SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Progressive. Image source ).

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. We all know the famous story of Apple, which at one point kicked out its co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. But I digress?—?this

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

Luck plays a big role in entrepreneurship and we were at the right place at the right time with our pioneering business model. And then eventually, as we built the business retail customer win by retail customer win, we became known for the company we kept. The iPhone wasn’t out yet (that was 2007). Then SaaS?—?Software

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

Writing up a contract is especially important if you’re working with co-founders. See Also: Creating a Business Partnership Agreement. But when I was working as a reporter in 2007, I covered the purchase of a local ski resort in Montana by business mogul Bill Foley. Why did they abandon them?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

And no amount of business success is enough if you don’t have time with your family. Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Ryan Smith , co-founder of Qualtrics insight platform. Lane Merrifield. Clips from their interviews are below.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

by Charles Cridland, Co-Founder and Technical Director of YourParkingSpace. One of our customer service executives recently discovered a space owner who’s been using the platform since 2007. Demonstrate how you add value to similar businesses, then pitch again with solid proof – maybe to the company director instead!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

And no amount of business success is enough if you don’t have time with your family. Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Ryan Smith , co-founder of Qualtrics insight platform. Lane Merrifield. Clips from their interviews are below.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The CEOs on the panel were (from left to right): Michael Simon, CEO/founder of LogMeIn (2009 IPO) . Gail Goodman, CEO Constant Contact (2007 IPO). Niraj Shah, CEO/cofounder of Wayfair ($500m revenue). Colin Angle, CEO/cofounder of iRobot (2005 IPO). Paul English, CTO/cofounder of Kayak ($200m revenue, S-1 filed).

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. View More in Detroit ›. New York ›.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Main July 11, 2007 The Different CTO Roles I was putting together a short panel presentation on the roleof a Chief Technology Officer in corporate innovation and I once again realized that there is quite a bit of confusion around the role of the CTO. In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. I’ve already started the business modeling. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Co-Founders Michael Clark (ex-Photobucket), Geoffrey Arone (ex-DanceJam).

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 22, 2012

The new gTLDs, also known as strings, are part of a program conceptualized by ICANN in 2007 to supplement the existing 22 top-level domains. The startup has raised $100 million in venture capital money, according to EVP and co-founder Jon Nevett. Of those, just under half (151) appear to be uncontested by other applicants.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. 4 Comments.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 3, 2010

Challenge Games’ Co-Founder CEO, Andrew Busey, will become Zynga’s general manager and vice president of the Austin studio. Challenge Games, backed by Sequoia Capital and Globespan Capital Partners, launched in 2007 to focus on immersive Web game development built on a virtual goods business model.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

The latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere shared what they learned from having their ideas rejected and how those lessons propelled their businesses forward. It follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 5, 2010

Sears Family Essentials - a children's natural foods company inspired and branded by the author of one of the best-selling child-rearing books of all time ( The Baby Book ) - is a classic "doing good while doing well" business model and opportunity.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

While our investment focus covers all of Europe, we consider France to be a very important market for our business and we are actively seeking new investment opportunities. France is indeed a country with a proven track record of developing innovative business models.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 18, 2013

Or it’s the way to join another startup as a co-founder. At the beginning of this year I found myself in an interesting situation: I was CEO of WooThemes (which I had co-founded way back in 2007) and everything was going incredibly well. Nobody pays that much attention to traditional resumes anymore. Stepping Stones.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. In December 2007, HubSpot went all-in with inbound marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. That is the essence of proving the business in micro-scale.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Sears Family Essentials - a children's natural foods company inspired and branded by the author of one of the best-selling child-rearing books of all time ( The Baby Book ) - is a classic "doing good while doing well" business model and opportunity. Because he has done it before.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Bra guy” is a relatively new gig for Ohly, dating back to about 2004, when his MBA classmate and now Zyrra co-founder Christi Andersen mentioned that there was a pervasive problem with bra fit. So Ohly, who says he was overwhelmed by the number of women sharing Andersen’s gripes, set out in the bra business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. For the first 25 years HP’s business model was static. At HP the founders were still at the company and still running the business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

He is, like all of us, an online speaker, coach, consultant, podcaster; but he’s also the founder of WP Elevation , which is the world’s largest business community for WordPress consultants. Welcome to another episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Troy Dean.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

My goal is to some day get an honorary degree for kicking ass in business. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Dan, how did you meet your co-founders at each of your startups?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

No business model, either. In fact, I remember sending him and his obscure-to-me co-founder (aka Reid Hoffman ) a bug report early-on, instead of taking them up on their offer of an in-person meeting. Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

In all cases, these names were derived by the Founders, without the involvement of consultants, MBAs, focus groups, statistically valid surveys or other detriments to a startup’s ability to make quick, sound decisions. Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.”.When

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) Google started and is still headquartered in Mountain View, but they opened an office in SF at the end of 2007.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991. P&G ACQUIRES ISRAELI MEDICAL DEVICE CO CONTIPI. 3M TO PAY $230 MILLION FOR ISRAELI TECHNOLOGY FIRM ATTENTI. Diversified U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

. - No big shocker since it is co-founded by Biz Stone and Adam Ruegel. Investors are the “who’s who” including: Steve Case, Ron Conway, Jack Dorsey, Dave Morin, Betaworks, Founder Collective, AOL Ventures. - $1 million seed round. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. TechCrunch article.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

The first one in 2007 was Cornerstone OnDemand, the second one was Peopledoc in 2014 and the third one is Gloat in 2021. It was about this time I met my co-founder, Amichai, at IBM. So many companies have had to adapt their business models during and post-COVID. And that made the decision for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

You’ll see here that in 2007 people were willing to pay 7.7x forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x. Many founders don’t understand why inside rounds are so difficult. Because we know in tough times we have to count on our co-investors to be good actors.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? As an aside, I personally question that view.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies. So I turned the business model upside down. We co-founded the Jamberly Group, which markets the ciao! 26) The Great Recession.

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