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Managing Your Startup Board?—?A Short Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

Managing Your Startup Board?—?A My talk was about “ managing your startup board ” and the full deck is on that SlideShare link and embedded below. For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

But it was great experience to put yourself in an uncomfortable place to manage 90 Type A personalities. The other thing I did that most students don’t do is make friends with the faculty, seeking them out, socializing with them, even adding them on Facebook, and that ends up paying dividends later. Poort: The Entrepreneurial Manager.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development. A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Do an initial financial projection based on competitors’ prices, your development costs, and the advertising costs to see if your product is financially viable. Hire someone to do a working prototype/proof-of-concept. Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. Salaries/Bonuses.

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

The person running the meeting does not have to be a manager or executive. You can almost hear a manager now: “sure, if you want me to spend the next six weeks setting this up, just let me know. Even in that case, we can ask the manager involved to simply spend the first hour of the six-week ideal solution.

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Building a sweat equity team

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

Mark Walsen Mark Walsen Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … I think you would be better off hiring people, rather than trying to convince them to work for free in exchange for equity. But it is a start-up in the sense of making a big quantum step forward in the marketplace. The key here is motivation.

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Software Startup Myths Debunked

www.singlefounder.com

Joel of Fog Creek says: “We didn’t start with a particular product in mind: our goal was simply to build the kind of software company where we would want to work, one in which programmers and software developers are the stars and everything else serves only to make them productive and happy.&#