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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

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.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. We hired outside experts. Leadership over backbenchers? I wish I had 20% of her confidence, focus and leadership skills at 25. Marc Berte, the CTO, and a masters from MIT, is exceptionally gifted. ” **.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Mass TLC Unconference : Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. So that’s one way to focus: goals.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community, Sept 2011

Rob Go

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.

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Analytics Career Advice: Job Titles, Salaries, Technical & Business Roles

Occam's Razor

Or atleast 40% of the time you are a true Analysis Ninja, even if 60% of the time you are a glorified Reporting Squirrel! 2) You might have some project / task management experience, your leadership experience is limited to that. For the longest time, for example, I was well compensated for being a Senior Individual Contributor.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. EB : So, back at the time, it wasn't default. The default was spending two years trying to perfect an application and doing a big launch and demo day, or I mean, TechCrunch Disrupt. So, people default.