Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

In the early days the CEO is the jack-of-all-trades, doer-of-all, famously the “chief janitor” or coffee maker. Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. Extremely talented people are ultra competitive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

You’ll get sales information from your VP of Sales, marketing information from your VP Marketing, tech information from your CTO and so on. By going on sales calls you pick up directly the feedback of what customers want and also what they’re telling you about competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

You can always tell during this discussion whether the entrepreneur has logged into their products, talked to their customers, read all the news stories and gotten all of the back channel info on the competition. You can tell if they have a deep-seated competitive spirit. Can’t go a mile deep on competition?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2012

It always has great, fresh content from a wide variety of industry professionals.

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Startup San Diego

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

When 2020 hit, the Startup San Diego team had to make a pivotal decision to completely adapt San Diego Startup Week to a month-long virtual program while still delivering the same workshops, panels, and pitch competitions for the startup community, that year, San Diego Startup Month was born. appeared first on Startup San Diego.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

. “We slow down our country, our economy and our ability to innovate when the government becomes excessively aggressive in efforts to break up technology companies, because they see them through a prior-decades lens, when they are operating in a future decade reality. This too shall pass.” — Balaji S.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 25, 2017

We have been reading about the LA CTO Forum and we thought it would be a great place to find him/her. I've written before about having an Initial Conversation with a Potential CTO. It's really hard to find and super competitive to find developers who are going to jump on a concept and build it.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

2020 seems like a decade away into space, however Motreal-based reelyActive, the winner os Startup World Competition , is doing just this. The Montreal-based startup beat 15 entrepreneurs from Europe, Africa, North/South America to emerge top at the competition held at Parisoma co-working space. Hyperlocal context. Internet of things.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

I spoke about the need of the CEO, CTO and head of Products to be in the same location. The reality is that due to competition and a desire to keep legal costs down (convertible debt deals are cheaper to implement than priced rounds) there are many deals done with convertible debt. Great exit. -

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. Would they build a world class team.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

” Bill Gross, who is one of the Godfathers of the Internet, once told me, “ If you don’t design a product that is 10x better than the competition then you’ll never build anything truly big or amazing.” ” That’s what we’ve set out to build at MakeSpace. 10x the experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. Ethan recruited a great team of people to help build this proposition including Lisa Robinson running marketing and Rahul Thathoo as CTO who have been working tirelessly for the past year. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award. Nice sweep!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 11, 2012

How do you plan a roadmap to stay ahead of the competition while evaluating the myriad of new opportunities? Panel includes: Dr. Tony Karrer CEO/CTO of TechEmpower; Lisa Ames Director of Marketing Programs for PivotLink ; Eileen Licitra Product Strategy Consultant with Concentric Focus. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

Is there a lot of competition for the rights to all of that content? Lee Essner: That''s one of the competitive edges we have. It comes back to the technology we''ve built, and the team we''ve built. In some cases there is competition, and there are other people trying to acquire a video.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

Danna and his co-founder, CTO Sean Stavropoulos, previously worked together at Fullscreen as head of product and head of engineering, respectively. Individual clients have differing requirements, treatments may take more or less time, and specialists are not robots whose time management can be predicted.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

" When asked about the competition he feared most, Bill Gates is alleged to have said, "the two guys inventing away in a garage somewhere." " I recently performed a 360-Review on two Co-Founders who were the company's CEO and CTO. " Even if this quote is apocryphal, it remains instructive. . "I

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

When we met Shireen (CEO) and Scott (Co-founder & CTO) in late 2014 they had been inspired to create Nima to address their own personal food issues and empower other people to live their healthiest lives. We are predisposed to backing founders who solve problems in which they have personal knowledge that is authentic.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you’ll need and vice versa. That’s normal.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Keeping up with the competition: You’re a market leader in a fast-growing field. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas It’s important to ensure that they’re on a strong footing as significant changes occur. Otherwise, the downstream technical debt created can be overwhelming.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

You should consider: Audience Product Strategy Business Model Competitive Set You probably can't talk to someone at a direct competitor (although ex employees may work), but it is generally easy to find parallel businesses. Who has launched a similar kind of business?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. Fortunately our CTO doesn''t have that problem. People don''t know that in China, you have to do your accounting every month. You''ve got to do your report every month. All the HR policies are completely different.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

Todd introduced me to Andrew, and Andrew is now our CTO. You have all the bidding, going back and forth, and competition which drives the price up. He''s the tech wizard behind this, and managed the databases and infrastructure and all the different types of tools we use to manage our consumer and product data.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. By noon it had fully synched itself. 8211; Garry Tan.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

USC’s Marshall School of Business will host the second annual Silicon Beach Awards (SBAs), a $50,000 venture competition focused on innovation in technology & entertainment. We will also recognize the next generation of innovators as we award over $50,000 to participants in the USC Silicon Beach Awards venture competition.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The basic concept has to make some kind of sense given the technical, market and competitive environment, otherwise nothing else matters. Similarly, a crackerjack CTO might be in the mid six figures, but a kid performing inside sales may start at the opposite end of the spectrum. BUT good ideas are NOT hard to find.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. He tells us you'll get the following benefits from talking to lots of people: There are lots of benefits to talking to people.

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Both Sides of the Table

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.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2014

Wearable World today announced the addition of several key partners to the wearable technology hackathon to be held on an upcoming American Airlines transcontinental flight. “We’ve ” Additional partners including IBM, Deloitte, Nod Labs, and Plantronics have also registered to participate.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2013

“We’ve found that high-tech games spark curiosity about engineering and science so we created the STEAM Carnival to inspire the next generation of inventors,” said CTO and Co-founder, Eric Gradman.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

Software Review 154

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. Startups that come to me and ask me to sign an NDA in order to get Free Startup CTO Consulting really are missing it. He tells us you'll get the following benefits from talking to lots of people: There are lots of benefits to talking to people.

Startup 198

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

Under the executive leadership of Michael Jones, there's a great designer, great CTO, great operations guys, and great lawyers. Those guys have all build and sold businesses, and not only do they bring an enormous amount of experience to the table, they bring a blue chip network to the table, in a highly competitive space.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

We''ve worked out he bugs, and since then have hired a full time CTO and others. We''re talking about an industry which is very competitive, first, and two, one that people overwhelmingly try to avoid. Michael Chasin: Yes, we''re doing transactions. We also have a couple of grad school interns from LMU, UCLA, and elsewhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Throughout all of this we saw a tinkerer, a problem solver and a completely obsessed leader who was competitive and wanted to win. We would have gladly followed Jamie (and Josh Roth, the CTO who is phenomenal and we’ve also known for a decade) right through an IPO if we could have. we were sold on the concept immediately.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

In his recent post, Top 10 Ways to Win a Business Plan Competition , he says: #4 I wanted to push this further down the list, but I just bristle at this: the revenue forecast. Do you need to get past the organizations to the individuals? I’m a regular reader/listener of the Frank Peters Show that talks about Angel Investing.

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