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Finding and Growing the Islands of Innovation inside a large company – Action Plan for A New CTO

Steve Blank

How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? How not to waste your first six months as a new CTO thinking you’re making progress when the status quo is working to keep you at bay? But this is the first time he was the CTO of a company this size.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Reducing Startup Risk.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. What I’m challenged with as a small business owner is, I don’t know if it’s the press, or if it’s just the culture in general, but there’s this pressing vanity metric of, How much capital have you raised? And the technical term is, fool.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. Joshua Baer is a serial entrepreneur and founder/Executive Director of Capital Factory , the largest coworking space and tech incubator in Austin.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. I took a few of the relevant metrics – unique visitors, revenue and market capitalization – and calculated a few ratios to demonstrate how good a job TripAdvisors does at monetizing their users.

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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Stanford Podcasts - eHarmony - Greg Waldorf I was just pointed to a set of great podcasts done by Stanford B-School and particularly, I just listed to the podcast by eHarmonys Greg Waldorf. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.