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CTO Salary and Equity Trends 2009-2011

SoCal CTO

Or they are looking at Hiring a CTO and want to see what salary and equity ranges look like. CTO Salary and Equity Comparison My guess is that most people who come here are going to be Founders, CEOs and CTOs who want to compare salary and equity of the CTO Position in their organization vs. their peers.

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

Since I’m mainly doing this for my own interest and this isn’t supposed to be a scientific analysis, I’m going to instead look at the 2019 list and compare it to the 2009 list. 2009 was the nadir of the global economic crisis, followed up an unprecedented bull market. In 2009, white males made up about 70% of the list vs. 56% in 2019.

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Benefits of Bitcoin

The Startup Magazine

Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto and published as an open-source code in January 2009. Bitcoin’s most significant and controversial use case is that it is known for its use on the dark web for illegal activities such as money laundering, drug purchases/sales, murder-for-hire assassins stories, etc. Bitcoin block info].

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring. Hiring is no different from any other company process.

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CMO CTO COO Equity and Compensation

SoCal CTO

I was just asked about a particular startup situation (seed stage, CMO hire, non-founder) and particularly what compensation and equity is appropriate.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. Context here.)

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?