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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. Trust me – that kind of encounter can mean the difference between securing a contract, protecting yourself from getting turfed or getting acquired one day.

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Open Innovation in DC

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, it doesn't fit any of our stock ideological categories very well. They are leveraging the same kinds of new technology, management thinking, and big data to improve lives that we routinely use here in Silicon Valley. (For I don't control any government contracts. I have no budget," he said. "I I have no formal team.

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Do you believe in the Red Shift theory?

BeyondVC

Moving on, it is clear that red shift data requirements are only a fraction of what’s necessary to meet this exponential growth as it will put tremendous strain on the existing IT infrastructure consuming ever-increasing amounts of CPU cycles, energy, storage, and more. Ok-enough of the sales pitch. Red-shift companies tend to be Web 2.0

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A VC: Employee Equity: How Much?

www.avc.com

The most common comment in this long and complicated MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity is the question of how much equity should you grant when you make a hire. For your first key hires, three, five, maybe as much as ten, you will probably not be able to use any kind of formula. First, a caveat.

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What is Sweat Equity Worth?

www.entrepreneur.com

However, your partner could just as easily have argued that her sweat equity is worth $250,000 since that's what a prototype would have cost you to make had you hired a prototype development firm. Or she could argue that the prototype is so critical to the business that she should get 50 percent of the company's stock.

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He The response from across the country?

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

At the same time we have several culturally-driven attitudes holding us back. So let’s take stock: What do we offer? Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). Not in my view.