Why listen: Roger teaches you what he learned from a startup that spent $20 mil before closing. Why listen: Timothy teaches you to network with bloggers to create an insanely successful book or startup. 12.     Mark Jeffrey - CTO, Mahalo Why Why listen: 1.     Rosalind Resnick - Founder of NetCreations Why Why listen: Rosalind bootstrapped a company that she eventually took public.

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. started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur :  Tenacity .  I So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders I I then covered  Street Smarts ,  Ability to Pivot ,  Resiliency ,  Inspiration and Perspiration .

I scan it for the most important messages to be sure nothing urgent has popped up. Colin Kelley, the CTO of RingRevenue , left a comment in my last post about the need to “ mask interrupts ” in order to get work done.  It 8221; They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan ” and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I

This is part of my Startup Advice series. 8221;)  I believe that being successful as an entrepreneur requires you to get lots of things done.  Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right.  Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it.  I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI.  (In In case it’s not obvious it’s a play on the Nike slogan, “Just Do It.”) 

I grew up believing that human behavior was 20% nature, 80% nurture.  Now In my bones I’m convinced that entrepreneurs are more nature than nurture although I know both are involved.  Fred I have recently written extensively on what I believe the 12 characteristics of an entrepreneur are. Nature vs. Nurture.  You’ve

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.  started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur :  Tenacity .  I I’ll start with an obvious one – The full list is now posted there if you want a sneak preview.  I’ll try to add a few extra comments in my posts to keep in interesting.

Mark is a CTO, see, and his company, PortBlue , was recently acquired (congrats, Mark!). will start with the highest level and work my down to the nitty-gritty of the tech trade. LA CTO Forum – This is a private community of CTOs in the southern California area. For meeting interesting My friend Mark Long recently asked me about networking in Los Angeles. After transitioning to the new team, Mark was left to wonder, what now?

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs.  Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO.  This blog post ended up on Valleywag (which had much bigger presence back then). After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company.  My blog was wiped out. 

This is part of my Startup Advice series often have career discussions with entrepreneurs – both young and more mature – whether they should join company “X” or not.  I at a startup that has already raised $5 million the chances of you making your retirement money on that company is EXTREMELY small.  I I usually pull the old trick of answering a question with a question. 

I just got done reading a post by Roger Ehrenberg Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business where he suggests that CTO Founders should not move too early in finding a business cofounder: Too often, however, I have found CTO / Founders paired with business people who not only don't add value, but frequently detract from the value of the business. This is not only sad but incredibly frustrating, because it is so easy to see how a great technology can be developed and commercialized if only - if only the CTO hadn't been impulsive and insecure and