Bolster Startup

You're only a first-time CTO/CPO once, but that first time can be a daunting challenge for startup leaders. Without a blueprint or a guide, you're in a tough spot to manage all the details of technology/product, develop the right culture, organize and motivate teams, hire and career path people, plus get a product out into the market. Startup CTO was written to help the first-time CTO/CPO navigate product development challenges and provide tactics and best practices for how you can grow a high-performing function. Matt Blumberg and Shawn Nussbaum have decades of technology, product, and leadership experience from founding a company, scaling it, and exiting. They cover a wide range of topics from technical strategy, to proportional engineering, managing technical debt, due diligence in a sale process, creating a high-performance development culture, and more. The authors share how to collaborate effectively in the executive suite and with functional leaders throughout an organization. As an added bonus, Matt shares CEO-to-CEO advice on what a great CTO/CPO looks like, signs your CTO/CPO isn't scaling, and how to engage with the CTO/CPO. Startup CTO will help you pinpoint gaps or weaknesses, turn those into strengths, and help you scale yourself, the technology/product function, and your organization.

You're only a first-time CPO once, but that first time can be a daunting challenge for startup leaders. Without a blueprint or a guide, you're in a tough spot to manage all the details of HR/People, set up the accounts and systems, plus build out your team. Startup CPO was written to help the first-time CPO navigate HR/People challenges and provide tactics and best practices for how you can grow a high-performing function. Matt Blumberg and Cathy Hawley have decades of finance and leadership experience from founding a company, scaling it, and exiting. They cover a wide range of topics from values and culture, to onboarding, compensation, career pathing, employee engagement, recruiting, People operations, and more. The authors share how to collaborate effectively in the executive suite and with functional leaders throughout an organization. As an added bonus, Matt shares CEO-to-CEO advice on what a great CPO looks like, signs your CPO isn't scaling, and how to engage with the CPO. Startup CPO will help you pinpoint gaps or weaknesses, turn those into strengths, and help you scale yourself, the People function, and your organization.

You're only a first-time CMO once, but that first time can be a daunting challenge for startup leaders. Without a blueprint or a guide, you're in a tough spot to manage all the details of marketing plus grow your brand and awareness. Startup CMO was written to help the first-time CMO navigate marketing challenges and provide tactics and best practices for how you can grow a high-performing function. Matt Blumberg, Nick Badgett, and Holly Enneking have decades of marketing and leadership experience from founding a company, scaling it, and exiting. They cover a wide range of topics from demand generation, to events, social media, product marketing, sales development, marketing operations, and more. The authors share how to collaborate effectively in the executive suite and with functional leaders throughout an organization. As an added bonus, Matt shares CEO-to-CEO advice on what a great CMO looks like, signs your CMO isn't scaling, and how to engage with the CMO. Startup CMO will help you pinpoint gaps or weaknesses, turn those into strengths, and help you scale yourself, the marketing function, and your organization.

You're only a first-time CRO once, but that first time can be a daunting challenge for startup leaders. Without a blueprint or a guide, you're in a tough spot to manage all the details of the sales function, from developing collateral, to hiring the right people, to scaling your team. Startup CRO was written to help the first-time CRO navigate sales leadership challenges and provide tactics and best practices for how you can grow a high-performing sales organization. Matt Blumberg and Anita Absey have decades of sales and leadership experience from founding a company, scaling it, and exiting. They cover a wide range of topics from establishing your pipeline, to hiring the right salespeople, scaling the sales organization, geographic expansion, pricing and packaging, and more. The authors share how to collaborate effectively in the executive suite and with functional leaders throughout an organization. As an added bonus, Matt shares CEO-to-CEO advice on what a great CRO looks like, signs your CRO isn't scaling, and how to engage with the CRO. Startup CRO will help you pinpoint gaps or weaknesses, turn those into strengths, and help you scale yourself, the sales function, and your organization.

You're only a first-time CFO once, but that first time can be a daunting challenge for startup leaders. Without a blueprint or a guide, you're in a tough spot to manage all the details of finance, set up the accounts and systems, plus build out your team. Startup CFO was written to help the first-time CFO navigate finance challenges and provide tactics and best practices for how you can grow a high-performing function. Matt Blumberg and Jack Sinclair have decades of finance and leadership experience from founding a company, scaling it, and exiting. They cover a wide range of topics from fundraising, to pricing and valuation, due diligence and corporate documentation, M&A transactions, operational accounting, international operations, strategic finance, and more. The authors share how to collaborate effectively in the executive suite and with functional leaders throughout an organization. As an added bonus, Matt shares CEO-to-CEO advice on what a great CFO looks like, signs that your CFO isn't scaling, and how to engage with the CFO. Startup CFO will help you pinpoint gaps or weaknesses, turn those into strengths, and help you scale yourself, the finance function, and your organization.