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What Makes an Entrepreneur (7/11) – Detail Orientation

Both Sides of the Table

Along with detail orientation I have a strong bias for “doers.&# When I ask for a quick demo and the CEO tells me that he’ll schedule a follow-on meeting with his sales rep because, “I’m not a demo guy. Luckily I had CFO extraordinaire, David Lapter , who’s now the CFO at KickApps.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. We hired outside experts. Marc Berte, the CTO, and a masters from MIT, is exceptionally gifted. What about battery charge times? One is reminded of the famous quote often attributed Mark Twain. ” **. It is safe.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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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. Hiring is difficult no matter where you are. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

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. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email.

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