www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? 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. Raising Venture Capital. Angel Topics. Entrepreneur DNA. Sales & Marketing. Negotiations.

Fractional VPE 89

Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Fractional CTO CTO Hire 89

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

A talented group of specialists including engineers, designers, financial analysts, and lawyers are assigned to develop various facets of the company’s framework. Startup Labs get involved in the life of the company and become its business partner from all angles, which increases its likelihood of succeeding.

Seed Stage 100

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Incubator Asia 100

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

Lean 315

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 315

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

Technical Review 257

Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 257

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

Technical Review 233

Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 233

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. 1) Twitter.

Cost 168

Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Anyone who has ever been an expatriate founder will attest to the importance of this as foreign shareholding limits often force founders into taking on the wrong local partner. This include incubators, accelerators, and global startup communities which regularly hold meetups and other events in the country.

UAE 100

UAE Silicon Valley Startup Incubator 100

Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 164

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. Sam Gichuru CEO at nailab.

Kenya 45

Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. The same applies to Malaysia, where our partner, the MAD Incubator, is in search of 10 good deals to put through the 1M/1M program. Incubator photo from Geograph. Discuss.

Incubator 128

Incubator Silicon Valley Malaysia Entrepreneur 128

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

Companies pursuing innovation can Buy, Build, Partner or use Open Innovation. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Here the company is essentially incubating a startup. Fast forward to today.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

We were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach engineering students a completely new approach to start companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. to get hard-earned information.

Lean 298

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Partner with beneficiary company.

Technical Review 149

Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 149

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

David Cohen

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Everyone who knows Katie Rae at Techstars is thrilled that she’s taken a lead role with The Engine at MIT, a new venture fund and incubator space there. We became a Limited Partner in Project 11 when it launched and Katie continues to mentor at Techstars regularly. Congratulations on the next chapter, Katie!

Engineer 51

Engineer Boston Incubator Limited Partner 51

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” At Stanford, Tom Byers , who runs the innovation and entrepreneurship program inside the engineering school, has made that a big deal and it’s now part of the curriculum. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

Incubator 331

Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

During today's roundtable, we worked with two entrepreneurs and also had a segment on our yearlong engagement with incubators around the world. The 1M/1M team has invested significant resources to engage with and understand the challenges of the Incubator industry around the globe. At today's session, we discussed some of them.

Incubator 114

Incubator San Jose Silicon Valley India 114

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units.

Incubator 310

Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 310

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. You can ask them to come along with you to the first meetings till you get the hang of it. How much to raise?

Elevator Pitch 102

Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. partners to help bring his product to market. Discuss.

Spain 115

Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. This is a topic we care a lot about, given HOF Capital’s long-term strategy for partnering with universities and my forthcoming book on “ hacking the university ”. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

Affiliate 60

Affiliate Connecticut Programming Community 60

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia.

Malaysia 114

Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I recently wrote a blog post that I believe is worth pointing out in the context of the strategy roundtables: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? I'd like to hear from venture capitalists, angel investors, incubators, and accelerators on this topic. His firm invests in four. CricketWeekly.

Incubator 116

Incubator Silicon Valley Idaho Entrepreneur 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Cristina currently has a couple of large customers in pilot mode, and is starting to show metrics on how much improvement IDES can deliver over existing analytics engines. The key take away from that discussion is: convert potential competitors to partners. It works well with other fraud detection systems like FICA.

Partner 117

Partner Belgium Portugal Bootstrapping 117

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. 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.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2015

Why this incubator takes the studio approach to startup creation for.tn/1D0Wh6C. The Top 8 Mistakes I Made In My First 18 Months As a VC Partner - buff.ly/1Cix1O7. Tips For Finding Success As A Female Engineer – buff.ly/1gk9SkA. Do The Simple Thing First: The Engineering Behind Instagram crowdspring.co/1LyGPWy.

Small Business 48

Small Business Design Social Media Startup 48

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Today, instead of going niche and focused, he and his partners are going broader, even, and planning to burn even more money. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Discuss.

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We needed lab space and access to scientists and engineers, which we found elsewhere. What has proved useful is our continued relationship with Plug and Play and its facilitation of meetings with large corporate partners and potential customers who frequent the offices. – Brooks Kincaid , Imprint Energy.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Chile Startup Due Diligence 60

Austin Startup

JANUARY 4, 2020

These are achievable dreams, and our goal as a bioscience incubator is to help make those dreams reality through education, mentorship, and access to technology.”?—?Tami We want to inspire children by showing them that biotech careers are thriving right here in their own home town. Tami Annable, THBD Executive Director.

Texas 63

Texas Incubator Early Stage Cofounder 63

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

The NSF I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class has different goals then the same class taught in a university or incubator. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups. In a university, the Lean LaunchPad class teaches a methodology the students can use for the rest of their careers. Here’s what they found.

Lean 248

Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia 248

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business technological vision. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. The goal is for them is to observe this class, then host and teach the next round of 50 NSF Innovation Corps scientist/engineer teams in July. Yet this isn’t an incubator. Here are the first five. And do it in 8 weeks.

Lean 256

Lean Business Model Agile United States 256

Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2017

And according to this Fortune article , Austin’s formula for success is clear: “create an environment with the right pieces, including investors, good business schools, incubators, not too much red tape, and a critical mass of people with a business idea and big aspirations.” Famigo, FAVOR , and WP Engine.

Austin 48

Austin Networking Angel Investor Venture Capital 48

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

External Facing Technologist –We see this model often in companies where technology is used to provideproducts and services to customers and partners; the CTO is the intermediarybetween clients and internal development and the main influencer in thedevelopment of the product portfolio. Below are some sources.

CTO 40

CTO CTO Hire Syndicate Syndication 40

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2017

by Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital. West Coast incubators are known for being competitive rather than collaborative. The difficult application processes to be accepted into a prestigious incubator fosters a kind of zero-sum attitude, where one startup’s loss is another’s gain.

Omaha 100

Omaha Nebraska Chicago Incubator 100

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

For this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we partnered with the Indian Angel Network (IAN). She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You can register for the next roundtable here. Photo by barunpatro. Discuss.

Entrepreneur 118

Entrepreneur India Technical Review Los Angeles 118