Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 29, 2010
The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). In the era of social networking if you can’t figure out how to get intro’d to me you probably aren’t cut out to be an entrepreneur. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g.
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Up and Running
DECEMBER 14, 2016
A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. Social networks come and go, but people always have an inbox—and they want to be connected with people who bring them value.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
This lasted from about 2001-2004. This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001. Venture Financings we Discussed.
Austin Startup
APRIL 27, 2019
Cotter bucks the flavor-of-the-day entrepreneurial stereotype: the college dropout popularized by both our own Michael Dell and recently Mark Zuckerberg and the great movie The Social Network. Austin while I was the Entrepreneur-in-Residence there. after accounting for the important lessons learned?—?and and just “keep walking”.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Show and talk at conferences, be on lots of blogs, use social networks and build a brand. Lessons Learned.
rapidrollout.wordpress.com
JANUARY 15, 2011
If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! If you are a technology consultant and your name should be on this list, add a comment to this blog entry or contact me directly.
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