Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2010

In my post, Technology Roles in Startups , I described some of the different ways I engage with startup companies such as CTO Founder , CTO , Part-Time CTO , Acting CTO , Consultant, Advisor and Advisory Board Member. Now, most often technical advisors are part of a broader advisory board.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Ben Dyer, a serial technology entrepreneur and entrepreneur in residence at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, has joined the advisory board of Enola Labs. The Austin-based mobile and web development company is run by Marcus Turner, its president and chief technology officer.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

While Bob’s post focuses on Technology Advisors and the Startup Founder Developer Gap , we also discussed advisors more broadly. In some cases, Founders are building an Advisory Board with the purpose of padding their investor deck. This might be technology, marketing, sales, operations, international expansion, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. If you can’t recruit all of these onto your direct team, the next best alternative is to build a first-class Advisory Board of outside people, with the requisite skills and a wealth of experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

For example, Bill Gates founded and grew Microsoft, and Michael Dell built a great technology company, both with no outside funding until they went successful enough to go public years later and sell shares to common stockholders. Investors want board seats and a vote on key decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The fact that your board is having a discussion about forming an advisory board is a good indication that it’s time to put the issue on your board’s agenda for discussion. You never know what experiences and perspectives your fellow board members will have on a certain topic once you bring it out into the open.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

For example, Bill Gates founded and grew Microsoft, and Michael Dell built a great technology company, both with no outside funding until they went successful enough to go public years later and sell shares to common stockholders. Investors want board seats and a vote on key decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. If you can’t recruit all of these onto your direct team, the next best alternative is to build a first-class Advisory Board of outside people, with the requisite skills and a wealth of experience.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Raising tens of millions of dollars from investors to advance a technology faster than the Chinese Communist Party uses the same skillset. Below is the first of her three-part series.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Advisory Board. In the early days of Rocket Science I realized that we needed high-level advice on multiple fronts; technology, game development, video game distribution, etc. Over the next week we exchanged emails over advisory board stock. The timing was perfect, my board meeting was in two days.

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www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards. Why wouldn’t you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated.

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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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Version One Ventures

JULY 24, 2019

and also has the imagination to picture what the world *could* be with technology. – as long as s/he has a passion for technology and is aligned with our core beliefs and values. Reporting for our investors, including writing quarterly updates and preparing LP advisory board meetings. what can be better?)

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

Africa is not known to generate many technology talents – the country is far more prolific in its music, sport and art – but here’s one young African who intends to buck the trend. His first foray into technology was in 1995, when Koutonin, along with a few friends, created one of Togo’s first news website.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

So I was part of the team that made the prediction that the Chief Marketing Officer would spend more on technology than the chief information officer. 03:03): But you know, sap, Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce all went out and bought marketing technology companies, right? The other tied for number one was outdated technology.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2013

He also served on the advisory boards of several technology companies and currently sits on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Data Storage Institute of the Government of Singapore. We took the opportunity ask him to how storage virtualization and its trends would affect technology startups.

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Board Effect

MARCH 28, 2024

By adopting a tool for the board that can also be used for staff, committees, compliance and other areas, nonprofits maximize their return on investment. A quality solution like BoardEffect has been developed to be user-friendly, supporting the experience of users at all levels of technology comfort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. If you can’t recruit all of these onto your direct team, the next best alternative is to build a first-class Advisory Board of outside people, with the requisite skills and a wealth of experience.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. If you can’t recruit all of these onto your direct team, the next best alternative is to build a first-class Advisory Board of outside people, with the requisite skills and a wealth of experience.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

HubSpot , the company behind HubSpot 3, a “powerful, comprehensive, and tightly-integrated” all-in-one marketing software system, announced that serial entrepreneur and acclaimed author, Eric Ries , is joining the company’s Advisory Board.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

For acceptance at Endeavor Miami, scalable businesses don’t have to be technology companies. Examples in the Endeavor Miami group of 16 companies include restaurant, fashion, food, and education companies in addition to innovative technology companies. All product industries are different and meet the needs of differing markets.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Have a CTO Advisor Provide Their Guidance & Due Diligence Suggestions on a Large Upcoming Technology Expenditure. Executives interested in advisory roles often want the experience, intellectual stimulation, and opportunity to put advisory work on their resume as much as they want the compensation.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2017

The business leaders who create real technology paradigm shifts, or have changed the world of commerce, don’t advertise their failures, but they still feel them. They tried to make traffic signals intelligent way back in the early ‘70s, but found out that it takes more than technology to change government bureaucracies.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

We want to use our proprietary technology and network to tap the relevant players to take the relevant steps forward; and identify, document, and disseminate best practices. Although we envision we initially use our technology for a political purpose, that’s only the test case and that alone is nearly a $20 billion market. A nonprofit?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

With-it”-ness takes work, like reading the right blogs every day, challenging yourself to stay abreast of the latest technology, and social media marketing. No entrepreneur is an island, so take the initiative to build an advisory board. Have a big bandwidth. I’m sorry, but there is no magic, and it doesn’t happen overnight.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

We want to use our proprietary technology and network to tap the relevant players to take the relevant steps forward; and identify, document, and disseminate best practices. Although we envision we initially use our technology for a political purpose, that’s only the test case and that alone is nearly a $20 billion market. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2016

For example, Bill Gates founded and grew Microsoft, and Michael Dell built a great technology company, both with no outside funding until they went successful enough to go public years later and sell shares to common stockholders. Investors want board seats and a vote on key decisions.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

Product architecture – the collection of defining technologies, applications and features in your product – is one of the fundamentals critical to achieving traction. Product Architecture. Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. If you can’t recruit all of these onto your direct team, the next best alternative is to build a first-class Advisory Board of outside people, with the requisite skills and a wealth of experience.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

Product architecture – the collection of defining technologies, applications and features in your product – is one of the fundamentals critical to achieving traction. Product Architecture. Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea.

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Austin Startup

MAY 31, 2011

The company also announced the creation of a new Advisory Board and its charter members, wireless technology veterans Carmel Sofer and Daniel Shader. Macheen Inc., Kent Libbey brings over 20 years of marketing leadership in telecommunications, media, software and cloud-based applications. [.].

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The way advisory board member Sherry Lowry remembers it, Austin Women in Technology used to be the one place in Austin where women with the audacity to infiltrate the Old Geeks network—and women intrigued by technology—could converge.

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