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What Startup Advisors Do I Need?

SoCal CTO

A large part of this conversation is what kinds of advisors startups should be looking for. A little while ago, I suggested that Every Web/Mobile Startup Should Have a Technical Advisor. You can’t afford and don’t want to hire a full-time CTO or architect. Investors discount this.

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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. Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud.

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How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees

thinkspace.com

Equity for Board of Directors and Advisory Board. Typically for an Advisory Board it ranges from 1/10th of percent to 1/2% and for Board of Directors from 1/2% to 2%. I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. Total Points 106 142. %

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How To Build a Web Development Team Without Technical Expertise

www.collegemogul.com

Startup Advice: Lessons Learned from Building a Development Team View What links here Posted by Fan Bi on July 19th, 2009 Over the past few months, I’ve explored a bunch of different ways to develop a website without a web developer on the Blank Label team. On a bootstrapped budget free is great.

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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. Would love to get in touch. Expo SF (May.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Establish a customer advisory board. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Heres what it looked like. Expo SF (May.