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Accelerating Aurora, Driving the Future

Reid Hoffman

Meanwhile, market pioneers in blitzscale-up mode are exactly the kind of company Reinvent aims to serve with its “venture capital at scale” strategy. Chris Urmson, Aurora’s CEO, had co-founded and led Google’s self-driving program, now known as Waymo. Uber is the world’s largest ride-hailing network.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. third party to vet or manage&# your development team.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Leveraging the power of your customers’social networks to get viral growth where possible. So far we have been very effective using blogs, social networks, etc. We don't have a great product yet.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. The common approach is to incubate the business locally in Israel with a small development team, prove early product/market fit, and then build a sales and marketing organization abroad, usually in the U.S.

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

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They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. The list goes on and on.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

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NETWORK EQUIPMENT MAKER JUNIPER BUYS ISRAELI VIRTUALIZATION SECURITY FIRM ALTOR FOR $95 MLN. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 At Microsoft, Joel was responsible for defining the specification for a programming language for Microsoft Excel. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office.