officer.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. He downs cold ones with the head of biz dev.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2017

Prior to Spreaker, he was with PodcastOne as EVP/CTO and was also former Business Manager and Content Manager, Podcasts at Microsoft Zune, Xbox and Windows Phone. Email rob@spreaker.com. Are you an independent marketing consultant or an agency owner? Email rob@spreaker.com. Follow on Twitter.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. And consultants who aren’t going to work for you for free. I have a related dilemma. So you see my dilemma.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Instead, the product manager should keep iterating on the press release until they’ve come up with benefits that actually sound like benefits. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Great product launches manage those expectations; failed ones let them run wild. Showcase behind-the-scenes work.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

As the company’s Commercial Manager, Hortensius was armed with the responsibility of setting up the office’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur as well as growing the local team. For example, it’s very common in Europe to get everything done via email. Implementing very short notice periods for staff on probation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. With positive feedback from his peers, Hoover decided to transform his email list into a website. Today, that MVP has evolved into a thriving online community with more than $7M in funding.

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. But I managed a few "good learning experiences" before throwing myself full-bore into IMVU. So much for timing.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2013

Guest author John Fearon is CEO of Dropmyemail.com , which backs up emails in the cloud and Dropmysite.com , a cloud-based backup company. After six months, I was able to sign up a local CTO to help build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that enabled me to secure funding. Contract Remote Teams On A Per Project Basis.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Investors will ask management what their “AI strategy” is before investing and will be wary of companies that don’t have one (Fred Wilson, USV). Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. As if managing were a waste of time. By doing the job.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Which language should my startup use? Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. and Drupal – which are often confused for frameworks.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Is there a project manager? Some project managers get in the way of effective communication. How do they achieve that result?

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Michael, politely, says in an email: "I have done web analytics for five years, I have mastered Omniture, WebTrends and Google Analytics, I provide analysis and not just reporting. I get many emails in the spirit of this one and thought it was about time I wrote a proper post about it. Do you like managing people?

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Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

If you decide to outsource your website/mobile development to a third-party service provider you will want to put together a good RFP with your CTO before approaching potential vendors. What is a Request for Proposal (RFP). Allows for user/market testing to avoid the costly/timely mistakes in development of unneeded/undesired features.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network. Consider it treasure map with a very clear X marks, the spot with HubSpot, save, reuse, and share your best performing emails with your team for a faster and more consistent way to communicate with prospects. And the answer is, no, I can't persuade your manager. powered by.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33. 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. You can email me at thnkspc (aatt) impressthenet dot com. Title Range (%).

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.)

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? Adamac Attack! Yeah me neither.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). The purpose of this email is to clarify some facts, because this is an extremely confusing issue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Its the rare person who truly understands not just what worked in the past but why.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Daily email digest. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). IT staffing, consulting and software development services. Snow Creek Technology Law PS. We have considerable experience with early, mid and late stage technology businesses, both as inside and outside counsel. . -->. Chief Business Officer.

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

With a lot of asking, and a few interviews later, we managed to find an intern who works with us 15 hours a week. We’ve had some success with hiring interns for fashion design and editorial work, so we were hoping to replicate that with a coder, even in basic HTML, CSS and PHP. Originally.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

You know, managing all the spinning plates of a hundred and whatever people just it’s a lot of projects, a lot of work gets done, keeping all that stuff on track is always challenging. It’s a lot of product and then just the basics, meetings and emails, man. We ignore spam and emails. Man, marketing is a battle.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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