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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

SoCal CTO

I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? And do I fit as a Part-Time CTO , Technology Advisor , CTO Founder , Acting CTO ?

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

Google Blog Generative AI in search, first image released by Google Shopping is another area where Google started implementing generative AI powered search ([link] The race to intimacy in search, an AI powered experience There are a number of factors driving the adoption of generative AI in search.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. Chris Dixon recently wrote a great blog, “Who should learn to program? guest author.

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Meet Our Newest Investment: Properly

View from Seed

We believe the home transaction market is ripe for next-generation innovations as modern home owners increasingly demand superior user experience and efficiencies, just like in other aspects of their daily lives. Looking at the world through the lens of Everyday Economy , we have long been bullish on innovations in and around home.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

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Digital marketers are the tech industry’s trailblazers, according to Pathrise

The Startup Magazine

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” This includes creating content like blog posts, videos, social media posts, and more. And he’s right. Content Creation.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.