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Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief

Duct Tape Marketing

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. I started to appear where we started to leverage or talk about technology and automations and optimization. And then secondly was the text.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

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Bitesize Friday: Compass EOS, Soho OS, Supersonicads, Legolas Media and More

VC Cafe

The company is headquartered in London, UK, with satellite offices in the US and Israel. Supersonicads was founded in 2008 by Gil Shoham (CEO) and Arik Czerniak (COO) and Nissim (Romi) Romano (CTO). Legolas Media – Currently in stealth mode, The Legolas Media team is focused on innovating digital display media.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I think the real moral of this story is, (1) if you want to work at a startup, make sure the CTO cares about problem solving and not technology religion, (2) if you’re cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, starting looking for a new job.

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