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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

Both Sides of the Table

He or she has worked at some very successful big technology or media companies and went to a great school. There are many companies with phenomenal IP that is truly differentiated but where the original executive team squandered their opportunity due to inability to sell, market or service customers. He still has the dream.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

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They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. The founders could reinvest this in growth (0% tax, focus on future equity growth) or take the profits of $12 million and divide amongst the founding partners.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Many such ‘congratulations’ will come from consultants. link] Luis Rivera.

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Ubiquitous Computing and the Misguided Frenzy About “Mobile”

Agile VC

About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile” Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with trepidation as often as excitement.

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