Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

Just because it was your idea doesn’t mean you “deserve” 90% of the equity. The value in a startup is all about tangible results, so I see no equity value in the idea alone. Key to required patents or trade secrets. Your idea is not intellectual property yet, so it has no inherent value. Now comes the reality check.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Who in the auto industry believed Tesla, a totally electric car, was a good idea? of Elon’s ideas to come to fruition and let him fail on the rest. If there is something holding these big ideas back, it is not a shortage of money or even the barrier of insurmountable technical hurdles. We checked patents.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

They had twelve people when I took over at FrontBridge, which was then an interesting idea. I got involved with Telesign when we had twelve people, and a super interesting idea. My first big move here, when I came to Telesign, was I felt we needed a high quality CTO. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Below are 50 ideas for step 2. We get it! I Be specific. Tesla is not. It's a great talk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

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). Chief Evangelist. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Security Officer.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Alan Chaney is our Chief Architect, and ran Olivetti Resaerch in the UK. That''s really where the genesis of this comes from, and we have patents around the idea of continually analyzing both structure and semistructured data from a wide variety of sources, simultaneously. That''s the unique nature of this technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

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). Chief Evangelist. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Security Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

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). Chief Evangelist. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Security Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. Many entrepreneurs have an idea but don’t know how to monetize it. It also helps if there is a reason that other people can’t compete with you, either because of some trade secret or patent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). Traction means forward progress.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Actually, David’s taking even broader roles than I generally do as he’s CEO for at least one startup.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Ruan is the CEO of the firm, and Dr. Patterson is the CTO. Ruan and Patterson tell us a bit about the service and how it was inspired by Twitter, the company's experience spinning out technology from UC Irvine, and what its plans are now. What's the idea behind Quub? What's the business model behind this?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. 8211; Garry Tan. Here are some things to consider.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

We spoke with Mike Outmesguine , CEO and Alan DeRossett , CTO of the company, and how their roots in do-it-yourself, "Maker" projects is key to their entry into the prize competition. So the idea is to create a device that does all of that, and you get judged on how well it does, and how easy it is to use. Mann implantable device area.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

I setup a nice little home office for myself and started dabbling with a few ideas. I started an incubator/holdings company called Addante and Associates to be the umbrella company for my ideas and consulting projects. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2012

Another common “failure to start” situation I see is one where the “idea person” insists that the idea is 90% of the value (and 90% of the equity). In the real world, the "idea" is a very small part of the overall equation. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? Pre-existing intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Another common “failure to start” situation I see is one where the “idea person” insists that the idea is 90% of the value (and 90% of the equity). In the real world, the "idea" is a very small part of the overall equation. Who will be the CEO, CFO, and CTO? Pre-existing intellectual property.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. We are about to head on a four-month, 48-state road trip to help people across America bring their ideas to life and shine the light on some of the amazing entrepreneurs and communities. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

– Premium Online Advertising Company Age: 21 - 25 Time Period: 1997 - 2001 My Role: Chief Technology Officer, Technology Founder and Chairman, Advisory Board High Point: $500 million market cap; 3,000+ customers; 8 billion transactions per month; 65% Internet reach Warning, this will be a long posting. Bootstrap 2.

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