SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

The implications for entrepreneurs is that each of these (market risk versus invention risk,) require radically different financing models, a different type of venture investor, different timing for hiring sales and marketing, etc. are much softer and much, much harder to measure (or believe) in a very early stage startup.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

About a year and a half ago, I wrote that New York needed more dedicated early stage capital. First Growth Venture Network formed to mentor high potential seed and early stage companies. First Round Capital makes 11 new investments in NYC, hires me to be here fulltime, and announces a new NYC office in Union Square.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Supercomputers get Personal Back in Sunnyvale my friend had not only been hired but had convinced the team that we should be building hardware – making a new class of computers not a software application. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] We’re building a supercomputer.”

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 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 Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. How did you find your first customers and hit important, early milestones?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. Josh runs a series of Capital Factory-affiliated venture funds and is the most active early stage investor in Texas since 2013, according to Pitchbook. PPPS, we’re also hiring a blockchain engineer. We were infatuated with tech.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010. Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney. Branding/Copy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

2) You’re hiring employees. Hiring employees through your company, rather than directly, helps limit your personal liability if something goes wrong in the employment relationship. 19) December 2010. (13) 13) November 2010. (18) 18) October 2010. (20) 20) September 2010. (20) 20) August 2010. (25)

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” That’s why you also need super early stage investors who can lead rounds, being willing to place bets when there isn’t much there there.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

If your don’t have enough employees on the payroll, hire relatives, friends, or part-timers and train them. When I was at Intel, we hired the Hill Group to come in a train the entire team of sales and marketing people who were slated to staff any trade show booth throughout the year. You’ll never have to do it again.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? For more on how this plays into the process of scaling up, see the Customer Creation stage of the customer development model.)

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. At 11 a.m.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Sound good? We think so.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Hiring Of all the issues we ran into when we first built our team, hiring was the most critical. So when you first start building your team, the most important hire should be your lead architect. The cliches of hiring the best of the best is as true in Malaysia as it is in the US. Part 1 How To Evaluate Early-Stage Web 2.0

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. In December 2010, Youku—the YouTube of China —went public, with a valuation of $4.4 million in 2010 sales). million in 2010 sales).

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This forces companies to be more discplined on the hiring front (and likely much less competitive with bigger companies —  see The Information’s great post on this ) which will then poentially slow progress towards the key milestones needed to raise a Series A. These two costs suck up a lot of the money in an early stage company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule.

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blog.wepay.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In addition to my first official commit, WePay also just hired Rasmus Lerdorf , the creator of the PHP programming language. At some point, I’ll write another post about what a non-engineer does, or should do, during the early stages of product development. So, without further ado, what I’ve learned: Don’t be Helpless.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

However after Sequoia and Ron Conway announced their investment in YC in 2009 , and after YC alumni DropBox and AirBnb raised capital on billion-dollar valuations in 2010-11, the program quickly became the gold standard among early-stage startup incubators. and no, we didn’t. Isn’t this just a lack of focus?

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 ← Words of widsom from my youth Everything I Need to Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned at the University of Michigan → Comments are closed.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 18, 2013

in 2010, I gradually saw that among our weaknesses we were very strong in E-Commerce, Fashion Commerce, Mobile Commerce, Content Communities, dynamic sexy websites and it was all based on varieties of PHP/LAMP. Drupal is an overly friendly community of helpful people and ample free training and coaching. When I moved back to L.A.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. It’s an incredibly innovative city.

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blog.wepay.com

APRIL 28, 2010

In addition to my first official commit, WePay also just hired Rasmus Lerdorf , the creator of the PHP programming language. At some point, I’ll write another post about what a non-engineer does, or should do, during the early stages of product development. So, without further ado, what I’ve learned: Don’t be Helpless.

Engineer 53

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I am 42 years old. I dont have much time. and more ► January (6) Lo, my 18891 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Even in the early stages of business ownership, reconsider trying to tackle every aspect of starting and running the company yourself. When I started my business in 2010, I thought I could tough it out and handle everything, but I quickly learned that’s the fast track to burnout and missed opportunities.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And why would you hire a technology guy who launched a failed startup? says: August 18, 2010 at 9:01 pm [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

In fact, early stage companies shouldnt be able to get time from anyone else - who else would be crazy enough to try an truly innovative new product? christinelu : if youre building a disruptive innovation.the only people who you want to talk to are early adopters. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Brilliant insight.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

The party rounds , which were the range in late 2010 and early 2011, became less common and we started to see the smaller funds begin to lead rounds. Hiring costs are up dramatically The cost of hiring top quality talent in the bay area has gone up dramatically. And the hiring costs are higher.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

’ &# His message was that in 2010 great business can be built anywhere if there is a great team and the will to make it work. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

The truth is that I’ve been warning about convertible notes since 2010 it was first declared that “convertible notes have won.” In the old days there usually weren’t convertible notes on early-stage deals and there weren’t party rounds with 20 angels or 6 seed funds. It’s very simple.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

You still have some leeway to hire above them if need be. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. Copyright © 2010 Both Sides of the Table. .” It’s your hedge. A chief architect still has a lofty title but they still need to prove themselves in order to become CTO’s. Read more about Mark.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

2010 Top 10 Small Business Trends. December 2010. Before you agree to take equity in lieu of cash, you need to understand that any individual early stage start-up company equity is most likely going to be worthless. Have not met anyone I wanted to hire who was willing to work for equity. Disclosure Policy.

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