Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2013
Our industry just took one big step towards legitimacy with the hiring of renowned media exec Ynon Kreiz to run Maker Studios. This followed an investment late last year by Time Warner in the company in a round totaling $36 million , led by Rachel Lam , head of their investment group.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 16, 2024
But substantial investments are also being deployed into emerging startups, particularly into vertical applications. Vertical Applications Taking Off. A large portion of the funding and innovation in voice AI is concentrated on applications for specific industry verticals. Virtual employees for hire. Google paid $2.6
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 19, 2017
by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. Many argue that since their goal is to become a large company, they might as well hire the team early – because they will be needed down the road. If there is a possibility of a Pivot, the person you just hired may not be the right person after the Pivot.
www.informationarbitrage.com
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing. 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. So my advice to CTO / Founders?
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
Supercomputers get Personal Back in Sunnyvale my friend had not only been hired but had convinced the team that we should be building hardware – making a new class of computers not a software application. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He We’re building a supercomputer.”
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital).
Steve Blank
JULY 30, 2009
Unfortunately most startups learn this by going through the “Fire the first Sales VP&# drill: You start your company with a list of potential customers reading like a “who’s who&# of whatever vertical market you’re in (or the Fortune 1000 list.) Your board nods sagely at your target customer list.
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