socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. One of the folks was the CTO of an investment bank in New York, who immediately saw what we did, and said he had a problem he wanted us to approach.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In his spare time he raised nearly $30 million. Each of your angels or seed investors may have 20-30 investments.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

We spoke to Robin about the new startup, his executive team, as well as his angel investing activity here. We've also hired a tremendous set of experience career counselors, who have had colorful or substantial careers, to supply services and products to our students. How did you decide to start Internships.com?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels. We wanted investment partners that understood performance marketing and what it was like to be an entrepreneur from having done it before themselves. We’re always hiring great people.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

The difference in what we're doing, is we're an active sensor network. Unlike Walmart, you don't have to walk through a reader or interrogator, because we have an active tag with a five year asset life, saying here I am. We are really focused on the active RFID tagging area. Our RFID tags have their own battery power.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

You can keep yourself updated on the activities of the startup. Back then we invested very little in design. I’d say we also invested very little in user experience. I’ve spent time building a team and now we have absolutely a great cast of people. The hardest part is finding the right people to help you.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

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. It is also true that there are good deals and good entrepreneurs that can't find anyone to invest in them. Call it facts for hire.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Also, make sure you know several partners at the VC firms who have invested in you because in tough times it helps to have very broad support. Ideally you’d find out which partners are super active and which are less active and who has the power to get deals approved and who struggles. Face time = winning.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Course 238

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Local Angel Community / Recycled Capital.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! We initially hired him as our in-house recruiter. Our IT group was not able to support all of the new people we hired.

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