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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2023
You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. Building a new business is quite different from an executive role in a mature company, so people from these backgrounds are often a liability. Experience and connections in your business area.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 9, 2020
You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. Building a new business is quite different from an executive role in a mature company, so people from these backgrounds are often a liability. Experience and connections in your business area.
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SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2007
I generally am working as an acting CTO for about 3-4 start-ups or other companies at any one time. I also found this interesting graphic of the changing needs around the CTO role in different size/type companies that somewhat echoes my experience. During Stabilization, often the focus is transitioning to a full-time CTO.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. Building a new business is quite different from an executive role in a mature company, so people from these backgrounds are often a liability. Experience and connections in your business area.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 4, 2014
You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology or money. Building a new business is quite different from an executive role in a mature company, so people from these backgrounds are often a liability. Experience and connections in your business area.
Steve Blank
APRIL 23, 2014
Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation. In response, venture capital firms like Sequoia and Andreessen/Horowitz are hiring new partners just to work with their portfolio companies and match them to corporations.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 24, 2016
You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology, or money. Building a new business is quite different from an executive role in a mature company, so people from these backgrounds are often a liability. Experience and connections in your business area.
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