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Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 23, 2019
The exit through acquisition by ReliaQuest is the first of what we expect will be many exits for our Fund 1 portfolio. Due to this, seed rounds have become more competitive, with more expensive valuations and more oversubscribed rounds. We also had our first exit for Moonshots Capital Fund 1 --Threatcare. Since 2010, $6.3B
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
I have seen this happening firsthand from my years of experience in several big-name companies, including IBM and Fujitsu. In software, hackers love the intellectual challenge of confronting a system designed to do one thing and cleverly exploit it to achieve something different. Loves to “hack” new outcomes from existing systems.
InfoChachkie
NOVEMBER 23, 2015
billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 Tech Diligence - Consider The Source. Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. Most importantly, it just doesn't feel right to us to hold positions in competitive companies.
InfoChachkie
JANUARY 6, 2011
Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life.
InfoChachkie
JANUARY 24, 2011
Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do, you will have the best experience of your life.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 5, 2012
As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. Also, this competitor will now be a better candidate for merger or acquisition (M&A), due to the existing relationship, when either of you is ready for that step. Marty Zwilling.
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