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Some of the Best Founders Are “Difficult” People

Hunter Walker

If you combine this with self-awareness, you get a powerful combination for an early stage CEO. Do they have a cofounder who can balance them out? Do they have a cofounder who can balance them out? The folks who recoil from these conversations or get defensive or blame others for every failure, that’s.

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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

And while I’m at it, a great post by Steve Blank No Accounting For Startups looking at early stage score keeping. Sunk Costs: An invisible, pervasive peril - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , February 15, 2010 I literally had this conversation yesterday with a startup. Good stuff from Jason.

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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. This also applies in acquisition conversations. by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Short track record.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. Otherwise, Ive not seen much. *

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Working with Developers

SoCal CTO

It may give non-technical founders a bit more insight into working styles when it comes to developers. If you’ve ever seen an athlete use a big word in a slightly wrong way, that’s how you sound when you use technical language and you don’t quite know what it means. Adding pressure to this conversation makes it tougher.