CTO Hire Early Stage Salary Technical Cofounder 
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2023
I always tell entrepreneurs that two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a cofounder or two. Giving a cofounder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Each cofounder should get equity for value, based on these key variables: Lived a key role in a previous startup.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 9, 2020
Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Level of responsibility and time allocated. Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. But don’t get greedy.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Level of responsibility and time allocated. Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. But don’t get greedy.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 4, 2014
Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Level of responsibility and time allocated. Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. But don’t get greedy.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 24, 2016
Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Level of responsibility and time allocated. Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. But don’t get greedy.
SoCal CTO
APRIL 28, 2014
It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. If you’ve ever seen an athlete use a big word in a slightly wrong way, that’s how you sound when you use technical language and you don’t quite know what it means. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Nine times out of ten, the meeting ends with them asking me for introductions to VCs. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product.
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