Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Of course you’ve probably known of Meg as a business leader for many years, formerly as President and CEO of Hewlett Packard and the CEO of eBay before that, but since late 2018 she has been the CEO of Quibi (joining founder Jeffrey Katzenberg as the first employee). Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Based in San Francisco with 13 employees, CEO Zach Coelius. -A Site launched in October and CEO stated ad impressions are increasing ~200% month; now at 15 billion impressions/day.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

This is where management has to step in and help with “aiming.&# Ultimately as you grow this task can be shared between a VP of Sales, VP Marketing and the CEO. This is obviously a marketing & CEO activity. Tags: Sales & Marketing Advice Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I had breakfast with the CEO, Arnie Gullov-Singh , yesterday. Tags: Startup Advice. As they get really senior they hire people to help them with sales ops, comp plans and creating marketing collateral. What you really want are guys like Derek Rey who is doing a tremendous job over at Ad.ly. It was awesome.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 24, 2023

Contributed by Chris Kirksey, an EO member in Austin who is the founder and CEO of Direction , an SEO software and services company that helps entrepreneurs set their online strategy in the right direction to accelerate sales, grow the business, and dominate your market. Accompany each subtask with relevant details and deadlines.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As the co-founder and CEO of PropFuel , Dave is a one-of-a-kind entrepreneur dedicated to creating a place for unique conversations with successful founders and business leaders. But this typically comes with a hefty price tag. Dave Will, an EO Boston member, is the host of the EO 360° podcast.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). The Founder & CEO of Ad.ly He’s exactly what I look for in a technology CEO. is Sean Rad.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

What if you talked to your CEO and told him/her that you were considering an MBA but would prefer to work for the company. Tags: Start-up Advice. Continuity – The other C factor to consider is continuity. Ask if they’d be willing to let you rotate a bit around the company to gain new experiences?

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Nexite , which has developed a radio-powered tagging system and corresponding data platform to read and parse information related to those tagged items, has raised $67 million in a Series C round of funding, and $100 million overall, money that it plans to use both for R&D as well as to roll out services to its first customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 11, 2010

They’re from lawyers or CEO’s requiring analysis before a response. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. And then there are 30 “real&# emails for which I really should read, process and come up with a sensible response. Let’s call these 3 minute emails.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I wanted to shout out loud that we had been working on Pose for the past 9 months but, oh, stealthy CEO’s. Imagine if you could tag items and ask to be notified when they go on sale. Rich shared common views that the explosion in media creation will only continue to accelerate. Gotta respect their wishes.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. This was their next act so they brought domain knowledge.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

At my first company, BuildOnline, we were based in the UK and decided to open US offices (read: create US jobs) but as the CEO I couldn’t leave our HQ. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. I know all of this from first hand experience. So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

The CEO, Rahul Sonnad , played the ukulele and sang a song about what their product did. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Be unique / memorable – The stand out presentation at the actual Twiistup event was Geodelic evidenced by their winning the “audience award&# for best presentation.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. Tags: Startup Advice. We had every reference client we worked with call their senior team members (we had already won a major project at Scottish Water, Anglian Water and another at a large water company in Paris, France). Losing sucks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

CEO Yarden Shaked founded Varos in 2021 with CTO Lior Chen and his father, Gil Shaked and was part of Y Combinator’s summer 2021 batch. Customers connect their data, it is placed into various verticals and tagged in different ways. After talking to marketing leaders for a year, here’s my advice for CEOs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. There were about 8 initial contenders for the work and in the end it came down to just 3 of us. Time is the enemy of all deals. Losing sucks. But at least it has made me a better competitor.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted enables its users to easily: publish (hosting and syndication); access (transcription, tagging, content search, deep integrations); amplify (content atomizing and cross-channel distribution, SEO optimization); and attribute (metrics, data, and AI insights) across all of their audio and video digital content, all in one easy to use, self-serve (..)

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

CEO Jessica Ko was inspired to start the company after her experiences as a designer at Google and Opendoor. By early 2020, Ko (CEO) had teamed up with Alex Zirbel (CTO) to formally start San Francisco-based Playbook. She realized that her teams were spending about 90% of their time digging around Dropbox looking for assets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

In early 2020, Ko (CEO) teamed up with Alex Zirbel (CTO) to launch San Francisco-based Playbook , which she describes as the “Dropbox for designers,” to tackle the challenge. In a nutshell, Playbook claims it can automatically imports, tags, categorizes an organization’s entire media library, in minutes. Image Credits: Playbook.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Josh Sharkey, CEO of Meez. CEO Josh Sharkey, a chef himself for most of his career, incorporated the New York-based technology company back in 2015. It also includes resources that chefs tap into daily, like ingredient yields and unit conversion, a menu cost calculator and automated allergen tagging and nutrition analysis.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The scope of their global service extended across a spectrum of event facets, encompassing participant recruitment, on-site QR check-in, precision name tag printing, engaging interactive survival quizzes, and the exciting prize drawings. “Singapore is renowned for hosting numerous global business events in Asia.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. The tech industry can help with job stimulation, but we’re not immune to macroeconomic trends.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

“The best test environment is reality,” explained the founder and CEO of Manifold Bio, Gleb Kuznetsov. To make this happen it has invented a “protein barcoding” tech that you might think of as molecular RFID tags. The tough part was designing the tags themselves.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Jordan Hauer, Co-founder and CEO, Amass Insights , suggested, “Act as an external company scout for free and feed some dealflow to funds. Tim Friedman, CEO, PEStack , and a Venture Partner with Versatile VC , suggests, “E.g., Identify and connect funds to investable startups. How VCs source winning companies. Look for platform deals.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

As the company’s CEO and co-founder Shail Mehta explained in a TC Early Stage pitch-off earlier this year, The Last Gameboard is a 16-inch square touchscreen device with a custom OS and a sophisticated method of tracking game pieces and hand movements. . We can do unique identifiers with tags and custom shapes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

. “[Our] customers are enterprises facing exponential data growth, often with petabytes of data under management across multiple sectors, especially healthcare and life sciences, public sector, higher education and financial services,” Goswami, who serves as Komprises’ CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Sometimes that will include pivoting the company, sometimes that will see the chair step in to act as CEO so the founder can fully recharge. As with all boards, directors need to hold the founder/CEO and executive to account, but they also tend to be working far more closely with them than in the context of a traditional board.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 6, 2023

echPetHub’s Clemens is Leading Innovation in the Pet Tech Industry I had the pleasure of interviewing Lorien Clemens, co-founder and CEO at PetHub , Inc., She joined PetHub in June of 2011 as the modern pet ID tag startup was in its beginning stages. the first networked database in the U.S. for pets and pet parents.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The actor helped start tbh one year ago and now works alongside co-founders and co-CEOs Elena Guberman and UMANA founder (and tbh investor) Ba Minuzzi with an earnest goal: to offer consumers a less sugary and overall healthier alternative to one of his favorite childhood snacks, Nutella. The biggest complaints were about its high price tag.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Over time, Playbyte’s feed shows you more of the games you enjoyed as the app leverages its understanding of in-game imagery, tags and descriptions, and other engagement analytics to serve up more games it believes you’ll find compelling. — Playbyte (@PlaybyteInc) May 25, 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

“Our custom training user interface is very simple to work with, and requires no prior technical knowledge on any level,” claims Appu Shaji, CEO and chief scientist. . However, these huge archives of raw pixel data are useless on their own. Currently this is being done manually.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Other add-ons products coming in the future include a car seat monitoring sensor, a device that monitors the door, trunk and gas cap, in-cup wireless charging and a tag that provides additional GPS tracking. Keep has also architected a product called Lookout, a small puck that goes on the windshield and can record traffic stops.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Trax’s co-founders, Joel Bar-El (left) and Dror Feldheim (right), and Trax’s CEO, Justin Behar (center). For example, Behar said it can distinguish between near identical or multiple products, deal with visual obstructions like odd angles or products that are obscured by another item and recognize issues with price tags.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Forward it to a friend, share it on Twitter and tag me so I can thank you for reading myself! UiPath co-CEO Rob Enslin still sees plenty of potential despite stock turbulence. If you like this newsletter, do me a quick favor? A reminder that pivots work. Who said schools weren’t experimental! A different version of CVC, I guess.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2020, they were named one of the Best Places to Work in Financial Technology 2020, and the TAG FinTech ADVANCE program recognized Autobooks as one of the most innovative U.S. Jibreel Lockhart, co-founder and CEO of Petram, is an experienced engineer who’s passionate about using data and technology to decode customer behaviors.

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