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61 Articles match "2007","Company","Startup"
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. also serve as CEO of a small media companies that profile “Tomorrow’s Most Exciting People Today”. More Visible Networking? this time with Vince Thompson. You’ve got
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
That would be analogous to us calling a company the Lead Acid Battery or Alkaline Battery Company. So, we came up with a name that was broader, and more than about CFX chemistry. We came up with Contour Energy, with a tag line of Reshaping Portable Power. As a result, in 2007, our Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. This week, the firm announced that it was renaming itself Contour Energy (www.contourenergy.com)--and said it was ready to talk
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Monday, March 8, 2010
With your printed ticket, security at the entrance would let you past the rope and up the stairs you needed to wind your way back to the theater. Attire ranged from t-shirts and jeans to button-up shirts with coats, with a handful of some funkier attire. They have a different speaker each week, usually announced a couple weeks prior, starting about 30mins in and speaking for perhaps 45mins. Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
I generally am working as an acting CTO for about 3-4 start-ups or other companies at any one time. I also found this interesting graphic of the changing needs around the CTO role in different size/type companies that somewhat echoes my experience. ( Roger Smith ) This helps explain where I normally play. Most often I'm being brought in the early stage, Start-up or Expansion (as the company looks at new product lines). I was just talking with someone who asked me to define how that could work and what they meant. Great question.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
So the key question is: How can I leverage my network? One Page Networking Tool One of the best things I've seen done by a person doing a search was to provide folks he knew with a one pager that roughly contained: Background - two sentences Job Sought - two sentences Company Characteristics - geography, size, industry, etc. Companies - a list of 25 companies that fit the bill. For some reason over the past week, I've been asked by three different people I know about job opportunities that might fit them. Since, I've given them the same advice, I thought it was
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up . I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity . I Great companies are comprised of great individual point people or functional leaders.
There are plenty of great leaders who work really hard and work for big companies. And This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful . I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs.
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Thursday, July 5, 2007
The first few weeks of starting my newest company (Startup 6.0: the Rubicon Project) have reminded me of how critical it is to have the right team. It has reaffirmed every thought I have ever had about my philosophy that great companies are built by great people.
To I have been absolutely amazed by what an A++ team can produce in short periods of time. To
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Monday, July 30, 2007
A startup company’s strengths are centered in its abilities to move quickly and be agile. I believe that the success-rates of all of my companies is largely due to speed being ingrained in the compan My team is sure to crack a smirk every time someone asks me what our timeline is. They smirk because they know exactly how I’m going to respond.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice ” but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.” If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. It’s Let me start with a couple of stories.
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It’s that simple. Only
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Will's post talks about lack of interest in working for startups here in Southern California, saying: ..we probably’d don’t have the: a) same support infrastructure (meet-ups, networking events, etc.); b) history of success; and c) abundance of start-up companies (so if one fails there is another to jump on). On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. we
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Sunday, October 7, 2007
I've been reading or hearing quite a bit about how startups these days don't take nearly as much capital to create as they used to. In this post RWW talks about some of the new kind of approaches to funding: Y Combinator is creating tech companies with a tiny (10-20K) seed investment; Charles River Ventures started a Quick start program; Jeff Clavier launched a 12M fund for tech startups. And there will be examples What used to cost $1M now takes $100K. If that's actually true, then it creates New Rules Of Technology VC .
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
started with a Top 10 list for Nivi (at VentureHacks), but I couldn’t cram it into 10 so it became a Top 11 list. I If your last company was Apple, Blackberry, AdMob or JAMDAT and you have some experience in the sector then I know that your product will have your experiences baked into it. When He’s built two ad network companies – he knows what he’s doing. I’ve This is the final part of my series on Entrepreneurial DNA that was originally published on VentureHacks . OK, OK, it’s not really my final part.
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