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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. And we’re lucky because they deliver many of the great products, services and content that we consume in our lives every day. I didn’t negotiate hard on carried interest. I had nothing to lose!

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

innovating new products and services within an already scaled business model), the processes that companies have optimized for execution inevitably interfere with the search processes needed to discover a new business model. Worse, the potential new product might give customers a reason to delay the purchase of today’s products).

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Group Finance Director

Transformify

Key responsibilities in this role include: Overseeing and sign-off of the financial statements and management accounts; Overseeing the developing the budgeting and forecasting process and contributing to the strategic direction of the business; Overseeing production of the fund accounts and the general administration of the funds; Overseeing the carried (..)

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Joining The B Team

VC Adventure

Things such as our “no a s” rule, what we (along with our friends at Techstars) now call #givefirst , putting entrepreneurs first and including all of our employees (and Pledge 1%) in our carried interest all came out of these discussions.

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

more on this later) Much like running a product-startup, you’re your own boss, so you sometimes end up working really hard and at all hours depending on where you are in your fund life cycle. 2) Starting a micro VC is just like starting a product company. And I enjoy working with founders immensely. It’s great.

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

more on this later) Much like running a product-startup, you’re your own boss, so you sometimes end up working really hard and at all hours depending on where you are in your fund life cycle. 2) Starting a micro VC is just like starting a product company. And I enjoy working with founders immensely. It’s great.

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