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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim." But along the way, something strange happened.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

People raised rounds with “a discount to the next round&# or “warrant coverage.&# Yes, these give cheaper prices to early angels but potentially not much of a discount if the company becomes hot. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets. and not a min.

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Beware of Premature Merge Elation

Both Sides of the Table

I’m doing due diligence on a company of another entrepreneur in LA whose company was apparently doing very well. I know, I know … technically they can be structured as mergers. how to integrate technology, systems, people and culture. - how to cut redundant costs. - Me: “Zero dilution.

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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

Both Sides of the Table

There is no cost but you must physically be based in or move to Los Angeles for the 6 months of the program. Applications are due April 6th, 2010, the form is on the website and the Twitter address is @launchpadlad. John Morris from the Tech Coast Angels was encouraging me to do something similar. The rest is history.

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

These can be research tasks, like finding every tech blogger who blogs about cats, repetitive tasks like creating 100 affiliate links for products in a Word document, or ongoing tasks like monitoring a handful of job boards and posting new jobs to your website. And the cost is negligible. What is a Virtual Assistant? Case Studies.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. But it wasn’t to be.

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The Importance of Back Ups

The Startup Magazine

This advice is given freely whether warranted or unwarranted but with little in the way of how to effectively do so. However, for the most part, it is warranted and can be the difference between expensive data recovery costs and loss of earnings due to extended periods of downtime from a ransomware attack , as an example.

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