Steve Blank
JULY 7, 2015
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.
Duct Tape Marketing
MAY 4, 2022
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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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 24, 2021
It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software.
Duct Tape Marketing
AUGUST 10, 2017
He is the Founder and CEO of ONTRAPORT, an award-winning web-based sales marketing and business automation software platform. John Jantsch: You have always been the CEO of an award-winning web-based sales marketing and business automation software platform so give us your story. Landon Ray: Yeah, that would have been 2004.
VC Cafe
MAY 22, 2011
Co-founded by Guy Rosen (CEO) and Roi Tiger (CTO), Below is a video demonstrating Onavo’s technology: 2) Kaminario raises $15 million led by GlobeSpan and included existing investors Sequoia and Pitango. The proceeds of this round will be be dedicated to expand the product line and increase marketing and sales.
VC Cafe
JULY 9, 2010
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.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
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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