Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Notes Wadhwa, “Jason [Calacanis], Fred [Wilson], and Silicon Valley VC’s, I’ve got news for you: you’ve got it all wrong. The Internet wasn’t there. Because Vivek Wadhwa has just written a piece on TechCrunch that “proves&# the nurture argument quantitatively. PC’s weren’t there.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

And anybody who follows this blog knows that I believe television disruption has already begun and it is more likely to resemble Internet content than streaming long-form content to our living rooms. But when you produce on Internet you can test your content in the same way that Silicon Valley firms test early versions of their software.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 1, 2012

With Lens.ly, you can download your Flickr albums for offline viewing – for example, you are on a plane or in a place where there is no Internet connection. is a brain-child of Joe Stump, who is well known in Silicon Valley. It is one of those apps that you wish Flickr provided by default.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title “the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley”. Later he would leave for a few years to start the Computing Directorate at the National Science Foundation , help spec what became the Internet and then come back and run Ardent’s engineering.) Order Here. Now In Print!

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Growthink Blog

JULY 2, 2014

I had the good fortune to attend GTK’s and Pillsbury’s amazing Internet of Things Private Executive Event in Palo Alto last week. As technology and the collective data sets naturally grow and improve, the opportunity to intervene quickly (and remotely!) The Industrial Internet. Its decidedly low glamour goal?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Next major event? Future M on Oct 16.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I have raised capital 3 times before so I knew the drill.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. ROBLOX ( www.roblox.com ) is a web/game startup in Silicon Valley that you have probably never heard of--unless you were an eight year old boy, in which case you're probably not qualified for this position.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

However, I believe that Colorado (Boulder-Denver especially) is one of the best places in the country that you could “get involved” in the internet-software space. Do *any* of them live in Silicon Valley? Places outside of “the valley” are where it’s at right now (much to the dismay of some), and Colorado is leading that charge.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

However, I believe that Colorado (Boulder-Denver especially) is one of the best places in the country that you could “get involved” in the internet-software space. Do *any* of them live in Silicon Valley? Places outside of “the valley” are where it’s at right now (much to the dismay of some), and Colorado is leading that charge.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). The Netherlands ranks top place in a large number of ICT indicators.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Build Your Own Silicon Valley? How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. Today unicorn boards have a lot less leverage.

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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. Ethan also the worked in a number of internet strategy and marketing roles at The Clorox Company, Buy.com, and McKinsey & Company. Our Guests. Show Quotes .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. That was probably one step further away from the Silicon Valley ethos than even Shark Tank! we were sold on the concept immediately. He was dogmatic. He was self-assured.

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Diego Basch

JANUARY 27, 2012

In Silicon Valley many people treat the concept that “ideas are worthless, it’s all about execution” as gospel. That’s why Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO and chef extraordinaire , was able to raise $5B to create a repository of ideas. Patent number 5771354.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. Want to start up in France? " Listen.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

Joel Spolsky , Founder / CEO at Fog Creek Software (64,598) Seth Godin , Founder of Yoyodyne; creator of "permission marketing" (41,957) Jason Fried , 37signals co-founder Jason Fried (and other 37signals employees) (31,595) Tim O'Reilly , Founder / CEO of O'Reilly Media (10,269) Jason Calacanis , CEO of Mahalo (10,000) [ note: this (..)

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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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? Trying to regain internet connection. You can resume live updates if you want.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” In this class session Nand Mulchandani, JAIC CTO who just completed an extended stint as Acting Director, continued the discussion of AI and the role of the JAIC. That’s it. How Will AI Be Used?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? And while it's condescending it's tone may prove quite useful for non-engineers wanting to start internet businesses with no idea of what is required to do so, which it seems like a lot of people who'd ask this kind of question in this kind of forum, are. Rockstar v.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

SXSW Panel: Attracting VC Investment Outside of Silicon Valley Carolyn Rodz (@carolynrodz) | Twitter Holly Gibson Founder Austin Women Who Code Holly loves the Austin tech community and serves it as the Founder of the Women Who Code Austin, a network of 2800+ women in tech. As the third U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. How did you first get into tech and come to Silicon valley?

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Jennifer Pahlka: I founded CfA in 2009, the year after everyone said that “the Internet had gotten Barack Obama elected President.” I wanted to know if that same Internet could not just make a difference in who gets elected, but actually make government work better for regular people. I’d been working on a conference called Gov 2.0

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