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Accelerator Spotlight: Caesar Sustainability

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One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. My favorite part is how many different hats I wear. I’ve learned and grown more as a leader than I ever could have imagined.

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A Startup CTO’s Take on Early Technology Choices & Tradeoffs

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Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make.

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Hologram: Everyday IoT Reaches Scale

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Near-term product development and commercial traction are still important goals, but being profligate with capital or time early on or being inconsistent about your vision & strategy makes it harder to be a meaningful force in a market in the years to come as that market grows and matures.

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Hologram: Everyday IoT Reaches Scale

View from Seed

Near-term product development and commercial traction are still important goals, but being profligate with capital or time early on or being inconsistent about your vision & strategy makes it harder to be a meaningful force in a market in the years to come as that market grows and matures.

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Hologram: Everyday IoT Reaches Scale

View from Seed

Near-term product development and commercial traction are still important goals, but being profligate with capital or time early on or being inconsistent about your vision & strategy makes it harder to be a meaningful force in a market in the years to come as that market grows and matures.

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

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” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Mapping the Retail Apocalypse “The first thing that might be striking to some is what types of retailers actually have the most sales.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

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Sales and marketing has been 30%+ basically forever, though undoubtedly Airbnb has enough brand recognition and loyal customers that if you turned off marketing spend then revenue would drop but not to zero. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away.