YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

He later worked for eight years at the European Union commission helping to develop the cultural industry in Africa (cultural products being the main exports – and revenue – for poor African countries). Koutonin’s ultimate dream, however, is to open a world-class human potential development school in Africa in 2017.

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Togo Africa Advisory Board Campaign 222

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In a recent Deloitte Review of “ Diversity as an Engine of Innovation ” executives were asked about the connection between diversity and company performance, and 90 percent agreed it was critical. So, whether you are making early strategic hires, or growing your advisory board, look for people who are smarter than you, and not just like you.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

They were having their own UI designers, developers, they were getting their own infrastructure. We've moved from trying to make call centers a cost center to make it more of a revenue generation engine, right? My ask would be the next time you do or say something on behalf of the customer, like I've got a customer advisory board.

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Employee Technical Review Advisory Board Sales 75

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Prior to his investing and advisory career, Evangelos spent 20+ years in high-technology industries, in executive roles spanning operations, marketing, sales and engineering.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

My ex-boss was going to be the VP of Engineering and I would report to the CEO whose marketing acumen and sales instincts seemed at the time to be telepathic and sense of theater was legend. The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board.

North Carolina 125

North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 125

Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Before becoming a business owner I used to be a manager at the Boeing company and managed a team of engineers working on the 787 Dreamliner. 5- Learning and development. I started my Marketing company in the year 2017 and it has been a challenging during the growth phase, but what I enjoy most about it is learning and development.

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Entrepreneur St. Louis Florida Colorado 128

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The program has to be well staffed so it becomes a seamless and well integrated part of your entire growth engine. It must cross boundaries, working cooperatively with other divisions in your business such as sales, marketing, social media, PR, product development, and the like.

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Programming Customer Social Media Advisory Board 145

Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

Since much of the start-up playbook is about learning as much as you can as quickly and cheaply as possible in order to reach some important milestone, many founders, investors, and engineers look at a $200k, two-year program as an inefficient means to an uncertain end.

Entrepreneur 88

Entrepreneur Advisory Board Silicon Valley New York 88

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help.

Lean 68

Lean San Francisco Web Advisory Board 68

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. And that’s where the problem was.

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Founder Cofounder Advisory Board Burn Rate 316

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.

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San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

You need to be consistently nurturing and developing these programs. Exclusive Content or Advisory Board You can create exclusive content or an advisory board of your champion customers. When we were developing her marketing strategy she told us that she employed an executive coach and an accounting professional.

Programming 87

Programming Small Business Advisory Board B2B 87

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

which they co-developed with Fenwick & West. . Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Disclosures: Blue Future Partners is a member of the Advisory Board of ff Venture Capital , where David Teten was formerly a Partner. Cash collateral.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Later, when the company was much larger, we had everyone on our engineering team agree to sit in on one usability test every month. It wasnt a huge time commitment, but it meant that every engineer was getting regular contact with an actual customer, which was invaluable. Establish a customer advisory board.

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San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Although this reseearch would lead to the development of the Backward Wave Oscillator and Traveling Wave Tube for military applications, Stanford was building tubes and circuits not entire systems. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds

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Silicon Valley RSS California Government 142

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. We had put together an advisory board, and one of our advisors was the VP of Database Marketing at Schwab. My engineering co-founder and I had a great relationship.

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San Francisco Database Advisory Board Silicon Valley 228

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2018

Apptronik Systems specializes in developing robotic systems that can live and work with humans to make our lives safer, more productive and easier. We have two primary systems currently in development. Tell us more about what Apptronik does? . What is your secret sauce? Our people! The Apptronik Team.

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Texas Advisory Board Startup Angel Investor 74

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Finally, there is a qualitative discussion needed about the types of capital needed — and the diversity of the investing partners at the funds in Austin — to support startup development growth in addition to the ongoing debate about the amount of local capital needed.

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Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2010

I developed the first computer to save a human life. I was an engineer so I started a surveying company, because that's what I knew. I've never been able to stay with a company for more than three years; that seems to be the max. But I love being an entrepreneur. I've built 14 companies. My most recent was Extreme Digital Marketing.

Entrepreneur 208

Entrepreneur Advisory Board Social Media Washington 208

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. It’s virtually mandatory to develop a detailed, data-backed deck, and ideally a video pitch. Julia Rhee , Advisor to Typhon Capital Management, observes, “You need to reverse-engineer institutions’ checkboxes.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2023

In June 1940 Vannevar Bush , ex-MIT dean of engineering; and a group of the country’s top science and research administrators ( Harvard President James Conant , Bell Labs President and head of the National Academy of Sciences Frank Jewett , and Richard Tolman Caltech Dean) all felt that there was a huge disconnect. They wanted the U.S.

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Germany Programming Government Engineer 262

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2009

pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

We also have a scientific team, consisting of three chemical engineers in addition to Jan, who is the founder and the inventor. Even though our company now consists of so many different teams, marketing, sales, production, fulfillment, sales and R & D, I think it is important to give people opportunities to develop within their team.

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Advisory Board Michigan SBIR Revenue 48

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

There’s more interest on the business school students and engineer students than there’s ever been. What do you do with an advisory board?” Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111 Filed under: Customer Development. I’m seeing it in real time. I had a lab in the university….

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Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Silicon Valley New York 120

David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

It’s very powerful to have a model that you can email to everyone in the firm, because then everyone sees clearly that you’re communicating the exact same message to the whole team (including outside consultants and the advisory board, if any). Financial Model.

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Employee IRR Startup Mexico 155

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A developer's journey to the presidency of a newly founded company is one of the most exciting in business. I would say that while a significant amount of investor capital is invested in research and development and concept concepts, the market only accepts things that are effective. 20- Developing new ideas. 5- Possibilities.

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Entrepreneur Advisory Board Green Networking 89

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Unfortunately, after months or even years of development, many companies discover that customers arent willing to buy their new wares. Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory. Read the rest.

San Francisco 137

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 137

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. The hardest part of entrepreneurship is to develop the judgment to know when its time to change direction and when its time to stay the course. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Heres what it looked like.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile 167

Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

I recently joined the Advisory Board to Gerhard Blechinger , the Rector of the FachHochschule Salzburg, (the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences) and became a guest lecturer on Entrepreneurship at the University. Why is this the case? Let’s not forget that Microsoft had a huge monopoly in operating systems in the 90’s. ”

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Austria Global Silicon Valley Advisory Board 28

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Equity for Board of Directors and Advisory Board. Typically for an Advisory Board it ranges from 1/10th of percent to 1/2% and for Board of Directors from 1/2% to 2%. Board Member 1. Lead Engineer 0.5 - 1. 5+ years Experience Engineer 0.33 - 0.66. Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 - 0.33.

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Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Right then, I jotted down the words Grit and Grace, which became the title of the TEDx Talk I delivered in March and now the name of the professional and personal development resource I have created for leading women to teach them how to take care of themselves. What I needed to bring to the fight was grace, love in action toward self.

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Naming Singapore Entrepreneur South Africa 96

thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Before I bring in any principals I will have the company all set up, some engineering done and patents pending. Before I bring in any principals I will have the company all set up, some engineering done and patents pending. I think you'll have trouble developing your idea without bringing on people, probably as co-founders.

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Cofounder Founder Preferred Stock Startup 40

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

You can read more about our window technology in the latest issue of Chemical Engineering Progress. However, we have to do some heavy lifting to develop and prove out use cases, and that’s where our value proposition analysis comes in. Solar cells like near-infrared light best, and plants prefer yellow/orange/red. Great question.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Startup Harvest Advisory Board 54

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As I’ve helped entrepreneurs find their own product-market fit and connected them to potential clients, investors, and Advisory Board members, I’ve spent a lot of time telling them about the “cool kids”. Develop a personal board of advisors about that topic. At Coremetrics, I built more of an engineering-driven culture.

Software Review 48

Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 15, 2015

They gather up all the “brand-name wisdom” in an advisory board, task force, panel, study group, etc. If your gathered advisory board, task force, panel, study group, etc., You’d only need one rocket, already under development, to get to the moon. Most often these are not the safe brand names.

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