Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

This week they set out to create their cap table and hire a CTO. Jane and Dick want to bring in their friend Praveena as CTO, but they don’t know how to structure the compensation. In this manner, you can see both the current equity distribution of the company, as well as historically what the equity holdings looked like.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Nils De Moor, Co-founder and CTO at Woorank. After a brief passage through the academic world where he researched simulation of distributed systems, he decided to try his luck as an entrepreneur and cofounded Woorank as the CTO. Marketing Podcast with Nils De Moor.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All Things Distributed Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The first thing thatalways comes up when you want to discuss the role of a CTO is that there is no wellestablished definition of what a CTO actually does. I am posting it here as it might be of generalinterest.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. Technology, marketing, legal, distribution are all changing and evolving at an incredible pace. The technology you choose for your product will change your Go To Market strategy. Your distribution method will modify your product, etc.,

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

by Saumya Bhatnagar, CTO and Co-founder of InvolveSoft. It is necessary to involve the rest of the family members and distribute this workload amongst them, at the end of the day, even superwoman can use some help. Over the years, the rapid growth of startup networks is seen in almost every sector. Dealing With The Fear of Failure.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2016

By Trevor Sumner, Chief Technology Officer of LocalVox. Services such as Moz Local, Localeze, Infogroup, Factual and more distribute lists of small business info to major directories and can help correct the issues in a matter of weeks or months. Trevor Sumner.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 13, 2013

It’s the age-old debate among start-up circles: which is more important to the success of a start-up: the strength of the sales/distribution strategy or the quality of the product? To be successful, a stand-alone company needs a top-notch product and a clever distribution/sales strategy. Today, it’s a different story.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Distribution costs have, too. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. They read less than 30 minutes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? If you are recognized as an expert in the business area of your startup, with a good reputation, and you know all the key vendors and customers, your value is huge. Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

But while Amazon blew away existing physical distribution channels to deliver products to you, we are blowing away existing physical infrastructure to help you store the things you want to keep – just not at your home. I wrote about that experience here without giving away the details of the business.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! As founder and CTO of several businesses, I love to see ideas become reality and build sustainable businesses that create real value. Welcome to Episode 106 of the Profit First Podcast!

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

The brilliance of this book is that everyone on your leadership team, including the CEO, should read it and then discuss it.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2019

Blockdraws Technologies COO, Konstantinos Despotakis is a former online casino CEO and also a former Deputy Director of Compliance at the AGCC. In addition, the founder Darin Oliver, also took in Kim Lumbard, the Blockdraw’s current CTO. system to run the most advanced distributed casino platform in the world. A New System.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2018

by Harsha Cuttari, CTO of AQUA Intelligence. Blockchain technology can be used to to help personalize travel, a trait Millennials seek. From avocado toasts and pumpkin spice lattes to pricey Yeezys and international vacations, Millennials and their 200 billion-dollar buying power have a great deal of influence over the economy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If you are strong enough to surround yourself with a strong team, that’s great progress toward success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Building a product doesn’t get it distributed and sold. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? If you are recognized as an expert in the business area of your startup, with a good reputation, and you know all the key vendors and customers, your value is huge. Expertise can be marketing, technical, financial, or sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Cyber-Physical Systems Working with government and industry to create standards for a new generation of interoperable, dynamic, and efficient “smart systems” – an “industrial Internet” – that combines distributed sensing, control, and data analytics to help grow new high-value American jobs and the economy.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer. Belief #3: Outlier Companies Can Be Built Anywhere.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Given our background in media and entertainment at Remagine Ventures , we always cared about technology that automates content creation, distribution and monetisation. While products like Anthropic’s Claude.ai If you read this far, allow me to indulge in a short self-pitch.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

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. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If you are strong enough to surround yourself with a strong team, that’s great progress toward success.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days of Rocket Science I realized that we needed high-level advice on multiple fronts; technology, game development, video game distribution, etc. I’m now getting more involved in my new job as CTO and I’m too busy to go back and forth negotiating this.” Advisory Board. But I was crushed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

These include the product itself, the customer, the distribution channel, revenue model, how to get, keep and grow customers, resources and activities needed to build the business and costs.). Remember, the definition of a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. (

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Traditional office working is losing ground as the “best way” to work, and managers supporting it are either of a generation where using social technologies is seen as lazy or timewasting, or they have the wrong team – i.e. a team that requires intense scrutiny to keep it working. . My kind of office view…. building legitimacy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If you are strong enough to surround yourself with a strong team, that’s great progress toward success.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. These are multi-Terabyte data loads, crunched by the Fortune 100.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2024

We uncovered the intriguing world of artificial intelligence, exploring the complexities and ethical considerations associated with this rapidly evolving mainstream technology. He's an author, research scholar at Toronto Metropolitan University and CTO of Squint AI Inc. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Kenneth Wenger.

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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 Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. New CXO advisors join?—?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This suggestion comes from George Heimel , chief technology officer at Square 360. By distributing relevant and valuable content you can attract the potential customers and drive beneficial customer actions. Try Hosted Email. More Focus On Security. . – You can focus on content marketing. Connection With Audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. If you are strong enough to surround yourself with a strong team, that’s great progress toward success.

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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. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion.

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David Cohen

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Shah, founder and CTO of Hubspot , spoke on Monday afternoon about inbound marketing for startups. On Wednesday, many of our startups had the chance to participate in BizDev event, which was a great opportunity for these companies to get new distribution, business development, and build connections.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

SaaS data integration is the process of distributing applications to your team or anyone within your company conveniently, securely, without configuration. This wouldn’t have been possible if it was done manually,” says Megan Crespi , CTO. What is a SaaS Application Integration?

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