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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To Hire a CTO

konamoxt.com

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. Startup CEO, I’m here to tell you, you can’t afford to hire a CTO. And maybe more importantly what do you think you get when you hire a CTO?

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? or Seattle. Most NDAs I have seen are very one-sided and have unreasonable time limits, which in the tech sector are sometimes moot. or Portland.

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A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene

This is going to be BIG.

A month later they hired their first worker, and. jobs at their headquarters in Seattle. ". Nor will this addition create lots of new Amazon jobs in Seattle either. The first company started when a couple of PhD students at Stanford had an idea for a new. internet technology. Soon they had a patent, and a $100,000 grant.

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Channel your Inner VC to Understand Startup Valuations

www.currentlyobsessed.com

He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. Future value is key.