Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. If you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, you probably won’t find a partner who will satisfy you. Does not need to be managed.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

” So for the deal, investors on both sides converted to common, we split the combined company 55/45, Matt became CEO, and Greg led a new Series A financing into the combined company. There’s a final part on The Future of Fractional Executive Work with a chapter by a different leader for each area above. Matt was still CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. If they or you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, it may be time for change or looking elsewhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. If you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, you probably won’t find a partner who will satisfy you. Does not need to be managed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. If you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, you probably won’t find a partner who will satisfy you. Does not need to be managed.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. If you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, you probably won’t find a partner who will satisfy you. Does not need to be managed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. If you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, you probably won’t find a partner who will satisfy you. Does not need to be managed.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Office and Operations. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Managing Creativity.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team. Don’t hire people with skills and qualifications similar to yours. Hire based on functionality and avoid having too many C’s. Hire based on functionality and avoid having too many C’s. Series A to Series B.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Helping American businesses access the information and services that will help them grow, hire American workers, and export to foreign markets. As RFP-EZ is tested and scaled, a new effort will be launched to improve Federal procurement by building a portal of prices paid by agencies under their contracts. ProjectMyUSA on Twitter.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

I had always wanted to do consulting but was waiting until my son went off to college. After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. We will be hiring people with mental and physical disabilities in the near future. 5- Two reasons.

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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. Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer. I have a related dilemma.

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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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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. First, a caveat. Let's say the number is $25mm.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. No revenues, no costs. It was easy peasy.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. If yes, hire a contract developer. Business & Technology (18). Finance (1).

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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. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. Finance, IT, Legal).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

That is a common experience we hear from outsiders that there's only two cultures of Silicon Valley, and when we get into the funding and financing of companies, that that's really where the bias can come in. So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As a result, there is a much bigger supply of these people than there are of founders who can get a company to the point of hiring some early employees. Some finance guy said "12k a month minimum" and someone replied "I must be living in abject poverty" and its true. more) Sign up for free to read the full text.

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