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83 Articles match "2007","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. With that as a start it rarely feels burdensome. More Visible Networking? this time with Vince Thompson. You’ve got a REALLY diverse background.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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 three lead investors -- including CMEA Capital, U.S. Thankfully, because of Caltech and CRNS--the Center for National Research and Science, 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
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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. Most often I'm being brought in the early stage, Start-up or Expansion (as the company looks at new product lines). My focus in this post is on the Early and Start-up stages - expansion is more of a consulting, focused project role and it acts different. 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
Or look at funding activity if you are considering start-ups. Note: it's often best if people dedicate the time to think through the list with you, but you probably want them in front of a computer so they can look up names real-time. 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 worth putting in my blog.
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Saturday, October 27, 2007
One thing that was interesting is that I'm finally starting to run into folks in Los Angeles who run in technology circles and who have blogs. I was on a panel yesterday at StartupLA . The event was a good event and I ran into a few folks that I hadn't seen in a while and meet a few new people. This is something that I've been having a hard time finding.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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 should be. 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. I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies.
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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 caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). 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. I have been absolutely amazed by what an A++ team can produce in short periods of time. It has reaffirmed every thought I have ever had about my philosophy that great companies are built by great people.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
A startup company’s strengths are centered in its abilities to move quickly and be agile. 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. I say, “we like to go fast, but we don’t hurry�.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
From Ask the VC - What are typical compensation number
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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.” Let me start with a couple of stories.
A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. He’s But the day after you’ll wake up and see yourself more as a manager than an owner. It 8221;
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
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
Interesting attempt to create a start-up over the course of a weekend. It's funny how this expectation around start-ups persists that things can magically be built much, much faster. They failed to get it done in time and they make it sound like they are surprised that it might take longer than a day of programming to build something. They also ignored that a large group of developers can't necessarily build something much faster than a small group.
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