Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Spend time building investor relationship long before you raise money. . By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. Email updates frequently. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

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. 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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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. He grabbed all the user email addresses I had collected and started talking to potential customers to find out what they wanted to do.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188