Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Interesting to note that Hafner and English own common stock but also made meaningful investments in the Series A & B rounds. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Author howerl.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 7, 2010

I view the point of this blog to provide my thoughts and perspectives as an Acting CTO mostly concerned with Startup Development to entrepreneurs and other CTOs. The conversation around Flash is an important one for startups and CTOs. Short Adobe stock? This got quite a lot of passionate response. Argue about it?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It also allows team members to search through conversations by keyword or topic. Quip has redesigned office-productivity software for the mobile age. For small-business owners who ship things infrequently and don’t want to hire warehouse help or stock packing supplies, it could make a lot of sense.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

And the third founder, Colin Kelley , remains an important contributor & CTO of the company. All have been able to take some secondary stock sales along the way, all remain shareholders of the company and all benefit from late-stage capital provided by Accel, Morgan Stanley, HIG Capital ( Scott Hilleboe ) and others.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Kanye West. Not Another Ex-Insiders Thoughts On Nokia!

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

on top of that often results in conversations and incentives that are difficult to overcome, especially early on in a company. He writes: The premises of this conversation are very complicated. During and after fundraising, we team with the founder to recruit for a full-time CTO to join the company.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2013

“[At HotelTonight], we built in lots of opportunities for people to interact, from a ping pong table and vintage video game room to lots of comfortable, casual conversation areas scattered throughout the office,” Simon says. Fully stocked options at the HotelTonight Bar. Sharing is caring.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Delaware law gives preferred stock investors of a corporation certain voting rights and control over the corporation. Even though Konstantinos Bratanis, co-founder and CTO of Goodvidio, and his partner started the business with their own hard-earned money, they were able to eventually raise VC funding. Pick a name for your business.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? Is there a difference between getting equity, stock, shares?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

As a company grows, corporate leaders must become fixated on the stock price, internal politics and compliance. I met with the president of the men’s group (a billion-dollar business by itself), the group’s CTO and some of their support team. The president was totally dismissive of our technology and manufacturing solution.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Starting a company without vesting your stock is like getting your girlfriend pregnant on the first date. Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Hiren Panchasara Thanks for the post ! Hiren Co-Founder and CTO @ Point10Solutions.com [link] Paul Nelligan Really amazingly good post. Vest, young man. Learned a lot.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

if you have some thoughts on this you could add to the conversation and provide some advice. this might not be for you but if not then maybe share your own experience and try to further the conversation because it would be appreciated. Seth is certainly worth listening to but listen to others as well and be true to yourself.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. That knowledge gap hampers efforts to staff and stock the stadium appropriately. which leads will convert—however you define conversion. A world of real-time predictions.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I think the real moral of this story is, (1) if you want to work at a startup, make sure the CTO cares about problem solving and not technology religion, (2) if you’re cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, starting looking for a new job.

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