Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. But I knew that to be a good decision maker I needed first hand knowledge rather than just a summary from my CTO. But as a CEO you can’t rely solely on this information.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days. Now the employees carry your technology into the enterprise via their own phone and cloud services.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The technical mastermind behind Replay is Brian Hackett (CTO, co-founder) who has been thinking about and working on this concept for a long time… in fact, his PhD at Stanford 10+ years ago laid the foundation for Replay. Previous attempts have been either too buggy or slow, making them hard to scale. on their blog post here.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Think about how profound a difference adding Sheryl Sandberg early at Facebook was to Mark Zuckerberg and knowing that he should stay in charge of product and strategy while she ran operations. For some of my more skeptical portfolio companies I simply asked them to run a trial of inbound sales calls and they were shocked.

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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. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. The Curation Team.

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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. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. What Rob wrote in his post is right. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It has more than 40,000 patents in its portfolio. Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures. Some patent owners make a point to research and keep tabs on overseas companies that are expanding their operations internationally. It acquires patents from almost every domain.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Dog Patch Labs – Shared workspace operated by Polaris Ventures. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). Evolv Technologies – Advanced Imaging Technology (backed by General Catalyst and Bill Gates).

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

Six weeks ago, we kicked off a new series where we profile an awesome operator in our network to learn about his/her work and contributions to his/her organization and community at large. This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy. Half our portfolio is consumer. Talking design was Brian Kalma, design chief at Blade, a startup foundry launched by Paul English, former co-founder/CTO of Kayak. Regardless of the reason, we were just plain fed up.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.

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David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

I couldn’t be more excited to share that one of our portfolio companies, Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress), has raised $9.4 I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Every entrepreneur can look on LinkedIN and see that the amazing operating experience you claim to have was acquired in 1 summer internship 2 years ago. Associates can really help portfolio companies. You also are probably not going to be the person that brings on the SVP of sales for a series B company, or their next CTO.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 13, 2011

When I joined my first start-up after graduation, e-commerce leader Open Market , I found the operating philosophy of the founder jarring - he declared no one would have titles in the first few years. At business school, I learned all about titles and hierarchies and the importance of organizational structure.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 4, 2015

Founders who pull this off are able to hire strong functional managers, weave them into an operating team and grow as leaders with the help of these strong managers. product), while letting the #2 run most of the day-to-day operations. product), while letting the #2 run most of the day-to-day operations.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Once you have assembled a core team that is operating the business, you need to move from art to science in terms of granting employee equity. We share it with our portfolio companies but I do not want to post it here because it is very complicated and requires someone to hand hold the users.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” . … You need a pipeline of tested and validated ideas,” Alex said.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

This has prompted some to move their entire operations offshore to try and avoid the prying hands of local government agencies. They can compel you in many other ways to just turn over your access codes, or just get them through social engineering.

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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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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. One of the common requests I get as an adviser is the help interview and vet potential CTO candidates. So what are you to do?

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 18, 2018

This blog post was co-authored with Adrian Colyer, Venture Partner and former CTO of Pivotal Nearly all businesses have process-related workflows that govern how their users interact with their service or automate internal tasks.and they are painful to code and even more painful to test.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Active angels invest in a diversified portfolio of 10 or more companies, usually spreading their investments over a few years. In the end, such a portfolio might yield the angel investor a total return on investment of 25% per year or more. Angels typically invest in companies operating in industry sectors with which they are familiar.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

This reminds me of a conversation I had last month with a founder and former CTO of one our of our prior portfolio companies who said his goal was to have a highly successful SAAS play with 1 operations guy instead of 20. There is a great BusinessWeek article outlining Amazon’s ambition to be a utility for web businesses.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. We receive only equity from our portfolio companies; generally a minority stake as outlined above for three to six months of work for a team of three or more. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

There are a number of companies operating in this space including Scenario, Kaedim , Sloyd , 3dfy.ai Companies operating in the space (not in stealth), include Latitude , Ludo (2D games) and Israeli startup Sefi AI. and Israeli startup Genie Labs. AI concepting is amazing! Exploring character possibilities is awesome.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 23, 2007

Other storage of media: GreenLightJobs - store media / portfolio elements, LoanToolBox - content elements/videos. This would seem to be a good case for us to separate off matching and making that a more scalable operation on EC2. I'm hoping we can have one or two of the users come into our CTO Forum to talk about their experience.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 2, 2006

As we all move forward with our web-based operations, it is clear that scaling the back-end infrastructure still remains a formidable challenge. However, the fast growth of many a web-based operations combined with the need to mine the data leaves a big hole in the revolution of the cheap. as a few examples.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We just held our eighth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly Gordon spent 10 years as chief creative officer at EA and has an active interest in console and MMORPG games (some of which he helped create). Gordon is also operating director of Zynga and director at Amazon, both sFund partners.

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