Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer. Chief Risk Officer.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The co-founder core team, including a CTO, should be fully formed and passionate enough to be working on the project full time. The Black Tux online tuxedo rental, which is reinventing the customer experience in the antiquated $10B+ tuxedo rental and sales industry. They focus on quality and experience. Founded by L.A.’s

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Once you get to 300-500 customers, it blows up, because it was never intended to scale. Our CTO, Vladamir, the head of our engineering and core development team, went and formed his own garage R&D company. Our future is looking very bright--in the last two months, we've signed up more customers than we ever had before.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Actually, David’s taking even broader roles than I generally do as he’s CEO for at least one startup.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Matt Miller is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of CareerBliss.com – an online career community that helps everyone find happiness in the workplace. to the masses… This is how The Grilled Cheese Truck was born! Matt McKinney – Founder of TiesForCharity.com.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications. As CTO, it was my job to solve this problem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

If you are recognized as an expert in the business area of your startup, with a good reputation, and you know all the key vendors and customers, your value is huge. Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

If you are recognized as an expert in the business area of your startup, with a good reputation, and you know all the key vendors and customers, your value is huge. Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold.

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