Remove 2005 Remove Incubator Remove Product Remove Writing
article thumbnail

Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

socalTECH

Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Digital Equipment Corporation had a computer called the Rainbow Computer, and I was writing 80x86 assembler for the hardware adaptation layer of Windows for the Rainbow. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so.

Startup 221
article thumbnail

How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Market Size.

Startup 150
article thumbnail

A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. No Dave S. = How do we make that happen?