www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC.,

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MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture. I finally called bullshit.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. Our partners have invested in more than dozen companies that became worth more than a billion dollars and that has disproportionately drive returns. Ryan Lissack is the CTO of Maker Studios.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I liked the fact that you linked to the wikipedia page for a payphone — nice touch Reply Chris Ryland , on October 5, 2009 at 12:06 pm Said: Where did Ben Wegbreit fit in the Convergent picture? Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. You could just outspend. SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc.

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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. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Led by Oak Investment Partners with participation by General Catalyst, Sequoia, & Accel and others.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

May 12, 2009 7:42 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Sure, Id be delighted to.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Obviously, Mike’s not looking for money yet, but those types are often tapped into technical people who are looking for a business partner. In fact, that’s exactly how I ended up at Cheezburger—a friend of a friend introduced me to one of the angels who had invested, who then introduced me to the founder (who needed a CTO).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. It strokes your ego.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

TechCrunch initially reported on the Founder Institute in March 2009. Founders are not expected to quit their day jobs to participate in the program, which starts on May 19, 2009 and ends on September 8, 2009. Applications are due by May 10, 2009. Joe Betts-LaCroix – CTO, OQO. Applications. Basic Research.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore. If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here: [link].

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Several ADP alums, including Sameer Gandhi (Accel Partners), Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures), and Eran Egozy (founder/CTO of Harmonix) came and participated. I’m extremely proud of the legacy of entrepreneurship from MIT’s ADP chapter and am happy to continue to play a role in helping encourage it.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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? Lets start with finances.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology leadership need to consider build/buy/partner options. startup cto. (18). Strategic Technology. ► 2009. (36). The existing practice cant easily meet requirements and there may be an underlying investment in capability such as platforms, people, or process to help solution. about me. (26).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Naturally, a big part of the go-to-market includes partnering with other players in the market. 17, 2009 and before Jan. But I don’t think so.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. You can find a technologist to join you as a partner, for half of the company’s equity.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Im trying to create a technology enabled recruiting service for an unproven business model. Partnering with me at that stage was speculative at best. If there's a business co-founder with an idea looking to partner with me, they've flunked their first test if they weren't able to raise cash. From No To CTO.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

For instance, when Robin Chase and her partner, Antje, founded the car-sharing startup Zipcar, they agreed with a quick handshake to split the equity 50–50. Robin wondered when her partner would be able to become more involved, but, in the end, Antje never joined full-time. He cofounded and served as CTO of IMVU.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Joseph founded/co-founded many technological companies throughout the years. Corporate Partners. Our Guests Joseph Shemesh (left) Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. Our Guests. Joseph Shemesh (left).

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  I have a few hundred feeds that I follow in Google Reader and the way that I find new ones is a random process of discovery so Larry's post was great in that he not only provided a rank-ordered list but also a convenient way to mass subscribe.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Seculert (=Security Alert) is a subscription service based on proprietary patent-pending technology that detects and alerts companies of cyber threats affecting their networks, and accurately identifies the affected network domains. And last September, Hewlett Packard acquired security-software maker ArcSight Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. A really good technology executive can notice problems like the ones Im talking about today and address them proactively. The trick is to hire a good one - I wrote a little about this in What does a startup CTO actually do? I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

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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. At what point did you feel like you outgrew your ability, you and your partners, I guess in this case, ability to actually run that company? In 2008, and 2009, we were really starting to grow. Matt Watson: Yeah.

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www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Startup Advice: Lessons Learned from Building a Development Team View What links here Posted by Fan Bi on July 19th, 2009 Over the past few months, I’ve explored a bunch of different ways to develop a website without a web developer on the Blank Label team. Want to be featured? Did you start your venture while in school?

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

That’s where a good partner agreement comes into play. Not only do you want to allocate ownership, but you want to re-allocate ownership if either partner fails to deliver. How do you determine what the third partner’s equity share should be? . 2009 2010 2011. After all, I essentially created the product.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

We have been in business as ONTRAPORT for 11 years, coming up on 12 here and yeah, growing very well, profitable, have been profitable for almost all of our history since 2009 with one year exception and growing bootstrap basically. There’s another track for our consultant partners. My primary duties actually remain in product.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I went to the Columbia Engineering Career Fair in October 2009 and left with ~150 resumes. Outcome: last night a Biz Dev guy from Disney/ABC sent me an email asking about partnering with some of their online properties. Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post ! Go to job fairs.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). Partner up? How To Get There. No phone system. No legal muck.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The investors in DroidSecurity include Maayan Ventures (owned 39% for an investment of $100,000 + $500,000 from a grant by the Chief Scientist Offfice) and a group of private investors led by Shachar Efal, a partner in Quantumwave Capital (20%). According to Globes , Maayan Ventures made $2.2 In the official announcement , J.R.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The investors in DroidSecurity include Maayan Ventures (owned 39% for an investment of $100,000 + $500,000 from a grant by the Chief Scientist Offfice) and a group of private investors led by Shachar Efal, a partner in Quantumwave Capital (20%). According to Globes , Maayan Ventures made $2.2 In the official announcement , J.R.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The investors in DroidSecurity include Maayan Ventures (owned 39% for an investment of $100,000 + $500,000 from a grant by the Chief Scientist Offfice) and a group of private investors led by Shachar Efal, a partner in Quantumwave Capital (20%). According to Globes , Maayan Ventures made $2.2 In the official announcement , J.R.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply steveblank , on October 8, 2009 at 1:42 pm Said: Matt, The issue isn’t how you “frame it.&# Chris Ryland , on October 8, 2009 at 1:35 pm Said: OK, so who was the CEO? We know Ben W was the CTO. Reply jorge , on October 8, 2009 at 2:07 pm Said: Fantastic!

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