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Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital

SoCal CTO

Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Corporate Acquisitions of Startups: Why Do They Fail?

Steve Blank

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. However, almost like clockwork, the inevitable next cycle of technology innovation would catch these now-public startups and their boards by surprise. Board Control.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model.

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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

We taught them the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. First, we brought all 21 teams to Stanford for 3-days of 10 hour-a-day classes in business model design and customer development. The class textbooks were “ The Four Steps to the Epiphany and Business Model Generation.”).

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?”

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