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. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

Solving the Founder-Tech Gap that came out of some fun conversations that Bob and I have been having. You can’t afford and don’t want to hire a full-time CTO or architect. Getting someone who’s fully employed somewhere else to work with you on a limited basis to help close the gap is hugely important for the non-technical founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” Operate with a comparable level of integrity.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. There’s a final part on The Future of Fractional Executive Work with a chapter by a different leader for each area above.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 13, 2020

we are each consulting with our teams to find ways of supporting our local healthcare workers by helping to purchase critical medical resources, such as additional tests and protective equipment, and supporting the work of? are moving all clients, visitors, and interviews to remote only meetings and not currently welcoming onsite visitors.

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blog.chrisomeara.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Chris OMeara Main | Probing Code Quality » 01/31/2010 Startup CTO: Could It Work? A CEO friend of mine recently asked my opinion about Tony Karrers Startup CTO or Developer article. I think the part time CTO could work. They tend to know where to find good help in terms of employees and consultants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). In a startup, that’s your job as founder, and it’s a job you can’t afford to delegate. Chief Legal Officer.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2011

He was also previously CTO of Vivendi Mobile Entertainment, which operates a subscription based PC/Mobile/TV service for music and movies in France and Germany. Bitsmedia currently develops iPhone applications for Universal Music in Europe and Australia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). In a startup, that’s your job as founder, and it’s a job you can’t afford to delegate. Chief Legal Officer.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization. And often, enhanced business services – such as custom product development or professional installation and consulting – are involved to complete the sale. These are long sales cycles, often with multiple departments and stakeholders involved. Sell to many”: the scalable SaaS approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). In a startup, that’s your job as founder, and it’s a job you can’t afford to delegate. Chief Legal Officer.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. It says what?!”).

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Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). In a startup, that’s your job as founder, and it’s a job you can’t afford to delegate. Chief Legal Officer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. 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.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? Science and Technology Technology. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Naming a Business. Franchises.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Majid Abai, CEO of Pringo Majid Abai is the Chief Executive of Pringo, Inc. For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. It consists of a highly intelligent and opinionated founder – Nick Halstead. What Rob wrote in his post is right.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute. Details coming soon!) It sounds interesting. How did it help you?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I started Good Dog Labs in early 2014 and a year later I officially became a co-founder with the on-boarding of my brother Dino in 2015. Adrian Mendoza from Mendoza Ventures, he is a Mexican-American investor and entrepreneur who helped transform our business from a consulting to a product company. ?

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

For an awesome description of Startup America, please read Aneesh Chopra’s (the United States CTO) post on TechCrunch titled Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship. By the way, I think it is awesomely cool that the CTO of the United States blogs on TechCrunch!

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

There are many companies that are competing to be the “operating system” for small businesses. and Todd Park, a pair of Booz Allen consultants, as a physician practice management company for obstetrics. See chart below: The reach the organization has achieved is impressive, but still only a fraction of the market opportunity.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

1- I credit my co-founder. I credit my co-founder Eric Frothingham with coming up with our name. When I first incorporated my company back in 2009, the lawyers I had contracted with to trademark the company name and logo desperately tried to convince me to change the name. Photo Credit: Venkates Swaminathan.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Co-founder, CEO Aashish Mehta offered more insight into the company. Our patented signal optimization that’s designed specifically for power and beamforming technology and makes us 100 times more efficient than the rest of the world. This has created a natural ecosystem of technology startups, investors, and services.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2013

As a one-man founder bootstrapping the business, this allowed me to hire a team for much less money. 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. Learning The Hard Way: My Outsourcing Experiences.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Prerna began her startup journey after leaving a job as a management consultant, and launched Yaari, a youth-oriented social network in India. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Answers Ask Entrepreneur Home Business Operations Business Opportunities Sales & Marketing Advertising & PR Finance & Accounting Franchises Home Business Human Resources Internet/E-Commerce Legal Issues Starting Up Technology Most Recent Answers How Can I Streamline My E-Commerce Operation?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Nexpense - you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology?

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

To be clear, these are hires we are talking about, not co-founders. Co-founders are an entirely different discussion and I am not talking about them in this post. Once you have assembled a core team that is operating the business, you need to move from art to science in terms of granting employee equity.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Nexpense – you streamline business expense processing, but how, what’s cool about the technology?

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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.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

When I started my consulting business, I was fortunate enough to have a mentor who guided me, and the best advice she gave me was to name my company something about myself, but not my actual name. I had my own company operating under the name of Kamal and Shashi Sharma Ltd. Thanks to Kerry Roberts, Everipe ! #8- 25- What we provide.

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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. What should an early-stage startup founder focus on if they want to implement PLG? What should the founder avoid if they want to implement PLG? That is a natural hurdle for PLG motion.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. And a big factor is how big is the Founder Developer Gap.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

The bulk is usually run by technology geeks who don’t have a real understanding of how to build and operate a business. Blockdraws Technologies COO, Konstantinos Despotakis is a former online casino CEO and also a former Deputy Director of Compliance at the AGCC. Blockchain technologies are still maturing.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder. While I’ve updated it a few times, it continues to get at important questions that startup founders need to be asking. Are there any time-based operations? One notable gap in the 32 Questions post is Performance.

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