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7 Reasons A Small Business Should Hire Advisors 

YoungUpstarts

The right advisor can have a greater impact on the success of your small business than any other hire you ever make. Have a CTO Advisor Provide Their Guidance & Due Diligence Suggestions on a Large Upcoming Technology Expenditure. Serve as a Sounding Board for Sensitive Challenges & Opportunities You Face as a Small Business.

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You Negotiate Commodities, But You Seize Opportunities

Steve Blank

Advisory Board. In the early days of Rocket Science I realized that we needed high-level advice on multiple fronts; technology, game development, video game distribution, etc. For lots of reasons that never worked out, but I liked him so much that the following year I tried to hire him as the VP of Engineering of Ardent. (He

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Email updates frequently.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He With a bit of research it turned out that a professor at Brown University had invented something close to what we had in mind. Now In Print!

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. Please email me if you are interested.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

is something like "yes, I personally answer the customer support emails." For example, my experience with teenagers is that they are very reluctant to call or email asking for support, even when they have a severe problem. Establish a customer advisory board. They just dont need another authority figure in their life.