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Daniel Arroyo Tech Entrepreneur. CTO at Astroprint.com

Málaga, Spain

Co-founder & CTO at 3D Printing software company, AstroPrint. Software engineer & Founder Institute graduate. Mobile and SAAS platforms. Former developer evangelist at Nokia. Mobile at Chiill.com.

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Daniel was to the point, and provided exactly the information I needed. Highly recommended.

Source: Clarity David Mercier Dec 9, 2014

Daniel has many excellent qualities to be a leader in his field: knowledge, confidence in his abilities, patience and good humour. He is an excellent resource to be able to draw upon for our project and a top guy to know. He has a full understanding of the technical details which may or may not have a direct effect on a project and is very well hooked in to the many R&D parts of the Nokia business.

Source: LinkedIn Nick Turner-Samuels Feb 3, 2013

Daniel has a great technical expertise as well as a trained sense of project management.
He can grasp the context, see the big picture as well as pinpoint the detail.
It has been a great experience working together with him and looking forward for more cooperation.

Source: LinkedIn Julien Fourgeaud Feb 3, 2013

Daniel is in the top echelon of his field. He is widely recognized for his deep architectural knowledge of Symbian and S60, and is a hot programmer as well. However, he also has a deep interest in, and good intuition for, the business side. Daniel communicates effectively with people ranging from the deepest technical experts to marketing managers. He is an invaluable partner for a product manager/business developer like myself.

Source: LinkedIn private private Feb 3, 2013

Daniel was managing the technical and project relationship from Nokia and I was managing the technical and project relationship from Panasonic. There were many instances where we had to work together closely to resolve critical issues. I found Daniel to be very professional, knowledable and dedicated to resolving issues regardless of difficulty.

Source: LinkedIn Sudeesh Pingili Feb 3, 2013

Daniel is a very sharp individual who has been instrumental to the success of a large number of projects involving a complex mix of hardware and software architecture, systems integration and technical management. Furthermore Daniel is a great communicator who can transfer his knowledge very clearly. I highly recommend him.

Source: LinkedIn Marc Menschenfreund Feb 3, 2013
Daniel Arroyo, Tech Entrepreneur. CTO at Astroprint.com answered:

I'm the CTO of https://3dagogo.com a marketplace of proven to print 3D designs.

We look at the two sides differently. There's not a single customer. In our case you have designers and purchasers ( sometimes the same person can be both ).

Cost and methods for acquiring designers are very different than those to attract purchasers.

I would clearly separate the sides and come up with separate cost structures.

In my opinion when you're looking at the marketplace from the purchaser perspective, the other side's acquisition costs can be seen as fixed marketing costs.

Daniel Arroyo, Tech Entrepreneur. CTO at Astroprint.com answered:

I recently went trough this with https://www.3dagogo.com and previously with http://www.artgonia.com

Find a channel that already carries one side and, find out if you can 'borrow' their content or access to people.

For example you can scrape yellow pages listings for car dealerships ( filling up the seller side ) and make posts of thier pages in your site on Craigslist (getting some buyers to know about you). Make sure your listings have top notch SEO built-in and don't worry too much about the little traffic that Google brings initially, it'll grow.

Make it super easy to share the one action that sets you apart with their friends.

All the while start marketing heavily to the sellers side. Do manual, non scalable work here, it doesn't matter at this point. Promise that you'd post to Craigslist for then, run Facebook ads of the pages in your marketplace, etc. Baby this new customers, learn from them, become their friend.

In my experience it's always easier to find 'brave' sellers willing to try something new. If your product is truly differentiated and you provide the necessary social tools and feedback loops, users will slowly find he site, have great experiences and start talking to about them with their friends and one day... You get critical mass and ball stars rolling on its own.

Good luck. Give me a call if you'd like to brainstorm more.

Daniel Arroyo, Tech Entrepreneur. CTO at Astroprint.com answered:

I'm going to talk from the perspective of a founder, not a lawyer. I also live in California and your state laws might defer.

I think if you are putting hours into your startup, you are also an 'employee' in addition to a founder.

Your board (ie. your cofounders) can decide at any time that you are not pulling your weight in the project and don't want you involved. Thus you can also be 'fired'.

In most vesting agreements there's a right to repurchase unvested shares that the company has. This is essentially how vesting works. The company decides that they don't want you anymore and they have the right to repurchase from you all the unvested shares at the price they were given to you initially ( not current market price ). You can only keep the vested portion.

I hope this helps

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