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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. I had written about Mike before but hadn’t disclosed his name. ” It’s true.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

Your name has come up a lot in that regard. They also over-invest in solo founders and founding teams without technical cofounders despite indicators that show that these teams have a much lower probability of success. Technical-heavy founding teams are 3.3x It was signed Max Marmer. “How old are you?

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. And my specialty was computer networks.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard. Yesterday, Michael Pope posted an article titled Technical Cofounders Are a Myth. He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Tuesday, August 17, 2010.

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The Magic Midnight Mind Meld

Both Sides of the Table

Every night you are just hanging out with big name bands and the teams around them that brought them to their peak.&#. This time on mysterious party bus to nowhere but situated with the CTO & Cofounder of Living Social, Aaron Batalion. Update: Yes, a lot of name dropping in this post. I like that idea.

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20 Best Biographies For Tech-Minded Students

YoungUpstarts

This fascinating story is his account of his incredible run from the Feds while cracking into the databases of such big names as Sun Microsystems and Motorola. And for all the technical parts, the emotional and psychological aspects of the job still shine through. Kevin Mitnick was the Frank Abignale of computer hacking.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Now I have. Twittering.

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