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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(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. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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Israeli Startup Wanova Raises $10 million in Series B

VC Cafe

Wanova was founded by Dr Issy Ben-Shaul (CTO) and Ilan Kessler. is based in San Jose, CA and has offices in Netanya, Israel. Together with Israeli startup Gizmox (renamed Visual Web GUi), Wanova is considered a ‘hot’ cloud company coming out of Israel.

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Immigration Reform: Now or Never?

Professor VC

I fell in to all three camps representing San Jose State University, Startups (through my CFO/board roles) and Investors (with my angel investor hat on). A few takeaways from the trip: Go Big or Go Home (similar to the venture capital model). Baby steps aren't going to happen.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

I think the real moral of this story is, (1) if you want to work at a startup, make sure the CTO cares about problem solving and not technology religion, (2) if you’re cooking steaks on a gas grill and you see your CTO warming up a dead squirrel over a book of matches, starting looking for a new job.

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