Xconomy
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Early next year, twenty students will have the opportunity to study machine learning for 10 weeks with Google engineers, college professors, and coaches—free of charge. The course will then be held at four other higher education institutions in the summer. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.
Xconomy
APRIL 17, 2017
San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. TakeLessons also acquired Chicago-based Betterfly, which offered online vocational classes, DIY projects, and self-improvement courses like public speaking and personal life coaching.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2014
Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. Web Summit. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, And there’s conferences.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 22, 2014
VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. Think of web vs. mobile. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. I think of VCs as coaches. I call them “ VCs Seagulls.”
SoCal CTO
MAY 13, 2014
A little while ago, I suggested that Every Web/Mobile Startup Should Have a Technical Advisor. But, advisors, coaches, and mentors can often fill the bill. Of course, you will want to work out the specifics of how you plan to work together with the advisor once it becomes more formal and adjust accordingly.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2014
Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?
SoCal CTO
MAY 21, 2013
I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. They will be able to understand what is going on, make suggestions, coach and otherwise help. Of course, turning around these issues will take some time.
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