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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

Kupietzky has spoken extensively on the value of domain names and has appeared on CNN and CNBC and has been quoted by numerous print sources including Investors Business Daily , The New York Times and The Los Angeles Business Journal. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Prior to joining Intellectual Ventures, Mr.

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Open Letter to a New Austinite

Austin Startup

Austin has shed some of the innocence of its youth as a city circa 1970 through 2000 and replaced it with socio-economic stratification and segregation of its growth, post-2000. I know this as someone who has sampled and dove deeply into lots of versions of life in Austin. I’d also love Austin to be on the international radar.

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5 Critical Factors for Optimizing Luxury Ecommerce Sites

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Take this segment of a description for a $2000/night villa in Los Angeles from luxury rental site Luxury Retreats. Brands that have been around for ages, such as Gucci and Louis Vuitton, can get away with pricing their items higher than many other brands for a very simple reason: brand equity. Image source. Image source.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

And of course, this is 2000. This one really started getting legs in the late '90s, early 2000s. I think a million, a million and a half to Los Angeles. We didn't want people not having their equity. We didn't want people not having equity out the door. At the time it was called the green movement.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. Back in 2010, we were running a digital agency in Los Angeles for premium fashion brands when they came upon the idea for NuORDER.