Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. This is a fancy title for a personnel manager in a large corporation who keeps track of all the hiring and firing, and has a staff to build job descriptions and personnel policy documents. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

You fill out the short questionnaire, lawyers submit their price quotes, and they get hired. We''ve worked out he bugs, and since then have hired a full time CTO and others. The hard part, is getting in front of those people at the right time. There are over 100 different questionnaires on the website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Level of responsibility and time allocated. Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. This is a fancy title for a personnel manager in a large corporation who keeps track of all the hiring and firing, and has a staff to build job descriptions and personnel policy documents. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. This is a fancy title for a personnel manager in a large corporation who keeps track of all the hiring and firing, and has a staff to build job descriptions and personnel policy documents. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. I got involved with talking to CTOs at large, Fortune 500 companies, introducing them to what this system could provide, and figuring out if they have this capability. All of our documents were done for raising money, and it was a very simple transaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2014

Level of responsibility and time allocated. Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. We were hired by a company that did outsourced medical billing and consulting for physicial medicine and rehab doctors. We were hired by a company that did outsourced medical billing and consulting for physicial medicine and rehab doctors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

Level of responsibility and time allocated. Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

If you do not break it down into small pieces, its hard to make progress with part-time resources, freelancers, etc. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Third party products are used appropriately.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. I had actually retired from SunGard as CTO before starting BlackLine. all part of the task manager module. The only thing, from our clients point of view, is that it gives auditors more time to ask questions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

It was also used as a project management tool & document storage system for the largest private bank in Europe who even stored images of their bank vaults on our servers. Ryan Lissack is the CTO of Maker Studios. David Lapter was our CFO and the best one I have ever worked with. And he’s now the CFO of Fab.com.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

they need a developer more than they need a CTO. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. Read Document Your MVP for a Developer for all of the detail that you really need to provide. I just want the cost, timeline and impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction and fundability to investors, as well as to your team: Document your business plan. If you have a product description, that’s necessary, but not sufficient.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Up until a few years ago most software companies used the ‘waterfall’ method of development that required lots of documentation (detailed marketing requirements specifications, functional and design specifications, etc.)

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. In the fourth case, the founder was getting ready to sign a very large contract, but they didn't feel they had much visibility into what was going to be delivered. They couldn't plan their business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Talk and time are cheap, but they need to understand that investors judge past results as a good indicator of future expectations. Here are some tips which will signal traction to investors, as well as your team: Document your business plan. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

Personally, I think the best products are designed, architected and built all at the same time. (As As opposed to the traditional methods of specing out a product in advance with well-defined documentation and then handing that off to a development team.) Thats when youll need to introduce "Steady" engineers to add some balance.

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