Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 30, 2014
Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers. It was impressive.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 26, 2010
Along with detail orientation I have a strong bias for “doers.&# When I ask for a quick demo and the CEO tells me that he’ll schedule a follow-on meeting with his sales rep because, “I’m not a demo guy. I told him that “president&# was a strange title for a startup. But that’s a digression.
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socalTECH
MARCH 26, 2014
I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. We were hired by a company that did outsourced medical billing and consulting for physicial medicine and rehab doctors. They are an LP, which is 75 percent of their fund, but they make direct investments for 25 percent.
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” We hired outside experts. We checked charge times. Time will tell.
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