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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. Named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, Eric served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before moving on to advise startups and venture capital firms independently. Taking My Class.

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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. And the third founder, Colin Kelley , remains an important contributor & CTO of the company. The CEO & founder, Ophir Tanz, has gone on to create his next big startup, Pearl , backed by David Sacks at Craft Ventures amongst others.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning. I have no doubt he will, for he is a true “Startup CEO”, even though his title is CTO at Acquia. more info on the funding round from @thewhir [link].

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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. When they ask, it often sounds like theyre asking for a product off the shelf--like, "Where can I get some cheap folding chairs?"

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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 , the Rockefeller family’s venture capital arm, announced its has raised $350 million for its Venrock VI Fund.

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Business As Usual: Onavo, VideoSurf and Kaminario Raise Funding

VC Cafe

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 company has developed serious video technology that enables the user to search frame by frame.

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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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