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Amsterdam-based Rockstart Accelerator’s first graduates head to Silicon Valley

The Next Web

The accelerator, which counts Amazon CTO Werner Vogels among its startup mentors , will be showcasing its first batch of startups (see list below) in Silicon Valley on the 20th of September, followed by a panel discussion about “The Future of the European Startup Community” Sounds riveting!

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Rare event in Palo Alto today: fireside chat with Lifograph and Microsoft

The Startup Magazine

Mendlen flew into Silicon Valley from Seattle specifically for this event to chat with the “Wiki of People” CEO. He is also an Executive Producer and Creative Director of the DECODED Show , the documentary web series led by Microsoft Chief Geek, John Shewchuk – CTO for the Microsoft Developer Platform.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner). Dharmesh Shah – Co-founder and CTO, HubSpot ( blog , @dharmesh). Dan Allred – Silicon Valley Bank (@dgallred). Rob May – Backupify ( blog , @robmay).

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Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe’s economy

The Next Web

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. They are catalysts for creating angel investors, for providing distribution, and serve as a breeding ground for talent and practiced management.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

” examined over 20,000 VC-backed companies and found that women’s positions have primarily been in sales and marketing, rather than more “heavy-hitting” roles like chief technology officer and so on. Silicon valley tends to have a bias towards a certain startup founder stereotype (i.e.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. We need a center of gravitas.

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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. In fact, most investors “require” that you already have some investment from friends and family before they will even step up to the plate.