Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

But not anal if one founder who shares equity graciously with early employees who are treated as “co-founders” My idea startup team is heaving on tech personnel but also has strong product management. Ok, well not that pretty since I do my own slides and often at 1am. I think they care that there is a deep bench of talent.

Startup 388

Startup Slides Outsource Development Sales 388

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Getting suppliers to accept terms that they said they never normally agree, getting accepted to speak on a panel when the conference organizer initially said “no,&# getting people to moonlight for you until you have the cash to bring them on board. Another side of JFDI is finding ways to get stuff done that seem impossible.

Entrepreneur 414

Entrepreneur Technical Review Slides CTO Coach 414

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I spoke at Michael Kim’s excellent annual Cendana VC/LP conference today. I put up this slide as part of my discussion. I put up this slide as part of my discussion. One of the points I tried to make is that as venture capital investors as an industry we seem to have a healthy disdain for public market investors.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Slides Capital Funding 150

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). It’s good fun to create something as scaled down as 20 slides at 20 seconds each.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175