Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

In order to be a successful tech startup, the team must consist of a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) level member to help with the technology plan. This is generally achieved in one of the following ways: CTO Level Co-Founder (Equity). CTO Level Board Member or dedicated Adviser (Free or Equity). Wireframes.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services , has over 30 years of successful product development experience in many different industries and is a sought after adviser and speaker on the subject.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

CTO, VP of HR) in the customer organization. And often, enhanced business services – such as custom product development or professional installation and consulting – are involved to complete the sale. These are long sales cycles, often with multiple departments and stakeholders involved.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design. Wealthfront CTO Pascal-Louis Perez will show you how. Yes, you really can use continuous deployment – even in an SEC regulated environment.

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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. Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Product and Engineering. 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. ” It took two days, and that effort cost me my productivity for the whole week.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Now that Dick and Jane have added a CTO to SayAhh’s founding team, they’ve turned their full attention to working on their product. Since SayAhh is in the pre-launch development stage, the company doesn’t have any revenue yet.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO. I expect we’ll look back on 2011 as the year that Gnip went from a highly product development focused company to a company that was firing on all cylinders.

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blog.aparttimecto.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

A Part-Time CTO Technology. One of the main challenges of starting a products based company is how do you build your product? This is especially true of web based companies, whose product consists of mainly a web site and very little more. In Plain English. Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource?

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The last time they were starting a company at the raw, pre-product/market fit stage may have been quite a few years ago. The context of starting business may have changed, and some of the tools and practices (especially around early product development and go-to-market) might look very different.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). The investment will be used for product development initiatives. 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch. Blippy is a service that allows you to automatically share your credit card transactions as you make them.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

These costs don’t take into account the many relevant systems within Shopify’s business such as maintaining its API, the infrastructure and server space needed to support its 50,000+ shops and designing and developing all of the beautiful templates that help make Shopify so successful.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

If you have a technical background and you are focused on product development, consider a co-founder with a sales and marketing background that can focus on selling your world class product. Typically, these hires fall into 2 buckets: product development and sales.

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SVPG

MARCH 5, 2011

Organizationally, this role typically manages the product owners/product managers and the user experience designers, and generally reports to the CEO. With some exceptions, it it is important that this role be a peer to the CTO and the VP Marketing. Those that do succeed make a dramatic difference for their companies.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. I have heard many founders — even in the first few months of product development — expect to raise seed rounds, pay themselves salaries, etc.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Shah, founder and CTO of Hubspot , spoke on Monday afternoon about inbound marketing for startups. Hyatt, founder of Conduit Labs , gave a talk on Tuesday entitled “Off The Record,” about the predictive approach to product development.

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Early Growth Financial Services

DECEMBER 11, 2012

by Tony Karrer Originally published on SoCal CTO Almost every day I’m talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

She is a Silicon Valley veteran – having been the Senior Director of Engineering at Yodlee, then holding several CTO, Chief Architect, and other engineering leadership roles at a few startups before landing at Shippo in 2016. Above all, the purpose of product development is to create value for customers.

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Venture Chronicles

AUGUST 2, 2013

This is where we really erred in our approach, engineering and product management all report up to the CTO, and the company fundamentally underinvested in product management as a functional area.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Look for some “ skunk works &# project where the product developers are actively seeking alternatives to their own engineering organization. Little did they know, that he was also the CTO and the person responsible for making all tech decisions Folklore has some interesting stories about Burrell Smith ( [link] ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering.

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Spencer Fry

DECEMBER 16, 2019

We now have 6 product developers — if you include our CTO — and they're often working on different projects. It's common that all product developers won't know every part of our codebase as well as they might have when our team was only two or three people. It's even difficult for me at times as the CEO.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Demonstrate that you can pull the trigger on things quickly — whether it be getting customers, hiring / firing employees, or product development. This is one of my favorite startup presentations of all time by Mike Cassidy on going fast. And convey this in your pitch.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Instead, we built a product first (that’s expensive!) and then started hunting around for the right target market (that’s usually the cheap part of product development). Or, your target market might be a certain type of employee at another company, such as a CTO or head of marketing. First, what’s market research?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

This year’s speakers include Eric Feng of Kleiner Perkins (former CTO of Flipboard and Founding CTO of Hulu) and Antonio Gracias of Valor Equity (early investor in Tesla and SpaceX), along with panels on AR/VR, Blockchain and the Future of Transport. Investors and Entrepreneurs.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2019

” Though, as another way to look at it, Nate Weiss (CTO of Conductrics ) says that the ‘skipping IT’ benefit of client-side tools could have a cost for some companies. Client-side tools let marketers run tests accurately without the help of developers. That’s not a small accomplishment. Reduce attack surface.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

To accelerate that program, President Obama and US CTO Todd Park have created a national event to leverage technology and open data to strengthen our democracy in the United States. The open data movement is great for business, but is also great for us as citizens. On June 1st and 2nd the largest hackathon in the world is forming.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

agile software development. (46). product management. (23). software development. (47). startup cto. (18). web development. (12). Strategic Technology. Simple Agile Product Development. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Pa. about me. (26). business exchange. (11).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 23, 2019

” Though, as another way to look at it, Nate Weiss (CTO of Conductrics ) says that the ‘skipping IT’ benefit of client-side tools could have a cost for some companies. Client-side tools let marketers run tests accurately without the help of developers. That’s not a small accomplishment. Reduce attack surface.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Ideally, the economics of a development investment look like those of a cash investment; typically, a seed investor will get no more than about 20% of a company for his capital. Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 29, 2011

Adap.tv , the video advertising company started by Shopping.com’s founder and former CTO Amir Ashkenazi, has announced a $20 million series C, led by Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) and joined by previous investors Gemini Israel Funds, Redpoint Ventures and Spark Capital. So why do they need the money?

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SoCal CTO

MAY 31, 2008

how much product development is enough to get in the market and start getting feedback and what should I focus on in the early stages of the product? What is 'good enough'? when should I open the doors and let people in? These were certainly front and center yesterday for the primary presenter.

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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. Your "startup-lessons-learned" are very valuable. Would love to get in touch. January 2, 2009 8:57 AM Abbas said.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

If you’ve got to write a blog post, if you’ve got to get an email out to a client, if you’ve got to respond to customer service, if you’ve got to work on product development, whatever it is, give yourself 25 minutes, set that timer, and go. As a CTO, he noticed this. Jonathan: Excellent.

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