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10 Entrepreneur Milestones That Make Funding Easy

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better. Build qualified advisory board.

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Decoding Signal From Noise For Wall Street, With Bitvore

socalTECH

I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. That''s really where the genesis of this comes from, and we have patents around the idea of continually analyzing both structure and semistructured data from a wide variety of sources, simultaneously. That was a very successful exit for everyone involved.

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10 Keys to Startup Traction That Investors Look For

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better. Build qualified advisory board.

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These 10 Steps Will Make Your Startup Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better. Build qualified advisory board.

Startup 101
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Ten Tips for Business Traction to Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. Of course, a real contract or purchase order from a big customer is even better. Build qualified advisory board.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. This is actually fairly common and I think it’s a bit challenging in that the technology roles (from technology advisor to CTO) in a startup vary widely.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

We initially hired him as our in-house recruiter. Tim did such a great job of hiring the best, brightest people so quickly that our company infrastructure wasn’t keeping up. Our IT group was not able to support all of the new people we hired. As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem. Tim was my right arm at L90.

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