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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. Ynon started as shareholder, board member & advisor and switches to full-time executive.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Like the ability to spend X dollars on advertising and gain Y dollars in revenue or something like that. And if you did make one that was kind of like these three, in that vertical, you’d be awesome. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users.

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Startup Tools

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Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. No-brainer for B2B companies but also for B2C companies (making special advertising deals for example) Reply steveblank , on June 8, 2011 at 9:05 am said: Martin, Any suggestions?