Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. Deviant Art, led by Angelo Sotira, which is one of the largest online communities on the Internet [Hollywood]. North of the 101].

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. You need to know all the people I’ve hired or the people I’m about to hire, whether up and down the stack, people in the engineering team, people on the C-suite management team, and what we expect from them. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns.

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www.ashmaurya.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Running through the complete process in the early stages makes you much more efficient in later stages as you get a feel for the industry and have warm introductions. This is the mold for Internet marketing with the education pitch. Best practices are a good play for an industry like engineering consultants.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Has anyone in the engineering team actually shipped a product? I worry about everything: money, sales, engineering, support, and recruiting. However, it’s hard to explain the concept of a service on the internet to someone who has never used a computer, like my grandmother. You may think I’m kidding.

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

We have a mayor that tweets regularly, just joined Tumblr, and has spearheaded the formation of a new engineering campus in NYC to address the need for more technical talent to support this increased entrepreneurial activity. I helped launch NYCSeed in 2008 in response to the lack of seed funding available in NYC.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. 11) Exit .

Technical Review 78

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CEO brought in from a large company came with all the big company accoutrements – org charts, HR departments with formal processes and procedure handbooks, formal waterfall engineering methodology, sales compensation plans, etc. And in later stage rounds an explosion of corporate VCs and hedge funds now want in to the next unicorns.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2009

However, this financial bar has had the effect of excluding one segment of potential customers that Id really like to see there - early stage entrepreneurs who have all the intelligence and vision of their later stage counterparts, but simply cannot afford the cash flow to attend. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. I don’t know any developers.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

Once upon a time I was a mechanical engineer, MIT student, and basically went into consulting for about four years at a company called Arthur D. It’s a management and engineering consulting company in Boston. ” So it was a really great problem solving sort of thing back in my mechanical engineering roots.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

In order to prevent people from bunching up in the later stages of the work pipeline, those leaders need to be focused on automation and continuous improvement. Between cycles, put some pressure on those later teams to do more with fewer people. Make sure you keep track of whether thats happening.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2014

That''s why I''ll probably hang around the Canary board a little longer than I would otherwise--to learn from future later stage investors as the fast growing company, now around 20 people, grows over the next few years into a powerhouse. Our engineers are better coders. Our designer is a better designer. Painful, but true.

Startup 147

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. Alexander Jarvis , startup mentor, said, “Even at a later stage, it’s better to be talked about something than nothing at all.

Technical Review 78

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

[link] Matt Merriam It’s been clear for sometime that the venture model, particularly early stage venture, is not the best approach for funding tech startups, but the hangover from the Internet days still lingers. Google couldn’t become #1 search engine without VC money. Facebook is another example.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising. New Internet Explorer ad shows Microsoft as comeback kid. The stakes for everyone are lower.

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