Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There is a battle between entrepreneurs who try to change the world and solve a meaningful problem and those who write take-down pieces with no apparent personal benefit other than attention. Of course the naysayers are out again. I, of course, am betting on the former and am not 1% swayed by the doubters. Of course not.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

The mistake entrepreneurs make is either writing a lengthy email (everybody has too much email so it will get skimmed / not digested) or not having a deck which means the VC can’t quickly determine his or her fit as a potential investor. The key is WHAT you send. But what about the privacy / confidentiality concern?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. Writing a book will be fun. We brought Ryan Lissack down from San Francisco to become Maker’s CTO and the rest is history. You REALLY know.

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CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. Cliff, remind me about your background? Great stuff.

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Los Angeles Networking Marketing Startup 150

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Goal Setting and Making Plans There’s a lot of content that already exists around the basics of goal setting, i.e., SMART goals: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely However, it’s far easier to teach someone about these than it is to help them create the goals themselves. Yes, I’m yelling – it’s really that bad.

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Satisfaction Examples Course Technical Review 167

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

Not only is the volume going up, but more people are accessing the internet, which adds complexity across the networks, whether it's via a PC connection at your office, through your iPad as you're roaming, or your iPhone. Of course, since we're venture backed, we do have to consider our investors, as they're looking at some point for an exit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

Colin Kelley, the CTO of RingRevenue , left a comment in my last post about the need to “ mask interrupts &# in order to get work done. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. People who go to this course end up feeling like they had a near religious experience.

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Product Startup Email Technical Review 280

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. But when I’m looking to write my check I need to look in the eyes of the captain — the maestro who brings the whole orchestra together. He and his partner told me about this new idea over the course of nearly a year. Not my problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes. And covered we did.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

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. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. The reason we were able to offer our course at that price point, and why we have our scholarship policy, is because our internal systems allow us to run the business very efficiently, and consistently, with a minimum number of internal staff.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Of course, not all VCs are like that, and I've started some good relationships with them, but others are complete a**holes. So, how is it you ended up going from a technology infrastructure entrepreneur at SkyPipeline, to the consumer market with Visalus? As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Some data like those in the studies I mentioned above might help influence our thinking but the answer is, in the end, subjective. I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. Of course I don’t believe this argument. So it is with entrepreneurship.

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Startup Statistics Entrepreneur Study 289

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

As of writing, my twin and I serve as the Co-CEOs and Co-Presidents at LAGbook. Other people on the LAGbook Team include Josh Osemwegie (our Chief Financial Officer), Nosa Ilegbinehi (our Chief Publicity Officer), and Emmanuel Alugo (our Chief Technology Officer). We’re a team of 5.

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Social Network Networking Advertising Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Just 20 years old and a recent Harvard University dropout, Olenka provided insight into her transition to Los Angeles, life as an entrepreneur, and how she’s passionate about helping non-English speakers see American movies in their own native language. He’s a former President of Sony Pictures Technologies and former CTO of Warner Bros.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? I see this emerging in Seattle and the passion of “a few key individuals&# who can help shift the game.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. If you asked me to tell you a list of three of the best decisions in my life, I can certainly tell you that regularly writing is one of them. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. He launched a business called Unsubscribe, which helped consumers deal with the deluge of email lists that one gets signed up to and get rid of them all.

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Startup Pricing Product Marketing 247

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

But from a value perspective, it really comes down to the numbers I showed for my eLearning Technology blog. Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Of course, those are highly suspect numbers from Feedburner. Be interested in what they write.

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Social Media Services Media Blogging 222

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not. Nah, of course not. I’ll write that post one day – it is a very interesting story. And experience.

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CTO Hire Technical Review Startup Demand 363

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Equity allocation is usually the first point in a startup where outside help should be considered (legal counsel, potential investors, startup advisors), as they may be able to provide experience and more importantly, an unbiased view that the entire team can trust. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO?

Startup 101

Startup Entrepreneur Equity CTO Hire 101

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Equity allocation is usually the first point in a startup where outside help should be considered (legal counsel, potential investors, startup advisors), as they may be able to provide experience and more importantly, an unbiased view that the entire team can trust. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO?

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Equity Startup CTO Hire CTO Coach 91

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 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 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Not so bad.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging Software Review 217