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SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Beware of Mentors. I’m going to take that thought out into the field and validate it with my customers." I’ve spoken to dozens of customers, I have a validated customer persona, built an MVP to test key behavioral hypotheses, and the data doesn’t back what you’re saying." Customer Validation 101.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. The company was called Red Beacon. So there you have it.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 21, 2014
Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. Neither is very strategic nor in the best interest of either set of customers that VCs have (portfolio companies & LPs). We brought Ryan Lissack down from San Francisco to become Maker’s CTO and the rest is history.
SoCal Delicious
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. I have met dozens of brilliant technologists with fantastic ideas, ideas requiring nurturing, mentoring and support. Vaultive « Are Derivatives the Real Problem?
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 8, 2013
” In an early trial of MailLift, Granite MedSystems reached out to potential customers that had ignored all previous sales campaigns. Entrepreneurs and mentors travel from various parts around the world to take part in the 500 Startups accelerator program. MailLift is solving real business problems.”
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. That's why we built FanMix, to solve our own problem, and help our SocialEngine customers to promote their own sites. We have some great mentors now. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO.
InfoChachkie
JANUARY 23, 2012
1) Get A Mentor. "I Given Facebook's numerous corporate governance mistakes during its early days, Mark would have been well served to have cultivated a mentorship with one or more savvy Advisors. " I recently performed a 360-Review on two Co-Founders who were the company's CEO and CTO. " [Tweet this quote].
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