Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

” So for the deal, investors on both sides converted to common, we split the combined company 55/45, Matt became CEO, and Greg led a new Series A financing into the combined company. There’s a final part on The Future of Fractional Executive Work with a chapter by a different leader for each area above. Matt was still CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Trust me – that kind of encounter can mean the difference between securing a contract, protecting yourself from getting turfed or getting acquired one day.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.

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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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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. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Then, as I suggested before, it’s time to establish a formal agreement or contract to cement the partnership.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&#

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). Great companies are comprised of great individual point people or functional leaders.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Very enthusiastic about the potential for the NY tech ecosystem, leveraging our strength in finance. Introductory remarks. Maria Gotsch. Formerly MS IT department. 15 yrs at MS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Then, as I always recommend, it’s time to establish a formal agreement or contract to cement the partnership.

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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. can feel you now—corporate recruiters at career fairs, sending offer letters to work at banks and consulting firms. Finance, IT, Legal).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

It’s why raising a round of capital often feels like a hollow victory because it almost feels like a temporary reprieve from the Grim Reaper and in a way every new round just sets the bar higher to clear for the next round of financing or the hope of reaching profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Gregg was a graduate of Stanford and a Wharton MBA and had worked at the consulting firm BCG so I knew he was smart and capable. The rest of our team included the founding CTO of Maker Studios (Ryan Lissack) and the CEO of DataSift (Tim Barker) so we seemed to all be in good company of ex Salesforce execs looking to make a difference.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. The calculation comes as follows: original 50/50 diluted down 20 percent to 40/40 for the financing, and then the one funding founder gets that 20 percent. How important is this person’s role?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, CTO of Harvard Medical School discussed this idea with me recently. Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C. Sequoia has financed them. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. For you, readers, here they are: Sponsor.

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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. A company at this stage could also face product development costs from consultants if they decided to outsource product development.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

I had always wanted to do consulting but was waiting until my son went off to college. After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. I build social media platforms, help procure contracts, assist with infrastructure and more.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Office and Operations. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? Science and Technology Technology. Create an Inc.com account: Subscribe to Inc.coms Free Newsletters.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

Blockdraws Technologies COO, Konstantinos Despotakis is a former online casino CEO and also a former Deputy Director of Compliance at the AGCC. In addition, the founder Darin Oliver, also took in Kim Lumbard, the Blockdraw’s current CTO. In casino and finance structures, it is unacceptable to make mistakes.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc. This leaves the CTO / Senior Architect to focus on product development and managing the recently hired engineers. Hire based on functionality and avoid having too many C’s. Don’t make everyone a founder.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. No revenues, no costs. It was easy peasy.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2018

by Harsha Cuttari, CTO of AQUA Intelligence. Blockchain technology can be used to to help personalize travel, a trait Millennials seek. he has led several marketing campaigns including online strategy consulting, for clients large and small around the world.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

” So for the deal, investors on both sides converted to common, we split the combined company 55/45, Matt became CEO, and Greg led a new Series A financing into the combined company. There’s a final part on The Future of Fractional Executive Work with a chapter by a different leader for each area above. Matt was still CEO.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

I got this formula from a big compensation consulting firm. But it is based on a common practive in compensation consulting. This "best value" can be the valuation on the last round of financing. Whatever approach you use, it should be the value of your company that you would sell or finance your business at right now.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

The ability to measure outputs, in real time, allows for fractionalized delivery of traditional industrial services - like as mentioned by Splunk CTO Snehal Antani - the rental and leasing forklifts not by a period of time (i.e. New Business Models. hour, day, year) but instead by the amount of lift of weight lifted and moved.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

When I started my consulting business, I was fortunate enough to have a mentor who guided me, and the best advice she gave me was to name my company something about myself, but not my actual name. I started Walletero as an independent personal finance site offering free tools and resources. Thanks to Kerry Roberts, Everipe ! #8-

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

When Open Source software projects are launched, the progenitors often start a for-profit sister company to garner some income from training, support and consulting. Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. If yes, hire a contract developer. Business & Technology (18). Finance (1).

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. I was basically a consultant without the payment and I basically got taken advantage of. If you can't do that convincingly, go get investor money and hire a consultant. From No To CTO.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Update Link to Questions, Topics and People Add Find Questions, Topics or People Comment Jason Crawford , Co-founder & CTO at Kima Labs 25 votes by Abinash Tripathy , Anon User, Dean Blackburn , (more) Chris Dixon says it all in a post titled "There Are Two Kinds of Pe. more) Sign up for free to read the full text.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. ProjectMyUSA on Twitter. The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0 ProjectOpenData on Twitter.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. And consultants who aren’t going to work for you for free. So you see my dilemma. But let me put it this way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

That is a common experience we hear from outsiders that there's only two cultures of Silicon Valley, and when we get into the funding and financing of companies, that that's really where the bias can come in. So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape all the elements of national power (America’s influence and footprint on the world stage). Nand Mulchandani is the Chief Technology Officer of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC). Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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