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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive.

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This Week in the NYC Innovation Community – January 18th

This is going to be BIG.

and FashInvest invite the online fashion community to present their startups to the audience and special feedback panel consisting of leading investors in the space. This month's talk is about corporate formation, investor visas and and tax accounting for startups. RSVP: [link] 6:00PM Fashion 2.0: Startups Showcase Fashion 2.0

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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum – more behind the story

BeyondVC

This was the year 2000 and the idea was that Metapa would allow any company to send any media asset over any content delivery network and our service would automatically transform the asset for viewing anywhere. Frankly we did this to keep ourselves around long enough to figure out what to do next.

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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum - more behind the story

BeyondVC

This was the year 2000 and the idea was that Metapa would allow any company to send any media asset over any content delivery network and our service would automatically transform the asset for viewing anywhere. Frankly we did this to keep ourselves around long enough to figure out what to do next.

Portfolio 109
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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so).

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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

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. I think every founder, every CEO, every leader, could learn something, could take heart from Brian's example and I hope they will. Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb. I hope you will.