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JUNE 21, 2014
The truth is you really don’t know how your teammates or your bosses will perform in good times and bad. You hire people who look good on paper. You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. Writing a book will be fun. After 6 months – you know.
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OCTOBER 30, 2014
The reality is that as VCs we have limited allocations of where we can spend our time so we want to attach ourselves to projects in which we, too, can be passionate. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. Were they ambitious?
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MAY 27, 2013
But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Rob does it.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 4, 2010
We took the recent round, because Jake and I feel very passionately about our social missions, and, about four years ago, we started developing the software to create software. If you're teaching classes of 32 maybe even 37 students, it's difficult to know where students are. However, on the group side, a class has 15-17 students.
InfoChachkie
JULY 14, 2011
9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. We spend a lot of time listening to our customers and working with them to build the right solutions.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 28, 2011
You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations. So yes, I want to hire somebody with really high IQ and EQ but not somebody who is more knowledgeable at your specific skill set than you are. I’ll write that post one day – it is a very interesting story.
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. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Dec 26, 2009). What’s going to happen in the future?' The Dry Run.
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