Steve Blank
MAY 27, 2010
After some heroics from our CTO in extracting data from SAP, the Visio CFO loved our product, thought we could save them a ton of time and money and wanted it installed ASAP. Then Visio gave us their boilerplate contract. Finally, there was a class of what I call “business development contract terms.” It says what?!”).
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. It’s lost salary for a period of time. Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now. We weren’t ready to hire an associate yet so I offered him a summer internship. What about VC’s and Risk?
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. The role of the independent member was typically to tell the founding CEO that the VCs were hiring a new CEO.). People had to actually pay you for your product.
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 31, 2011
At a board meeting yesterday, a management team was talking about their hiring needs and some of the challenges they're having hiring great people. Here's a simple tip: track hiring analytics and assign them to someone. If you're not interviewing enough people, you're not going to be able to hire someone--simple as that.
blog.alinelerner.com
JUNE 21, 2013
Lessons from a year’s worth of hiring data. Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Aline Lerner's Blog. Jun 21, 2013.
David Teten
JUNE 6, 2011
Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. Price/bandwidth is plummeting. The assumption is that big companies can’t grow, and that’s why we’re seeing a massive contraction of multiples. Introductory remarks. 15 yrs at MS.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 14, 2024
And we're like, well, we know how to hire on board and train sales teams. So we find five clients, showed 'em how to hire onboard and train sales teams, and then we showed 'em how to close deals in their warm market. We ended up, our messaging ran into our CTO's messaging and what do you do? You want us to do that for you?
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