SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Advisory Board. Kanye West. Carpe Diem. It’s great advice.

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Board Effect

MARCH 28, 2024

Administrators can keep track of versions and changes while board members are able to see the latest version without having to look through many emails or documents. Keeping the conversation in one place. Additionally, a secure board management tool also helps guard against the cyberthreats increasingly affecting nonprofits.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For startup founders, it’s never too early to start thinking about putting together a target market advisory board. The target market advisory board should consist of 2–4 industry veterans who have connections to C-level execs and VPs in your target market. Never discount the power of a warm intro.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. I recommend you first devote resources to building your own network, not hiring someone else’s network, which inevitably will have a much lower conversion rate than your own network. Lastly, gather feedback.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs. Ed Sim, Boldstart Ventures.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

But it was very difficult to find engaged studio owners that wanted to change how they were operating their businesses to adopt a technology-based model, and find musicians that had enough money to book consistent sessions through the platform. There was a lot of interest. We found the need, but no payers.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. 1 year later we sat down and had an honest conversation with ourselves and realized that our One Thing, the thing we were most passionate about, that we could realistically be the best in the world at, and that was a huge untapped market opportunity was: Design.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2021

As the details of these tragedies unfolded, the incidents opened up a national conversation about the need to take a serious look at the issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion within every organization and walk of life. It’s not uncommon for nonprofits to recruit experienced and qualified businesspeople to serve on their boards.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

Today, Aurora and Reinvent Technology Partners Y announced their agreement to merge. In my own view, this is awesome news — because I’ve been an investor in Aurora since February 2018 when I co-led its Series A round for Greylock and joined Aurora’s board. This deal has been an unusual experience for me. The Road to AV.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. As a result, unfounded hockey-stick graphs and unicorn promises give way to financial fluency, realistic expectations, frank conversations about what a business can credibly achieve, and transparency. . Technology-centric businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2019

I saw this challenge outlined well in a new book, “ Learning to Lead ,” by Ron Williams, former CEO of Aetna and self-made business leader, who rose from the poor side of the tracks in south Chicago to lead several large businesses, and ultimately serve on the President’s Management Advisory Board for several years.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

UbiQD enabled this innovation with safer, cheaper, and more reliable quantum dot technology that it’s licensing from M.I.T., Our solar window technology sounds and looks like a completely different concept, but in fact is well aligned with our greenhouse products. It works on cannabis too! How do you choose which to focus on?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

But it was very difficult to find engaged studio owners that wanted to change how they were operating their businesses to adopt a technology-based model, and find musicians that had enough money to book consistent sessions through the platform. There was a lot of interest. We found the need, but no payers.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Here the rigor in qualifying the GLG Share members helps, because we want the conversation to be valuable on both sides. In some cases, that relationship grows into something more than conversation – like joining an advisory board, investing, partnering, or even joining the team. We kind of bring it all together.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

I believe the single best report released from Bazaarvoice to describe this network effect with hard data is The Conversation Index, Vol. for example, check out The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids” , and I suggest hiring some great evangelists as full-time and part-time employees and also as Advisory Board members?—?check

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2018

We are significant LPs in the fund and my partner Lindel is joining the PSL advisory board. In addition to being LPs in PSL Ventures , we are major investors in PSL Studio and I’m on the board. Amy and I have a periodic conversation around what happens if one of us died unexpectedly. Amy’s is Paris; mine is Seattle.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times Ardent would be my third technology company as a VP of Marketing (Convergent Technologies and MIPS Computers were the other two.) It was my ex boss from Convergent Technologies, “Steve we’ve all just resigned from Convergent and we’re starting a new company.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

In my short conversation with Sarah, I found that it took her about ten years to write this book. It’s her personal mission to engage and employ the use of emerging technologies in all communication that connects her with a rapidly growing base of more than 120,000 people. Now, it’s easier said than done.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2009

I wrote recently about the role of Advisory Boards in startups , which I expected to be a bit controversial. It’s just that many companies waste equity on advisory boards, pick the wrong advisers or set up advisory boards with the wrong expectations. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2011

Conversely, you can always spot a confident pro. Business history has proven time and time again that it’s not necessarily the best product that wins in the marketplace, and having a superstar founding team, VC partner, or advisory board doesn’t guarantee success. If someone raises the bet, the novice folds their hand.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. You can listen to the conversation here. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. You can listen to the conversation here. Greylock Partners · Human-Centered AI | Dr. Fei-Fei Li. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

It does an amazing job of covering how technology is evolving and also changing society. I just accepted an invite to Goldman Sachs annual Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, and I hope to see you there. We have over 30 Advisory Board members at data.world, and I had a similar number of advisors at Bazaarvoice.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Established in 2016, the David Carr Prize pays tribute to this writer’s intense interest in the convergence of new media, technology, and culture. All received essays are judged by SXSW staff, as well as an Advisory Board that is unique to this competition. Entry deadline for this essay is end of the day on Friday, October 13.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. As for #3. I agree completely. That’s exactly the point I was trying to make (perhaps badly) with the post.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As I’ve mentioned in several Lucky7 posts before, we are living in the Golden Age of Technology ( here’s one of those posts ). It is a lot harder to get a valid interview of a candidate in a company significantly smaller/lower on the technology ladder than where the candidate is coming from. rather dramatically. We are glad we did.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

With the right customer service app, you can consolidate all your customer conversations and interactions—across website, phone, email and social media channels—into one centralised place enabling fast, efficient and agile responses. Your business never needs to relinquish that personal touch with your customers.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable! Whether that’s a funny ringtone or an impromptu blast of Rebecca Black’s “Friday,&# coworking can be a great way to network, make friends and have a built-in advisory board of people from many different industries.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Altounian has over 30 years of experience in the technology sector with roles at Dell, Motorola, Compaq and Ashton-Tate. He is a partner at Capital Factory and a board member of the Austin Technology Council. Dr. Altounian earned his Ph.D.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Ad Serving Technology. GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

I would say that in the last five or six years, it’s gone from a weird conversation to have to if you’re not having it, you’re not in the mainstream anymore. It’s a conversation. What do you do with an advisory board?” Dave : Absolutely. … If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Some startups fail because the founders cant have this conversation - they either blow up when they try, or they fail to change because they are afraid of conflict. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). And how do you pick a new direction? Both are lethal outcomes.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Thus your startup needs to determine the intangible value offered by the incubator (and yes, a $150,000 convertible note with no cap and no conversion discount qualifies as an intangible). How is the technology? (5) As you can see, I don’t think any startup has joined an incubator based solely on the pre-money valuation.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Also, I will usually not show them a product unless the entire discussion is focused on that – the point of these conversations for me is usually qualitative understanding, not usability. Then I’ll start tweaking things and changing the interview to adjust. Having them thoroughly test competitive products can be interesting also.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

But it’s possible that as the secret sauce of new media swings farther from disruptive technology and business models to a focus on curated and quality content, it’s the older entrepreneurs who are in the pole position. She has been covering technology news for over 15 years, most recently as a senior editor for TechCrunch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

As one engineer recently told me, “Once we had money in the bank and were near-profitable, I think we would have been well-served by increased up-front product and technology planning. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. He’s right.

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