Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Which engineers dialed it in before a big release because it was during July 4th weekend? ” Who cut you in on their bonus because even though you’re “just an sales engineer” they know you really deserved more credit for this deal. Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations.

CTO Hire 320

CTO Hire Cofounder San Francisco Silicon Valley 320

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2019

Technical support specialists is another name for help desk technicians, operations analysts, or problem managers. Becoming a technical support specialist requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or a similar field. Their career titles are as diverse as the portfolios they create.

Technology 77

Technology Technical Support Web Development Database 77

Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

General Bucky Butow – Director of the Space Portfolio. compete more effectively through new operational concepts, organizations, and/or strategies. Class Organization. For semiconductors, the White House Coordinator for the CHIPS Act – Ronnie Chatterji, and the CTO of Applied Materials – Om Nalamasu.

Technical Review 353

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology China 353

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

The work history, clients, portfolio and reviews are gone, just like that? The easiest way to do this is to open and operate multiple accounts on multiple service providers. Spread risk by operating multiple accounts and keeping your contact book at the ready. Too big to fail. Finding quality help.

Hiring 113

Hiring Software Review Startup API 113

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Running a company is distinctly different from simply having operating experience – (working in bus dev, sales or marketing.) Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). Board skills (Startup coaching, mentoring, strategy, operational/growth). People skills. Fund raising skills.

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Early Stage Technical Review Startup 332

Steve Blank

JANUARY 18, 2022

was fighting Al-Qaeda and ISIS, China built new weapons and developed new operational concepts to negate U.S. What if our assumptions about the survivability of these naval platforms and the ability of our marines to operate, were based on incorrect assumption about our investments in material, operational concepts and mental models?

Agile 369

Agile China Artificial Inteligence Taiwan 369

YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2019

Businesses that don’t evolve to adapt to new operational challenges will be left behind in today’s fast-paced world. With the increasing need to transport goods on a larger scale than ever before, transport and logistics companies require a management system that’s capable of handling such complex business operations.

Operations 140

Operations Government Software Demand 140

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

You may have the engineering and design capabilities required to operate this type of business, and you may have the best PCB layout software at your disposal, but you must be proficient in other skills in order to be successful. Strong marketing and sales skills are also necessary to operate a successful PCB design service.

Design 100

Design Software Review India China 100

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Today we’re excited to share the official launch of Replay , a browser that records all of the context that developers and engineers need to fix bugs faster. The need for Replay is pretty obvious; every developer/engineer spends countless hours debugging their code. But now, when an engineer gets stuck, they can share a replay.

CTO Hire 78

CTO Hire Web Cofounder Software Engineering 78

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

On the infrastructure side, Epic owns ‘Unreal Engine’ the second most popular 3D graphic engine, and creator of MetaHumans, a digital twin rendering software that can be used to create hyper realistic characters to ‘populate’ the Metaverse. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse.

IP 206

IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. . Sophisticated VC and private equity funds have a wide array of options for leveraging outside operating executives.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

The best software engineering companies always prioritize exploring all of the possibilities to find the most accurate solutions as they can. As a result, you will be able to improve your business operational efficiency by delivering the proper apps to your end-customers in your company. The case studies and references.

Artificial Inteligence 91

Artificial Inteligence Software Engineering Analytics Engineer 91

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

The engineers can produce various models in a matter of seconds. Simply research the company with its portfolio. One last thing to consider is the operating system. Operations. Simply because the consumers love it. Suppose you want to design a room. Google is about to introduce a new AR feature for Google Maps.

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Developer Development Team Review United Kingdom 150

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Replay , a browser that records all of the context that deve lopers and engineers need to fix bugs faster, launched out of beta and announced a $5.6M Coatue Management led the round with participation from existing investors (Andreessen Horowitz, GV and us!) and new investors too. TechCrunch covered this lates t funding news. .

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Canada API Valuation 60

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days. And search engines like sourcing.io help you build a specific list based on skills you’re seeking.

Technical Review 117

Technical Review CTO Hire Finance Stealth 117

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

Many of our clients have expressed an interest in using video as part of their online marketing efforts, and we have seen firsthand the impact of videos on search engine results. You can help your clients create cover letters and portfolios they’ll be confident to share. Thanks to Gary Gray, CouponChief ! #28-

Software Review 114

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 114

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

At Wildcat, we’ve organized these steps into the Traction Gap Framework – a centralized strategy that codifies key lessons learned by me and my founding General Partners over the course of our decades-long operating and venture investing experience. Market-Engineering. So, what is ”market-engineering”? Selling to Investors. .

Cleveland 217

Cleveland Early Stage Framework Startup 217

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Every time a marketing team works with a web design firm, there is the usual painful and broken handoff between the outside agency and the technical operations of the client which culminate on launch day. Our portfolio company Pantheon is fixing this.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Portfolio Web Design 70

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Last week I was having coffee with an ex engineering student of mine now on his second startup (and for a change it wasn’t a Web 2.0 Stay Tuned.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

portfolios. Don’t know the running rate for engineers? I won’t need to hire many engineers or customer support staff. 66% Net Operating Margins? Unfortunately this was reinforced by the many conferences that rushed to espouse the benefits of Web 2.0 Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

Business Plan 334

Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2014

If a software engineer, we will call him “Neo”, is needed on a project, then IT is asked if Neo can be assigned to the project. The company decided there was enough work to justify hiring Neo, our software engineer. Money is not needed to save the world. Only in fiction can this be true; in the real world, not so much.

Management 150

Management Software Engineering Green Engineer 150

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 9, 2013

He defines values as “the guiding principles or code-of-conduct” that inform a company’s daily operations, whereas vibe is “the emotional side of the company … highly influenced by outside factors.” Gnip recently told NCWIT that they added three women to its engineering team.

Part-Time VPE 153

Part-Time VPE Hiring Engineer Portfolio 153

View from Seed

JULY 14, 2020

Today, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Opus , announced its rebrand as well as their $2M seed round. A certified ESL instructor who has been on the frontline herself in numerous kitchen and operational roles, she knows both training delivery and her audience intimately well.

Portfolio 177

Portfolio Leadership Metrics Employee 177

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

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. And if they’re smart they’ll teach Horizon 1 teams to operate with mission and intent , not just process and procedure.). Fast forward to today.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

per engineer.” Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. If over the course of the next year you see any Homebrew portfolio company try this out, I’ll let you know! Very different.

Early Stage 117

Early Stage Cap Table Acquisition Sales 117

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Mattermark (a portfolio company) looked at the matriculation rates for a class of startups. Likewise, early-stage investors may not appreciate just how much follow-on support their portfolio companies will need. So, how have Version One portfolio companies done in this environment? 2016 for Version One companies.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio Valuation 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

If you have a very low gross margin (10-30%) it can be very hard to build a large, scalable business because you need to make a lot of sales to cover your operating costs. In startup world low GM almost always equals death which is why many Internet retailers have failed or are failing (many operated at 35% gross margins).

Burn Rate 383

Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. The initial Apple/AT&T deal was of course limited to the geography in which AT&T operated and thus after its initial success Apple had a template for exclusivity agreements in other countries.

PR 150

PR Early Stage Software Naming 150

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

Elon Musk , for example, admits to reading up to two books per day in various disciplines, including physics, engineering, product design, business, technology, and energy, to give him insights on new solutions and new opportunities, despite his large portfolio already. Build a prototype and experiment with real customers.

Artificial Inteligence 336

Artificial Inteligence Startup Cofounder Framework 336

Transformify

MAY 15, 2023

According to the 2022 State of Software Engineers survey, having opportunities for professional development and career growth is one of the elements of their ideal company. This would include their familiarity or mastery of various programming skills that are being utilized in your operations.

Software Developers 52

Software Developers Software Development Software Developer 52

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As more investors have more touch points with a “Softbank round” in their portfolio, a picture emerges — rounds here often take a long time to close. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

There are literally hundreds of platforms currently operating that connect investors and startups, and there have been at least a hundred others that have come and gone. ” With that in mind… No: It’s a similar situation in the entrepreneurial funding space.

Belarus 107

Belarus Kazakhstan Portugal Accredited Investor 107

Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Under Nadella, Microsoft has already open-sourced PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, and MSFT Edge JavaScript engine, among others.]. Under Nadella, Microsoft has already open-sourced PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, and MSFT Edge JavaScript engine, among others.].

Acquisition 71

Acquisition Azure Open Source Seattle 71

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Dog Patch Labs – Shared workspace operated by Polaris Ventures. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Coworking Spaces and Accelerators. Places to Hang.

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71