Dave Shanley is a serial entrepreneur with experience in bootstrapping, raising venture capital, acquisitions, and growing product lines to more than US$25 million in B2B SaaS. He is currently the Founder/CEO of Content Camel, a Sales Enablement Tool for Sales Content Management. He was previously the Founder/CEO of Notion (acquired), the Founder/CTO of CrowdCompass (acquired).
What you will learn in this episode:
– What is the hardest lesson you learned becoming a technical founder of a company?
– What did you wish someone had told you before you started?
– What is the most important soft skill you have developed through all this?
– Why should you set expectations early?
– What are the most common pitfalls a technical founder experiences?
– How should a technical founder decide whether to learn how to be a CEO or hire a CEO and be the CTO?
– The most common thing in startups is the main founder is the CEO, but have you seen them run where the CTO is the main founder?
– How to deal with legal issues when you’re not the CEO?
Also Read: Governing your startup: What founders can learn from politics and vice versa
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