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APRIL 20, 2010

What makes a great tech team? Every great tech startup needs one. Tags: Start-up Advice. I hope many will read this and have an answer for the question, “what’s the different between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?&#. Let’s start with the basics. Engineering teams – feel free to attack! (or

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APRIL 27, 2010

The local tech community is figuring this out, not surprisingly, way before the academic institutions are—and where it is being discovered by academia, it’s being done on a one-off basis by educational revolutionaries in the innovation space who aren’t stopping to ask their schools for permission or to change curricula.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

First, they spend time throwing product ideas over to your tech team like grenades—blowing up carefully laid and simple product roadmaps, scattering them with feature creep shrapnel. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. The Standard Deal The “standard deal” is minimum viable product for business development.

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JULY 17, 2014

I was scanning the SXSWSocial network for anyone that had tagged themselves "Brooklyn". I''m really proud of the work of the people behind the company--Daniela, Jorge, John Levy, who has been with them from the very early days, and their whole tech team. But handy isn''t why I backed it. Handy is the first step to gamechanging.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

When the votes were in, here’s how things stood: Top NYC tech recruiting firm Winter Wyman sponsored the award for Best Company Culture—citing the importance of understanding your own culture and maintaining a healthy environment as keys to hiring. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Thanks Brooke & company!

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

You see, the crowd here was part of the event—and while sure, there isn’t a single entrepreneur who wouldn’t like to hear about the birth of Instapaper or #newtwitter, if you actually put everyone in the room who would have wanted to be there, you’d have the New York Tech Meetup. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

All I had to do was to name 5 black tech startup entrepreneurs in New York City when asked by a reporter to do so. Now, it may be the symptom of a larger problem, like, women are lacking in access to tech jobs, but its not the problem in itself any more than a fever is a sickness. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Just because you use all of the products, read all the tech journals, back-channel at all of the right cocktail parties and know a couple of guys at Twitter or Facebook does not mean that you necessarily have well refined domain knowledge. Expo) gets advanced access to and domain knowledge of the who’s who of the tech world.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In short, they ain’t just gonna throw that away for some new fangled tech toy. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. So the startups tend to focus on totally new customers. They try to capture people that didn’t buy the expensive stuff in the first place because they couldn’t afford it.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Just because someone let you tag on to their seed round doesn't necessarily mean they're going to look to you to lead the Series A in the future, especially if you're going head to head with Sequoia, A16Z, or Union Square Ventures.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

I know that advertising is important to inform consumers of offers – the same reason many tech companies use SEM. In-Stream rewards the content producer, Contextual just the technology provider – The funny thing about contextual search like that in Google is that it benefits the tech company and NOT the content producer at all.

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JUNE 17, 2010

I didn’t take a job in finance because they were willing to pay me more than tech companies were—no tech companies recruited me and I didn’t even know they were in my backyard. Yet, I was very interested in the tech industry. It's largely the same in tech. They have friends going to work for tech companies and startups.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

If this isn’t you, we’d probably still have a look if you did something truly exception – probably at startup or tech firm. We want somebody who is ready, willing and able to debate tech with us. Tags: VC Industry. Where do you think things are heading? Self starter.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Last week I went to a Girls in Tech talk about women entrepreneurs and venture capital. That really rung true to me, especially after a handful of professional interactions I’ve had with young women who just joined the local tech scene. In another situation, I chat on IM with a junior editor for a tech blog on a regular basis.

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MARCH 10, 2010

In the case of Techmeme, half the job is done when you curate the list of which tech blogs you should be paying attention to. Who else in the tech scene bikes? Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology. And that’s actually a much easier task—finding people for me to pay attention to. We know 30 people in common.”

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

As a tech startup grows it needs to develop more process & management if it is to scale. Tags: Start-up Advice. The original post of this article on appeared on GigaOm in a more concise version here. I previously covered how early phase sales teams should be “evangelical&# and consultative in nature.

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APRIL 5, 2010

While he was waiting for the paperwork to be reviewed he moved to Boulder, Colorado and took a job with a local tech company there. TWTFelipe and everybody like him who want to start high-tech, green tech or other scientific companies in the US should be encouraged to do so. Tags: Tech Market Analysis.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

For that reason I don’t even look at deals in the biotech or clean tech fields. My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Obviously I agree.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Are you sure? Is yes, have a seat. Look at a few hands. But make sure you have all 5 skills. Deal flow alone is not good enough. Part 2 in this series will be published tomorrow.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Back in December, I met Nikki Aurora from Icreon Global at the Anniversary Party of the Arts/Tech Meetup. She was just getting her start in the NYC tech scene and we were talking about how to get more involved. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. It’s funny how deals come about.

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AUGUST 14, 2010

if we don’t solve it I fear we might lose some of our best tech talent as 5 of our 8 developers are currently underpaid and have been with us for 2+ eyars. with the pickup in tech hiring we’re seeing a lot of our developers getting calls from other startups.&#. Tags: Startup Advice. we are paying less than market.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Some of my closest friends in tech come from relationships I solidified while I was down at SXSW. 5) Sign up for SX Social , and tag yourself--what you do, where you're from, fun stuff. If you're going to be down there over a weekend, you should be social with people and get to know who they are, not just what they do.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. A couple of quick stories / examples: 1. Making Things Happen. I certainly hope so. But in the UK we used to call this “ promising jam tomorrow.&# I was tired of jam tomorrow. I left the board.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

My partnership was pretty bearish and scratched our heads a bit at price tags. Not just tech companies but industrials, too. And don’t think tech will remain immune. On your tech platforms. And even if you’re not physically in a booming tech market you’re likely in the market spiritually, metaphorically.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Normals (or “Muggles&# as Catarina Fake called them) are people who, unlike Techies, don’t just use products simply because they’re infatuated with them and with showing the world how cool it is that they’re using the latest tech product. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. You should, too.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

If you don’t follow the image reference above or the tag line, “ You don’t need double talk; you need Bob Loblaw “ (try saying it out loud) , and if you care! Now you have money and a crack new tech architect and you’ll have to rebuild everything. the link is here. You need to own your legal agreements.

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MARCH 1, 2010

If your first resort when you have trouble raising money is to complain about New York on a tech blog, you’re really doing yourself a disservice in the relationship building area. Misconception #2: There’s no tech talent in NYC/Wall St. sucks up all the good programmers. Misconception #5: NYC is only good for media startups.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 7, 2025

Automation keeps everyone in the loop by routing leads, tagging ownership, and tracking progress across stages. Common marketing workflows include: Lead capture and tagging : Automatically adding new leads from forms, events, or ad campaigns, and tagging them based on behavior or source. No problem.

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AUGUST 22, 2010

I pretty much thought the Google of the New York tech scene was, in fact, Google. That's why there's a lot of potential low hanging leadership fruit for anyone who cuts across several industries--like Julia Kaganskiy of the Arts & Tech Meetup. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. "We need our own Techcrunch!". "We

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MARCH 18, 2010

Encourage the most successful LA tech entrepreneurs who had previously started companies to get involved as mentors, instructors or just informal advisors. John Morris from the Tech Coast Angels was encouraging me to do something similar. Tags: Launchpad LA. We connected. Launchpad V1 was born. I’m excited.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

Consumer spending is 70% of the economy and will continue to be stretched – We can look all we want at tech innovation, VC funding cycles and hot M&A deals, but ultimately growth and therefore investment must be underpinned by revenue. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

He said that data suggests people prefer to “buy high, sell low.&# And so it goes in tech investing. I’ve lived through two tech market corrections at close range. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. I avoided much of this. In boom times anybody’s money will do.

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DECEMBER 21, 2009

There was a recent TechCrunch UK article by an anonymous VC (yes, I think posting anonymously is chicken shite) that talked about the work ethic of European tech companies versus those Silicon Valley. And the other harsh fact is that in the tech world it seems that the largest company gets the most outsized returns. It’s not.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To say that the tech elite were cynical of Hulu’s launch would be an understatement , but by the time it launched just a few months later it was getting great reviews. Amongst other things it chronicles the frustration many media companies have had in not being able to play by the same rules as the tech companies.

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JUNE 3, 2010

They also gave us Hacker News , which for me was a welcome addition for discovering tech stories. HN and Techmeme are the main two tech aggregators that I frequently skim. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. Is it just me? OK, HN folks, let ‘er rip. I can take it.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

And of course there are the Silicon Valley video startups who think it’s all about the tech and ignore the storytelling.) to provide a curated feed new each day, they’re not just tagging every piece of content, they’re metatagging each frame of content to get viewers what they want, faster Interactivity ?—?by

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