Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

” So for the deal, investors on both sides converted to common, we split the combined company 55/45, Matt became CEO, and Greg led a new Series A financing into the combined company. For example, here are the chapters in Part Five: Sales by Anita Absey (p. .” I answered, “Deal.” Matt was still CEO.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. No Financing/Investor Interest – 8%. In this context, revenue can be an investment as well as sales. Technology, marketing, legal, distribution are all changing and evolving at an incredible pace. Ran out of Cash – 29%.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Ive occasionally worked with executive recruiters, for example in hiring a CTO for my first company, Eve.com. To sum up, heres what I would do again as a non-technical founder looking for a technical co-founder or CTO. Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Dove Ad Casts Spotlight On Madison Avenue.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

My rough notes follow: Mike Dubno , CIO, Global Markets and Research Technology & Operations, Bank of America. Previously CTO, Goldman Sachs. Very enthusiastic about the potential for the NY tech ecosystem, leveraging our strength in finance. Sales cycle can often go into something like co-development. Maria Gotsch.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 19, 2014

Over the last two and a half years the National Science Foundation I-Corps has taught over 300 teams of scientists how to commercialize their technology and how to fail less, increasing their odds for commercial success. identify financing vehicles before you need them. Join the I-Corps @ NIH.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

It encourages a bit too much FOMO (fear of missing out) and over-valuation in companies and a desire to do huge financing rounds to be perceived as the “knock-out winner.” That leverage technology or drive change. In revenue terms our first two years of sales were $2.1 Ryan Lissack is the CTO of Maker Studios.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Not so bad.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. Having recurring revenue allows you to keep the original purchase price down, which in turn increases sales. we were sold on the concept immediately.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

If you have a technical background and you are focused on product development, consider a co-founder with a sales and marketing background that can focus on selling your world class product. Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. I started to appear where we started to leverage or talk about technology and automations and optimization. And then secondly was the text.

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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. Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. Your financial risks of starting most technology companies these days are so low. VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. In a CTO Salary and Equity trends report by Safire Partners, it finds non-founder equity compensation to settle out below 2 percent. As stated earlier, investors will dilute ownership upon nearly every round of financing.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Financing a Small Business. Office and Operations. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. SALES & MARKETING. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Science and Technology Technology. Franchises.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 31, 2011

Hiring is a funnel with inputs and outputs--just like a normal sales process, except you're selling your company and the opportunity to work for it. You have trackable metrics for sales, site conversions, traffic, etc., If you're not interviewing enough people, you're not going to be able to hire someone--simple as that.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

BlueVine, which is based in Redwood City, California, offers online working capital financing to small- and medium-sized businesses in many industries. I wanted to make the process of obtaining small business financing significantly easier and faster for business owners like my dad. In other words, building BlueVine was personal.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 19, 2010

Instead, the CTO there met someone amazing at SXSW who turned out to be a big fan (and customer) of the company. At the stage we invest in companies, they often have big gaps to fill—like someone to lead marketing or sales or be a CTO where there was just a couple of developers before. That's the way a lot of this stuff goes.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking. My blog was wiped out.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

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. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model. People would rent once, and then quickly forget about the service, and didn’t seem very willing to change.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 12, 2013

I started my company with 5 friends – one developer, one user interface designer, one visual designer, one marketing person, and a finance person. This person needs to be incredibly skilled in engineering, and should ideally be an experienced CTO. A marketing/sales machine. A business/finance person.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 25, 2013

At this year’s conference—for which a new batch of discounted tickets has just gone on sale —the conversation continues with additional industries and a deeper focus on exactly how Lean Startup works in other sectors. Todd Park, the nation’s Chief Technology Officer, cheerfully admitted as much when he spoke at Lean Startup last year.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2011

Wanova , the Israeli corporate cloud services provider, has announced the completion of its round B financing totaling $10 million. The round was led entirely by previous backers: the Israeli offices of Greylock Partners and Carmel Ventures , as well as US fund Opus Capital.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 1, 2009

CompStudy publishes an annual report of equity and cash compensation that provides compensation data on top management positions and Boards of Directors at private companies in technology and life sciences. Head of Technology/CTO 1.19%. Head of Sales 1.20%. 2008 CompStudy Report in Technology. President/COO 2.58%.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developers have worn the crown for the last 30 or more years in the technology industry - rightly. It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. No startup will ever succeed without a persuasive and visionary sales leader. They are many more examples.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. A few resources you may want to check out include: How to Forecast Your Sales.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2019

It also requires a comprehensive business plan, sufficient funding, an effective development team, great marketing and sales staff, intellectual property protection, effective management, careful accounting, and (of course) customers. Get more in-depth info on all these needed skills and data points at the next edition of the Austin Forum.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2019

More Austin Events for the Week of April 8 April 8: Co-Founders Wanted Austin Meet Up April 8: Austin Clojure Meet Up April 8: Austin Virtual League Meet Up April 8: Learn to Code: JavaScript 101 April 8: Top 10 Product Management Mistakes & How to Avoid Them April 9: Austin CTO Summit 2019 April 9: The Future of Finance April 9: Austin Forum: (..)

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

Focus on a high tech or innovative sector, such as biotech, cleantech, and information technology. Joe Betts-LaCroix – CTO, OQO. How to scale from the first sale to the millionth. of the founder’s company’s fully-diluted capitalization immediately after an initial equity financing raising greater than $100,000.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Don’t focus on the technology. If that’s the Chief Technology Officer, or the sales chief, or the marketing person, whoever is the best public speaker, you should always put your best foot forward.”. A simple rule, but one that many startup founders forget when they’re put under the spotlight.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Ignoring Your Faults You might have all sorts of shortcomings — it’s your first startup, you’re inexperienced, ignorant about how “sales&# works, you have buggy software, etc. Dir, Global Partnerships, UN Foundation David Jones CEO, Havas & Global CEO, Euro RSCG Worldwide Raymie Stata SVP & CTO, Yahoo!

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. Business & Technology (18). Finance (1). Music Gear for Sale/Trade. But software engineers also pay a price for working by themselves. Thoughts on. Expository (1).

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