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Venture Capital is About Human Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Fundamentally venture capital is about human capital. The rest of our team included the founding CTO of Maker Studios (Ryan Lissack) and the CEO of DataSift (Tim Barker) so we seemed to all be in good company of ex Salesforce execs looking to make a difference. Venture Capital is a people business.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

CTO, Modcloth – San Francisco, CA (corrected from e-mail version) Remember that girl from back home? That girl now has now has 200,000 paying customers and a profitable run rate of over $40M within 18 months of raising capital. Interested candidates should e-mail keyhirewire@firstround.com with "Modcloth CTO" in the subject.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. Schmidt had been the CEO of Novell and previously CTO of Sun Microsystems. Sandberg had been the vice president of global online sales and operations. Filed under: Venture Capital. If he wasn’t, he told stories of how “VCs stole my company.”.

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

Both Sides of the Table

So Nick drove strategy & tech from the UK and remained an active board member and CTO of the company. He travelled tirelessly to clients, data partners and to the UK to make sure the global organization was synchronized. Luckily for us Nick was extremely mature and believed it would be in the best interest of the company.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

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. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

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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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

www.informationarbitrage.com

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