Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

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. extension round closed April 2006. round closed May 2006. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Pre-money valuation was approx.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager. Innoviz Technologies (2016)- High Definition Solid State LiDAR (HD-SSL), enables smart and advanced 3D remote sensing for fully autonomous vehicles, while significantly reducing both cost and size.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). My blog was wiped out. Tempus Fugit.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2012

Nguyen was recognized in 2006 by the Midlands Business Journal as one of Omaha’s top 40 executives under 40 years of age, and is now chief technology officer of DocLanding, an online document management provider. Imagine Cup Grants.

Omaha 140

Omaha Technology Nebraska United States 140

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Taking into account the difference in storage costs in 2002, Schippers estimates that Zuckerberg was spending $3,000 per month on hosting for the first year and about $10 million per month by 2006 as the network grew exponentially in that time period.

Cost 168

Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2016

Those of you that have been around since the early years of NCWIT may remember the first time President Obama spoke publicly about computer science at the 2006 NCWIT/NSF Innovation & Diversity Town Hall at the National Academy of Engineering. The first time I met President Obama was at an NCWIT event in 2006 when he was a senator.

Hosting 70

Hosting Programming Community Social Media 70

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

This, by the way, isn’t very different from how the term social commerce became muddled after Bazaarvoice first started promoting it in 2006 to describe what we do?—?unfortunately, There are other networking effects that we will be unleashing, both natural and technological, as we progress through our multi-year strategic plan.

Networking 48

Networking Fractional CTO CTO Hire B2C 48

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Experience as a COO, CFO, CTO. +. Experience in sales or technology. The valuation method described herein was also detailed in my book, the Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels (2006, available on Gust). Strength of the Entrepreneur and the Management Team. Experience. +. Many years of business experience. ++.

Valuation 146

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2011

What started as a blog post (and email exchange with Eric Norlin) I did about “ intelligence amplification ” in 2006 has morphed into a conference about the larger topics of social and big data and is now a wide-ranging conversation about technology and what’s over the horizon. Robert Stephens, CTO, Best Buy.

DC 114

DC Cloud Mobile Conversion 114

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 billion received by male-founded companies. ” examined over 20,000 VC-backed companies and found that women’s positions have primarily been in sales and marketing, rather than more “heavy-hitting” roles like chief technology officer and so on.

Venture Capital 82

Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Founded in 2006 by Yaniv Axen (CTO) and Shmulik Weller (currently serves as CEO),SundaySky is headquartered in New York with a research and development office based in Tel Aviv. It currently has 31 employees, mostly creative producers, copywirters, etc.

Video 74

Video Conversion Ratio PR 74

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He started Stackify to solve the biggest challenge he had as the CTO of VinSolutions, so Matt, thanks for joining me. Some new partners coming in, and at the end of it, it was really myself and another gentleman named Mike who was the CEO and I was basically the CTO and I was in charge of the product. Matt Watson: Yeah. Absolutely.

Kansas City 40

Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Software Developers 40

SoCal CTO

JUNE 22, 2011

Back in 2006, I posted about the Promise of Web 2.0 - Comparison to Macros, IDEs, and Visual Basic and pointed out that Visual Basic was a huge innovation that allowed many new developers to build applications. We've been using Google Apps as the basis for developing some very interesting online applications.

Cloud 175

Cloud Web Developer 175

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

startup cto. (18). Strategic Technology. ► 2006. (28). about me. (26). agile software development. (46). business exchange. (11). cloud computing. (4). content agility. (5). crisis management. (3). customer service. (3). enterprise 2.0. (9). in the news. (21). innovation. (33). it management. (27). media and publishing. (6).

Agile 40

Agile Architecture Offshore Software Developers 40

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The company was co-founded by CEO Amir Ashkenazi – a Tel Aviv University graduate and founder/former CTO of Shopping.com, Dan Klein (who serves as ‘chief scientist’) and VP Product Ted Grenager. Since inception in 2006 Adap TV has raised at total of $48.5

Advertising 99

Advertising Video Early Stage 99

Up and Running

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It launched late in 2006 as a web app to help people manage their personal finances. Director of Engineering at Organic Online … CTO at Webstorm, where he wrote one of the Internet’s first shopping cart applications in 1994. Did you Know Wesabe? It shut down last summer. He is a graduate of Reed College. Not what you think.

Cofounder 61

Cofounder Viral Finance Engineer 61

Occam's Razor

MARCH 12, 2012

" That is the title of my post from June 2006. One important reason is that I'm solving for the CEO and not the CIO/CTO, so it is a matter of perspective. If you are really thinking big data value, think CEO and not CIO/CTO. "Data quality sucks, just get over it." And look how far we've come. :).

Framework 127

Framework Analytics Web Artificial Inteligence 127

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In 2006, Kapor founded Foxmarks, a popular Firefox Firefox add-on later renamed Xmarks Xmarks. Ted Serbinski: Angel investor Ted Serbinski sold his startup MothersClick to Lifetime in 2008 and joined the cable network as CTO of the ParentsClick Network. Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

If you start framing the technology solution, then you’re not looking for a CTO or a tech co–founder, you’re looking for a contractor or employee to implement that solution, which is perfectly fine if you know what you’re doing. Business & Technology (18). © 2006-present Robby Grossman. Expository (1).

Technical Cofounder 42

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

When we started at Udemy, in Turkey in 2006 and 2007, there was no funding available. Then eventually, they asked me to come to Silicon Valley and maybe just work in person, and then while I was visiting Silicon Valley, I realized that there was this complete new world of technology companies.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. I have always been entrepreneurial and business focused.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Southern California Startup SEO 150

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Pitch an idea :) Usually somewhere in the pitch the listener will ask if you’d also be interested in being a CEO, CTO, etc at something they are already funding! Seth Sternberg, MBA Class of 2006, blogging about how to do a startup, on TechCrunch. I was offended only the first time, but I expect it now.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I was at a startup AND I developed an evented I/O server with pluggable protocol handlers AND it was capable of handling the c10k problem AND I did this back in 2006 with C# on.NET 2.0 I was the founding CTO for that company and yes it was end to end Microsoft. If I were at a startup… no wait. March 26, 2011 at 12:17 am.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217