SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system? The good news is that likely is not what they want.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

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. You course correct. You motivate, cajole, reassign tasks, hire, fire and push the organization forward. Marketing of course often feels the opposite.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. For example, suppose you're just two founders and you want to hire an additional hacker who's so good you feel he'll increase the average outcome of the whole company by 20%. n = (1.2 - 1)/1.2 =.167. and we have 11.1%

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2023

Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem-solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources. Level of responsibility and time allocated. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Experience and connections in your business area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2020

Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources. Level of responsibility and time allocated. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Experience and connections in your business area.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

The truth is you really don’t know how your teammates or your bosses will perform in good times and bad. You hire people who look good on paper. So one of the surest signs you’ve hired a leader is the willingness of his or her former team to re-assemble. After 6 months – you know. You REALLY know.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

On Friday, at the LA CTO Forum , I heard from a couple of CTOs having trouble finding good developers. Do you have anyone you could recommend to me, or any resources? Perfect timing. I don’t have specific suggestions for people you can hire. Of course, a lot of people say the same thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources. Level of responsibility and time allocated. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Experience and connections in your business area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2014

Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem-solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources. Level of responsibility and time allocated. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Experience and connections in your business area.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. That has really improved our consistency, our delivery, our service offerings, and online resources for our students. That's a big part of it. On the software side, we're really focused on building out to common course standards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

Value is embodied in previous success with investors, proven problem solving ability, and having built and executed a business plan with minimal resources. Level of responsibility and time allocated. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Experience and connections in your business area.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I spent an hour on the phone working with Sam Rosen, the CEO of MakeSpace on a senior exec he is considering hiring. And I spoke with the CTO of another great company I used to be on the board of and enlisted his support in potentially being an advisor to one company. Of course I could go on and on. Roger Ehrenberg. Fred Wilson.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

they need a developer more than they need a CTO. Of course, you probably are going to provide more of a feature list. I just had a fellow CTO ask me about a particular technical design problem and several directions they could go and ask for my thoughts on the tradeoffs for those different choices.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

If you have existing investors of course you feel a degree of comfort knowing that they would likely have your back in tough times — but of course you never really know. Having a list of VCs to approach is of course is a good start. If you’re not doing it you’re not using every resource you have. Don’t let it!

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. 8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank. It’s great advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. And of course you need a mature venture capital industry. That’s why more VCs ought to be spending time in Seattle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Running a new business starts with building a solid and credible business plan, working the investor funding process, and building an organization from nothing, with minimal resources. Sacrifice and time commitment. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? Domain expertise and connections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Running a new business starts with building a solid and credible business plan, working the investor funding process, and building an organization from nothing, with minimal resources. Sacrifice and time commitment. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? Domain expertise and connections.

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