David Teten

APRIL 17, 2012

After work on April 18, thirty-five curious developers will visit the ff Venture Capital offices to learn about our fund and listen to technical talks by the founders and technical experts of Parsely and Movable Ink. Instead they create a welcoming environment for two-way conversation.

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David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures. From my first conversations with Adam, he said that he was planning to bring in a business-focused CEO. Atlanta ff Venture Capital Ionic Security' Adam and team proceeded to do exactly that.

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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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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Opening Night Happy Hour and Keynote with Scott Kupor: Secrets of Sandhill Road | Fundraising Track Joshua Baer , Founder and CEO at Capital Factory, delved into the transforming realm of venture capital with Scott Kupor , Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. If someone gets mad, that’s usually a good sign.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

I actually think you can push the conversation pretty far with most investors and a few good mockups. A Beginner's Guide to Investors How to Speak the Language of Venture Capital " The "this product" will be a well formulated mock-up or clickable prototype. What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

Meanwhile, market pioneers in blitzscale-up mode are exactly the kind of company Reinvent aims to serve with its “venture capital at scale” strategy. It’s a process that requires significant internal resources and a strong ecosystem of trusted partners.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 31, 2011

This conversation seems to take place at nearly every growing company in just about every board meeting. You have trackable metrics for sales, site conversions, traffic, etc., This way, your team can raise the flag on a good candidate and be comfortable saying, "Hey, if you'd be willing to come in at 6, our CTO would love to meet you."

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2010

Maybe they can’t scale a site past a million uniques—fine if they’re the founding CTO. I pad my reputation positively on the web, too—by contributing and participating in public conversation in a professional manner. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Would recruiters pay to see this stuff?

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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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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2021

From the very beginning, I knew we needed to set up shop in Munich and London; London because it’s the insurance capital of the world and Munich not only because it is second in insurance, but because it’s quickly becoming a tech hub in Europe. And we don’t have to tell you why but our next stop is Austin.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie Winning the hearts and minds of developers matters and building the GTM around conversion and upsells will be key.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

I spoke about the need of the CEO, CTO and head of Products to be in the same location. A good compromise is “convertible debt with a cap&# meaning the conversion price has a limit. What advice do you have for people who want to get into venture capital? Tags: This Week in Venture Capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 14, 2011

Last Thursday night, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels joined a small group of technical folks from cloud and commerce related First Round portfolio companies for dinner at Double Crown. After getting to spend some time with Werner, I'm really not surprised at all how willing he was to sit down with us.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 4, 2012

In the same way, I understand why a few extra neurons fire when you approach a business office and the person at the front desk is male. I understand the pause people feel when you look at a startup bio page and you notice that the CTO is female. A series of small group conversations away from the media? Ask yourself this.

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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. The response from across the country?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. There’s more media here in NYC than anywhere and it’s up to the startup to get themselves in the thick of the conversation as a relevant player innovating in a space. I was there, too.

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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. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. Venture Capital. And of course you need a mature venture capital industry. That’s one model.

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www.aaronkharris.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Im a private tutor on Tutorspree Text Aug 23, 2010 @ 9:08 pm Permalink We have a CTO, and so can you! I was told that finding a CTO/technical co-founder in NYC was about as easy as climbing Everest with one leg, no O2, and carrying a dead elephant. Big net = big fish And each conversation I had spread my net out a little bit farther.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2010

People ask me all the time how to get a job in venture capital or at a startup, and the one thing that I can point to that has enabled me to get the jobs I’ve gotten has been my contributions to the innovation community. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Got an idea for a program?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It shows a lack of interest. And then I took a stand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

When confronted with a “safety valve hydraulic thing,” Eric remembered that “all the conversation in the room was about the technology of hydraulics.” Tendayi explained, “It's actually based on the venture capital notion of investment thesis. The first MVP was “a shoebox and a doll.”

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Final Thought. and Flipboard newspapers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Strangely, most founders I know don’t have this conversation with the inside investors early. Getting Your Head in the Game for Fund Raising was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. And keep your head in the game.

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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. It’s great advice. It’s simple.

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Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I started out my career as a geek, very good with edge technology,which at the time was desktop computers and a few years later the Internet. I moved through marketing and sales role, and then venture capital to general management but all along the way I missed the hands on aspect of product and connection of products to people.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model. Instead of a handshake and “so what do you do” the conversation evolves over time and each person's unique strengths come through.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Ryan Chan, founder at UpKeep said, “We created an LLC at first, but after realizing that we wanted to take on venture capital, we decided to move to a Delaware C corp.”. venture capital. Seek out venture capital funding. 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. or even be a U.S.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Initially the conversation initiated by the founder focused around the need to have somebody with deep domain knowledge. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? So here was my conversation this week.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 4, 2017

They have their use case, but are points of comparison for other people to evaluate you,” Lloyd Tabb, founder and CTO of Looker, says. Vanity Metrics And Advice I Don’t Need was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Founded in 2006 by Yaniv Axen (CTO) and Shmulik Weller (currently serves as CEO),SundaySky is headquartered in New York with a research and development office based in Tel Aviv. It currently has 31 employees, mostly creative producers, copywirters, etc.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Content marketing, and under content marketing we’re tracking uniques, time on site, bounce rates, open rates, click-through rates, conversion rates, these are the things that if we don’t know what these things are, we could end up in trouble. It was interesting to me, so we had this whole conversation about the type of people.

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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. As the third U.S.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. if you have some thoughts on this you could add to the conversation and provide some advice. We’ll update this post with links to his further installments. Johnny Good post. good post.

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