SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Video (and Audio) - if you have video, are you hosting it or can we use YouTube, Vimeo? Hosting - is there anything in place for hosting? Do you need help getting hosting going?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. We we’re now a tight board of early-stage VCs, management and two hands-on operational experts in our target markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

Most large companies (tech or otherwise) have two functions that make it hard to drive the most successful early-stage innovation. Plus, the mid-level tech managers (which may be phenomenally talents but prefer a more risk-averse lifestyle and job) will often not get the full attention and resources from the host company to compete.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Forming a digital agency that performs work for clients in addition to incubating startups provides a host of advantages compared to a singularly-focused startup studio. This is especially the case if expecting the agency’s client work to provide the bulk of its revenue during the early stages of operations.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

we have big tech (AAPL, AMZN, FB, GOOG ,TSLA), big early stage bets ( Restream’s $50M Series A ), big late stage bets ( RigUp’s $300M Series D ), consumer tech , fintech , insuretech , healthtech , CPG , DTC … the list goes on. The Austin ecosystem today is large and diverse?—?we

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Gucci, for example, has a store on Roblox and Nintendo’s Animal Crossing hosted live fashion shows inside the game. It takes a LOT of courage to say no to potential revenue, especially in the very early stages of a startup. Saying “no” can be equally important as saying “yes” to a potential partner or client. .

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

IBM partnered to provide sponsorship and hosting on it’s Bluemix cloud platform. For Gust, Digital.NYC represents a new paradigm for connecting the early-stage ecosystem. Our vision has always been to facilitate the connections between entrepreneurs and early stage investors.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 9, 2023

I believe that boards with too many investors, without operator voices, are not what an early-stage or growth company needs. A few years ago, I attended a dinner I was invited to in Aspen hosted by Him for Her. I’ve been willing to give up my board seat to make room for an independent director (for example, at Bolster.)

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Its common for startups to think about services like hosting/computing, storage, analytics, maps, email delivery and tracking, and eCommerce. What parts Agile addresses and the big problems with Agile for early-stage startups? What are you going to do to reduce your chance of problems and maximize your chances of real success?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So super angel and seed funds are proliferating – As a result there has been an explosion in the number of amazing early-stage investors such as Softtech VC , Floodgate , Felicis Ventures , K9 Ventures , OATV , Lowercase Capital , Founder Collective , and many, many more. I have written more in depth on this topic in the past.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Company is a great fit: they host, advise, mentor, lend a shoulder, and provide a place to founders and teams. These things are right up my alley because it’s what I love doing and align with my goal to be the best advisor to early-stage founders.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

For example, Qualcomm Ventures hosts an international business plan competition called QPrize , which targets mobile technology startups. Amazon hosts an annual startup challenge for companies using Amazon Web Services (AWS). 3) Freebies. 4) Accelerators. SAP also has a dedicated fund for startups using HANA.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

At this early stage in the game you just can’t afford to have potential customers getting turned away by an unprofessional and sloppy website experience. Buy your domain names, get a hosting account, register your socials, and then take it from there. It doesn’t have to be expensive either if you know what to do.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Today, it’s easier than ever to get a website up and running, thanks to free hosting, templates, and easy “one-click” website builders for little to no cost. To get your new business on a solid footing at an early stage, your online marketing strategy needs to be supported by the twin pillars of content and social.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

Like in a remote/hybrid workplace I assume there are a host of different questions raised? They optimize for winning over the shiniest looking candidate vs weeding out potential mismatches. In my opinion, this is a hugely risky move. The most impressive candidate on paper isn’t always the best candidate for the job.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Segmentation is a strategy best utilized in the early stages of a marketing campaign or life of your business. However, to provide specific recommendations on the fly through a host of platforms for an effective multi-channel marketing approach, you will need AI that helps you understand your customer. . When to use it.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. And as a monthly pillar we setup hosting a 60-90 minute webinar. No surprise, during this time, many B2B businesses were struggling to adjust to a world without physical events.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The FUND Conference brings together over 100 startups to present their early-stage products and pitches in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. Balodana provides store hosting and marketing as well as support services such as concierge customer service and style advice to ensure a superb customer experience.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. Where and how will we host the systems? It makes this early stage challenging.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

However, thanks to economy of scale, prices for online venture necessities like web hosting and Internet data have dwindled significantly. Step 5: Get your web hosting server. Choose a web hosting service that is reliable and with a sufficiently fast connection. You could host your free domain name from Freenom in this account.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2022

As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. As your company grows, you have to host customer seminars.

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2022

She has previously co-founded the SVCMS group, an organization hosting the Cultured Meat Symposium and the Cultured Meat and Future Food Show. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? Anita grew up on a farm in the south of Germany and is now living in Northern California, where Balletic is located. .

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

While the nuts and bolts of their business may still live on their primary website, content like blogs, video, photos, and other social media are almost always hosted somewhere else. A company’s online presence is often spread across several different platforms.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

This is very beneficial in the early stages of your business development as it may save you valuable time and resources. The benefits of this are self-evident but warrant discussing in any case – information sharing can open up a host of opportunities. Standing out. Building contacts within the industry and related industries.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

We’re clearly in the early stages on Twitter monetization but let me offer some views on why we find Ad.ly Finance and a host of other wonderful services brought to you by their sponsors. But 70% of my investment decision in early-stage companies is the team. Listen, it’s the first inning.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. And how can an early stage company think about social media relative to important startup metrics (see [link] )?

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K9 Ventures

JULY 24, 2014

I believe this was in April 2010 and if memory serves me correct it was an event hosted at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos by Sand Hill Angels , where Vinod Khosla gave a talk. No, not that kind of non-verbal gesture. I was relatively new to the investing world at the time having started K9 Ventures just a year before in April 2009.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

I get on a whole host of these tech blogger lists where PR firms just spam a whole bunch of folks trying to get people to write about their book/startup/event. It just creates a To Do in my inbox. It's kind of annoying because I write a personal blog.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? Methodology.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

It pays for hosts to offer advice worthy of a price tag, which leaves us, the listeners, with free and valuable insight that can really make a difference. If a quick Google search of your chosen host pulls up articles and information about their involvement in a particular industry, then you’re all set. Optimize your time.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2011

Examples: insurance, health care, hosting, public relations, marketing materials, finding and hiring talent, etc… Buying power, negotiation power, economies of scale were all mentioned in different variations. Help with recruiting – Finding and helping interview candidates is invaluable, especially in the early stages.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. . Accompany focuses on this use case.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, if organic traffic is a priority for you, include a statement like this: From an SEO perspective, our primary goal in the early stages of this content strategy is to focus on low-volume, high-buyer intent keywords and queries related to specific pain points. This sets the intention for your early-stage priorities.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

While it’s still early-stage, I’m excited to continue following this space. It could open up a new host of opportunities for startups. There are fascinating data and e-commerce implications to personalization. Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc. Monetization of Mobile. Garrett Neiman , CollegeSpring.

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