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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). I was recently on TWiST with Jason Calacanis. He wanted to raise angel money.

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12 Top Picks: Austin Startup Week on Oct 12

Austin Startup

Building Your Business on Open Source Data 10:00 am at Galvanize Featuring Data.world co-founder and CTO Bryon Jacob, this panel will explore the increasingly important role of open source data science in the startup economy. Why do these communities matter? How can you leverage open source data science tools to build your business?

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, House of Mikko. prettylittleceo Scaling Lean Thinking in a Fast-growing Startup Rob Fan. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. mashagenzel How $40 Saved Us Nine Months and $2MM Paul Howe. Founder, BlueSpark.

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Exclusive: Enigmai Helps SMBs Simplify Complex Workforce Scheduling on the Cloud [Interview]

VC Cafe

We got Ophir [CTO Ofir Herzas ], a technical guy and started implementing. Our second acquisition channel is the Internet where we have seen signifcant traction from south America – about 70%. It took us a year to nail the idea. After a few months we had something and it seemed really good. It was fine but not great.

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