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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

Your product demo crushed. After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with. She was one of the lead engineers at Uber. You had an amazing meeting with an investor. The dialog was great. They told you how much they loved your space.

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Replay launches out of beta – record and replay web applications to fix bugs faster!

Version One Ventures

Today we’re excited to share the official launch of Replay , a browser that records all of the context that developers and engineers need to fix bugs faster. Knowing this problem firsthand (even if not in my day-to-day work), I immediately fell in love with Replay’s time-travel debugger demo when I first met the team in July 2020.

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What’s Plan B? – The Small, the Agile, and the Many

Steve Blank

But the portfolio of options available to Admiral Nimitz and President Roosevelt were not limited to battleships. As the chief engineer of the Navy, he was the master of engineering the large and the complex. The Navy has world-class engineering and acquisition processes to deal with hardware. woke up on Dec.

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Invite to PEVCTECH April 29 Event: Best Practices in PortCo Acceleration Drinks & Demo

David Teten

Professionalizing best practices in portco growth across your portfolio. Nick Leopard, CEO; Michael Frey, Head of Engineering; and Amy Newlan, Head of Client Development will be leading the discussion and demo. When: April 29, 2019; 5pm mingling, 6pm demo & discussion, 6:45pm informal conversation.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). The Grand-daddy.

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My Criteria for Investing in Startups

Diego Basch

I don’t plan to allocate more than 5% of my portfolio to startups. One of my portfolio companies is about eight blocks from where I live, and another one is fifteen minutes away by Muni. I’ve been around Silicon Valley for a while so I’m connected to many engineers and investors whom I deeply respect.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. That is a personality type.