Customer Development Equity Fractional CTO Marketing 
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2010
Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms. What went wrong?
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Not surprisingly, the list above also is ranked from least to most equity stake in an investment for the investor, relative to the cash they invest. How would one set up such a startup to eventually raise capital from outside VCs, who will be wary of ‘dead equity’ (i.e., equity that belongs to departed cofounders)? The cliffs?
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
rob.by
MARCH 8, 2012
” I believe that by this he means they want cash rather than equity. My hunch is that most good software engineers only work for cash because they don’t feel that working for equity is worth the risk of failure. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. I refused and he left.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
But as any programmer will tell you (I’m one), any lucrative contract or full time job you can get, especially these days, will usually leave you so burnt out by the end of the day that the last thing you will want to do is sit down and bang out more code. Not everybody can, especially if they need to run with the idea to get to market.
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? This person does not exist.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
175 
Let's personalize your content