YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

I’ve been working with large retailers and fashion brands since 2006, and I recognized almost immediately that this industry would get disrupted sooner than later. I met with the president of the men’s group (a billion-dollar business by itself), the group’s CTO and some of their support team. Small is the new big.

Fractional CTO 147

Fractional CTO CTO Hire China Silicon Valley 147

BeyondVC

APRIL 3, 2006

I just got back from a week in Israel having spent some time in Jerusalem for an Answers board meeting and then making my way to the Ohalo Resort on the Sea of Galilee for Kinnernet 2006. Google’s expertise seems to be buying engineers, many times before a product is even launched.

Technical Cofounder 60

Technical Cofounder CTO Hire Fractional CTO 60

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

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.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

Technical Cofounder 42

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

When we started at Udemy, in Turkey in 2006 and 2007, there was no funding available. Then eventually, they asked me to come to Silicon Valley and maybe just work in person, and then while I was visiting Silicon Valley, I realized that there was this complete new world of technology companies. EB : I think we have done 1.3

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In 2006, Kapor founded Foxmarks, a popular Firefox Firefox add-on later renamed Xmarks Xmarks. Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles. Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80