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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. 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.

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Talented product developers. Even PhD analytics eggheads. No one can truly understand your customers or genuinely share their interests unless she is a customer herself. If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help. Brilliant ad agencies and clever marketing communications experts.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. It seems like it’s somewhat of a surprise to nontechnical people that development skills are VERY high in demand. They can easily get great benefits and a six figure salary. I refused and he left. Good riddance. Tuesday, August 17, 2010 e.p.c.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. But I don’t think so.