Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

Startups often find it difficult to retain key personnel and to control proprietary ideas. 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. Partial acquisition.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

We came together with the idea of designing something that specifically addresses the skills and opportunity gap in our country. There's a big disconnect between their education and employment. Eventually, the idea was that the entertainment industry's workforce would reflect our audience. How did this start?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. So we discussed his ideas several times. He wanted to be the guy who did it.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Is the idea to have multiple projects as part of the company? The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. The program itself is incredibly daunting initially, but it was really valuable for us, especially as an educational experience.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

If you were a student in college, working on a startup idea, what would spur you to drop your education plans, and go full time on your startup? I started playing around with a similar idea in my freshman year. He really took to the idea, and enjoyed it. Both have been great mentors ever since.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2016

I started as a teenager, and I did babysitting, life guarding, and swim coaching. We've had a lot of advisors along the way, in the financial and technology realm, which has helped us with everything. The biggest transition for us, was taking on a co-founder, our CTO, who has the really intensive tech background.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Startups often find it difficult to retain key personnel and to control proprietary ideas. 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. Partial acquisition.

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