VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. Is there an early mover advantage for being early on a technology trend? No company has more riding on the Metaverse than Meta.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” We have an acquisition arm and Congress is probably going to give us acquisition authority this year. However, using AI for new warfighting capability that’s much, much more complicated.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. About a year ago I had lunch with a guy who I believe is an amazing entrepreneur. What about VC’s and Risk? I finally called bullshit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

This all got me thinking about a post on how to best work with lawyers. When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I’ve been reading a lot on the web about incorporation and other legal stuff. We know that once we get money in we can clean things up, but we’re worried about mistakes that just can’t be fixed. (And And please don’t tell us to hire a lawyer.) IP Ownership. Any IP created or acquired by a founder (e.g.,

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 18, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO Before Founding Konamoxt, my last gig was the Chief Technology Officer for a local Seattle Startup. Mr. Startup CEO, I’m here to tell you, you can’t afford to hire a CTO. Can you help us make sure this candidate would make a good CTO?&#

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

So we think about scaling a lot. – Hire more non-Partner staff. – Hire more Partners. For a VC fund to be actively engaged in a large number of investments, it needs to hire more Partners to sit on more boards. I suggest there are a number of ways to scale a VC fund. TINY); and Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match. the company raised a strong $3.3M

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

When I joined, it was just 4 of us hacking away on crude systems with almost no budget. We would engage in some rigorous intellectual debates about the pros and cons of pretty much everything in the marketplace - many features or policies would benefit one side of the marketplace while potentially harming the other side.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 24, 2011

That’s what most people say about NetFlix and Zappos. The IP attorneys would say that we’re bleeding assets, but what we’re actually doing is earning the respect, attention, and sometimes even love from the entire WordPress community. “I can’t believe they can afford do it!&# We’ll see.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. I have written about the next phases many times. This is all about “leverage” which is the key to success. But alas I must scale with businesses and make money.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2022

[4:27] The big premise of using the weed metaphor is really to tap into what you’re calling a weed mindset — can you unpack that idea for us? [5:32] 7:39] Can you break down the weed model for us? [14:17] 19:27] Where can people buy your book and learn more about your work? what must this guy be talking about?

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Indeed, if you want to find out whether anyone really cares about your content, just put up a paywall. Google’s guidelines have changed over time, but they’re built around the needs of news publishers and hold fast to a central tenet: Google cares more about providing the best information than whether that information is behind a paywall.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The easiest way to hide your IP address and encrypt online traffic so that hackers and other cybercriminals cannot gain access to your personal information is by using a VPN or Virtual Private Network. Cybersecurity Tip #3: Be Selective about Sites Where You Post Your Resume. Conclusion.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

“Worst case scenario we’ll sell to a larger startup or public company for about ~$1.5m 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. per engineer.” Very different.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

[03:25] How do we recognize what things we should decide about? [04:27] 12:58] You mentioned eight principles, give us a flavor for what they are, and most importantly, how we apply them. [17:07] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! 04:27] How much is hindsight a role in analyzing? [05:39] Like this show?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 13, 2023

We’re about to find out… WSJ’s Berber Jin asked me for some comments around startups closing their doors, as part of a trend story trying to assess the health of the market. Yes, it’s the ghosts of Startups Past, Startups Present and Startups Future, all visiting us during a tortured night’s sleep.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

16:33] Can you talk about the concept of an ‘offer’ and why you introduced it as a topic in your book early on? [19:28] 19:28] Relationship building or connecting has always been a deep part of your DNA – can you talk about how that element shows up in your book? [23:10] More About Pamela Slim: Pre-order Pam’s Book.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Good interview with @mike_samson about biz w/ friends – [link]. Love this post and agree 100% about need to promote intense debate among teams - [link]. – [link].

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Has there ever been a moment in time when so many new technologies are washing over us all at once? Thinking about 2018, here are… Four Ways to Amplify Digital Innovation in 2018: Get internal alignment. You need to learn more about digital technology. Why is this challenge so different from previous innovation challenges?

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

During the two days of the show, one of their programmers sat in on my speech about building better customer service automation; I had an hour-long chat with the CEO and another of the founders; and their PR manager stopped by our booth for a 15-minute briefing about what we do. They are actively hiring Perl programmers. . *

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Thinking about selling a business? IP & Technology. It’s important that you know the value of your IP and position yourself for a good startup exit. It’s also often about the math of recreating solutions versus just buying them. It’s also often about the math of recreating solutions versus just buying them.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I've been thinking a lot about what an innovation-friendly school looks like and have a few thoughts--and it doesn't just mean building labs or creating more flexible IP licensing schemes. Does the school really want active investors leaving so soon, or would they rather us be visible in the hallways and lounges.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

As millions of people worldwide already lost their jobs amid COVID-19 outbreak, local labor agencies across the globe are looking much closer at overseas remote work arrangements asking companies ‘’ Why don’t you hire locally? There are similarities between IR35 in the UK and AB5 in California , US. Slave Labor.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

I’m looking for suggestions on how to scale this using people in europe without adding too many “middle men” 1. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. You are right about the need for TRUST. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only! Ron, Thanks for the info.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

That thesis to us, doesn't feel controversial. Seven years later, they've trained about 5,000 students and created over 1,000 new technology jobs in Fresno. They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. It feels really, really obvious."

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

When communicating with the executive team, think about financial goals. For example, marketing will help us create sales content, and our sales team refines those content assets over time and shares the results. This ongoing communication about what’s working and what is not working is vital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

Though you could hire someone full time to sift through and analyze the pros and cons of each tool, it’s easier to learn from the experience of others and make a decision based on that. There are a lot of available configuration options, for example you can add multiple filters such as user IP address, localisation or cookie values.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

What is wonderful about this interview is that I got Tom on the record on: what angels look for and how they work? When I meet with Tom offline it’s obvious that he immediately is thinking about product issues, technology trends, funding rounds, etc. lessons learned from his days as an entrepreneur. Topics of the day.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It has funding, change in fees to make them more rational, movement to make US into compliance with global patent standards (get rid of best mode , and move to ‘first to file’). we’re totally funded by User Fee), but could create lots more jobs if we processed more apps that people send us. How do you feel about that?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Early in a services business there is usually no profits as the company reinvests in hiring people to grow, but by $20 million in sales the company should at least be pulling in 10% profits (if not more) depending on how much is reinvested. You own the IP you create. There are a couple of ways to think about this growth.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Hiring is a chapter unto itself, but it deserves to lead off any discussion of context. Compensation decisions obviously affect hiring and retention. You can’t be too careful in determining comp packages for your new hires. How about your Investors ? Let’s look at some specifics: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

I often speak about co-founder fighting and how this ends in lawsuits but this has become much more prevalent. He regretted the decision and sued the company and the board – it’s still not totally clear to me what he was suing about. I funded a US company that bought a URL and a brand name and filed for a trademark.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

What about appealing to a certain lifestyle category? Do your homework about what to expect relative to peers in your category. Something else to think about: are your products reusable or recyclable after being returned? Many DTC brands eventually hire someone to specifically focus on reducing the impact of credit card errors.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In the design of social apps, we’ll sometimes talk about how there’s a Friend Graph and an Interest Graph, and they don’t always mix. There is a good (though far from great) story to be told about the global fight against white collar crime, money laundering, and other financial bad behavior.

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