Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW! Nicole Lazzaro President Udi Nir CTO NEW!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

When Roger Ehrenberg & I agreed to fund Nick’s first institutional VC round we agreed it knowing that he was staying in the UK, that he was building out product & engineering in the UK and that he was the CEO of the company. So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

He became a VC at London-based Benchmark Europe (now Balderton) and then CEO of Endemol, a large multibillion media company best known for creating & owning global franchises for Big Brother, Deal or No Deal and other unscripted television. Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. billion deal to Disney.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The emerging “industrial Internet” revolution, enabled by the convergence of networking and information technology with engineered physical systems and associated services, is enabling a new generation of “smart systems” and an innovation-based growth engine for the U.S. ProjectOpenData on Twitter.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

BlogTalkRadio Buddy Media Clickable Cloverhill Enterprises Covestor Domdex Global Bay Mobile Tech Zoo Games Invite Media Kinetic Trading Strategies Mashery Mimeo oneforty OrcaOne OrganizedWisdom Recognia Selerity Business Insider Standout Jobs StockTwits TheLadders Ticketfly TLists TubeMogul TweetDeck Zoomino ?Vaultive

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

You found someone that really cares about something,” says Pete Kooman , CTO at Optimizely. Overlooked Features in your MVP | Developer Track Scott White , VP of Engineering at HUVRdata , had great advice for developers with an MVP (minimum viable product) that are alpha/beta testing with real users.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I will soon announce a few fundings (not yet closed, sorry) and I’m beginning to help them think about how to ramp up their engineering teams. And I spoke with the CTO of another great company I used to be on the board of and enlisted his support in potentially being an advisor to one company.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Dr. Marcos Athanasoulis, CTO of Harvard Medical School discussed this idea with me recently. Michael Aginsky, CTO of Gibbons P.C. Bolpur is home to the Viswabharati university, as well as several other small engineering and professional colleges. For you, readers, here they are: Sponsor.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis zJoining me in from the studio at Stanford University were: Evangelos Simoudis , venture investor and senior advisor to global corporations. Srivastava , chief data scientist at Verizon. I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO. Ashok Srivastava.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Your most powerful growth engine is your existing customer. Even if you’re a global firm, it’s a good idea to restore community marketing. Increasingly, companies are figuring out that they do have a resource that does come from the buyer’s world, and that this resource is key to creating robust, organic growth. That’s right.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

by John Blackmon, CTO of eLearning Brothers. John Blackmon brings decades of engineering and management expertise in the eLearning industry to his role as CTO of eLearning Brothers, a global provider of templates, custom design, authoring and learning management tools, and training for professionals everywhere.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

A company that can employ thousands of engineers and designers, acquire companies, and support a creative working environment. Starting a global tech business with international, well-educated and highly-skilled people, generating millions of revenue per month, is incredibly hard. An engineer. Prepare to fail, 95% do.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Jones Lang Lasalle: Global commercial real estate services. Cushman and Wakefield: Global commercial real estate services. No agenda, just come by and talk tech at Voltage.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Estrin has hired numerous engineers over her career, but has found, to no surprise, that it is "harder to find technical women , especially in computer science.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Franchises Franchises Home Franchise 500 Home-Based Low Cost Top New Fast Growing Top Global Biz Opportunities Franchises for Sale Franchises A Bright Forecast for a Solar Panel Installation Franchise. Foregone wages for an engineer aren't the same as foregone wages for a prototype designer. In fact, it could be worth much more.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

gathered at the event. It is not very polished but was designed for a fast read.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officers Cori Zarek and Ryan Panchadsaram to help all levels of government with COVID-19 response and delivery of services. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

To close, Judith Estrin gave us a talk on having sustainable technology, not necessarily related to sustainability as in green, but how to make sure innovation continues to happen. I was intrigued by her bio, CTO at Cisco, currently or previously a board member at Disney, FedEx, and Sun Microsystems. Gotta love that!

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. As a result, the people doing initial resume filtering are not engineers. Enter recruiters or HR people.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. On Tuesday, July 21, we hosted the first-ever Boston Consumer Tech Summit. At NextView, we invest across the US.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Dr. Sebastian Wedeniwski is a Chief Technology Strategist at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, and was an IBM Distinguished Engineer, Chief Technology Officer for IBM’s Global Industrial Sector, and part of the IBM Research & Development Laboratory, Germany.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 22, 2016

We expanded the program later that year with partner companies ReadyTalk, SendGrid, MWH Global, SpotX, and Moz, as I wrote about here. The day after I put up that last post about v2 of the program, a human resources leader at PayPal gave me a call and asked if we could help them structure a program for their engineering organization, too.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

To close, Judith Estrin gave us a talk on having sustainable technology, not necessarily related to sustainability as in green, but how to make sure innovation continues to happen. I was intrigued by her bio, CTO at Cisco, currently or previously a board member at Disney, FedEx, and Sun Microsystems. Gotta love that!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 8, 2018

What’s Going Down during #SXSW2018 If you’re a tech CEO, entrepreneur, investor, or just wanting to nerd out, consider Capital Factory’s Future of Technology Lounge as your home away from home. Capital Factory is teaming up with partners, local and global, to create the tech connoisseur’s private oasis during festival-craziness.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Building Your Business on Open Source Data 10:00 am at Galvanize Featuring Data.world co-founder and CTO Bryon Jacob, this panel will explore the increasingly important role of open source data science in the startup economy. Media in Tech Meet Up 5:00 pm at WP Engine This Meet Up is hosted by MediaTech Ventures and WP Engine.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

After all, despite the strength of these encryption systems, all an attack ultimately requires is usually an ID and/or password—information which can be readily obtained by private individuals through social engineering or carelessness on the part of the user.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). I have been in the technology industry for 30+ years. I serve as adjunct faculty at the University of Denver, where I head up a graduate program division in healthcare information technology within University College.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. Introductory remarks.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We have three universities in the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking for engineering and technology. 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).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. VCs sit on 5 to 10 or more boards.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Jono Bacon: And the reason why he did this was because even though he was just a kid in Africa, on the global stage, he was playing a cog in a much bigger machine. You need your technology team to spin up some services. You may need your product and engineering teams to be involved. And then he’d walk two hours back.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 29, 2011

Today, Cirtex is a leading web hosting provider hosting over 100,000 domains globally. Shortly after, he served as Director of Technology at Progress Software. Later he served as CTO at AppZero. Later he served as CTO at AppZero. He is currently serving as principal engineer at Amazon. For more, read: Min.us

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The founders are committed to the global distributed computing community and engage fully by offering and sustaining a free community versio n for life. Some of the largest global financial institutions are evaluating BlazingDB given that current market offerings simply cannot address the demands of large scale database processing.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

My company provides the best products and devices to turn on the skin’s natural regeneration engine. At my previous position as a Strategist at Disney, I was tasked with leading undergraduate recruiting efforts for the Global Development and Corporate Finance teams. Photo Credit: Amy Rebecca Bloomer.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Looking for Office Space? Cushman and Wakefield: Global commercial real estate services. Jones Lang Lasalle: Global commercial real estate services. Ruby specialists.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2010

By most estimates, virtually all of the Global 5000 corporations as well as most government agencies have, at any point in time, hundreds of workstations and servers running malware (malicious software designed to secretly access a computer system without the owner’s informed consent). billion times per month.

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