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APRIL 20, 2010
This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. I hope many will read this and have an answer for the question, “what’s the different between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?&#. What makes a great tech team?
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APRIL 28, 2010
It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Wildfire Interactive.
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JULY 1, 2010
Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Spread through word-of-mouth as the company has no sales team, all engineers. Current round: $4. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Total raised: $6.0mm. See: TechCrunch. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad.
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AUGUST 29, 2012
We sat down for an hour to talk about why what GaiKai built was able to overcome its much better funded rival and to dispel the myth that great engineering teams don’t exist in Southern California. GaiKai had 50 such engineers, which was a large part of its success. Everyone follow him @scottedwalker.
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
” And then there are incubators and accelerators. Offense is spending enough time with product and engineering teams at prominent startups and building relationships with the teams that may leave in the next 2 years to launch their own startups. The temptation in our business can be to “take meetings.”
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. It pays for all of our great engineers. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software. It’s either part of the DNA or it’s not.
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JULY 10, 2012
And sound engineers. So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators. In NY you find the broader Flatiron / Union Square are home to USV (obviously), IA Ventures, First Round Capital, FF Ventures and the incubators General Assembly and TechStars.
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