Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

In order to be a successful tech startup, the team must consist of a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) level member to help with the technology plan. This is generally achieved in one of the following ways: CTO Level Co-Founder (Equity). CTO Level Board Member or dedicated Adviser (Free or Equity).

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. Todd Park convened the team that saved Obamacare.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2016

By Trevor Sumner, Chief Technology Officer of LocalVox. Because of the explosion of social media and mobile as the primary, go-to consumer device for local information, Google is increasingly losing search share to local directories, social media sites and maps apps. Facebook (has more than 3x the reviews of Yelp).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 19, 2018

As content becomes increasingly contextual and connected devices steadily embed themselves in our lives (IoT, connected home, tech enabled mobility, smart glasses, digital assistants, etc.), designers will need to reevaluate fundamentally how we interact with technology. Fractional executives can help you get there.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 29, 2018

Image Description: Pokémon GO Logo with Pokémon Game displayed on a handheld mobile /phone. Hilly terrain and elevated pathways can prove daunting for people with mobility disabilities. EVP Head of Global Cities for @ Mastercard and Former CTO of NYC and CIO of SF. For the estimated 53 million U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Mobilize Your SEO: Making the Most Out of the Mobile Search Opportunity | SEOmoz – [link]. Mobilize Your SEO: Making the Most Out of the Mobile Search Opportunity | SEOmoz – [link]. Hire slow, fire fast” is not only overused–it’s also complete b t.” Quora – [link]. – [link].

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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. CSG offers its clients both an outsourced Chief Technology Officer and an entire I.T. In 2013, CSG was named one of the top 100 I.T.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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 The 2011 Inc. 500|5000 List. The 2011 Top Lists. The advantage?

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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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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

"Our plan is to have seven figure revenues and be profitable by Q3, in addition to to seven new hires by end of the year," he says. Anthony Favazza, CEO of DiningCircle has hired a CTO that will be overseeing a rebuild of our product in early 2012. Current customers have helped to improve our analytics.

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The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

This is a guest post by Chris Hollindale, co-founder and CTO of Hasty. I used to work as a consultant in London, where I despised filling in timesheets. I’ve found Workflowy to be the easiest and best tool for tracking my ideas – and its mobile versions allow me to note down ideas as and when they arrive, wherever I am.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. 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. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

The objective of the conference was to understand how APIs will power the next great web and mobile companies and share some best practises in understanding when to use APIs or not and how can API company best market to developers. gathered at the event. It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Joseph Kopser (@JosephKopser) | Twitter Barbary Brunner CEO Austin Technology Council A self-described, “Geek Girl”, Barbary Brunner’s 25-year career includes senior executive roles at world-wide leading technology brands and a successful strategy and organizational development consultancy, prior to her joining the Austin Technology Council as CEO.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical. Like PHP, when hiring Microsoft programmers there’s much to be wary of.NET powers sites of all sizes (though relatively few massive ones) and is very common.NET has some CMS frameworks such as dotnetnuke and Community Server which often distract startups.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. 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: Carol Kasten.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

They''ve been in talks with some consulting companies, but don''t quite the know the criteria for evaluating them and things like references(and where to get them). You are looking for someone who cares about the look, but you are hiring the development firm for it''s development skills not its graphic design skills.

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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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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Follow Entrepreneur on Facebook Follow Entrepreneur on Twitter Follow Entrepreneur on LinkedIn Subscribe | Mobile. Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now. Business & Small Business. Related Stories.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? In this talk, we spent most of our time on Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One and how they should be helping you: Specify the right things to be built.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. Along the way, I was hired full time (I believe about 8 months after I started), a coder from India was hired and another contractor was added to the team. You’d have to look at your stock options contract.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. What key hires do you need? The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. website ): PITCH 2010 Finalists (Mobile Track) Pitch Live on November 4, 2010 @ 3:15pm. Mobile Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Nexpense.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Kenya is the most advanced for mobile payment. What key hires do you need? The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. website ): PITCH 2010 Finalists (Mobile Track) Pitch Live on November 4, 2010 @ 3:15pm. Mobile Track — Pitch 2010 Finalist — Nexpense.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Mobile News. The company is hiring 300 employees in 2012, particularly software engineers with talent in key areas such as interactive analytics, mobile applications, internet scale distributed systems, high performance graphics, user experience and human oriented design. Snow Creek Technology Law PS. STARTUP SPOTLIGHT.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

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. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. Getting Hired. ONLY YOU DO! Act accordingly. Big Companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. The second one was I think, just buying a bunch of trailers and converting them into mobile testing centers and going to underserved communities. I would feel most stressed in the first couple minutes of discussion.

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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. can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms. Call it facts for hire.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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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. If I grant equity to a outsourced developer for future services after his initial contract with me is delivered on, where on the capitalization table do I place him? Loading.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Sure, it garners the "winning " reply above, but in reality I find this answer that directs the asker to go hire an inexpensive prototype development team much more helpful than the "leading answer" that gives the "Quora rockstar engineer" point of view.

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