Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 26, 2010
Along with detail orientation I have a strong bias for “doers.&# When I ask for a quick demo and the CEO tells me that he’ll schedule a follow-on meeting with his sales rep because, “I’m not a demo guy. Who does finance report to? But even then I think it’s funny. But that’s a digression.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. We hired outside experts. What about battery charge times?
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 5, 2018
Half of these startups will demo their talents on Saturday, March 10, and the remaining 25 on Sunday, March 11. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account.
Rob Go
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Scaling Companies To Watch (ie: probably hiring). The Grand-daddy.
blog.captainrecruiter.com
MARCH 8, 2012
These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. After a few months, the demo site won a business plan competition. Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype.
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. Every time I see my graduate students try to teach for the first time, it’s usually so painful I bite my lip. The Dry Run.
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