Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 28, 2014

Outsourced financial services firm adds low-priced, fixed cost offering to their suite of financial services to help support very early-stage startups nationwide. JumpStart was designed specifically for very early-stage startups, to provide essential financial services and build a solid financial foundation for young companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

” examined over 20,000 VC-backed companies and found that women’s positions have primarily been in sales and marketing, rather than more “heavy-hitting” roles like chief technology officer and so on. Silicon valley tends to have a bias towards a certain startup founder stereotype (i.e.

Venture Capital 82

Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. People do want to help.

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2010

Over the next two days I’ve got a meeting with each of my Colorado Senators ( Michael Bennet and Mark Udall ) as well as a summit at the White House led by Phil Weiser (Director of Technology and Innovation for the National Economic Council), Aneesh Chopra (CTO of the US), and Vivek Kundra (CIO of the US).

DC 123

DC Silicon Valley Colorado .Net 123

Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

A tech entrepreneur and inventor, Brandon McNaughton was entrepreneur in residence for Detroit Innovate , an early-stage venture fund. He also founded and served as chief technology officer of Life Magnetics. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Michigan Detroit 120

Scalable Startup

JUNE 21, 2011

Describing this other person variously as a co-founder, partner, CTO, and collaborator, the focus has been on someone with the right combination of technical experience/excellence, mutual chemistry, plus the right timing and inclination in their lives to do this. That’s not the sentiment of most CTO-types I talk to.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Los Angeles 20

Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Joseph is an Achieved CEO/CTO investor and strategic advisor. A long-time entrepreneur, Joseph founded/co-founded many technological companies throughout the years. He was recently honored to be named to the Silicon Valley 100 and 16 Up-and-Coming Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs You Need to Meet. Our Guests.

Technical Cofounder 60

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Silicon Valley Private Equity 60

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

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). Think of Stanford and Sandhill road in Silicon Valley, Route 128 in Boston or IIT in Bangalore India. We need a center of gravitas.

Netherlands 143

Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. He then went on the create an early-stage VC that I track closely?—? And the third founder, Colin Kelley , remains an important contributor & CTO of the company. Entrada Ventures? —?that

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital LP Valuation Later Stage 363

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Or riding a crazy party bus and sitting next to Aaron Batalion the co-founder & CTO of Living Social. Office Space. I always love visiting companies because you can tell so much about the character of the company by spending time in their offices. Nom nom nom. You get a feel for the company “vibe.”

Los Angeles 319

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Fractional CTO New York City 319

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. I really enjoyed a recent post I read on First Round Review about vanity metrics, which touches on what I love about my startup vs. others with more funding, more engineers and more mentions on TechCrunch.

Metrics 48

Metrics Silicon Valley Angel Investor Technical Review 48

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. 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.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. even something like joining a climbing gym can work – in silicon valley, they’re full of techies!

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

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? How much equity do early employees typically get?

Equity 40

Equity Employee Founder Cofounder 40

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. — In the next segment, I spoke with Venk Shukla about his journey from bureaucrat in India to Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Venk Shukla has worked in numerous early-stage companies as an executive, investor, board member, or advisor.

Channel 120

Channel India Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

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. SXSW Panel: Return on Inclusion: Investing in Diverse Startups Arlan ????

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Notwithstanding examples like Plentyofish, people respond to well designed, well branded products, and that can be important in getting traction early on. Rockstar v.

Developer 42

Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

We know Ben W was the CTO. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. I’m going to go get a coffee now, and you can have your meeting with those at our company you respect enough to not insult. Chris Ryland , on October 8, 2009 at 1:35 pm Said: OK, so who was the CEO? Order Here. Now In Print!

Silicon Valley 271

Silicon Valley RSS Customer Development California 271

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80