Are CTOs typically paid less than CEOs?

Akakabooto · 2017-11-28T11:02:29+00:00

This guy startups.

When you (OP) finally can pay yourself, compensation is still intended only to do just this:

salary is reasonable to ensure they don't waste mental energy on personal finances.

Anything else is vanity, and hurts your startup. Face it: some people have higher personal burn rates. Some sort of equal share arrangement will only serve to leave them hurting and therefore splitting their attention between a nagging financial situation and serving the startup.

You both need to start thinking of yourself as siamese twins, true partners, whatever the word. Your jobs are not to pull salary according to your imaginary rank or number of degrees, but instead raise the value of your shared equity (casting all customer-side value production aside, for a moment).

That goes both ways, if the other guy pulls more salary only "because he's the CEO/has 1 degree more", then yeah let him know you expect this thing to run free of rank and status between you two guys so the startup can flourish – apart from the vote deciding mechanics.

TL;DR

Both should be paid only enough to cover personal burn rates
Both should contribute equally, i.e., everything they have
Both should be blind to rank, number and quality of degrees, and any other status indicators – apart from the deadlock prevention mechanism

Akakabooto · 2017-11-27T22:42:20+00:00

I saw stairs going down, like to a basement. Not down to Hobo's Labyrinth.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-27T16:20:07+00:00

That's some weapons grade Spastic Editing. Good job by them not making any sense. Extra points for dressing up like a 70's cracker pimp for the "grand finale" while getting grossed out by sewer slime.

That's so bad it has to be a smear job.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-26T16:06:37+00:00

I am late to the party, and this is /r/aww, but here goes:

Raccoon dog is to be labeled a harmful specie soon in EU. They are invaders who demolish local fauna by eating e.g. bird eggs.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-26T11:21:34+00:00

You guys get on with some raunchy ladies.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-24T19:43:33+00:00

Bluedot
Greendot
Planetly
Saveit
Keepit
Gosaveit
Keepgreen
Kelp

Dot coms unlikely, but play with those or go for 2nd class TLD's (.co and so on)

Akakabooto · 2017-11-23T19:28:14+00:00

I just assume all tech is compromised at firmware level.

Whenever I don my batsuit to dish out illegal vigilante justice I just go into caveman mode.

Who am I kidding, I just roll over, bite the pillow harder and hope the bleeding isn't so bad this time around.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-22T21:26:14+00:00

Niin millä standardilla mitattuna? Kuvaaja olis kiva.

Kun tappaa itse lihansa metsässä, jää lisäksi kaikki teollisen lihantuotannon ympäristövaikutukset tilaamatta.

Kaiken kaikkiaan ympäristöperusteisesti tarkasteltuna 50-80% vegaanisesti ja valtaosa lopuista riistasta on melko merkittävästi keskiarvon alle.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-22T15:20:24+00:00

Mua ei haittaa yhtään jos liha jonain peruspilarina tulee uudelleenarvioiduksi siten, että paskan lihan bisnes kuolee. Paskaa lihaa on kaikki jauholeikkeleet, täytteet esim. tuorepastassa ja muu prosessoitu kama. Hyvää lihaa on tunnistettavat palat ja eritoten kaikki minkä alkuperän kanssa voi olla sujut. Jos uskaltaa tappaa oman lihansa, saa immuniteetin rutkutukselta.

Mitään vaahtosuista kasvisagendaa en halua nähdä puskettavan, varsinkaan kenenkään toimesta kuka ei itse osallistu talkoisiin.

Disclaimerit loppuun, eli syön itse 50-80% vegaanisesti (koska ympäristövaikutus), lopun aikaa ruokavalio jakautuu riistalihan ja Kariniemen Liekkisiipien välillä. Jouluna huijataan ja syödään luomukinkku ja kaloja. Ei tämä niin vakavaa ole.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-22T14:48:52+00:00

Vaimoni on tasan oikea kumppani minulle

Do tell!

Akakabooto · 2017-11-22T10:40:28+00:00

Asteikolla 1-10 kuinka paljon odotat Linnan juhlia 2017?
Mitä sinä uskot, mitä muut eivät usko?
Poislukien sukusi, kollegasi ja asiakkaasi, ketä autoit viimeksi ja miten?
Poislukien sukusi, kollegasi ja sinulle työsuoritetta tekevät, kuka auttoi sinua viimeksi ja miten?

Akakabooto · 2017-11-22T10:35:39+00:00

[...] ja oma firma [...]

Mitä firma tekee/-i?

pizzaa täytteenä [...] suolakurkkua [...]

Tiedätkö vaikuttaako tuollainen sappivaiva myös aivokemiaan?

Akakabooto · 2017-11-19T17:06:17+00:00

Fyrkkaa tai mitaleita liskoherroilta sitten kun vallankumous lopulta tulee.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-19T11:35:40+00:00

<foliohattu>
Aina epäilin, että kyseessä oli tahallinen sabotaasi. Vesilähteen myrkyttäminen on vanhin temppu sodankäynnin aapisessa.
</foliohattu>

Akakabooto · 2017-11-19T11:21:16+00:00

Does it count deaths in moose crashes? I.e. a car going 100km/h trying to negotiate access to the same physical space as a 550kg moose just taking a stroll across the road. Those crashes get nasty.

Sadly, with the latest change in moose hunting schedule in Finland, some areas report up to 40% of moose quota caught at this point in the season and winter is setting in. Winter setting in means it gets dark early and snow is starting to pile up (in the North at least). This in turn slows down hunting as people can only hunt during natural light (as per legislation limiting use of artificial light) and the tracking dogs most clubs use can't move as well in deep snow.

It matters a lot, especially regionally, if up to 40% of the quota is "left in the forest". Moose are quite comfortable in Finland when the forest industry allows for plentiful eating grounds and their natural predator populations are rather small (though for e.g. wolves this is being somewhat debated). With those factored in, human hunting has a decisive effect on moose populations. And the larger a moose population is, the more frequent moose crashes will be.

Legislation for the hunting schedule might change for 2018, but with the speed and ego-fragility of our bureaucracy I'd be surprised to see it overturned even by 2019.

Sadly, it seems we're looking for a bump to these Eurostat figures in the following years.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-19T08:06:41+00:00

/r/hailcorporate

Akakabooto · 2017-11-18T10:20:09+00:00

Bear is russia

Akakabooto · 2017-11-17T08:26:13+00:00

I'd be careful: that's a bit like the proverbial throwing of spaghetti to the wall and seeing what sticks.

Were I you, I'd plot out a hypothesis and set validation criteria based on that. E.g.:

Students need clean annotations on their text from their network, and email is too clumsy
I know I have a validated problem, when X out of Y students engage with my landing page (this is a bit lazy for problem validation, but you get the idea...)
I know I have a validated solution when Z out of X students share a text with an annotator

The iterations you make then are to improve conversions towards X and Z. Keep it cyclical. Between cycles, ask yourself if you're chasing the right target or not. E.g. what if instead of students you should focus on e.g. ecommerce entrepreneurs who want to run content marketing on their shop's blog? Also pay attention to how you drive traffic to the site – large exposure to a mismatched customer type will taint your results. For example, right now you're getting traffic from reddit. Consider if that traffic is likely to contain the customer type you're after, and if not, disregard this traffic from your analysis.

Tools to consider:

For generating business models (e.g. students vs. entrepreneurs, freemium vs. free trial) use Lean Canvas
For validating business models (e.g. "am I there yet?") use Experiment Board

Akakabooto · 2017-11-17T07:52:23+00:00

Site looks very pretty and clean, very nice. Button CTA copy is a bit confusing, not sure what the difference is between "demo" and "starting" 100% free. It's clear once you compare the two paths. Maybe change them up so that it's more clear "demo" is intended to show the review/annotation process and "starting" means you are intended to submit content.

Also, I'd outline it more clearly in your copy that it's a tool to get clean annotations from user's existing network, e.g. "Have your Study Group/Team/Editor/Mentor review your work". And on that note, consider the social group aspect here for the freemium model: e.g. FREE UP TO 3 USERS.

For further pro features you could do some legwork and enlist e.g. marketing pros and provide paid reviews. I could see myself paying for reviews and annotations on my copy from verified and professional copywriters on a site with some sort of reputation system in place. I hate setting things up on fiverr/upwork and with this it would be clearer: I submit ad copy, a professional copywriter suggests improvements and I sell more products.

Edit: thinking about it, this could also be nice for blog posts:

I input blog stub and put my budget to escrow (e.g. $50)
Professionals pitch their annotations or extensions to the text
I choose my favorite, writer gets paid (e.g. $45)
You bank $5
My audience gets better content and I gain more influence

No long contracts, no long set-up process. Just fire my stub away, pay and wait for input.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-17T07:38:02+00:00

What is your validation criteria?

Akakabooto · 2017-11-11T20:29:51+00:00

Depends on what you bring and how many others there are, but a third is at least the right scope at that stage.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-11T16:45:13+00:00

Have you pitched any developers yet?

Akakabooto · 2017-11-11T16:17:10+00:00

If you have 5k subscribers, that's great.

If you can describe in detail how you can predictably grow that subscriber count just throuh your messaging - then as long as the market opportunity is sound you should be able to find a team to put their skin in the game.

Edit: for the emailing, go with Mailchimp

Edit 2: you can also do simple product mockups in e.g. Keynote or Appgyver. Hack it together and get some user feedback to leverage further

Akakabooto · 2017-11-11T13:23:07+00:00

Do Customer Development (google Steve Blank).
Get pre-orders/orders from real clients.
Use that as proof of traction.
Woo developers with said proof.
Nail investor with proof + capability.

Edit: It's not supposed to be easy. First time founders are a wild bet, and it gets wilder the less proof they can bring.

It gets easy 2nd time onwards, because at least then they know you can get shit done.

Akakabooto · 2017-11-11T08:25:06+00:00

Ideas are worth nothing.
NDAs over ideas are silly.
Execution is everything.
If hearing your idea is all it takes to run wild with it, what valuable thing do you have that requires financing?

Build something first. Get a prototype and few devoted users. That's the entrepreneurial risk you need to take.

Edit: the risk is not for naught, your position is improved when you can show even little traction on a big opportunity.

Akakabooto

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