SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I've posted quite a few things on the topics associated with being a Startup CTO. Here are some resources that come from other sources: Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do? And you may also want to review Startup Development.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I was asked by a reader how much equity he should give out to early employees and to service providers in a very early stage startup. The first few people into a startup are on a spectrum of founder vs. early employee. Suppose further that he's going to cost $60k a year in salary and overhead, x 1.5 = $90k total.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I've posted quite a few things on the topics associated with being a Startup CTO. Here are some resources that come from other sources: Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do? And you may also want to review Startup Development.

CTO Hire 175

CTO Hire Fractional CTO Startup Equity 175

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2022

Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire or better? So people ask me “How many shares should I ask for or expect when I join a startup today?” Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. Innovate In the early years of a startup there is a lot of kinetic energy of enthusiastic innovators looking to launch a product that changes how an industry works.

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Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This post expands on a recent podcast I did with Living Corporate outlining the story behind my career switch to software engineering. I’m currently coming up on my two-year anniversary as a software engineer on December 19, 2018. Before working as a software engineer, I was already in “tech”, just not at a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

One of my favorite events last year was attending Startup Grind where I got to interview Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator’s Dilemma. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. You didn’t join startups then. You joined a startup if you couldn’t get a real job.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

No salaries followed by low salaries. ” Almost all startup founders experience a deep and prolonged sadness after selling their company , even when the sale is an outrageous success. The answer is important and fundamental for all startup founders, whether or not they ever intend to sell their company.

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Software Review Startup Cofounder Search 295

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. This left an open playing field for Chinese software startups as they “copy to China” existing U.S. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.”

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Increasingly, startups are adopting a fully remote work model. With no headquarters, no central office, and no physical location for operations, startups rely entirely on digital forms of production and communication. Here is how to optimize a startup for remote work. Naturally, working remotely allows a startup to save money.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. Sweat equity or salary?

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Engineer Software Review Startup Technical Review 41

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Engineering the Future. The face of the engineering industry has changed considerably in recent years and so too has its requirement for talented individuals, it’s estimated that around 1.5 million new engineers will be required between now and 2025. The average salary in this UK talent category is around £36,000.

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Search Technical Review Salary Advertising 84

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here are their breakdowns of the costs and time investments to create 10 of the world’s hottest startups. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous!

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Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

Programming is at the heart of almost every job, especially in the tech and engineering field. Not only is data science one of the most exciting fields to be working in right now, but it also offers the highest salaries. Python developers command really good salaries all around the world. Python is one such language.

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Technical Review Coder Artificial Inteligence Web Development 81

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. This left an open playing field for Chinese software startups as they “copy to China” existing U.S. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.”

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

with full benefits and an average starting salary of $55,000 or more. Vanessa Baker, an August 2020 Road to Hire graduate, who is now a successful software engineer at Bank of America in Charlotte, said, “The power of Road to Hire to invest in and build the next generation of tech professionals cannot be quantified.

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North Carolina Charlotte Hiring Austin 79

YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Building a software product, the massive part of your budget is the developers’ salary. Junior engineers cannot deliver a high-quality product. Even if you truly believe they can, your team needs to include at least one experienced team leader to guide the rest of the engineers through software development specifics.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2019

Remote teams work from the same office and include a wide range of specialists – UX designers, solid software engineers and project managers. This kind of companies, for example, can augment the teams behind successful startups in the Bay area while operating in Asia, Eastern Europe or South America. How to hire technology superstars?

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Technical Review South America Technology Europe 75

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. Unique to Finland with its strong cultural emphasis on equality and the redistribution of wealth is a business press that doesn’t understand startups and is overtly hostile to their success.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

In 2018, Canada had a record-low unemployment rate and as a result we are seeing more companies, startups and online-based businesses dedicated to serving the niche-jobs industry. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. While technical debt is an understood problem, it turns out startups also accrue another kind of debt – one that can kill the company even quicker – organizational debt. And Tom wasn’t going to get it from his board.

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Technical Review Salary Early Stage Software Review 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 10, 2012

On top of that, budgets are siloed; the “Salaries” budget is separate from the “Tools” budget. This isn’t just true with engineering productivity. As the startup founder, what do you do about all this? So the “savings” are invisible, even if real. But the marketing budget is still $30k.

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Software Review Product Software Developers Software Development 256

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting. This hiring challenge has pushed several startups to get creative and take an innovative approach to recruiting.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? who start with small equity percentages don’t end up making very much from startups. Was it a case of needing Homework?

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Technical Cofounder CTO Hire Equity Sweat Equity 241

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The boost in salary meant that everyone in his company would earn a living wage. In his role as historic preservation president, Lewis worked with architects, engineers, other business owners, and members of the Round Rock Community to develop and implement ideas that preserved and expanded the city’s historic buildings.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Are you are a startup that needs to market your products and services ? Evaluate your potential developers’ knowledge, experience, and the skills listed on their software engineer resume. Cost-savings with the more affordable developer and IT project manager salary. You can even enlist the help of a technical recruiter.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 23, 2018

CRI is different from other incubators because it allows innovators/entrepreneurs to immerse inside a national laboratory, working alongside world-renowned scientists and engineers with whom they can share their ideas. ClearFlame Engines. Early Wins. The program is less than two years old. Program Impact. Is this article helpful?

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Traveling around the world, I met startup founders, forex traders, marketers, online shop owners, travel bloggers, Instagram influencers and digital business entrepreneurs of all kinds. Tech startups were running out of cash prior to launching great products over talent shortage and ever-increasing salaries and rents.

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Technical Review Croatia San Francisco Software Review 132

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me. What I fell in love with was Sam’s How To Start A Startup class at Stanford.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. This includes establishing sales objectives and compensation plans for all sales personnel, including salary structures, commission plans, sales contests and bonus plans. It wants to click.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

What follows is your startup therapy session. For example, I'm an engineer, so my first answer to "Why don't you have more customers?" If you honestly can't imagine that there's anything a full-time person could do that would generate enough revenue to cover their salary, that's not a bad thing. Cartoon by Andertoons.

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The Next Web

MARCH 30, 2013

He’s previously worked for a variety of startups, as well as larger organisations such as Volvo, the BBC, and Google. . One of the most common causes of death among startups is people. Hiring developers for your tech company undoubtedly involves making some of the most important decisions you’ll reach for your organisation.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

Discovering the top talent in your industry and recruiting top talent to your startup can mean big success in your business. Organizational goals, work culture , and salary levels should be set before going out into the market, as this will make it easier to determine what type of candidate is needed. Source: Pixabay. Offer Incentives.

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Startup Salary Hiring Matching 173

ReadWriteStart

MAY 10, 2012

Learning to code is becoming the key skill for anyone who wants to launch a tech startup, or even just get a job working at a hot tech company. The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. A Vocational School for Programmers.

Ruby 137

Ruby Developer San Francisco Silicon Valley 137

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and now be a multi-millionaire or better? So people ask me “How many shares should I ask for or expect when I join a startup today?” Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3%

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