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Why Solving Big Food & Healthcare Problems Will Yield Spectacular Companies

Both Sides of the Table

We know that to be successful we need to fund truly transformational entrepreneurs grounded in unique academic skills and with the self confidence and ambition to try and achieve results in which the market will naturally be skeptical. We can’t wait to see what the next few years bring.

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Many Entrepreneurs Suffer From the Peter Principle

Startup Professionals Musings

For example: be solutions-oriented, able to balance both sides of an issue, and be a quick study. Provide mentoring and formal management training. Great technical gurus get paid very well, and have visible top positions like Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for prestige and respect.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

socalTECH

By the end of my sophomore year, I decided to go after this full time, and that's when I officially brought on a CTO, Shiv Prakash, and we went at it in the summer of 2011, and the rest is kind of history. Both have been great mentors ever since. Whta were you studying before the startup? Scott Ferreira: Yes, that's correct.

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Team Member Competency Is Critical To Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

For example: be solutions-oriented, able to balance both sides of an issue, and be a quick study. Provide mentoring and formal management training. Great technical gurus get paid very well, and have visible top positions like Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for prestige and respect. Marty Zwilling.

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Moving Analytics | Sitting Kills, Moving Heals

Tech Zulu Event

We spent a morning talking about the transition from being an engineer to being an entrepreneur, having the distinction of being the first digital health startup to emerge from USC Viterbi’s Startup Garage , and drilling down to what really matters in all of our entrepreneurial efforts – listening to consumers. This was run out of USC?

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7 Startup Lessons from NBA Finals

Tech Zulu Event

If both the CEO and the CTO are needed to attend an important meeting out of town, who will fulfill their roles of running the company smoothly? Heat coach, Eric Spoelstra adapted to what the Spurs were doing because their initial game plan was not working. 2) Plan and Execute. The Spurs were successfully shutting down LeBron.

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Don’t Let the Peter Principle Kill Your Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

For example: be solutions-oriented, able to balance both sides of an issue, and be a quick study. Provide mentoring and formal management training. Great technical gurus get paid very well, and have visible top positions like Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for prestige and respect.

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