Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

The mistake entrepreneurs make is either writing a lengthy email (everybody has too much email so it will get skimmed / not digested) or not having a deck which means the VC can’t quickly determine his or her fit as a potential investor. The key is WHAT you send.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There is a battle between entrepreneurs who try to change the world and solve a meaningful problem and those who write take-down pieces with no apparent personal benefit other than attention. Who in the auto industry believed Tesla, a totally electric car, was a good idea? ” **. Now they are partners. I’d love even 0.5%

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. But when I’m looking to write my check I need to look in the eyes of the captain — the maestro who brings the whole orchestra together. He had built and sold his first company and had good ideas for his second company. Why should I be?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Of course, when I started thinking about Visible Networking , I immediately went to Cliff to check in to see how he's doing and to get his feedback, thoughts and ideas on the concept. I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. Cliff, remind me about your background?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I focused on relationships, connections, human bond, idea generation, testing products and also I generally tried to be available for others. Yet the art of shifting your mindset is often taking a complex idea and generalizing it. He gave me such a great idea. I like that idea. I stayed out late. Strike that.

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Ideas Startup Marketing Pricing 294

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

They had twelve people when I took over at FrontBridge, which was then an interesting idea. I got involved with Telesign when we had twelve people, and a super interesting idea. My first big move here, when I came to Telesign, was I felt we needed a high quality CTO. Steve Jillings: FrontBrige was a really great company.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators. I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog. What are some of the top things you've published online, e.g., blog posts?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Not just URLs that the developer created, but snippets of their source code that show how they write (comments, formatting, etc). ? Even if you can’t read the code, if it looks organized, and you see a mix of English words (comments) around code that looks like it has structure, then you can get an idea of how they organize things.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. Traction means forward progress. Build qualified advisory board.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

As a hiring manager, and as the former CTO of Buy.com, Navid Nobakht , Co-Founder of Recmnd.Me ([link] had a problem--how to really figure out if someone he was hiring could actually execute. Can you talk about your background, Buy.com and why you decided to pursue this idea? Plus, it makes it difficult from other recommendations.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Zach Ferres (Chief Technology Officer) has been an entrepreneur since the age of 15. This challenge grew into the idea that became Huddlewoo. Many times I think that it would be awesome to have a conversation with them, but typically write off the idea because the process for access is too difficult.

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Mentor Platform Social Network Chief Technology Officer 94

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes. And covered we did.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. Traction means forward progress. Build qualified advisory board.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer. Sergey’s diverse experience as an entrepreneur, technology consultant and software executive qualifies him to lead amSTATZ’s technology development. David Cohen from TechStars, someone I look up to as an entrepreneur, says that they don’t invest in ideas, but teams.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

We spoke with Mike Outmesguine , CEO and Alan DeRossett , CTO of the company, and how their roots in do-it-yourself, "Maker" projects is key to their entry into the prize competition. So the idea is to create a device that does all of that, and you get judged on how well it does, and how easy it is to use.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. You are writing about the essentials of business. I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. Tell me a bit about your background. That's great.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’ve seen that in courses and in design specs many times, and it’s a HORRIBLE IDEA. It’s one thing when you provide a blank space to write your goals when you are in a classroom and there’s a teacher who can help you. And if you are asked to create eLearning around goal setting, PLEASE DON’T GIVE THEM A BLANK TEXT ENTRY FIELD.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. Traction means forward progress. Build qualified advisory board.

Startup 101

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

I’m not sure I really even need to write this at length because Nivi absolutely nailed the topic in his article “ The Option Pool Shuffle.&#. I thought to myself, “OK, they were willing to F me when they thought I had no idea what I was talking about. No option pool shuffle. No hidden terms. That’s normal.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

HV: Our main competitive advantage is the idea of personalization. AA: In the beginning your idea is a hypothesis and you need to validate it. So you write your hypothesis on what’s called a business canvas model and then you go talk to your potential customer. How is Movn different than your competition?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The talented founder & CEO (Sean Rad) went on to create Tinder after Adly, proof that sometimes it takes the intersection of great founder + great idea + timing to produce a multi-billion outcome. And the third founder, Colin Kelley , remains an important contributor & CTO of the company.

Venture Capital 363

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. Forcing yourself to write down a plan is actually the only way to make sure you actually have a plan. Traction means forward progress. Build qualified advisory board.

Tips 88

Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

As of writing, my twin and I serve as the Co-CEOs and Co-Presidents at LAGbook. Other people on the LAGbook Team include Josh Osemwegie (our Chief Financial Officer), Nosa Ilegbinehi (our Chief Publicity Officer), and Emmanuel Alugo (our Chief Technology Officer). We’re a team of 5.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. We are about to head on a four-month, 48-state road trip to help people across America bring their ideas to life and shine the light on some of the amazing entrepreneurs and communities. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Good ideas, great people and access to capital are key to any thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

The idea is that the app uses the onboard microphone, reads the movie at any point the movie is playing using acoustic finger printing and audio recognition. Has this sort of idea been around and was it not executed because of some sort of a technical issue? We also have Chris Cookson as a technical advisor. Entertainment.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

If u see an article or write a blog post, email us or leave a comment below with a link to your story and we’ll add it in. More than 100 developers on 13 teams hacked from Thursday – Saturday to pitch amazing ideas to our team of a dozen CTO judges, at the SBF HQ Cross Campus. . & #celebrity to pull off anything!

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. The people with the time, energy & creativity to build organizations like TechStars need to bring their ideas to fruition.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. If you asked me to tell you a list of three of the best decisions in my life, I can certainly tell you that regularly writing is one of them. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

I setup a nice little home office for myself and started dabbling with a few ideas. I started an incubator/holdings company called Addante and Associates to be the umbrella company for my ideas and consulting projects. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I’ll write that post one day – it is a very interesting story. Founder: “That they love my idea but they just need to see us get a little bit more traction. He took this as a challenge and had a CTO in one week. What I learned was how to work with teams. Now I do.&#. What are they telling you?&#.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Another common “failure to start” situation I see is one where the “idea person” insists that the idea is 90% of the value (and 90% of the equity). In the real world, the "idea" is a very small part of the overall equation. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? Pre-existing intellectual property.

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