David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we never lost the finance bug. We were infatuated with tech. Factom, Inc.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. What I mean by that is startups nowadays that raise money have absolutely ludicrous metrics. Edwin: I know.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

It is a pretty narrow filter of the 750+ companies that completed the 2010 CompStudy survey, but there are 55 rounds of financing to look at…enough to be a meaningful dataset I think. link] Matt Mireles As a first time non-technical CEO who started off solo, having 2 technical co-founders is awesome.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate. There will be one to three issues that are potentially problematic for your financing — address them head on. What will their concerns be?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. I took a few of the relevant metrics – unique visitors, revenue and market capitalization – and calculated a few ratios to demonstrate how good a job TripAdvisors does at monetizing their users.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development.

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