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Hiring a CTO for Your Startup

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Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. You now have two issues: sourcing and hiring. Have they found and hired developers? This is a must.

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Hiring a CTO for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. You now have two issues: sourcing and hiring. Have they found and hired developers? This is a must.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

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It was like having a bunch of mini- Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions all in one room. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. Review the code being built.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. The reality is that as VCs we have limited allocations of where we can spend our time so we want to attach ourselves to projects in which we, too, can be passionate. It was impressive.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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Even bigger is the desire to stick one’s middle finger up at all of the people who doubted you all along. We hired outside experts. We checked charge times. Are we right in all of our assumptions and diligence? Time will tell. Time will tell. It can be one of the strongest motivators. It is safe.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). Tell us a bit of the story on how you started HashtagOne? What's the theme of your investments?

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail. We spoke with Dave Fink , CEO and co-founder of Posite, and Jonathan Neddenriep , co-founder and CTO of the company, to learn more. What is a print cloud?

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