Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Carry minimal historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Complementary skills. Passion for what they do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Complementary skills. Passion for what they do.

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Gust

APRIL 20, 2014

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Complementary skills. Passion for what they do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). See this anecdote by Steve Blank on how a hotshot sales executive can sink your startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Complementary skills. Passion for what they do.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Along with Ben Rogmans – Saleduck’s CTO and co-founder, the two have spearheaded the movement towards expanding Saleduck in five countries within Southeast Asia and are now looking towards furthering the platform’s presence in more countries within the region. Looking for talent in the wrong places. Being too direct during meetings.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

If you need additional ammo to convince your boss, we’ve written up detailed benefits for employees of established organizations.) -- The Conference Core: Two Days and Three Nights of Intense Education and Connection -- We don’t fix what’s already awesome. Here’s an overview of it all, and of course, you can find more detail on our site. (If

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Companies of note Learn from companies that have been through the fire--and have lessons to share. Aditya Agarwal has lived through startup hypergrowth--twice. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Employee Equity: How Much? The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

Define how you want to motivate your employees every day to produce high-quality and industry-leading results. My mission as an entrepreneur always was (and still is) to build a world-dominating design-driven software company. They should be able to hire great designers to help build a better product. An engineer.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie This will be a boon to startups as this encompasses finding PII, securing data, and incorporating privacy by design.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition. Curious why should an employee be motivated first by a company’s success? No matter how well the CEO designs the personal incentive programs, they will never be perfect. Stay in your place. While I sit here and rule.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Marketing Sales & Marketing Home Marketing Basics Sales Online Marketing Finding Customers Social Media Branding Social Media Does Your Companys Social Personality Need a Makeover? Determining how to value sweat equity is key when negotiating with investors and employees. Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

trillion in sales. Float.Design is a web design agency focused on beauty and lifestyle brands — while our fellow agencies are nearly all run by men, the beauty and lifestyle brands we work with are frequently lead by female entrepreneurs (so I know they’re out there!). Thanks to Virginie Carmichael, CityGirl’s Design. #10

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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. Today, a lot of the PLG SaaS tools require sales motion upfront because nobody understands those tools. Those types of tools actually require work in the initial days of the sales motion.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Now, anyone can create apps and websites, design chatbots, automate processes, open ecommerce stores, and lots more — all without typing out a single line of code. They hire a team, spend months planning, their engineers build it, and… the final product isn’t quite right. A user can build a chatbot in an afternoon.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

“Everybody felt the burden of supporting all those transactions every day,&# says Pascal-Louis Perez, kaChing’s CTO. “It took a ton of our time, and just wasn’t contributing to our long term vision.&# “It took a ton of our time, and just wasn’t contributing to our long term vision.&#

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. at least until one of our new hires requested one. Product and Engineering. First Round Capital.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

Unlike an application-specific integration strategy, these vendors are designed to provide a single point of integration—especially with your on-premises Active Directory—which can then be used across all of your SaaS applications. Although at this time, there’s no available tool that can help accomplish either of these tasks.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. Thanks to Kristie Jones, Sales Acceleration Group ! #4-Giving We will be hiring people with mental and physical disabilities in the near future. 4-Giving back and helping others.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Dying at 70? The Dry Run.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Files you need to collaborate on with others, sometimes across different time zones. And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. We certainly want to enable internal employees to be more efficient. How are you allowing employees to interact with social media? Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Hire everyone you need as an employee. Since we bootstrapped Backblaze, early on we would have months when the company did not have enough cash from sales to buy the additional servers it needed. At that time, Mac computers made up a mere 6 percent of the market and I argued we needed to focus on other areas.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. A few resources you may want to check out include: How to Forecast Your Sales.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

He is the Founder and CEO of ONTRAPORT, an award-winning web-based sales marketing and business automation software platform. John Jantsch: You have always been the CEO of an award-winning web-based sales marketing and business automation software platform so give us your story. Landon, thanks for joining us. It is my pleasure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even if, in a previous life, you were a world expert in some functional specialty, like in-depth market research or scalable systems design, the compressed timeline of a startup makes it irrelevant.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

They design it and defend it.” The act of trying to define your culture is one way to be deliberate about it and I’d love to tell you how we defined, designed and defended ours so that you can take a few pointers of what worked and what didn’t when we went through the process of creating our culture code.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. 9 – Do not cut your losses a la Pivot at the right time. During this year they.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? You don't need a self-designated 10x imbe. I've been the technical co-founder or first tech employee at three companies in a row (I'm CEO of the fourth). Rockstar v. Maybe, dear asker, you do not need a technical "co-founder" at all. So it can be done.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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