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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? who start with small equity percentages don’t end up making very much from startups. Refine your elevator pitch.

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How To Win Startup Competitions

VC Cafe

It is for this reason that I invested a lot of effort into building the reputation of my start-up, Flat-Club , from its initial launch in 2010. The first success was winning the TechCrunch One-Sentence-Pitch Challenge. How to win an award in a startup competition: Research.

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ADPrentice 2010

Feld Thoughts

We did a full day entrepreneurial retreat called “ ADPrentice 2010.&# This is the second time we’ve done this – the last time was ADPrentice 2005. On Saturday, I spent the day with my MIT fraternity (the Lambda Phi Chapter of Alpha Delta Phi) at the Microsoft NERD facility in Cambridge next to MIT.

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Startups With Real Revenue Can Get Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

billion jump in funding over the same quarter of 2010 with a similar number of deals, so it clearly shows a trend to larger deal sizes for fewer startups. To me, this indicates that venture capitalists (VCs) are looking for business, but not from first-time startups. Overall, investors put $7.5 That represents a $1.5

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Saturday Startup Spotlight: Goodieboxx

Austin Startup

In an effort to introduce our community to the entrepreneurs we’re lucky to work with, and encourage relationships to develop along the way, we’re launching our Saturday Startup Spotlight series. link] Can you introduce yourself and give us your elevator pitch? I’m Maxie Taylor, I’m the founder and CEO of Goodieboxx.

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Top Ten Red Flags To Avoid With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

At any rate, here is my summary of the top ten from my experience with hundreds of elevator pitches, business plans, and executive presentations: “ Our product is truly disruptive technology. ” Gartner says our market will be $50 billion in 2010.” A startup's projections should never be conservative. Marty Zwilling.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Tuesday, August 17, 2010. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders. What makes software engineers different in the startup world is that they have the requisite skills to hack together an idea on their own if they so choose. Good riddance.