Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2013
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. Ynon started as shareholder, board member & advisor and switches to full-time executive.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2009
Posted on June 11, 2009 by steveblank When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask them to take a walk around the block and ask themselves: Are you comfortable with: Chaos – startups are disorganized Uncertainty – startups never go per plan Are you: Resilient – at times you will fail – badly.
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Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) I was the Senior Technical Writer for SMac from 1988-1991. There was nothing for the consumer to do. No settings, no buttons – plug your camera or VCR in and it just worked seamlessly. It worked great on the slow CPUs at the time.
Ben's Blog
APRIL 28, 2010
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. Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. Siebel—Tom Siebel.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 28, 2021
They say that necessity is the mother of all invention, and since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, no other vertical has been so severely impacted quite like travel and hospitality. Michael Katz the cofounder and CEO of mParticle. Across many companies, the mandate became clear: do more with less.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 16, 2012
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. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 24, 2011
How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. And if you did make one that was kind of like these three, in that vertical, you’d be awesome. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try).
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