Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2023

The value in a startup is all about tangible results, so I see no equity value in the idea alone. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Keep your wits about you to make sure that dilution is done equitably and evenly. Now comes the reality check.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2020

The value in a startup is all about tangible results, so I see no equity value in the idea alone. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Keep your wits about you to make sure that dilution is done equitably and evenly. Now comes the reality check.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents? Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2016

Brogan Bambrogan, the colorful cofounder of futuristic travel startup Hyperloop, left his position as CTO at the company less than two weeks ago. ” The full claims, as stated in the official document , cover defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, breach of contract, and assault. ” Lots of Threats.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

He also talks about the rate of growth and the need to pick targets, measure and question assumptions when you aren’t achieving your objectives. I talked about some of that here. He talks about making things that people want & going after a big enough market. .” But I do wonder about a couple of things: 1.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Remind me about your background Steve? I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. We just reconnected and so far, what is it we would have talked about if we got together in person? So what do you think about the concept of Visible Networking?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

To shortcut what has been an antiquated way of connecting consumers with attorneys, Los Angeles startup LawKick (www.lawkick.com) has created an online, easy way to match up clients with lawyers, through a set of simple questions and answers about different kinds of legal problems. What''s LawKick about? Thanks, and good luck!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The value in a startup is all about tangible results, so I see no equity value in the idea alone. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Keep your wits about you to make sure that dilution is done equitably and evenly. Now comes the reality check.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. 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. My blog was wiped out.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." If you do build the MVP and show it to them, they will ask you about your metrics. They really want metrics, not a product.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Tell me about Bitvore - what''s your technology used for? It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords. What companies are looking for, and what they care about, are material events. All of our documents were done for raising money, and it was a very simple transaction. Second, it was very low impact.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 2, 2008

My name is Alon Shwartz and I’m the CTO and co-founder of Docstoc, a LA based start-up focused on sharing and finding documents: www.docstoc.com. Check my profile and documents on: www.docstoc.com/Profile/Alon.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 2, 2008

My name is Alon Shwartz and I’m the CTO and co-founder of Docstoc, a LA based start-up focused on sharing and finding documents: www.docstoc.com. Check my profile and documents on: www.docstoc.com/Profile/Alon.

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Alon Schwartz

DECEMBER 2, 2008

My name is Alon Shwartz and I’m the CTO and co-founder of Docstoc, a LA based start-up focused on sharing and finding documents: www.docstoc.com. Check my profile and documents on: www.docstoc.com/Profile/Alon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

In reality, startup titles should be more about the division of labor than an executive position. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

Therese is the former CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems, and has a wealth of experience in the financial software market. We caught up with Therese to hear about her company and why it's growing. I had actually retired from SunGard as CTO before starting BlackLine. It's all about transactions going back and forth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2014

The value in a startup is all about tangible results, so there is no equity value in the idea alone. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Keep your wits about you to make sure that dilution is done equitably and evenly. Now comes the reality check.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2016

We spoke with Mike DeGiorgio , co-founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about what the company is doing. We're thinking about commercial brokers and how they spend each day, and trying to figure out how to make it easier. So tell us a bit about your team and background? How does Crexi work?

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

Justin and Dawn Newton , the co-founders of Netki, spoke to us about the company and its solution. What is Netki's product all about? Behind the scenes, DNS technology is translating that Url to an IP address, so you don't have to worry about it. From NetZero, I went to Demand Media, where I was EVP of IT.

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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 small, and had about ten engineers, providing customer solutions for businesses in Southern California. We then added a scheduling tool and document routing to handle all basic office tasks, and to interface with clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

In reality, startup titles should be more about the division of labor than an executive position. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

The value in a startup is all about tangible results, so I see no equity value in the idea alone. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder. Keep your wits about you to make sure that dilution is done equitably and evenly. Now comes the reality check.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2015

Business Documentation. First off, let’s cover the business documentation. If you need to build proposals, presentations or project documentation, I have been using lucidpress.com. You do need to know the basics about how to code a site because you are basically dragging and dropping HTML and CSS elements.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. What Dave McClure's presentation does is point to some additional metrics that are useful to think about and consider: A : Acquisition - where / what channels do users come from? A : Activation - what % have a "happy" initial experience?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In reality, startup titles should be more about the division of labor than an executive position. The most common ones I see and salute are CEO, CFO, and CTO. A few other credible ones would include Chairman of the Board (COB), Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

If there’s some issue they didn’t think about are they going to be beat up about it? I.e., they need a developer more than they need a CTO. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer. Have they considered everything?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Purpose of an MVP and Defining the Right MVP I've really not talked as much about this in my blog even though its hugely important. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 22, 2010

These instruments exist and are fairly well documented. And, in fact, there are a lot of tools that can assess a given team and tell you about likely issues around communication, leadership, etc. Personality Profiles So, this leads us to the question: Should I use a use a personality profile in my matching algorithm?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. Investors and early customers were becoming worried about the ability of the founder to deliver. We are likely talking about an effort of 4 hours to 2 days. They couldn't plan their business.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. Luckily, some of the folks at TechEmpower just posted Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application. One notable gap in the 32 Questions post is Performance. Mobile delivery possibly with slow connections?

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! Thats when youll need to introduce "Steady" engineers to add some balance.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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