Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2014

” The inspiration for the business came to her two years previously, when out to dinner with a colleague from the architectural company she worked for at the time. In 2010 Lori launched Cheek’d.com , an online dating site that combines “old-school calling cards with the power of the internet.”

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Customer Equity. The greatest leverage is when the project is in its earliest phases, when we are deciding on architectures in the context of market requirements and when technology choices are being made. Several years ago someone at Apple created the option for OS-X to run on the x86 architecture (supplied by Intel and AMD).

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

They should know how to hire engineers, how to define a scalable architecture, how to build up a strong engineering culture – and how to build a maintainable product. When it comes to equity, be fair. An engineer. This person needs to be incredibly skilled in engineering, and should ideally be an experienced CTO.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Parker became President, and got 50% of the company’s equity for a $20,000 investment (equal to $315K today) and guaranteed a $200,000 line of credit (equal to $3M today). Parker was a ex Naval Academy graduate and a Minneapolis businessman who owned a glider manufacturing company and was well connected in Washington.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

Sweat equity or salary? We engineers know that need to be agile in a startup and be able to scrap code and rebuild, but want we don’t want is to have a founder who manic or aimless. TrackBack URL July 25th, 2010 Trackback from : Retaining Startup Engineers | Femgineer Click here to cancel reply.

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99u.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

It is best to have a contract that covers details regarding any form of equity grant or compensation as well as whether or not expenses are reimbursed. Architecture. As you identify areas of expertise that you lack, consider who might be able to help. State expectations up front. Office Dynamics. Perseverance. Risk-Taking. Well-being.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

The key elements of technical SEO include: Crawling Indexing Rendering Site architecture. Website architectures. Flat website architectures where web pages are clearly linked to each other helps avoid this outcome: . Either way, to get technical SEO right, prioritize a well-rounded understanding of the basics. Structured data.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Basically, the kind of technical people you want for a startup — whip smart, adaptable, willing to work long hours for equity instead of cash and highly competent — that person is probably already out there, doing her own startup. Enterprise Architecture (5). Categories. Business (60). Consulting (2). Management (7).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The accelerator provides equity-free financial support through AWS Promotional Credit, technical training and support, access to a global community of EdTech experts, and more. AWS Builder Space (Israel) – A non-equity program for early stage startups who are looking to accelerate their speed to market.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 12, 2011

About half of them are business books, and I also mix in a bit of fiction, humor, American history, architecture and urban planning, and evolutionary biology. Here are five habits you should consider cultivating if being a better trend spotter is in your career roadmap. Read voraciously. I read about 50 books every year. Follow the money.

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David Teten

MARCH 16, 2011

Our audience is the NY Financial Engineering Meetup, so we’ll be going into some of the detailed technical and financial modeling architecture we’re using. This Sunday, March 20, 6pm on W.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 19, 2011

A simpler alternative to employee option/equity grants - [link]. My thoughts on how to “upgrade&# ones mind …Mindset Architecture – [link]. My thoughts on how to “upgrade&# ones mind …Mindset Architecture – [link]. The New Rules of Getting Press for Your Start-up - [link].

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Adrian Kunzle, Head of Firmwide Engineering & Architecture (CTO), JP Morgan Chase. Tal Liani, Managing Director, Equities Research-Communications Equipment, Bank of America. Andy Brown , Chief Technology Officer, UBS Tim Lyons, Senior Vice President, Technology Innovation Portfolio, Bank of America. 15 yrs at MS. KUNZLE: Mobile.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

Were showing positive return on equity, were showing positive growth per, in value per customer through their digital initiatives. Do you have a, a clear technology architecture with the specific set of features to it? 07:47): About 25% of them were actually making money. They were the same mm-hmm. , They were the same mm-hmm. ,

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

So maybe they would have some home equity they could pull out or some savings. Uh, architecture firm, marketing agency. And so again, it gets back to empathy because if you think about the buyer, you know, if you look at your business, look at the cash flow, look at the money you want, and then say, well, who is the buyer likely to be?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Clayton spoke about how in early phases Proprietary architecture often wins. ” Money is not debt or equity but a “license to use their capital.” Internationalization of Technology. We spoke about what succeeds early in technology market evolutions. As markets grow, the more open and modular systems win.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Breakups are hard If you’re going to fall out with your co-founder, do it early, recover the equity into the option pool to keep the company going, and recruit someone else great to fill the missing slot. The challenge will be getting the right kind of architecture and design which will scale. Build in founder vesting (a.k.a.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

But if you are willing to put in a little bit of sweat equity then you'll stand miles apart from your SEO competitors. Make sure your site architecture is well thought out. [Does the above seem like a lot of work even if it is straight forward? I know we look for short cuts. There is no such thing in real life. Directories.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

You’ve got to build equity value." How can we even reimagine kind of the architecture of education over the next few years? You might have some type of shift-based architecture. Eric Ries : Talk about how you decided to make it a social venture. I mean, you've gone to business school. I'm not sure what the jargon is.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Israeli startup Siklu Wireless Communications has raised a series B round of $19 million led by new investors Amiti Ventures , Qualcomm Ventures and joined by all existing investors: DFJ- Tamir Fishman Ventures , Evergreen Venture Partners and Argonaut Private Equity. We’re looking forward to working with Siklu.”.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

In particular, they may use service oriented architecture, or SoA. Whilst this guidance should be of interest to technical startups, if they have capable senior staff they should be able to get this from them. Businesses with more complex needs or pressures may use multi-platform solutions.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Its true in fields that havehard deadlines, like architecture and filmmaking, but even therepeople tend to be tweaking stuff till its yanked out of theirhands. [ Most hackers understand why that happens; Fred Brooksexplained it in The Mythical Man-Month. There are also several you cant,notably ineptitude and bad luck. [

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 23, 2012

Doc Searls and the other proponents of VRM have sketched out a technical architecture for the services that are required to make this vision a reality, the most important element of which is a personal datastore for each consumer which tells advertisers which products and services they are allowed to advertise.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The platform is based on Oversi’s unique out-of-band architecture allowing hierarchical deployment for the highest OTT cache performance, offering maximum flexibility and scalability. David Tolub, Oversi’s President and CEO, said: “We have recently won several new strategic accounts, including several large Tier 1 operators.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity? Just go to a meetup or post an ad promising equity. There isn't a one size fits all answer, some back end architecture is simple, other is deadly complex, it all depends on your idea. This person does not exist.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

These programs run on the same type of classic computer architectures they were programmed in. The CPUs (Central Processing Units) that write and run these Classic Computer applications all have the same basic design (architecture). Other AI Hardware Architectures. The sum of these feels like buzzword bingo.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

your objections are irrelevant [link] I only tell you what to do because I love you Prototype vs. Architecture… The CEO of Meebo, Seth Sternberg, started a TechCrunch series focusing on the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make. [link] tenthings i ‘d say start from yourself and a close friend.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

one of the largest publishers of educational books in the world, bought educational software startup Tegrity , the fourth exit for private equity firm Infinity Group in 2010. In early October, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., LONELY PLANET RANKS TEL AVIV 3RD HOTTEST CITY.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Don’t worry about big keyword research and large site architecture on day one – but do make sure that what you’re building will scale easily. I would check out Rand’s post on having a launch plan. It’s quite important to build a site platform that is scalable.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).

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