Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So many CEO’s just carry on being … CEO’s –> fund raise, get media attention, attend conferences, hire staff, “set direction&# , whatever. To do the right activities you need to start with a top down assessment with what you’re trying to achieve with your marketing. I love that saying.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

They get to meet the team, we do some due diligence, and have them talk to functional experts. How to do fundraising, how to pitch a deal, how to think about managing your product, or managing your development team. Once they pass that, they get into the incubator. We help on that end as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Investors assume it will only go up with more funding. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year. For obvious reasons, you need to keep your burn rate low.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Did they really need a Startup CTO or Developer or both? Did they have a Weak Development Team ? So before you ask someone to even spend an hour of their time writing code or reviewing specs make sure you can pay them in some form (coffee, dinner, laptop, etc.),

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Investors assume it will only go up with more funding. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year. Tags: entrepreneur startup angel funding burn rate. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

That’s too bad ,” Steve told him, “ because I signed the inside, along with the other members of my development team. So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Big Dumb Companies Are Often Just That. “So

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to. Listen, I’m not telling you these experiences are for everybody.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. To get reputation, you answer questions and they’re peer reviewed. They have raised two rounds of funding: a series A and a series B. Pricing information.

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