CTO Hire Metrics Operations Security 
TechEmpower
JULY 24, 2023
Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. What are your key Startup Metrics ? Logging/Auditing What key operations need to be logged for auditing? What channels will you use (e.g.,
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Below is the first of her three-part series. —- At least a few times a month, people looking to jump ask about my transition, which has led to me consolidating my answers below. Only 15% of my time was doing the more exciting operations.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. What Rob wrote in his post is right. Further Reading. I cranked this out pretty quickly.
Occam's Razor
DECEMBER 3, 2008
I am getting to how you can increase your salary part. If you want to have a move your career forward in web analytics (from a Metrics Analyst) here are the four options for you (and yes they all will help you make more money, some more than others): |1| Technical Individual Contributor. Group Manager, Web Operations Reporting.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). Hire a CEO to Go Public. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO.
Mucker Lab
APRIL 6, 2023
Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 4, 2010
Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. This is actually fairly common and I think it’s a bit challenging in that the technology roles (from technology advisor to CTO) in a startup vary widely.
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