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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

If you are looking to expand your leadership team or board , are looking for a part-time executive role or board role , or are an investor looking for fractional executives to join your portfolio companies , you should become part of the Bolster network right now. It’s off to a great start.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

If you are looking to expand your leadership team or board , are looking for a part-time executive role or board role , or are an investor looking for fractional executives to join your portfolio companies , you should become part of the Bolster network right now. It’s off to a great start.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In his tenure as CEO of DataSift we have never missed a monthly revenue figure. He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies.

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Venture Capital is About Human Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Gregg was a graduate of Stanford and a Wharton MBA and had worked at the consulting firm BCG so I knew he was smart and capable. The rest of our team included the founding CTO of Maker Studios (Ryan Lissack) and the CEO of DataSift (Tim Barker) so we seemed to all be in good company of ex Salesforce execs looking to make a difference.

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Do you believe in the Red Shift theory?

BeyondVC

The first time I heard the term Red Shift was from my portfolio company, Greenplum. Ok-enough of the sales pitch. Those companies, Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos says, will experience similarly high levels of growth in users, revenue, etc., Red-shift companies tend to be Web 2.0

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A VC: Employee Equity: How Much?

www.avc.com

I got this formula from a big compensation consulting firm. But it is based on a common practive in compensation consulting. We share it with our portfolio companies but I do not want to post it here because it is very complicated and requires someone to hand hold the users. I've modified it in a few places to simplify it.

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Amazon Redshift Too Slow or Crashing? BlazingDB Performs

Austin Startup

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. The Data Warehouse market is typically estimated at $30 B in annual revenue and the big data components, where the largest need for performance gains resides, is growing at double digit rates. By now, a few trends are emerging.

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