“A start-up does not need a CFO. You need a CTO and a CEO. For a tech business especially, you absolutely need your engineer.”
Gina Bianchini, the former CEO of Ning and the founder of Mightybell, said this last week at the WIE Symposium at a panel featuring Lauren Leto, founder of Texts from Last Night and CEO and founder of Bnter, Dana Levy, founder of Daily Candy and Randi Zuckerberg, former head of marketing for Facebook. Without an engineer, you can’t really do anything if your business is web-based or technology driven. A company needs a CTO because they need an individual who can effectively engineer a new and crucial product, says Dan Woods, CTO and editor of Evolved Media. Dana Levy said the tech team is going to tell you what can actually work or cannot work, regarding your business. “Tech people love to say no,” she said.
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