Remove Founder Remove Fractional CTO Remove Incubator Remove Operations
article thumbnail

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. 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.

article thumbnail

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute. Details coming soon!) It sounds interesting. How did it help you?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. No revenues, no costs.

New York 116
article thumbnail

Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. What are the terms of their relationship with the founder? mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs. accelerators, e.g., Dreamit, ER Accelerator, Techstars, Y Combinator. The discounts?

article thumbnail

30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager.

article thumbnail

Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

article thumbnail

Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. Gordon spent 10 years as chief creative officer at EA and has an active interest in console and MMORPG games (some of which he helped create).