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Introducing the Cap Table and Hiring the CTO

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This week they set out to create their cap table and hire a CTO. They come up with two options: Hire Praveena as an employee and offer her stock options. The benefit of hiring Praveena is they think they could keep more equity and control of the company. Our (now three) co-founders begin building out their product.

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Oblong is Hiring

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Fortunately they are driving hard toward that and we expect a Q3 product release that will start bringing Oblong’s g-speak spatial operating environment to the masses.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

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It’s tons of information, organized well, in tight, bite-sized chunks. For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p.

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How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything

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When I was writing my first novel, Avogadro Corp , I would spend my most productive time writing in coffee shops. They hired someone else to wash the dishes and clean the house. I was able to hire a friend to work about ten hours a week over the course of a month to research outlets, draft cover letters, and send out review copies.

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Create Structure out of the Gate and You’ll Thank Yourself Later

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They close on the $750k, hire a buddy or two, buy some Macs, and get to work. ASC starts building product, but as they get into the thick of it, the team realizes executing on their vision is going to be extremely hard. Heads down on product, they say. Seven months in, there is a beta product.

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Hire a VP Finance Sooner Rather Than Later

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If you don’t have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now. At Feld Technologies, our fourth employee (hired in 1989) did all of our accounting. At that point, we hired a woman named Stephanie Wallace to be our Controller. This is not a CFO.

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CU Deming Center of Entrepreneurship Is Hiring A New Director

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The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at CU is looking to hire a new Director. The Deming Center also partners closely with Silicon Flatirons and other CU organizations to put on events such as the New Venture Challenge, Productive Collisions, and annually hosts the regional Venture Capital Investment Competition for MBA students.

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