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FEBRUARY 19, 2024
Significant support and potential Monumental was founded in 2021 by Salar al Khafaji (CEO) and Sebastiaan Visser (CTO). Its small, electric, agile, autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) move freely around the rough terrain of building sites to help contractors address labor shortages and rising costs, with an initial focus on bricklaying.
mashable.com
MAY 9, 2011
This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer. Today, CTOs are multi-taskers that aren’t just coders locked in some basement — they play a vital role in a tech company’s strategic plan and growth. Zach Cutler , The Cutler Group.
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Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2015
For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies. About a year after he got started, he was ready to raise a venture financing. Get Agile with Rally Release 5. It has been a rocket ship from there.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 7, 2013
The picture to the left is of Ryan Martens, Rally’s founder and CTO, giving Josie Health, the CEO of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County , a check for $676,000. Ryan started Rally (formerly F4) out of our previous office and could regularly be found scribbling all over a white board.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. The Agile Board. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Board Meetings. Running More Effective Board Meetings. Why You Should Ban Laptops & iPads.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 1, 2010
It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too. They’re not “dumb Wall Street money”.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. 4. Founder-friendly VCs.
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