Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Hi, I’m Todd.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

So we decided to create our own JASP tag to define that new generation of engineers and entrepreneurs aiming to transform the world. I read a book on branding to get some inspiration and realized that the names I had so far weren’t communicating the branding story I wanted to tell. 4- From a nickname. Photo Credit: Carol Kasten.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, CTO of Harvard Medical School discussed this idea with me recently. An entrepreneur should pick this one up ASAP. Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C. This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. For you, readers, here they are: Sponsor.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

The Federal government is being transformed - initially, in small ways - by people I think should be recognized as entrepreneurs. They are leveraging the same kinds of new technology, management thinking, and big data to improve lives that we routinely use here in Silicon Valley. I don't control any government contracts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Returning participants will find new speakers, fresh ideas, more options to meet other entrepreneurs, and special sessions for advanced practitioners. So On December 10 and 11, we’ve booked tables for Lean Startup group dinners at popular San Francisco restaurants. If you’ve scanned the list of speakers before, take a second look.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In his book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road, he explains exactly how VC’s decide where and how much to invest, and how entrepreneurs can get the best possible deal while making the most of their relationships with VC’s. You found someone that really cares about something,” says Pete Kooman , CTO at Optimizely.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

I had eight years of experience within National Instruments, consulting system level solutions and representing ASEAN as the Industrial Internet of Things and Big Analog Data expert. Also, if you are an entrepreneur, check out all the cool panels and presentations in the Entrepreneurship and Startups Track , which runs March 8–12 at SXSW.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: I’m an author, speaker and management consultant with a special expertise in online media sales. My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. I know Jim, Mark, Kurt (see Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics ).

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. Step #2: Pitch investors. Same with students.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- For me. I had always wanted to do consulting but was waiting until my son went off to college. After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Scott Porad About Scott Contact Schedule Setting Up Shop: The Book Subscribe Mailbag: How do I find a developer to help me with my idea? In fact, that’s exactly how I ended up at Cheezburger—a friend of a friend introduced me to one of the angels who had invested, who then introduced me to the founder (who needed a CTO).

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I often think of all the times I was encouraged to conform when I come across entrepreneurs who are told that their ideas won’t work. And then there are all the dating anecdotes from my six years in NYC (but that’s a very entertaining book and I’m digressing). Now, the present.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. We talk about using the product complexity, your target customer size, your contract value, and whether there's individual use case–those four things--to help you decide if PLG is a fit.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

If a software geek really wants to try building something for no pay, they’re going to work for themself instead of following another cashless entrepreneur. They can make good money consulting or working as an employee of another company. Examples in books for any language have always been easy. I refused and he left.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Scott Spiro is founder and President of Computer Solutions Group, Inc (CSG), and author of the book “Hassle Free Computer Support”. CSG offers its clients both an outsourced Chief Technology Officer and an entire I.T. department for a fraction of the price of hiring these resources in-house. Tony Lillios.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We’re a team of incredibly passionate and fearless explorers, technologists, gamers, scientists, entrepreneurs, dreamers, artists, and storytellers who are committed to building a more free and open digital world. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. Business contracts are a pain for entrepreneurs and small businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Lean Startup Book launches in just under a week. How many copies will this book sell in its first week – real, hardcover, paper copies? If that number crosses some unknowable threshold, the book will debut as a bestseller, and then an awful lot of people are going to read it. No phony discounts. No free trials.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Are there other tools that you’ve used that you think would be helpful to share with other entrepreneurs and founders? Pingback: How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees … | | The Money BooksThe Money Books. All this information that I’ve gathered up here seems rather logical. PHP Veteran.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Her passion is helping entrepreneurs create and run businesses that honor their priorities and values. Lara’s best-selling book, “Moms Mean Business: A Guide to Creating a Successful Company and Happy Life as a Mom Entrepreneur,” offers inspiration, advice, and plenty of how-to’s for aspiring entrepreneurs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

Transcript of An Entrepreneur’s Journey to Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: I wonder how many times entrepreneurs have said that I couldn’t find the tools so I built it myself. Back to Podcast. Transcript. Speaking with Landon Ray, the Founder of ONTRAPORT.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. In the post-mortem of Kiko, Mahesh Piddshetti writes : Most entrepreneurs have lots of ideas.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Unless that person is … you?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

5 Comments 30 Answers Tristan Kromer , I help entrepreneurs find co-founders. Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Would that take away my right to talk about successful entrepreneurs and top managers? Or reading books. the nice thing is that to start, THEY PAY the consultant for you. Rockstar v.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

As founder and CTO of several businesses, I love to see ideas become reality and build sustainable businesses that create real value. Presently, I’m focused on two businesses that I am co-founder and CTO of. Frank enjoys spending quality time away from technology with his family and close group of friends.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. NET (and Java) experience are big bright red-flags in my book. Nothing says contraction negotiation like the smell of cordite. March 26, 2011 at 12:17 am. CEO Friday? … James.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

But before that, actually, there was this a couple of years break where, when Udemy did not work in Turkey, I met this Silicon Valley entrepreneur who wanted to build online, like speed dating, a video-based speed dating application. ER : Do you know how big of a fraction of the California vaccine rollout you guys have been?

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