For Entrepreneurs
We asked our good friend and serial entrepreneur, Brandon Hance (Founder and CEO of Audiolife.com), for his insights on the often difficult to navigate world of Venture Capital (VC). If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, successful entrepreneur, or anyone interested in VC, check out these resources he recommends:
“Good to know” VCs and Thought Leaders
Dave McClure
Mark Suster
Eric Ries
Steve Blank
Sean Ellis
Andrew Chen
Tech Stars Team:
David Cohen, Founder and CEO and Managing Director, Boulder and NYC
Nicole Glaros, Managing Director, Boulder
David Tisch, Director, NYC
Andy Sack, Managing Director, Seattle
Tom Keller, Managing Director, International
Y Combinator Team:
Trevor Blackwell is the founder of Anybots, where he developed the first dynamically balancing biped robot. He has published papers on congestion control in high speed wide area networks, signalling protocol architecture, and file system performance. For fun he reverse-engineered the Segway, writing all the software in one day. He has a BEng from Carleton, and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.
Paul Buchheit is the creator of GMail. While at Google he also built the prototype for AdSense, and came up with Google’s now famous slogan “Don’t be evil.” In 2007 he was one of the founders of Friendfeed, which in 2009 became Facebook’s largest acquisition to date. He has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University.
Paul Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first ASP, which in 1998 became Yahoo! Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.
Jessica Livingston was previously VP of Marketing at investment bank Adams Harkness, where she managed an award-winning rebranding of the company. She is the author of Founders at Work (2007), a book of interviews with startup founders. She has a BA in English from Bucknell.
Robert Morris is an associate professor of computer science at MIT, where he is a member of the PDOS group. He has published extensively on wireless networks, distributed operating systems, and peer-to-peer applications. In 1988 his discovery of buffer overflow first brought the Internet to the attention of the general public. He has an AB and PhD in Computer Science from Harvard.
Harj Taggar was previously founder of Auctomatic, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2007 and was acquired by Live Current Media in 2008. He graduated in 2006 from Oxford, where he studied law.
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http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/
