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Building Bigger Businesses the Second Time Around – Startups Uncensored #22

Jason Nazar

.” The event was an open, frank and in-depth discussion with an all-star panel consisting of Gil Ebaz (Founder/CEO Factual, Co-Founder of Applied Semantics), Brian Lee (CEO of ShoeDazzle, CO-Founder of LegalZoom), Mark Suster (GRP Partners, [link] ), and Ryan Scott (Founder/CEO of CauseCast, Founder/CTO of NetCreations).

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Reflections on 2016: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

socalTECH

When we first started in 2012, panel programming focused on how to fund your startup, find a CTO, etc. It was amusing and humbling to find my name in the alphabetical listing, appearing after Oprah Winfrey and before Reese Witherspoon. It's amazing how much LA tech has grown since we first started Silicon Beach Fest five years ago.

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Startup 360-Performance Review Result – Improved Time Management - Finding Founder Time

InfoChachkie

I quantified the relative priority of this responsibility as follows: Desire 12 least desirable for CTO to perform. For instance, in the above chart, sitting in on “Technical Customer Calls,” was highly rated by the Founder, but deemed by the Core Team to be a duty that the CTO could effectively delegate.

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Interview with Michael Dubin, Dollar Shave Club

socalTECH

If you look on our site, the Humble Twin is the first inventory we had. Under the executive leadership of Michael Jones, there's a great designer, great CTO, great operations guys, and great lawyers. We somehow got on a conversation about shaving, and he mentioned the price of brand name razors.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

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. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. I was a bit humbled by some of the companies that were funded by the people that I had met. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. I have raised capital in the past from European firms and from US firms.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

Both Sides of the Table

He took this as a challenge and had a CTO in one week. When I see what Paige Craig has done at Betterworks in just a few months I’m humbled. But I do know that until you prove you can do that it’s going to be awfully tough to raise money.&#. He had funding in 4-6 weeks and raised a large round a year later.

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