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APRIL 20, 2010
This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. I hope many will read this and have an answer for the question, “what’s the different between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?&#. What makes a great tech team?
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FEBRUARY 7, 2013
When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. But Ethan had left by the time of the acquisition. I told him that this had been a big theme for me for some time. What do we like about OpenTable? Nice sweep!
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NOVEMBER 16, 2014
But if you level up , raise capital and grow customers, revenue and staff – life changes. Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. You hire great people. Extremely talented people are ultra competitive.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
As your organization grows and you hire senior staff where you are no longer managing every employee directly the issue of how to manage people that are not your “direct&# reports arises. You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on.
socalTECH
JUNE 9, 2014
We caught up with Lee Essner , the President of Jukin Media, to learn more about how the company thinks it has figured out how to make a business round viral videos. Can you talk about those businesses? The nice thing about those two businesses, is they feed each other nicely. What is Jukin Media?
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JANUARY 26, 2010
I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. I’ll start with an obvious one – I talk with the entrepreneur about competitors. You can tell if they have a deep-seated competitive spirit. Can’t go a mile deep on competition?
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 22, 2014
A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One ”. The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions.
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