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MAY 16, 2018

Microsoft General Manager Dave Mendlen is in Palo Alto today to participate in a rare fireside chat with the CEO of Lifograph, Dea Wilson. Dave Mendlen is a General Manager at Microsoft and he is one of those gifted speakers who have the magic to capture entire audiences and inspire everyone with his vision and stories.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

You'll be responsible for the successful management of the sales organization in order to meet the objectives of the Company. You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. Thus is venture capital. Tempus Fugit. Tempus Fugit.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

VENTURE CAPITAL. You are here: Home / Startups / Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S. Filed Under: Startups , Tech Tagged With: Madrona , Startups , Tech , Venture capital.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In a way it seems the model has been bring in professional management to help a company through a growth spurt while technical founders focus on becoming an industry leader in terms of innovation and then when the less experienced technical founder is ready they step back in the role.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Good stuff.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

link] [link] Posted byTony Karrer at 5:33 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

19 of the 21 teams are moving forward in commercializing their technology. In July I got a call from Errol Arkilic , a program manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the $6.8-billion Alexander Osterwalder joined us for the opening day, and Oren Jacob , ex-CTO of Pixar joined us for a finale. Your Country Needs You.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Do I Need a Co-Founder: The 90/50 Rule of Startup Founders - FairSoftware's Blog , February 1, 2010 Another post that relates to my recent post on CTO Founders and Cofounders. Death By Revenue Plan - Steve Blank , February 16, 2010 Steve talks about the problem created when you start to manage according to your Revenue Plan.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Named one of BusinessWeek’s Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech, Eric served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before moving on to advise startups and venture capital firms independently.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Opening Night Happy Hour and Keynote with Scott Kupor: Secrets of Sandhill Road | Fundraising Track Joshua Baer , Founder and CEO at Capital Factory, delved into the transforming realm of venture capital with Scott Kupor , Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. The unit cost fell and this idea of pay as you go.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 10, 2010

A CTO will also want to ensure that the businesspeople on their team will understand important product and technical decisions. That’s something that a business founder might have some ideas about, but it really takes a product manager to weigh resource constraints, internal input, customer demands, etc. To the point?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. But I managed a few "good learning experiences" before throwing myself full-bore into IMVU. So much for timing.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2010

Our portfolio company Modcloth , for example, just made a great Product Manager hire out of Google. Instead, the CTO there met someone amazing at SXSW who turned out to be a big fan (and customer) of the company. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. Why senior level?

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Run & Grow Run and Grow Your Business Home Human Resources Leadership Innovation Growth Strategies Business Management Travel Innovation Play Video Docstocs Jason Nazar on Fostering Innovation (Video). Product Reviews Mindjet Connect Helps Small Businesses Visualize and Manage Projects. Million in Venture Capital.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2021

But enough about what we do, I want to tell you our story; who we are and not only how we’ve managed to continue to grow despite the event industry shutdown but how we’re modernizing the standard workweek. We believe in “Insurance as a Service”, which you can read more about here. The story of eve Why?

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

Meanwhile, market pioneers in blitzscale-up mode are exactly the kind of company Reinvent aims to serve with its “venture capital at scale” strategy. Other key acquisitions include Blackmore and OURS , which allow Aurora to incorporate best-in-class technology at an accelerated pace.

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ithacaVC

MAY 30, 2011

Company X raises some venture capital, and after about a year Jim goes to his non-management board members and basically says “Al has to go” See my earlier post Tech Founder Wins at Early Stage. After the management change there are 5 directors, namely Brett, Jim, 1 VC rep and 2 independents.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

At the same time, in an effort to build up the base of “bench talent” in New York City, I’ve been running Product Manager School through nextNY. I always here that there aren’t enough good tech product managers in the city, so I figured why not just go and try to make more—or make the up and coming ones better.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 31, 2011

At a board meeting yesterday, a management team was talking about their hiring needs and some of the challenges they're having hiring great people. How about just a tenacious project manager who organizes the effort, can communicate well to reach out (or at least craft the writing to help others reach out), and help schedule everyone?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

I was head of the company as well as the accountant, the press relations person, and the back-office manager. My co-founder and BlueVine’s Chief Technology Officer Nir Klar was himself a veteran entrepreneur. That was certainly my experience when I started BlueVine in 2013.

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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. By managing the storage and analysis of sequence data, DNAnexus allows life science researchers to focus on what matters to them most: understanding the functioning and genetic basis of life, instead of worry about data center issues.

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Altgate

JULY 14, 2009

The management team includes seasoned entrepreneurs with backgrounds in healthcare and IT. The company leverages proprietary technology developed commercially and through NIH grants over the past decade to bring a unique solution connecting hospitals to the drug and diagnostic discovery programs within life science companies. .

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

The term Content Management System has become mainstream in everything from the Fortune 500 to small businesses. I have no doubt he will, for he is a true “Startup CEO”, even though his title is CTO at Acquia. The average website size has also greatly increased, aided by automated rendering systems like Drupal and others.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Managing Creativity. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie Dev-first API for interactive emails?—?will will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. New CXO advisors join?—?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

Find the target market: I think I’d like to go after computer science and MIS grads who have prior inclination towards technology, but haven’t yet gained enough applied training to be usable to a startup—taking someone from a few school JAVA projects or maybe even nothing more than IT management courses to Ruby proficiency.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I would learn a ton from Gordon for over a decade, not only about practical heuristics for managing complex engineering projects (i.e. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He the “schedule fantasy factor,”) or his eleven rules of supercomputer design but also a real appreciation for how a technical visionary thinks.

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