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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. My only other complaint is that right now its very hard to find good technical people at all levels.

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Our Second Rotation Investment

Genuine VC

As I noted in my post last fall about “ Seven Coming Digital Uber-trends which Are Ripe for Startup Opportunities ,” consumers have an progressively heightened awareness around living green, and the web provides a natural vehicle for connecting people to resources and services which lessen impact of individuals on environment.

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Our Second Rotation Investment

Genuine VC

As I noted in my post last fall about “ Seven Coming Digital Uber-trends which Are Ripe for Startup Opportunities ,” consumers have an progressively heightened awareness around living green, and the web provides a natural vehicle for connecting people to resources and services which lessen impact of individuals on environment.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. Despite this dynamic history, modern record company executives badly missed the most sweeping technical innovation—the Internet.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 We use a patented, proprietary ingredient Floralux which is naturally derived from chlorophyll (the green stuff in plants). Floralux is what makes our Restore Gel green. So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.

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Solo Co-founders

K9 Ventures

A shout out to Logan Green and John Zimmer, co-founders of Lyft here. This could very well be a friend, a spouse, a significant other, a mentor, an advisor, and in rare cases an investor. Co-founders who truly share the emotional load of doing a startup with each other are incredibly lucky.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Ron Oh and another factor to bring reality to the table - Sometimes you find out your cofounders suck.