SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I was asked by a reader how much equity he should give out to early employees and to service providers in a very early stage startup. Founders vs. Early Employees To help with this discussion, let me start with a definition of "early employee." I'll get to service providers in a later post. n = (1.2 - 1)/1.2 =.167.

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Early Stage Equity CTO Hire Sweat Equity 391

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions.

Cofounder 221

Cofounder Software Review CTO Hire Founder 221

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Martha Razo, author of the book, Business Diva: Stories of Women Leading in Business. Martha: Business owners measure their growth by their numbers; revenues, profits, number of employees, the number of locations they own, etc. Hiring others?

Founder 160

Founder Technical Review Balance Sheet Analytics 160

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

You find that you need to be near major customers, or employee transportation hubs, where rents are higher than you ever anticipated. Your frugal role model of bringing your own lunch won’t be convincing to most employees. Ramp-up facilities and utilities required. Staffing and people-management costs.

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Cost Founder Software Review Startup 264

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2019

Hiring new talent is an inevitable and critical part of starting your own business, and it’s an exciting indication that your original idea has finally found its footing— now it just needs the manpower. Unfortunately, many employers underestimate the hiring process and make the mistake of hiring the wrong kind of people.

Hiring 101

Hiring Employee Social Media Technical Review 101

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2018

by Ben Hoffman, co-founder of CityHUNT. Do you pay attention to your employee retention rate and whether your top employees are happy? If your employees are unhappy and continue to hand in their resignation, it makes it challenging to keep the business moving forward. Do Your Due Diligence When Hiring.

Retention 100

Retention Employee Software Review Due Diligence 100

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2019

by Josh Fechter , co-founder and CEO of Squibler. Why keep employees engaged? By understanding employee engagement , you can enhance productivity, improve retention in demanding fields and deliver higher quality products and services. Although not all employees like working together, many thrive on the prospect.

Employee 147

Employee Technology Cofounder Viral 147

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Venture Studios are an “idea factory” with their own employees searching for product/market fit and a repeatable and scalable business model. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. They do the most to de-risk the early stages of a startup. Carlos stirred his coffee.

Technical Cofounder 368

Technical Cofounder Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 368

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Partner decisions are more important than team member hiring decisions.

Partner 385

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Cofounder 385

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

Today we present Olga Camargo as part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series. Olga has a great story as CEO and Founder of SHENIX , a Chicago-based fintech app company focused on financial education and advisory services for Latinas. These were primarily attended by Latina employees. Finding capital?

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Founder Chicago Illinois Community 137

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 11, 2022

In addition to our dollars, we are eager to help founders with the construction of their cap table, not just generically with the highest profile folks available, but more specifically where they might get some help along the way. What expertise do the founders personally have? Founders Often Don’t Come From These Backgrounds….

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Seed Stage Cap Table Founder Marketing 103

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

by Saqib Ayaz, co-founder of Hire an Assistant. A virtual assistant is a self-employed person who is being hired on contractual basis for as long as the client needs his/ her services. A virtual assistant does not enjoy the benefits provided by the company to full time employees. Different Types of Virtual Assistants.

Hiring 145

Hiring Software Review Technical Review Cofounder 145

View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2016

Ask a founder of a growing startup what they need most, and you’ll often get an answer along the lines of, “We need great people, and we need them fast.”. Founders need to make sure the quality of the startup’s offerings remains high and provide adequate sales and service support for prospective customers and new users.

Metrics 120

Metrics Founder CTO Hire Technical Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Most founders like to talk about their many months or years of sweat-equity , but cash invested is a stronger commitment.

Technical Review 436

Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 436

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

Finding that person is not a hiring challenge, since neither of you really get paid until you both succeed. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation.

Technical Review 230

Technical Review Technology Founder Management 230

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

” That was the email one of Ethena’s founders sent to me and Melanie Naranjo on 8/21/21, a bit over two years ago. Hunter Walk: One of my favorite things to do for founders is speaking with people who are considering joining their startup. In my opinion, though, most employers don’t give their employees enough credit.

Employee 116

Employee Startup Vertical Leadership 116

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

A few weeks ago I shared some important leadership lessons from Stewart Butterfield , including investing in your own growth to make sure that the founder scales as fast as the company. Growing with your start-up can be a very tough undertaking for a founder. There’s typically little choice for a founder CEO.

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Part-Time VPE Management CTO Hire San Francisco 255

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Much has been written about when it is time to hire a “professional CEO” to run a startup company and of course that has long been a norm in Silicon Valley when founders find that their inexperience may be a limiting factor in company growth ( know as the Peter Principle ). It now seems that Mark is more firmly in control.

Founder 309

Founder CTO Hire Silicon Valley Leadership 309

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Here’s another from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series. By providing our employees with an encouraging and positive environment we are able to create tech-based solutions for the development of people. Lastly, Gin Consulting facilitates companies in increasing their reach through personal branding.

Leadership 161

Leadership Founder Technical Review Entrepreneur 161

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Most founders like to talk about their many months or years of sweat-equity , but cash invested is a stronger commitment.

Sweat Equity 207

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 207

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2023

Humanizing the Workplace: Building Strong Employee Relationships written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Joey Coleman In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Joey Coleman. Questions I ask Joey Coleman: [02:42] what’s the real cost of employee turnover? [04:04]

Employee 94

Employee Retention Hiring Artificial Inteligence 94

Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

It’s also not an accident that, upon stepping back from being Textio’s CEO, I’ve built a sizable exec coaching practice working largely with early stage founders. HW: Textio is open to remote hires from a specific set of states which I found interesting. HW: I think of you first and foremost as a founder, not a ‘female founder.’

Cofounder 106

Cofounder Founder Technical Review Seattle 106

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Supportive co-founder and executive positions. Every startup needs two or three key advisors who have the domain experience, connections, and complementary skills to guide the founders through those early crises. Member of the Advisory Board. Manage customer service. Personnel Manager.

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Advisory Board Dividend Angel Investor Cofounder 368

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2020

Here’s another from The Startup Magazine Female Founder Series. A: The world of entrepreneurship is completely different from working as an employee or consultant in corporate America. I have extremely high standards and hiring a younger crowd was a bit more challenging than expected. We interviewed Ms. Raising capital?

Technical Review 153

Technical Review Founder Management Technology 153

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

Hufnagel, who possesses an intrinsically driven personality, leads with passionate optimism that pushes him beyond obstacles—and he looks for employees who share his unbridled enthusiasm. He knows that quality of startup hiring is linked to the tone the founder sets for the company. He seeks zeal in potential hires. “We

Hiring 120

Hiring Founder Sweat Equity Cofounder 120

Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It might seem easier to put off thinking about your first essential new hires. Try to do it all and you’ll spend a lot of time learning new skills (that you’ll eventually hire for) when you should be focusing on growing your business. Hire someone who understands Generation Z (or your target demographic). A marketing maven.

Hiring 77

Hiring Technical Review Small Business Forecast 77

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Investors want organizations that manage people talent and growth, through good hiring, performance feedback, development on the job, and building commitment. I have paraphrased his key points here as follows: Leader personal impact.

Technical Review 323

Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation Leadership 323

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

This will be the team who hires the most talented people, channels them in the most productive configuration and gets the most output from their unique capabilities. Only hire A players. B players tend to have slightly more self-confidence issues so they tend to hire people slightly worse than themselves – thus C teams.

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Hiring Startup Global Revenue 399

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

One of the most stressful and unanticipated challenges that comes with starting a new business is hiring and managing employees. While this approach appears to cost more on the surface, it often actually costs you less, when you consider the hidden costs of rework, poor customer satisfaction, employee management, and training required.

Technical Review 308

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Employee 308

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

by Hema Crockett and Jamie Jacobs, co-founders of Gig Talent . In the past, working remotely was considered “normal” for entrepreneurs or independent contractors in the gig economy only, but organizations wanted employees, and consultants, to be onsite and working in the office. Employees clearly want and enjoy the flexibility.

Technical Review 275

Technical Review Cofounder Leadership Employee 275

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Adriana Rozo-Angulo, founder of international consulting firm MAS Connections and author of The Buoyant Business: How Simplicity Can Keep Organizations Afloat in a Stormy Economy. Adriana Rozo-Angulo, President & Co-Founder, MAS Connections.

Founder 101

Founder Cofounder Social Media Software Review 101

Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2022

Rolling Out The Red Carpet For Your Employees written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Donna is the Founder and CEO of Red-Carpet Learning Worldwide and works with mission-driven leaders to help them create cultures of happy, engaged people who deliver exceptional customer service. Marketing Podcast with Donna Cutting.

Employee 88

Employee Networking Audio Customer 88

Up and Running

MAY 9, 2017

Here at Palo Alto Software , we take hiring pretty seriously. I should know—we just wrapped up a lengthy hiring process within the marketing department. After months of searching, dozens of interviews, and sifting through countless resumes, we finally hired a new managing editor for Bplans.

Hiring 105

Hiring Employee Matching Software Review 105

Up and Running

JULY 18, 2017

As a founder, you’ve probably been focused on writing your business plan , building out your financial forecasts to position yourself to get funding, and managing the day-to-day minutia of running a business. Founders of young organizations sometimes feel like they’re under a microscope. It’s true, your employees are watching.

Founder 115

Founder United Kingdom Leadership Washington 115

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to the private sector. At first many start-ups hire a lobbying firm. Larger companies hiring a Chief of Staff often look for someone who has an MBA, experience with one of the big consulting firms, or experience doing the job already.

Government 241

Government Advisory Board Salary Sales Cycle 241

View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2016

At the beginning, a startup team is typically just a couple of co-founders. What we suggest at this juncture is that founders get acclimated to the tactics of scaling beyond the founding team. What to Address During Genesis Team Building: How do we divide and conquer responsibilities as co-founders? Below, I take a look at each.

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Founder Cofounder Startup Early Stage 120