SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

- SoCal CTO , January 13, 2010 5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 No Accounting For Startups - Steve Blank , February 22, 2010 Startup Advice In Exactly Three Words - #StartupTriplets - OnStartups , January (..)

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Coach 378

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

The reason is that like Hollywood these seem to require large up-front investments and seem to be hit driven. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customer development but for physical products.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Yes the real Oscars were also on this past Sunday but if you’re in LA or Hollywood, you wouldn’t be tuning into anything but Startup Weekend LA). Till then — keep the ideas flowing, the customer development at full-speed and your lean cycle and iterations spinning as fast you can! Thanks again Tyler Crowley!

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Hollywood has even made a movie about the founding of Facebook that glamorizes startup life instead of showing what it really is: a day in day out marathon of work with very little glamor. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). What went wrong?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175