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.

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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. It came from my weekend activities.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He has 20 years’ experience as CTO.

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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.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2013

The other day, I took part in a forum about technology education in Brooklyn. There was a CTO in the room who had a fifty plus person tech team and so I asked him, "How many of your developers learned their trade in the classroom versus being essentially self taught?".

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies. Eric Ries will interview him.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

There’s also a speaker lineup will feature industry leaders such as author Steven Johnson (whose works on innovation include the books “ Future Perfect ” and ” Emergence “), futurist Thornton May , NASA’s Tom Soderstrom , former Facebook CTO and Quip CEO Bret Taylor, as well as Google Chrome’s Cyrus Mistry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2024

Their latest book is – The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed. Kenneth Wenger – Unveiling the Future of AI Kenneth Wenger is an author, a research scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University, and CTO of Squint AI Inc. His newest book, I s the Algorithm Plotting Against Us?:

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

We’ve recently added talks from: Former US CTO and current tech advisor to the White House, Todd Park; former Facebook engineering director Joceyln Goldfein; Dropbox engineering VP Aditya Agarwal; and KISSMetrics founder Hiten Shah. We’ve tagged the talks by topic , so you can zero in on what interests you most.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. Step #2: Pitch investors. break the silos!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2015

by Tal Segalov, CTO & co-founder of Mintigo. You don’t have to re-write the book to be successful in the social commerce realm – there are big brands doing it very well already. Hire the right marketing team. This is crucial for businesses to succeed in finding the right customers are the right time.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Most recently, he has headed up business development and international contract negotiations with and for startups in the areas of advanced lithography equipment, medical patient transfer equipment, and AI-related software. and for Baylor University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Hiring and onboarding new engineers are time consuming and expensive. The culture they have built, the thoughtfulness that goes into the hiring process, and an emphasis on peer mentoring has helped keep engineers at thredUP. A team that can mitigate turnover is a more productive and efficient team. In the past 3.5

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Think about your playbook from the perspective of a new hire. Your primary audience is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) who has the spending power to buy your product. Though your marketing is aimed at the CTO, an accountant who shares the same interests might see your ad. Lay out the key challenges and expected results.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. The lean startup is an application of Lean Thinking.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Supercomputers get Personal Back in Sunnyvale my friend had not only been hired but had convinced the team that we should be building hardware – making a new class of computers not a software application. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He We’re building a supercomputer.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We’re also working very closely with all of our speakers to ensure that the expert knowledge they impart is not only in line with Eric’s new book, The Startup Way , but focuses on actionable takeaways. 31 ( limited to the first 200 Gold Passholders.)

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

We will be hiring people with mental and physical disabilities in the near future. I was surprised that there wasn’t a name brand company that had people available anywhere and at any time, along with transparent booking, payment, and really great staff that you could choose from. Helping others is what makes my heart full.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Ive been talking to the folks at [a very good VC firm] about helping them with a new venture. Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Pingback: How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees … | | The Money BooksThe Money Books. I was originally hired as a contractor, developing a SaaS app from scratch, including DB design and coding. that, in part due to lack of knowledge on the part of the employee, and. link] Joe Stansell.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

If that’s you, by all means hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies – and ignore the rest of this post. Little did they know, that he was also the CTO and the person responsible for making all tech decisions Folklore has some interesting stories about Burrell Smith ( [link] ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2024

John Jantsch (00:16): What you just heard was a testimonial from a recent graduate of the Duct Tape Marketing certification intensive program for fractional CMOs marketing agencies and consultants just like them. Visit DTM world slash scale to book your free advisory call and learn more. It's time to transform your approach.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Joel is focused on the fact that in many environments, programmers are considered "just the hired help" akin to manual labor, and not treated properly. I love Joels approach to usability, and I still recommend his free online book on UI design. Do programmers have quiet working conditions? Do you do hallway usability testing?

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. Many escape rooms use their location as part of their name, so I started brainstorming there. In the 90’s, there was a famous TV spot in Spain from Renault tagging the new young generation entering labor market.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Hire a programmer here, a freelance public relations staffer there. Book a plane ticket or two to see a prospective partner, and maybe while doing so buy a new laptop or tablet to better communicate the proposed strategic synergies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Being a guest on podcast, getting yourself booked on podcast is a really really great SEO tactic, great brand building tactic, Podcast Bookers can get you booked on two to three to four podcast every single month on auto-pilot. I was that hired gun in some senses. Do you know the book I’m talking about? Absolutely.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

gathered at the event. It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read.

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

If the founding team is non-technical and you can’t figure out whether you are being screwed by your developers or whether your potential new CTO is amazing, a tech advisor can help by joining you in interviews and reviewing commits. You’ll need to keep hiring tech guys. Situations where advisors can add huge value.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. I think it’s a form of “social contracting” where the individual is making a commitment to their friends that this change is for real and they intend to stick with it. Tell us your story: . Hi, I’m Todd.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

He’s also t he author of 5 books, a top-rated international speaker, and has spoken on all 7 continents. One of my favorite episodes who should be your first hire, what's your funding plan, Dr. Lisa Cravin shares her top advice from building spotlight oral. Listen to the female startup club, wherever you get your podcasts.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Anyone you surround yourself with, whether advisors or mentors, biz partners, potential hires, programmers, business incubator, anyone you give equity to, etc.?—?treat Get to know them and work with them over a period of time before fully committing. For example, I just brought on a CTO. treat it like the dating process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Examples, theory, practical advice, links to books, counter-intuitive thinking. Because you are good at communicating: long posts, thorough, good content, well explained. 4) I would like to see more of what I've seen. November 20, 2009 5:31 AM Andy said. 10, if they are involved in a SaaS start-up 2.

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