Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. And the third founder, Colin Kelley , remains an important contributor & CTO of the company. And FWIW, the final of my first four investments, all from this same fund, was, GumGum who recently announced it closed $75 million in financing led by Goldman Sachs.

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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. More in Financing.

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Haystack

JUNE 2, 2018

If you read yesterday’s post, you can see just how insane the proliferation of seed financings have been. Yet, I get decks where there is no team slide, or worse, there is just a circle with a face that says “Betty / CTO” or “Dan / Business.” As a result, I personally cannot keep up with all the deal flow.

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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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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.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

[ Editors Note: GroupSpaces, of which Andy Young is co-founder and chief technology officer, and Twilio, which is mentioned in the copy above, are both launch sponsors of The Kernel.]. He is cofounder and chief technology officer of GroupSpaces. Nic Brisbourne on venture capital. Columnists.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Office and Operations. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Start-up | Mondays. Franchises.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 31, 2011

This is what you create when you hear that a certain company can't get financing, is winding down, or when you make your list of 25 top people in the market at a certain position. This way, your team can raise the flag on a good candidate and be comfortable saying, "Hey, if you'd be willing to come in at 6, our CTO would love to meet you."

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

I’ll be doing the same thing with Online Marketing school, CTO school, and there’s even been some rumblings about UX school. Teach ‘em Finance and Chase or Accenture will come and pick ‘em up 30 at a time. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. No revenues, no costs. It was easy peasy.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

I also suspect that if you exposed young people early to small teams of people trying to chance the world through technology, integrating them into the social graph of the innovation community, they’ll be more resistant to hedge fund job offers down the line. So where to start?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

If the founder was lucky, he got to stay as chairman or CTO. A 20th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. This allows founder(s) to sell part of their stock (~10 to 33%) in a future round of financing. Schmidt had been the CEO of Novell and previously CTO of Sun Microsystems.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 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 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Yes, even bootstrappers. liquidation preference. Twittering.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. Similarly, a crackerjack CTO might be in the mid six figures, but a kid performing inside sales may start at the opposite end of the spectrum.

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www.aaronkharris.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

I recently left one of the worlds largest hedge funds, and finance in general, to launch Tutorspree. Well, thats what Im figuring out every day.Observations on that, technology in general, and what I encounter along the way will form the substance here. Tumbledowntech Random post Mobile Archive Im Aaron Harris. startupcto

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Two particularly important roles include the chief venture capitalist, because the investment philosophy for invention is different than traditional finance, and the chief internal ambassador “who connects the two [functions] and builds bridges.” LESSON #2: Forget innovation.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup. Lets start with finances. As the businessperson, financing is just one of the things you bring to the table. So, what makes you worth 50%? (Or

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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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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. Introductory remarks. Maria Gotsch. Formerly MS IT department. 15 yrs at MS.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Neil Wyant , Family Office Venture Capital, Dr. Long Phan , CEO & CTO, Top Flight Technologies, Ms. Other sister events this year that DC Finance is running: The Family Office Real Estate Investment Forum, Thursday, November 30th, 2017 , NYC.

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Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I started out my career as a geek, very good with edge technology,which at the time was desktop computers and a few years later the Internet. I moved through marketing and sales role, and then venture capital to general management but all along the way I missed the hands on aspect of product and connection of products to people.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

It’s why raising a round of capital often feels like a hollow victory because it almost feels like a temporary reprieve from the Grim Reaper and in a way every new round just sets the bar higher to clear for the next round of financing or the hope of reaching profitability.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Aligning the Startup Team Strategy with the Capitalization Strategy. The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team. This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. Hire based on functionality and avoid having too many C’s.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Ryan Chan, founder at UpKeep said, “We created an LLC at first, but after realizing that we wanted to take on venture capital, we decided to move to a Delaware C corp.”. venture capital. Step 5: Get financed. Seek out venture capital funding. or even be a U.S. or even be a U.S. Establishing a U.S.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. What will it cost to build your project? It depends on the scope of the project, of course. But let me put it this way.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I’m looking for somebody who is good at planning but doesn’t try to do the work of the VP Finance. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? He took this as a challenge and had a CTO in one week.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 21, 2010

Venture is extremely risky, but the reason why it works is because of the risk/return tradeoff. You can’t make return unless you take risk—as a finance guy, I understand that. Having a technically complex product without a CTO. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. Pre-product?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

Called the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Computational Intelligence, it will have a $15m, five year budget and bring together researchers from the Technion Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University. The bank is offering to finance mid-sized and large projects of up to 50 MW. VMWARE ACQUIRES WANOVA FOR $70-80M.

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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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San Jose Cloud Startup 99

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the part that people hate the most, unless you’re a finance geek. What I did was I found out that the chief information officer was a woman in the company, and I called her assistant and I said I’d like to take her out for coffee and just pick her brain about how she got to where she was.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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David Teten

MARCH 3, 2016

Russo , Directors, Film and TV Directors (Captain America, The Avengers, Arrested Development), Mr. Barry Silbert , Founder and CEO Digital Currency Group, Mr. David Teten , Partner, ff Venture Capital, Ms. Other sister events this year that DC Finance is running: London Family Office conference ( www.london-wealth.com ) in May.

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