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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. One of his investors called him, “the best CFO in our entire portfolio.&# ).

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” We hired outside experts. We checked charge times. Time will tell.

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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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