Slides Software Review Technical Review 
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. If you’re not then you’re not trying hard enough.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 27, 2012
David encourages entrepreneurs to stay away from the big tech firms (such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple) because they are hard to compete with. I believe entrepreneurs should, in David’s words, “build big businesses on the outskirts” but I don’t believe that Silicon Valley tech giants will outmaneuver startups.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.) They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. I rarely see the tech team do this.
InfoChachkie
JULY 7, 2016
Note: I invest almost exclusively in b-to-b software companies. Fool A Fool – I sold surgical robots from PowerPoint slides in the early 1990’s, before the robots existed. In contrast, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. Don’t Demo Me Bro.
SoCal CTO
JULY 13, 2010
10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. " The Bible Code predicted the Sept 11 attacks 5,000 years ago."
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 27, 2019
How Most Board Meeting Prep Works I’ve been sitting on tech boards for two decades so I have some experience with what goes wrong. The deck itself was produced by a committee of functional team lead who were asked to do 5–7 slides each for an update. Each section head reads his / her 5–7 slides. There are too many pages.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? So along come companies like Slide, RockYou & Zynga who wanted to build apps across all the social networks but were green-lighted the hardest by Mark Zuckerberg. No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology.
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