SoCal CTO
APRIL 28, 2014
If your developers have a better machine, screen, internet connection, or chair at home than they do in the office, then there’s a problem. I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO. Many are not interested in 3rd party technologies that can streamline development. Poor machine, screen, connection, chair.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He The response from across the country?
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rob.by
MARCH 8, 2012
They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. They can easily get great benefits and a six figure salary. 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. I refused and he left. Good riddance.
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 5, 2019
He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker. Jono Bacon: So I think really, we’ve seen a real growth in communities in recent years and especially because technology has been growing so significantly. He’d spend all of his money that he raised on an hour’s worth of internet access.
www.quora.com
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? Someone asked What is the minimum salary to live comfortably in New York City?
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. Also, with another job, there is the risk that a team acts with less urgency given they have sources of income.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.
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