Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

by Nick Frandsen, co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. Just because an idea is relevant for you, you may discover it is a super niche market and therefore will either require a dedicated marketing and promotion channel very specific to that audience or may not live up to the ‘unicorn’ expectations you were dreaming of.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The concept of a Chief Marketing Officer comes from large enterprises, but it is a role that has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. They must narrow the marketing focus to crucial marketing channels and formulate a winning and repeatable plan for the business.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? The ideal candidate has experience with eCommerce systems, emerging mobile and social technologies, as well as RoR. Interested candidates should e-mail keyhirewire@firstround.com with "Modcloth CTO" in the subject.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. What channels will you use (e.g., I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions. But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. Other types of users?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. What channels will you use (e.g., I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions. But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. Other types of users?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. The media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The UCSF Office of Innovation and Technology ( Erik Lium and Stephanie Marrus) is the reason the program exists. Each of the teams is assigned a mentor to match their domainv(Head of device R&D of Phillips, Genetech, Crescendo, CTO of UCSF, venture capitalists from Sofinnova, Burrill, Lightstone, M34, etc.).

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Steve Blank

JULY 14, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Alexander Osterwalder – inventor of the Business Model Canvas. Oren Jacob , ex-CTO of Pixar and now CEO of ToyTalk. Do the channels you imagine to reach these customers actually want to work with you? They all know they’re made up.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital. I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Jennifer Aldoretta (@JAldoretta) | Twitter Joseph Beard Partner Perot Jain, L.P.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

CSG offers its clients both an outsourced Chief Technology Officer and an entire I.T. challenges most businesses face, Scott has focused his own efforts in helping his clients and their families battle Cybercrime, Cyberbullying, and other harmful technologies. Corporate Partners. Credibility is everything.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

Megan Smith , the first female CTO of the United States of America under President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2017, and Admiral William H. This year promises a showcase of new technologies, platforms, and strategies to help channel partners scale.”.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). whether that’s partners or employees that you bring on.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

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. SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds. Tech support answers the phone; a job even salesmen don't want.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

When determining the value of the sweat equity provided by an employee or potential co-founder, first assess these three characteristics of the person in question: Commitment: Is he or she committed to being a founding partner for the long haul? Market value doesn't equal the sum of sweat equity invested by you and your partners.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. My first job out of college was at McKinsey in the Sydney office. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The path that led Aaron Batalion to join Lightspeed as my partner, focusing on consumer investments, is one of those relationship driven stories. My first job out of college was at McKinsey in the Sydney office. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. We will all see each other again if we hang around the valley long enough.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Barrington Coffee – Fort Point Channel. Flour – Bakery and Coffee Shop in Fort Point Channel. Investors: Antonio Rodriguez – Matrix Partners, HP ( blog , @antrod). David Skok – Matrix Partners ( blog , @bostonvc).

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Barrington Coffee – Fort Point Channel. Investors: Antonio Rodriguez – Matrix Partners, HP ( blog , @antrod ). David Skok – Matrix Partners ( blog , @bostonvc ). No agenda, just come by and talk tech at Voltage.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

What channels will you use (e.g., What’s different, special here? Where’s the mystery (see Matching Algorithm )? Who are the other stakeholders involved? Other types of users? Administrators? How will you be taking this to market? SEO for Startups )? What are your key Startup Metrics ? How do you make your money?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. The business model.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2016

You can also follow updates from @whitehouse on Twitter, as well as the NCWIT social media channels. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Google will collaborate to expand CS options for more than 400 girls living in HUD-supported housing by extending the NCWIT AspireIT outreach program to local HUD partners.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

S undaySky , an Israeli startup which provides e-commerce businesses a platform for dynamic videos), has raised a $9 million round led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) joined by previous investors Globespan Capital Partners and Carmel Ventures. It currently has 31 employees, mostly creative producers, copywirters, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Also, make sure you know several partners at the VC firms who have invested in you because in tough times it helps to have very broad support. You need to know how many partners they have and which partners do which kinds of deals. Back-channeling is also very effective in helping your process.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable! Have an account?

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Programming Startup Technical Review Software Review 86

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). I do have faith that, whatever situation you find yourself in, you can always find ways to increase the speed of iteration.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

Ad verification startup DoubleVerify has raised a fourth round of $33 million from private equity fund JMI Equity and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). According to Ynet , the deal values DoubleVerify at $200 million. JMI knows quite a bit about display advertising, having bought DoubleClick before its $3.1

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Adam Arbolino is the co-founder and CTO of DesignCrowd.com , a logo, web and graphic design marketplace. You also have a partner to bounce ideas off and make fast, rapid decisions. Many social channels are free to use and help to drive traffic and sales. Do you have a business idea keeping you awake at night?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Distribution/sales guy-Has an awesome understanding of the industry and product and can sell the vision and problem you are solving to investors, users, and potential partners. (he Colin Hayhurst , CTO co-founder then CEO of start-up b. You obviously want partners who are committed and not just involved. and the latter on tech.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Marketing is Heard From Engineering was discussing how sophisticated the graphics portion of our computer should be, debating cost and time-to-market tradeoffs of arcane details such as double-buffering, 24 versus 32-bits of color, alpha channels, etc. We know Ben W was the CTO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Ultimately, the company partnered with the City of Los Angeles , and as Eren recalls, "seven days after the original handshake and launch into a scheduling website, we helped launch Dodger Stadium, which was the single largest mass vaccination site in the country." So we want to be technology but a public health partner.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Associate Digital Account Director at.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

A key reason behind the shortfall between potential and reality is that there is a diverse array of technology platforms for serving video ads. Apap.tv , an Israeli startup headquartered in San Mateo, and Digiday , partnered on a report that summarizes the Internet’s Digital Video advertising market.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

Though he’s been both a CTO and a VP Product and managed large teams before, he built all of Cloze’s initial product himself from the back end through to the presentation layer. His co-founder/CMO Alex Cote has run customer acquisition programs that have attracted millions of users via a range of channels.

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