socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It's a pretty credible team and we're starting to staff up on the product and development side. Also, we've got a few entrepreneurs, including Kevin Chou, who is at Kabam up north, and has raised $150M in funding, and Alex Bard, who was at Goowy, which he sold to AOL. I think from a skill set perspective it's very complimentary.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. So many CEO’s just carry on being … CEO’s –> fund raise, get media attention, attend conferences, hire staff, “set direction&# , whatever. Similar with product features. I love that saying.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

They get to meet the team, we do some due diligence, and have them talk to functional experts. How to do fundraising, how to pitch a deal, how to think about managing your product, or managing your development team. Once they pass that, they get into the incubator. We help on that end as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Investors assume it will only go up with more funding. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. For obvious reasons, you need to keep your burn rate low. Great strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Investors assume it will only go up with more funding. As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Tags: entrepreneur startup angel funding burn rate. Great strategy. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

That’s too bad ,” Steve told him, “ because I signed the inside, along with the other members of my development team. So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Big Dumb Companies Are Often Just That. “So

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). I learned how to better run a product management process.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Communicating with the developers who write code.

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