BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

Greenplum has used red shift to characterize the nature of the existing database market where exponential data growth driven by network computing and internet applications have outstripped the capacity of existing mainstream vendors. The first time I heard the term Red Shift was from my portfolio company, Greenplum.

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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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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

So let’s take stock: What do we offer? 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). Not in my view.

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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. We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet. If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here: [link].

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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. 20th Century Tech Liquidity = Initial Public Offering.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer. The response from across the country?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The first is that it could carry limited inventory in stock because it had limited physical shelf space. ” Bill Gross, who is one of the Godfathers of the Internet, once told me, “ If you don’t design a product that is 10x better than the competition then you’ll never build anything truly big or amazing.”

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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? Not Another Ex-Insiders Thoughts On Nokia!

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

After putting in $45,000 of his own money — a large chunk of which was an inheritance — Livingston rounded up an initial team, that included co-founder Chris Best, who is now Kik CTO, and got to work on the service. We shut down Kik Chat, and the next day we launched Kik Messenger,” Livingston says. It was a hit.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. They’ve been around for nearly 100 years, but they embraced technology and the Internet relatively early.

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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? Is there a difference between getting equity, stock, shares? startupcto

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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. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day. If your desire was to make yourself look like an ignorant internet troll … I believe you have succeeded.

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