SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. It is to out friend. Enjoyed this post? Disruptive. We get it! I Be specific. Stay Tuned.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

This post follows directly on Steve’s earlier excellent post, Why Companies are not Startups. In this post, I want to share some new thoughts that build on Steve’s post, and connect them to Lean Startup methods. A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model.

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Startup Business Model Lean Russia 329

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. And we’re lucky because they deliver many of the great products, services and content that we consume in our lives every day. A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. I was recently on TWiST with Jason Calacanis.

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Entrepreneur CTO Hire South America Salary 293

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2016

VCs also get capital gains tax rates on “carried interest,” which is what irritates the masses. Carried interest is the upside that VCs get after returning the money they raised – it is the VC “profit” if you will. I wish founders, startup employees and VCs all paid the same rate of taxes.

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Dividend Capital Gains Silicon Valley Stock 150

Hunter Walker

MARCH 30, 2023

Humans Don’t Scale Sure you can help human workers be more productive over time but they’ll never be as efficient as software automation or customer self-service. And either way it lets too many of us get away with not having to deal with the actual implications of the products we build.

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United States Carried Interest Engineer Viral 67

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

Early on in any startup is more often than not filled with the unknown. There’s a ton of questions, but one thing is for certain: it is thrilling to see your little startup start to come into its own. Venture capitalists are used only after a startup has begun to show a significant amount of revenue.

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Programming Sweat Equity Startup Private Equity 40

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Similarly, I just got a pitch for a startup providing telehealth access that specialized in allergies—which I was pretty excited about until they told me that pharmaceutical companies were fronting the cost of their marketing. But second, it just makes the product better. I was both horrified and yet not surprised at all. Absolutely.

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Venture Capital Cap Table Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 158