YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost.

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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

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 previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

In 1986 I started an advertising and public relations firm to serve software and hardware companies, which became a marketing consulting business ( www.Allen.com ) when I moved to L.A. Along the way, I co-authored three books on one-to-one marketing ( [link] ) to help marketers learn how to built and nature relationships with their customers.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. Our current focus is Actors and Actresses and we are moving into other verticals.

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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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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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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

I had always wanted to do consulting but was waiting until my son went off to college. After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. I build social media platforms, help procure contracts, assist with infrastructure and more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Lean Startup Book launches in just under a week. How many copies will this book sell in its first week – real, hardcover, paper copies? If that number crosses some unknowable threshold, the book will debut as a bestseller, and then an awful lot of people are going to read it. No phony discounts. No free trials.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, CTO of Harvard Medical School discussed this idea with me recently. Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. For you, readers, here they are: Sponsor.

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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.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. The book is 132 chapters broken into 11 sections. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

As founder and CTO of several businesses, I love to see ideas become reality and build sustainable businesses that create real value. Presently, I’m focused on two businesses that I am co-founder and CTO of. Frank enjoys spending quality time away from technology with his family and close group of friends.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Hi, I’m Todd.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

I read a book on branding to get some inspiration and realized that the names I had so far weren’t communicating the branding story I wanted to tell. When I first incorporated my company back in 2009, the lawyers I had contracted with to trademark the company name and logo desperately tried to convince me to change the name.

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ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

Trying to find more ways to increase his companies eCommerce conversion rates , Iztok searched & eventually he found Peep’s Book – How To Build Websites That Sell: The Scientific Approach To Websites. He loved the book & the CRO mindset right away because it’s specific, measurable & results driven.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Scott Spiro is founder and President of Computer Solutions Group, Inc (CSG), and author of the book “Hassle Free Computer Support”. CSG offers its clients both an outsourced Chief Technology Officer and an entire I.T. department for a fraction of the price of hiring these resources in-house.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

She’s also the author of a new book — Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company. 6:50] Would you say your book is as much about personal development as it is about leadership development? [8:14] 17:19] Your book is filled with interviews – is there a story in the book that you feel has really nailed it? [19:37]

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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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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Pingback: How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees … | | The Money BooksThe Money Books. I am being offered a single digit percentage of outstanding shares, which I believe is based on the founder’s application of a share distribution as though I am in a CTO or a Director Of Engineering role.

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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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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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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). 95 ringtone, a $1 MP3 song, a $2 e-book, a $5 upgrade to your GPS. With his permission I’m posting it here in its entirety.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In his book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road, he explains exactly how VC’s decide where and how much to invest, and how entrepreneurs can get the best possible deal while making the most of their relationships with VC’s. You found someone that really cares about something,” says Pete Kooman , CTO at Optimizely.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. As Michael Dell said recently in an interview with Walter Isaacson (author of Steve Jobs and the new book The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution ) that Josh Baer and I attended at U.T.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Scott Porad About Scott Contact Schedule Setting Up Shop: The Book Subscribe Mailbag: How do I find a developer to help me with my idea? In fact, that’s exactly how I ended up at Cheezburger—a friend of a friend introduced me to one of the angels who had invested, who then introduced me to the founder (who needed a CTO).

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

And then there are all the dating anecdotes from my six years in NYC (but that’s a very entertaining book and I’m digressing). Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network. Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Lara’s best-selling book, “Moms Mean Business: A Guide to Creating a Successful Company and Happy Life as a Mom Entrepreneur,” offers inspiration, advice, and plenty of how-to’s for aspiring entrepreneurs. They don’t bill as much as I do, and they do the work in a fraction of time. Be very careful.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. If you start framing the technology solution, then you’re not looking for a CTO or a tech co–founder, you’re looking for a contractor or employee to implement that solution, which is perfectly fine if you know what you’re doing. Good riddance.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

Also, engineering, we have Pin Chen, our CTO is in place and he basically runs the whole engineering team so really I just talk to him and make sure that they’re working on stuff that’s a good idea. John Jantsch: I had years ago when his first book came out, I had Jason Fried, the founder of 37Signals, right and Basecamp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell explain why in their classic book, “ Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell explain why in their new book, “ Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell explain why in their book, “ Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma.”

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? Towards An Integrated Approach to UX Design You should definitely look at Steve Blank's book and review his blog. Founder : Ummm. what do you mean?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms. But I don’t think so.

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