Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A receiver thin enough to be a sleeve on a phone and small enough in surface area requiring the right materials (they can transmit & receive with devices thinner than 5 millimeters), Precision tracking software so they can focus the sound beam to concentrate the sound wave exactly to your receiver and avoid inefficiencies of diffusion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

So today I’m excited to announce that Upfront Ventures is leading an $8 million round with some amazing co-investors including Founder’s Fund, OATV, Lowercase, High Peaks, Collaborative Fund and many great angel investors. After 9 months it was time to raise seed capital and go test drive our new software and processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. The same applies to manufacturing and almost any process these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One ”. In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.”

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Partner Software Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO 269

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. This seems to be occurring more and more.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Startup founders make decisions on a daily basis – significant decisions that will have lasting impact on their business. They look at the code produced on a regular basis to ensure that it’s high quality and right for you. Specifically, they pay attention to: Is our code scalable and extensible? And Maybe You Need Two!

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Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review 260

View from Seed

APRIL 6, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. All applications will be reviewed confidentially. Who Are We Looking For. You act as an “ invited guest.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2018

You get to have interesting conversations with founders and review business plans and then see how these businesses evolve over the years. 1/ From vantage point of being able to see hundreds of companies, good & bad I have some advice for founders - Get to know and love "gross margin."

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TechEmpower

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. If you're grappling with this issue, identifying the specific cause can be difficult, especially if you don’t have a software background. This is where a technical review can be useful!)

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product. Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

AI Agents & Software Personalised AI Agent Development: Create AI agents that can understand user intent, plan actions, and improve through continuous learning, with a focus on specific verticals like travel, healthcare, or finance. The aim is to create a marketplace that fosters smarter apps while ensuring user privacy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. That’s why investors acknowledge that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one focusing on the technical solution, and the other focusing on defining and building the business model.

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View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. . All applications will be reviewed confidentially. Who Are We Looking For. You are hungry. A Final Note.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. Are we right in all of our assumptions and diligence? We checked regulatory rules. We checked safety.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Supportive co-founder and executive positions. Every startup needs two or three key advisors who have the domain experience, connections, and complementary skills to guide the founders through those early crises. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Member of the Advisory Board. Manage customer service.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Along with lack of oversight, outdated software or hardware, inadequate cybersecurity, or one bad tech investment could seal the demise of a small enterprise. is any liability incurred in the development, acquisition, use, and retirement of technology — i.e. hardware and software systems, or the skills set needed to support them.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

They may be interested in consumer products, software, fintech, AI, or green technologies. This is the first piece of paper that a founder sees from a venture capital firm when they are communicating their interest in investing in the company. Due Diligence and Closing the Deal. Understand VC Term Sheets.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2019

by Peter Johnston , founder and CEO of Kalo. Micha Kaufman, CEO and co-founder of Fiverr, believes the freelance ecosystem will become a viable solution for entrepreneurs who need assistance with a variety of tasks for their growing businesses. But what about freelancers? But what type of technology can help?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Sometimes, collaboration and communication come off as the biggest struggles for remote workers due to the lack of face-to-face communication. The MIT Sloan Management Review believes that overcoming these challenges is fundamental for a seamless online workplace. Like its name, Fuze is software that offers several features at once.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes. Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. Let’s dive into these stories.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

This start-up is headed by industry-leading professionals including its CEO and co-founder, Ido Susan, and Hillel Kobrinsky the CSO and co-founder. This start-up company creates software that identifies the origins of code so that it can defend against cyber security threats, and respond to them quickly and efficiently.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2011

He was the founder, after all. I sure wish the founders of Yahoo! When that happens it is no longer acceptable to be the founder on the board trying to reinvent yourself. When Marc Benioff declared “the end of software” industry insiders scoffed. He realized he needed to leave. ” Hallelujah.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. Investor negotiations.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Retention 333

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 10 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. — This is due to the very definition of “average” — you’ll spend half your time before the half-way point, and half after.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm.

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Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

This is hardly a unique investment category, but that’s because the shift in how software is purchased and delivered has been so fundamentally transforming. We of course try to look ahead at what’s next in the marketplace, but the founders we work with do a better job than we do at that. Step-Function Ad Tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Reviewing financial & operational performance. Founder’s perspective.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Combine this with the fact that third-party code or library integration is almost unavoidable these days. It is important from the onset to set simple rules to help ensure coding best practices are followed while dealing with the sheer number of technologies and languages that can be involved in a single project.

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Security Software Review Technical Review Agile 206

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2013

When emails get a bit longer due to background info I often break it up into sections (as I am doing in this post). I am soon going to start piloting a software application to help me do this. I met the founder and saw the demo and loved the functionality / approach. Any sociologist can tell you that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

With my software background at IBM, I’m well aware that technical early adopters value more and more features, and are able to deal with complexity. Growing too fast kills many new ventures, due to staffing costs, inventory, and funding delays. Gather your resources before scaling the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Supportive co-founder and executive positions. Every startup needs two or three key advisors who have the domain experience, connections, and complementary skills to guide the founders through those early crises. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Member of the Advisory Board. Manage customer service.

Advisory Board 312

Advisory Board Startup Dividend Angel Investor 312

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Here are some ways businesses can encourage leaders to engage in healthy behavior and detoxify the culture: Establish specific codes of conduct. Correcting or preventing abusive behavior by leaders means first establishing a code of conduct – with management principles – as an essential part of the corporate culture.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2018

by Collins Brown, CEO & co-founder of MARKET Protocol. This type of storage is largely typified by software wallets, which in turn can be broken into four distinct categories. Some software wallets also support access through multiple devices, so cryptocurrencies can be easily be carried around. Desktop Wallets.

Software Review 202

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With over three decades of experience in private equity investments, acquisitions and mergers, Mark Hauser has developed a keen ability to recognize trends and do his due diligence. with whom they co-invested in the data integrity software company Precisely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

Starting something new is risky, no matter how many experts have reviewed it, or how much money you have. Based on my experience, most startup failures occur simply because the founder gives up too soon, without exploring creative alternatives. You can’t win a race that you never start.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

by Kevin Manship , co-founder of Gamer One. Do your due diligence on market research. Facebook hasn’t said exactly how many VR headsets it’s sold under its Oculus brand, but Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey says the number is “well over” 10 million units. Kevin Manship is the co-founder of Gamer One.

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