techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. The partners are currently in the middle of successfully raising their second fund. Alexia Tsotsis.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

I lived in Düsseldorf for some time, and there I came up with the company name idea: “one (idea) for one (client)”, “each custom product for each client”, and “one and only solution for each business partner. Our company is called Regex SEO, where regex stands for regular expression and SEO obviously for search engine optimization.

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Naming SEO Entrepreneur CPA 99

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. Seth saw friends move out to California, go to school, and launch Plaxo. With three co-founders, what was decision making and roles and responsibilities like?

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Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Charles Edge :: Partner, 318 Author :: Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book April 16, 2007 1:37 AM Shashank said. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. Richard Neff, Head IP & Tech Group of Greenberg Glusker Richard Neff is a partner at the law firm of Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles and Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group. in Computer Science.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO 150

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A recent job posting by zlien , a construction industry software company, frames the product manager’s mindset this way: Do you find yourself staring at a complex world and identifying problems to engineer away? Instead of believing we always have the right answers, we pursue perspective.” Don’t get trapped inside four walls?—?invest

Management 85

Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2013

By Ali Behnam, co-founder of Riviera Partners. For example, engineers may evaluate the position very logically, while sales or marketing executives may inherently be more emotional and enthusiastic. Prior to co-founding Riviera Partners , Ali Behnam co-founded and acted as EVP, Operations & Services at PeopleMover.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Founders Pad.

Silicon Valley 314

Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Venture Capital 314

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Eric Ries : Amen to that.

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Artificial Inteligence Open Source Cofounder Design 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Over the last two years they used part of the National Science Foundation funds to send eight NYU faculty to California attend the Lean LaunchPad Educators program. Spread it Widely.

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Lean New York City New York Customer Development 271

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. I’ve learned this first hand from Mark Gerson, the founder of Gerson Lehrman Group. As the founder, you’re the number one sales person of the company and it is not a function you can outsource right away.

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Elevator Pitch Incubator Technical Review Startup 102

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. A Sense of Purpose. Conviction.

Leadership 150

Leadership Southern California San Diego Hiring 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. So many had names of partners (Kleiner Perkins) or local favorite identifiers like trees (Sequoia). I know that I call them often to co-invest. An innovator in technology, especially monetization. Think about venture capital.

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Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley 304

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. My partner has a start-up and we went to his office and borrowed a bunch of office equipment and set up some real home offices. Digital Response.

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New Jersey Government CTO America 60

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. He has hired engineers from Loyola Marymount University , CalTech, University of Southern California and UCLA , he says. Google says.

Los Angeles 87

Los Angeles San Francisco Southern California Silicon Valley 87

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. high or high school with a PC in California in the early 80’s. My close friend Brian Moran (co-founder of BuildOnline) was an architect and is now a real estate developer and adviser. THE FIVE C’S.

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NPV Chicago Balance Sheet Database 337

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Amazon and Microsoft have large engineering offices in Vancouver and Toronto. of partners at venture capital firms in Canada are women , which more than double the US rate of 6%. The University of Waterloo has over 30,000 undergraduates and boasts an internationally admired engineering program. Broadband.tv

Silicon Valley 83

Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 83

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

Co-located in Shanghai and San Francisco, the AirPop product brand is a line of sensing, high-efficiency air pollution accessories for 4 billion+ people breathing pervasive ambient air pollution. AirPop’s co-founder Chris Hosmer (pictured above) answered our questions for this interview.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Startup China India 48

Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 12, 2011

Steve Wozniak, co-founder, and brilliant designer behind the early Apple computers dropped out of UC Berkeley to work at HP/launch Apple with Steve Jobs. Born August 11, 1950, Steve Wozniak grew up in Sunnyvale, California, USA. From a website called the Apple Museum.

California 37

California Cofounder Engineer Design 37

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. I don’t know 100% that this is true in all 50 states (if any lawyers read this please put notes in comments section) but I’m pretty darn sure that this is statuary law in California. That’s the difference between a founder and a non-founder.

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Founder Vesting Intellectual Property Stock Options IP 365

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

Fresno 60

Fresno Community Technology California 60

Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

If you think you are going to offend your customers or embarrass your engineering organization, get out of the marketing department. Partners Booths While your booth may be small, some of your potential or existing partners may have much larger ones, in much more visible locations. Visually, demo’s, wild colors, etc.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 185

YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.

Cofounder 239

Cofounder Technical Review Social Media PR 239

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? This post is an accusation.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Amazon and Microsoft have large engineering offices in Vancouver and Toronto. of partners at venture capital firms in Canada are women , which more than double the US rate of 6%. The University of Waterloo has over 30,000 undergraduates and boasts an internationally admired engineering program. Broadband.tv

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Canada Entrepreneur Startup 48

David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review SBIR Dilution Silicon Valley 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. There were none in the firm, so I remember asking him if he knew of any general partners who were women in the Boston area.

Founder 68

Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Lead Engineer 0.5 - 1. Office Space.

Equity 62

Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He the CEO and co-creator of business and let’s just face it, a sport called Crossnet. Me and our founders, we actually aren’t volleyball players at all. So my friend Mike, our co founder and partner, he graduated from Northeastern and he called me up one day. California, Texas, Florida.

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.Net Entrepreneur San Diego South America 40

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

This pivot fundamentally changes your required organizational competencies, from Sales and Marketing to Engineering, Operations, and Support. I’m not saying this because I’m trying to pump up the venture capital industry; it’s based on my experiences as an entrepreneur, where I had great VC partners (and some not so great ones).

Startup 36

Startup Silicon Valley Business Model Mobile 36

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Silicon Valley 313

Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. Therefore, we can create almost any arbitrary glow spectrum, for example, to mimic the late summer sun in a specific location like Northern California. You can read more about our window technology in the latest issue of Chemical Engineering Progress.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Startup Harvest .Net 54

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry. 

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Private Equity Boston Massachusetts IPO 20

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., California.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107