TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 26, 2022
The email recounts some of the company’s recent mistakes, including prioritizing strategic projects that “distracted” the company from its core beauty business and that executives “got ahead of ourselves on hiring.”. billion valuation from Lone Pine Capital, Sequoia, Forerunner Ventures and others.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Ryan Blair: As you know, I sold ViSalus back in 2012, but ended up buying it back in 2014, and then we sold the company to a public company. Sending the zeros and ones into the air was the same and sending nutrients into your mitochondria, except that at Visalus, it was not capital intensive like it was at SkyPipeline.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 4, 2014
Level of responsibility and time allocated. Co-founders only able to work part-time, with responsibility and major income sources elsewhere, don’t carry the same risk as others with more operational responsibility. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. But don’t get greedy.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
And not enough capital embracing these moonshots. We hired outside experts. And that’s why uBeam is rightly focused on perfecting their product, innovating, hiring and building for the future not on responding to every criticism from those without details of what we’re actually doing. What about battery charge times?
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