Check it out at www.sparkbuy.com and see what I’ve been working on for the past 6 months or so. You can also read about it: The New York Times The Wall Street Journal’s All Things D Seattle’s own Geekwire Drop me a line and let me know what you think. (You might want to ...
Dan Shapiro
CEO of Glowforge, creator of Robot Turtles, proud dad
Startups ply you with ownership in the company, typically in the form of stock options. They will argue that there's tremendous value in those shares, more than you'll get from a big company, but they tend to get all nervous-looking when you ask them how *much* value. So what are they worth?
I just wrote a guest post on what it really means to be a startup company CTO over on my friend Scott Porad’s blog. Read it here. Also… I started a new company, Sparkbuy, which I think I forgot to mention. We’re in stealth mode but launching in just over a week. Follow us ...
I just clicked the big blue button right next to his email that linked me to the twitter account that was tied to his address.
Someone’s claiming you’re infringing their patent! You need to figure out how bad the situation is. Or… your boss has asked you to take a look at an old patent you wrote, and see if someone else is infringing it. And you have no recollection whatsoever, because it takes an ...
Modern venture capital is one shining moment of derring-do taking followed by 10 years of risk mitigation. It's sort of like breaking a mirror.
I've had a peaceful, quiet little twitter account since 2006. Then one day, on a lark, I threw up @danshapiro up during a talk that I was giving about RC airplanes. The talk got boingboinged, and my inbox flooded with random folks following me. (Hi!) Ever since, I've had a couple of new ...
In this envelope, I have your Company Culture. We work hard, but value work/life balance. We’re a team culture and we believe in individual empowerment. We give back to the community, and have strong ethics. We hire only the best people, support diversity, and promote growth and ...
It was 2006. Ontela had existed for the better part of a year, and I’d been fundraising and networking my little heart out. People kept saying I should be sure to meet this guy Tom Huseby, but it never seemed to happen. My cofounder, Brian Schultz, and I had wrangled our way in to the ...
So something drew me back, and I read the email one more time. B'H? This is not something you see in your typical Nigerian con.