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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. I provided a whole set of questions that I go through with founders before Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything. I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

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And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm. Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. Most funds are 10 years in length and the initial investment period is normally 3-5 years.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

The Torch program created Innovation Clusters by creating national Science and Technology Industrial Parks (STIPs), Software Parks, and Productivity Promotion Centers. In addition to the 54 Science and Technology Industrial Parks, the Torch program also set up an additional 32 Torch Program Software Parks. Venture Guiding Fund.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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Meet Benchmark’s New Partner: Eric Vishria

abovethecrowd.com

Today Benchmark announced that Eric Vishria has joined us as a General Partner. Eric is one of the up-and-coming stars in the technology industry, and we are very excited he is becoming our partner. In Benchmark’s team dynamic, character and attitude really matter. He stayed briefly at HP as a vice president.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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But I pointed out that he would be up against competitors that had spend years building relationships with the big financial services companies (as well as channel partners) and he was going to have to start from scratch. Their first company was called Traffic.com, which they sold in March 2007 to Navteq for $180 million (not too shabby).

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