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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Back in 2004 when Eric and his IMVU co-founder Will Harvey approached me about investing in IMVU, I agreed on one condition – they had to take my Customer Development class at UC Berkeley Haas Business School. Taking My Class.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

We offered Ryan space to work out of our office which he did for a year or so as he got things up and running. At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures).

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Founding Date: 2004. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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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. So they need that partner, right.

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Attracting a CTO to your startup

www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup. The ideal partner is financially independent. What value you are you to a partner? Or 60,70, or 80% if you plan on giving out less.)

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Transcript of An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Success

Duct Tape Marketing

Landon Ray: Yeah, that would have been 2004. Also, engineering, we have Pin Chen, our CTO is in place and he basically runs the whole engineering team so really I just talk to him and make sure that they’re working on stuff that’s a good idea. There’s another track for our consultant partners.

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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). Venrock actively invests in technology and telecommunication companies in Israel including: Bhive, which was sold to VMware Inc.

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