Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

NOTE: In the video I talked about how VC’s and entrepreneurs decide the total number of shares at the first major funding round and why it’s often a high number. You’ll need to hire and retain talen to grow your company. We walk through this in the video. The VC assumes you’ll have an option pool.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It reminds me of Glum from Gulliver’s Travels (if you don’t know him do yourself a favor and watch this best of 60 second video ), “It will never work.” We hired outside experts. Marc Berte, the CTO, and a masters from MIT, is exceptionally gifted. What about battery charge times? It is safe.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. One of the common requests I get as an adviser is the help interview and vet potential CTO candidates. This is critical! this story.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

He’ll be running a hands-on session on how to make a compelling business video. A comedian who founded NYC’s Comedy Cellar --an enduring business--Bill has written for TV sitcoms and media companies. We gave him a night session so he’d feel in his element.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Therefore, if you want to bring an MVP ( Minimum Viable Product ) to market, Werdelin approximates that you’ll need $50,000 to $250,000 , depending on the skill sets of the developers and designers you hire. You have to ensure that the right people come in at the right time, and you have the right decor, ambiance and music.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

I see too many founders that are willing to do all of their meetings as phone calls or video-conference pitches. Never stop in the ink is dry on the contract and the money is in your bank account. The best sales people never give up and they are politely persistent in finding new ways to get in front of target buyers.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. BROWN: Real time intra-day risk. End of day is fairly easy, but not real time. This is definitely not the norm in accelerator programs; I’d be curious to know the logic. Introductory remarks.

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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

JUNE 16, 2022

Here’s how the guide is promoted on Twitter: The informative, conversational tone and fun imagery are the same as the post on the Visme website: And the same vibe as the video embedded in the guide: Visme maintains consistency throughout the customer journey. Generally speaking, each playbook should have five main parts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Eric -- I was very impressed by your two part video series, which rarely occurs these days. I have shared with multiple groups Part 2 [link] Very good work -- MM April 2, 2010 6:46 AM Gobala Krishnan said. Otherwise it's a great idea. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said.

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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 with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. Worst of all, your teammates are constantly wanting to have meetings.

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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? ) Eric, I landed upon your blog when I was searching for the path to CTO a couple of months back and I have been a frequent to the site since then. Your "startup-lessons-learned" are very valuable. Expo SF (May.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

These categories came from Yonder conference , a conference held to discuss just such challenges and solutions: hiring and onboarding. In short, these are the top 10 remote team management lessons I have learned: Find a way to meet at the same time. Hire those you trust. Biggest future challenge: hiring. legal issues.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

Greg Keller, in this Whiteboard Video Series , shares some thoughts on how the JumpCloud Directory-as-a-Service works. With additional videos found here. Onboarding goes beyond hiring new employees. Passing the employee’s details to the IT department to notify them of the new hire is half the battle.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. Im an ex-Googler, and now a CTO of a small company with lots of talented people ([link] I discovered your site not long ago, and I am learning a lot from it. Fear is the mind-killer More video "what to do if customers don't like you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Thank you very much for the video. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Sure, Id be delighted to. Expo SF (May.

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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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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

If you get chance, watch some of the videos to get a sense on how far the technology got. Virtual employees for hire. billion to re-hire the founders of Character.ai Let’s dive in! The State of Play: Voice AI in 2024 In 2024, about a third of all venture capital funding has been going into AI companies. Google paid $2.6

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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.” Blog at WordPress.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

The CTO, Tor Ivry , heads engineering out of Israel. And for anybody who has seen me publicly encouraging entrepreneurs to hire senior marketing staff early — amongst the gold standards is Lisa Kennedy who joined Nanit as the CRO having previously been a senior executive at Diapers.com. NFW, I thought. Boy was I wrong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

in many cases an example is required - demo, or in my case video guitar lesson along with google ads for quick test data. If you are trying to find a product that sells, than each test would require a different product to be created (or at least a different sales page).in No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. Check out the highly entertaining front page video.) If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here: [link].

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

You just press a record button, save it, share it with others, and you can watch the video and inspect it with familiar devtools. And of course, they are hiring! Replay captures everything you need for the perfect bug report, all in one link. . Here’s how it works. Replay lets you record websites. on their blog post here.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

DeepMind beating the world’s best at Go and AI beating pro-poker players consistently, represent much more than a computer getting good at playing video games: The gaming world offers a perfect place to start machine intelligence work (e.g.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

We will be hiring people with mental and physical disabilities in the near future. I build social media platforms, help procure contracts, assist with infrastructure and more. Today, Virtual Vocations lists more than 20,000 remote job openings at any given time, all of which are vetted for legitimacy by our expert team.

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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. But increasingly we can move to a world where teams are chartered to accomplish results instead of tasked with creating work on spec. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

(For more on earlyvangelists and why they are so important, see Steve Blanks The Four Steps to the Epiphany ) Heres the suggestion from Seth Godin I want to emphasize: And heres one thing Id do on a regular basis: Get a video camera or perhaps a copy machine and collect comments and feedback from the people who matter most to your business.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

What key hires do you need? The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. Mightyverse builds video-driven language tools for mobile devices, collecting words, phrases, and sentences translated from one language to another, creating a global language marketplace.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

I bill out at somewhere near 200 an hour most of the time. They don’t bill as much as I do, and they do the work in a fraction of time. Doing things all yourself as a business owner is an absolute time drain that we all need to take a magnifying glass to and figure out how not to succumb to this one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May.

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