In my post, Technology Roles in Startups , I described some of the different ways I engage with startup companies such as CTO Founder , CTO , Part-Time CTO , Acting CTO , Consultant, Advisor and Advisory Board Member. I thought it was worth capturing a bit more about Advisory Roles, Advisory Boards and particularly Technology-Oriented Advisors – who are often thought of a bit different when it comes to those roles. Actually, if you look back, advisory boards came from being Technical Advisory Boards where the advisors were primarily professors, researchers, experienced practitioners

If you don’t understand why this is important I encourage you to do a little Google research.  Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice . I

My role is to work as part of the team to (1) understand related technologies and technical opportunities, (2) understand and help drive alignment around a vision of where the business should go, and (3) mesh those together to help make disciplined, proactive technical decisions. Technical Strategy I support the technical team to: review short and long-term technology strategies to help direct strategic technical decisions and help to ensure appropriate technology usage, help define needed technical research activities, assess new and emerging technologies to determine application

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups. Background This post partly really came about as a result of a great conversation yesterday with David Croslin a former CTO at HP who recently conducted an interesting experiment. He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional

We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 Gartner, Forrester, Jupiter and AMR Research all had good things to say about us.  Goldman Tags: Start-up Advice startup technolog This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons” Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50.  Worth

You should do enough research about the VC to sound like you know a bit about their investments and find some that are related to you in some way as a means of trying to engage the VC in a dialog. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capita photo courtesy of Atlanta Braves This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC .”

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It can be a simple email on any topic and toward the end say, “I’ve included some links to the most important (or most recent) articles covering us in case it helps with your research.” Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice startup technology v Handling PR with VCs This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally.

Pasadena-based Arrowhead Research, a publicly held firm commercialization technology in the life sciences, electronics, and energy markets, said today that it has raised $5.4M The shift of funds from Tego Biosciences to Arrowhead was a result of Tego deciding to focus on licensing, rather than internally developing, its technolog for a number of the firm's subsidiaries. According to Arrowhead, it raised $2.7M

San Diego-based Traversa Therapeutics , a biopharmaceuticals firm developing RNA interference (RNAi) technology, said earlier this week that it has named Curt W. Bradshaw as Vice President of Research and Development. Tags: lifescience biotech research executive biopharmaceuticals biopharma therapeutics travers Bradshaw joins the firm from CovX, where he was Vice President of Chemistry. Bradshaw has also previously served at Ligand Pharmaceuticals and Abbott Laboratories. ...Tags: