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.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 22, 2021
Startups can’t usually afford a business development team, so that effort is just one of the measurements that should fall on every CTO and CEO. Budget relatively small “educational investments” at early stages, to learn from a target firm without a full commitment, or without leading either partner astray. Partial acquisition.
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Xconomy
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Small Business Administration as a Growth Accelerator Fund Competition winner. It also got me thinking about what was important for winning this competition. The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego.
Tech Zulu Event
APRIL 30, 2013
The team behind Two Bit Circus hopes to make education entertaining and entertainment more educational, by transforming the way people view games and amusement. When you say ‘engineering’ to most kids they zone out.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 15, 2019
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.
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. Getting the talent is an issue.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 4, 2010
Out of 41 companies who submitted their software for approval, only three were accepted--us, McGraw Hill, and Peoples Education. Software is set to be transformative in the space of education. I take it the software then really requires lots of education experts to make work? But, that's also why we are in software.
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