SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals.

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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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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

If people are funding the business, they should get a premium because at the end of the day, cash funding founders are acting no different than a seed stage investor. So, let’s say that one founder puts in $100,000 in seed capital, that could be worth 20 percent of a seed stage company’s valuation.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Or listen on SoundCloud below: The post Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO appeared first on The View From Seed. You can subscribe here.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The Austin-based company, founded by Russ Buhrdorf, the former founding Chief Technology Officer for HomeAway, has previously raised $4.5 million in seed-stage funding last year. ZenBusiness’ platform makes it easy […].

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

For example: - Having any more “C’s” than the CEO and CTO. Aside from the CEO and CTO, you see almost no other titles, just descriptors of what people actually do. Usually, I’d hope that the head of product is actually the CEO or CTO, at least at the seed stage.

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Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

(revenue / traction / setting up infrastructure / etc) This can set you apart, because the vast majority of businesses I see at the seed stage are just ideas with no action. At the seed stage, there are companies who have been around for 5 months and others for 5 years. 2) Speed matters.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. However, our overall goal is to invest in the full spectrum of seed. Belief #1: The best time to invest is early.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Or you can find seed-stage investors who will give you the money to hire a developer.

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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 There is so much money out there at the seed stage and specializing, focusing, and concentrating paves a path to success.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Author howerl.

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For example, if you are the CTO, know that you are responsible for any questions related to the product and infrastructure. During the pre-seed and seed stages, it is quite common for founders to pitch over 50 potential investors. Don’t stop pitching. Fundraising is a numbers game.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

I spoke about the need of the CEO, CTO and head of Products to be in the same location. Crosscut is a seed-stage fund based in Southern California that has been in some hot local deals like ShoeDazzle (Rick discusses how they get in when it was a super competitive deal – great story), DocStoc, GumGum and others.

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adamac.blogspot.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? Adamac Attack!

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. and Path Intelligence.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

Though he’s been both a CTO and a VP Product and managed large teams before, he built all of Cloze’s initial product himself from the back end through to the presentation layer. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

From there, you will also want to enable me and Tony, once we are so convinced, to easily have a conversation with the our CTO or our Chief Financial Officer when there's opportunity to buy new developer software. They’re the CEO, they’re the CTO, they never are interested in testing out the product as well. That's great.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

You and I were talking about a startup recently and where they might go for seed stage funding, what is your impression on that aspect here in Los Angeles? We occasionally get involved with very early stage startups. I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. Are you doing much of that?

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

We also have data points for VC investments in seed/startup companies (but not necessarily pre-revenue companies). The following chart from Dow Jones VentureSource shows very little variation in pre-money valuation of VC seed stage deals over the past decade. Experience as a COO, CFO, CTO. +. Experience. +. neutral.

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