SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

My basic claim is that you MUST HAVE LOTS OF EARLY CONVERSATIONS. What's also interesting in Niel's piece is that he defines Stealth Mode not as not having conversations, but rather he says it's not make public pronouncements. Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

Experienced entrepreneurs We’ve got speakers who are justifiably respected by a lot of entrepreneurs. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George. For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Along the way I also learned yet another way entrepreneurs see the world differently from their investors. One of the first potential advisors I reached out to was someone who 10 years earlier tried to hire me as the VP of Marketing of his new division at Sun Microsystems. Great entrepreneurs see opportunities before others do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

The Federal government is being transformed - initially, in small ways - by people I think should be recognized as entrepreneurs. The topic of the day was Open Innovation; honoring a group of individual entrepreneurs doing innovative work inside and outside the public sector. I don't control any government contracts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

For first-time attendees, this conference offers a complete introduction to Lean Startup. Returning participants will find new speakers, fresh ideas, more options to meet other entrepreneurs, and special sessions for advanced practitioners. Here’s an overview of it all, and of course, you can find more detail on our site. (If

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

Ev pointed out that what works for one entrepreneur/company doesn’t necessarily work for others: Companies are not built in a lab. I mentor other entrepreneurs informally and also through TechStars (Chicago) and Founder Institute. We are unable to run Monte Carlo simulations. Does the advice include actionable steps?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Any founding business requires at least two key figures: One who knows the business, the Entrepreneur; and the Architect who puts ideas into motion. Keep in mind, you can be anyone — the Entrepreneur, the Architect, or some guy with a bright idea (We’ll come back to this one later), but building a strong team tops the list.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

Yet cyber security should be a crucial consideration for entrepreneurs during the initial steps of creating their vision. Conversely, enterprise organizations get breached as a result of the complexity of their infrastructure at the present moment. Hire qualified internal resources or outsource as needed for the required IT positions.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. Otherwise, Ive not seen much. *

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

It doesn’t matter if it has been said before and repeated numerous times, quotes can give you the fire you need to be a better entrepreneur or learn how to handle a difficult situation. Below are some of those quotes sent in by entrepreneurs throughout the country. #1 8 – You cant change the world working part time.

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Spencer Fry

DECEMBER 16, 2019

I’d like to share a few of the things that happened during this time and what you can expect if you’re experiencing similar growth. In fact for a long time, it was just me running all departments, but as we began to grow, that broke down quickly. New hiring responsibilities. It's even difficult for me at times as the CEO.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2021

We have serial entrepreneurs, one of Vue’s core team members, engineers who contribute to Google projects, a mindfulness expert, a mixologist, two published authors, the list goes on. I base the majority of my hiring decisions on what someone will contribute to the team rather than title. What it all comes down to One word, culture.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Tony Saldanha (P&G Next Gen Svces, Transformant), Farhan Shah (Allstate, CTO, Head of Platform Eng), Munu Gandhi (VP Infrastructure, AON), Virginia Lyons (CISO, Williams Sonoma) and GTM advisors?—?Natalie Winning the hearts and minds of developers matters and building the GTM around conversion and upsells will be key.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. So those are things to think about.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Think about it, an average startup team is normally combined of a CEO, CMO, CTO and a few other talented folks. If you think about it, most homepages aren’t conversions oriented so that kind of makes no sense. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Social Media Analysis and Opinion How-To''s' Diversify landing pages.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer. The response from across the country?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

What gets frustrating is that I tend to hear the same arguments over and over again from new entrepreneurs, and many of them are just completely unfunded. Unfortunately, they tend to resonate really well with frustrated entrepreneurs and a lot of dust gets kicked up over them. You know what—it’s supposed to work like that!

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. And the chief entrepreneur has a staff of chief portfolio manager, chief venture capitalist, and chief risk officer, right? LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. Second, don’t simply hire your buddies.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. It may be that all the doomsayers are right.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Strangely, most founders I know don’t have this conversation with the inside investors early. Also, make sure you know several partners at the VC firms who have invested in you because in tough times it helps to have very broad support. The best VCs follow up but then so, too, to the best entrepreneurs.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

If a software geek really wants to try building something for no pay, they’re going to work for themself instead of following another cashless entrepreneur. Monday, September 27, 2010 Kevin Bedell says: Robby – I really appreciate what you’re adding to the conversation here. If yes, hire a contract developer.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

An Internet entrepreneur needs a website. If a software geek really wants to try building something for no pay, theyre going to work for themself instead of following another cashless entrepreneur. Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. skip to main | skip to sidebar.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Initially the conversation initiated by the founder focused around the need to have somebody with deep domain knowledge. So yes, I want to hire somebody with really high IQ and EQ but not somebody who is more knowledgeable at your specific skill set than you are. These are the skills I look for in entrepreneurs and leaders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We’re a team of incredibly passionate and fearless explorers, technologists, gamers, scientists, entrepreneurs, dreamers, artists, and storytellers who are committed to building a more free and open digital world. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

9 Tech Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets to Success | Entrepreneur – [link]. Misfit Entrepreneurs | Dan Pallotta-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Hire slow, fire fast” is not only overused–it’s also complete b t.” Obama CTO Harper Reed on Keeping Sane in a High-Pressure Environment – [link].

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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. Baptiste , a new writer at OnStartups and local Boston entrepreneur.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

These categories came from Yonder conference , a conference held to discuss just such challenges and solutions: hiring and onboarding. In short, these are the top 10 remote team management lessons I have learned: Find a way to meet at the same time. Hire those you trust. It’s no secret that entrepreneurs work crazy hours.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

With the help of students at Duke University, we created an in-person, peer-led prevention training program that has been rolled out with students in Greek life at Duke over the past three years called Starting the Conversation. hour interactive and engaging conversation. For example, I just brought on a CTO. This is a 1.5-hour

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I’ve seen a range of options for supporting entrepreneurs, which I can rank from least to most involvement in companies by investors: financier VCs, e.g., Correlation Ventures. However, valuing the intangibles of time saving, expertise, network, etc. He writes: The premises of this conversation are very complicated.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. May 11, 2009 9:42 PM Artem said. Interesting article, Eric.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He started Stackify to solve the biggest challenge he had as the CTO of VinSolutions, so Matt, thanks for joining me. I was that hired gun in some senses. That part of it was great. He’s been a developer/hacker for over 15 years, and he sold his first startup, VinSolutions for $150 million. Matt Watson: Yeah. Absolutely.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you want a slice of the pie, there isn’t a better time to get involved. To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. The business model.

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