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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Eric, love the blog.

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I’m Excited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. Over the next four years I worked closely with Aaron and his cofounders as LivingSocial rode out the ups and down of the local daily-deals space. Aaron was not an introverted CTO.

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I’m Exited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. Over the next four years I worked closely with Aaron and his cofounders as LivingSocial rode out the ups and down of the local daily-deals space. Aaron was not an introverted CTO.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. So how do Israeli ventures scale up?

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6 Ways You Can Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combinator, wrote an insightful essay, “ Two Kinds of Moderate ”: “There are two distinct ways to be politically moderate: on purpose and by accident. I’m an Advisor to Tuesday Company. exception: Bob Dole, 1996.). Download the “Team” app by Tuesday Company on the app store.

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