Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Other founders, “as a privately held company we don’t disclose our valuation.&# Me, “dude, I’m not a journalist. The VC assumes you’ll have an option pool.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. You could just outspend. Tesla is not. It's a great talk. The Application. Stay Tuned.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. This company was started by Victoria Duff (who many of us know from back in the late 90s), Phillis Lane (who I have known for quite a few years) and Jon Bukosky.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Your goal should be to turn your VCs into extended members of your team to get real value from them. 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. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Working hard together at a big company just isn’t the same. Who came in the office at 2am when the servers crashed – even on the night of the big company party. My other partner, Steven Dietz, was on the board of my second company. Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Kevin Federline Search Engine Just saw a post - Sleep with a pop star, get your own branded search engine. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Good stuff. in Computer Science.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

Everybody has a blog these days and there is much advice to be had. When I meet other VCs I’m constantly asking how they decide which investments to make, when to pass, when to do follow-on rounds, when to sell a company vs. when to go long, etc. What is a founder to do? Some of these patterns may apply to me some may not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’ve always been a big believer that just a couple of key individuals make all of the difference in a company’s success. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Him: “I know, I know.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. A friend of mine has a company that builds open source applications in spaces that are a bit less innovative than Elgg, but they do very well financially through the packaging and support models. in Computer Science.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. in Computer Science.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

Jamie tells us the interesting story behind how the company started plus how the company managed to quickly land investor interest. in funding from Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and angel investors. I had just sold my last company, Phonetag, and was starting to look at doing new things.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

I wrote a blog post about being hands on where I argued that startup founders need to be hands-on or in my words, “you can’t run a burger chain if you’ve never flipped burgers.&#. I once had a startup team pitch me for an investment where the President of the company led the first call with me on his own.

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Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2018

And as hard as it may be to believe, retailers “don’t really know what’s on the shelves,” says Sarjoun Skaff, founder and CTO of Bossa Nova Robotics. Bossa Nova, along with San Francisco-based Simbe Robotics, is among a group of tech companies that are using robotics and artificial intelligence. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. Notes Wadhwa, “Jason [Calacanis], Fred [Wilson], and Silicon Valley VC’s, I’ve got news for you: you’ve got it all wrong.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. Apuzzo shifted to his preferred role as CTO.) After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. billion deal to Disney.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the three years since it was founded, CyberFlow raised at least $4 million from investors that include Toshiba America Electronic Components, Siemens Venture Capital, and angel investors. Eslambolchi, a former AT&T chief technology officer, was serving as CyberFlow’s executive chairman.).

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. Interestingly it was same developers in both companies.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. We also represent a few larger companies with international issues. What are you working on now?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 16, 2016

In a recent interview, Certona CEO Meyar Sheik said the company has taken a measured approach since he founded Certona in 2004 with CTO Geoffrey Hueter. The company now has about 130 employees, and counts Petco, Advance Auto Parts, Pier 1 Imports, and Charlotte Russe among its 500-plus retailer customers in over 70 countries.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

The company--which was founded by husband and wife team Aaron Hirschorn and Karine Nissim Hirschorn --is the latest company to come out of Science, Inc., We spoke to Aaron about the company. How did the company come about? the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones.

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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. On the other hand, I meet plenty of people who complain bitterly about corporate politics—sometimes even in the companies they run.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

—Embodied, based in Pasadena, CA, and founded by USC computer science professors Paolo Pirjanian (the former iRobot CTO) and Maja Matarić, are developing robots to care for people. That’s roughly the same investment pace as 2015, when Intel Capital invested a total of $514 million in 63 new companies and 79 follow-on deals.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

The company--which was founded by husband and wife team Aaron Hirschhorn and Karine Nissim Hirschhorn--is the latest company to come out of Science, Inc., We spoke to Aaron about the company. How did the company come about? the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. But I don’t think so. call to arms.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Yes, even bootstrappers. liquidation preference.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In April, the company raised $18 million in a Series C round from Verizon Ventures, insurance giant USAA, NTT Docomo Ventres, and Yamaha Motor Ventures. Previous PrecisionHawk investors include Intel Capital, Millennium Technology Value Partners, and the Innovate Indiana Fund.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The startup’s system requires multi-factor authentication to access the operating system software that a company uses to manage its healthtech devices; and it encrypts patient data on each device. MedCrypt’s security approach is twofold, Kijewski said. Mike Kijewski.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

An electrical engineer by training he has built embedded medical devices, consulted on lean/agile, founded a couple of (failed) startups, worked as a VC, and has advised and invested in a small handful of early stage companies. Prior to joining WellnessFX (consumer directed health technology), he completed his MBA at Stanford.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? ► October (1) New Video! .

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Nearly every company faces its crisis moments and only through the inspiration , focus and dedication of the leadership can you motivate teams to dig in deep and come out the other side stronger. I made an investment in a company with deep domain knowledge. He took this as a challenge and had a CTO in one week. ON LEADERSHIP.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is a frequent public speaker. Robert Scoble.

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