Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes. That’s why I often say The role of VC is “chief psychologist.” The role of VC is sparring partner.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Lots of thoughts here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. What Rob wrote in his post is right. It is really working.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? Science and Technology Technology. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Naming a Business.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. The Curation Team.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Some of the first companies have launched products or services or are in the process of getting there, according to their entrepreneurs. Most have felt the program worthwhile and given them a jumpstart on their operations. Our customer base pipeline is growing as we're in the process of closing several contracts. Each year, U.S.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We are very thankful and humbled at the trust our customers, partners and employees put into the Good Dog Labs and Lighthouse brands. Adrian Mendoza from Mendoza Ventures, he is a Mexican-American investor and entrepreneur who helped transform our business from a consulting to a product company. ?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 21, 2013

hours behind my Singapore headquarters, my productive workday was effectively extended. Then, in the evening – as the team returned from their lunch – I would concentrate on working with them in real time over Skype on building our product. Contract Remote Teams On A Per Project Basis. Plus, with India being 2.5

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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). Startup Basics Does College Matter for Entrepreneurs?

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Job Descriptions > How to Hire a CTO When its time to add a technologist to your slate of executives, what are the best practices to follow? Some companies have a CTO focused on operations under the CIO.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2008

It is quite likely that you'll sit in the IT (CTO / CIO) function. Strategic Solutions Consultant (clearly with hype like that this a role at a vendor!). Product Genius (at a vendor, perhaps Apple :). To become a internal consultant on business analytics projects (beyond web analytics). 3| Technical Team Leader.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). With his permission I’m posting it here in its entirety. I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Actually, David’s taking even broader roles than I generally do as he’s CEO for at least one startup.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

In the webinar, Lara offered some excellent time management tips and productivity hacks. Watch the webinar below: Read the transcript below: Jonathan: We’re so happy and excited to have Lara with us to share some of her time management tips and productivity hacks. We may be actually quite productive most of the time.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

Co-Founders Jeff Fernandez, Surag Mungekar, and Nick Narodny are CEO, CTO, and Chief Content Officer, respectively. symbeo provides preventive, primary, and chronic care at an affordable price, higher quality with 30 minute consultations, and higher service with on-time appointments. Grovo solves this problem.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). 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. The timeframe for a fully functional product varies between 14 and 45 days.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

They share strategies and techniques of how they implement Profit First, which has become a great tool to keep minority partners actively involved/supportive of the business. My passion is building and marketing web products for niche audiences. My passion is building and marketing web products for niche audiences. Our Guests.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Stephen is a Capital Factory Mentor, serial entrepreneur and former General Partner at Austin Ventures. Jennifer Aldoretta (@JAldoretta) | Twitter Joseph Beard Partner Perot Jain, L.P.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We just held our eighth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). It’s an *freaking open source*.net net implementation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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