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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable I addressed a commonly held critique of the 1M/1M program: that we're focusing on the basics and stating the obvious. I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. Please try to understand why.

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Introducing Bolster Prime and Bolster Ventures (and their back story)

OnlyOnce

On the heels of the announcement we made last month about our Series B financing , we are now announcing the launch of a new program called Bolster Prime and a new venture capital fund called Bolster Ventures. Brad’s visceral response in this conversation was a very clear, “you should hire Jenny.” Enter Jenny Lawton.

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Podcast Strategy: A Roadmap for Businesses

ConversionXL

As with any marketing effort, a podcasting program should start with a foundational alignment to marketing or business objectives. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. One of the most effective methods is to optimize and syndicate your podcast to podcatchers. Selecting a podcast host.

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Understanding a VC’s Seed Funding Policy is Critical

Both Sides of the Table

In these cases we proactively offer to lead their next round of financing. Like Brad Feld I’m syndication agnostic but I have a slight preference toward working with others. I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s. the $190 million).

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

When I was working my first programming jobs, I was introduced to the following maxim: "time, quality, money - pick two." When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. Whats wrong with this picture? And why is the engineering manager suffering so badly?

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Why Launching a Startup Is More Expensive Than You Think

mashable.com

million in venture financing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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