Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

They provide abundant details and examples, but net out nicely the top six key changes in culture that I also see and recommend on a regular basis to business managers and leaders that I work with. Team members want development plus satisfaction. They want personal and career development. Meet team members on their own turf.

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JULY 6, 2016

You also ran the risk that if you hired employees quickly and then demand wasn’t as strong as expected it was incredibility hard to fire people. After all, if people feel more of a safety net for trying and not succeeding more people are bound to try in the first place and more innovation is almost inevitable.

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). And assuming they both had the same net profit margins (profit / revenue) then the former company would be much better off at the end of the year. If there was strong market demand for their product then this investment might pay off handsomely.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

We had a great launch and have seen great success, which has validated the fact that there is a lot of pent up demand for an organization here. As we have developed over the last few years, we've started running our own events, and tried out our own connect weekend in 2014, and that went to a full week the next year.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. The final piece is online coaching, which allows people, 7 days a week, to click and talk to a professional development coach, and help them go through questions, answer things like what should by resume look like. You've got to know best practices in demand generation.

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MAY 20, 2018

The net result is that often I find founders who don’t really know where they stand, what they would need to do in order to get an investment, who has to decide, what is the process to get that decision and what are the next steps in the process. I have now developed this into my own standard (softer) speech I give to entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. Friedman again in this weekend’s (Apr 3, 2010) NYTimes: “Between 1980 and 2005, virtually all net new jobs created in the U.S. He stated: “China is also courting trouble.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Our major designer was the number two guy on the Lucent 5E development program, so we understand how to design scalability into telecom apps, and scale seamlessly, better than our competitors. The reverse also happens--if one of our users wants to call Skype users, they can do that purely on the net, without using the PSTN.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In developing countries, like China and India, the statistics are reversed. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Two hundred and fifty thousand would have netted my firm more than one billion dollars. 2 (bigger one IMO) is the limited number of metro areas that have the right supply and demand dynamics for this to work as a good service. Uber's development of its marketplace is a textbook example of how to do it right.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

According to Albert Oaten, VP Market Development at SecureDocs , "The number of people that negotiate by saying, ''This doesn''t look like it costs you very much so I don''t know why you don''t charge to cover your costs plus a little extra or have a freemium option,'' is surprisingly large. > The Customer Is Not Always King.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

People are demanding more and more experiential opportunities out of their leisure holidays. It's the first year that baby boomers have been eligible for retirement benefits, and there are people with discretionary income, even in these economic conditions, who are demanding these experiences.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Richards , who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously also was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA, the founding president and COO of MP3.com, There's a gigantic need for the demand side of the marketplace. One of the more successful serial entrepreneurs here in Southern California has been Robin D.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

He pioneered personal training in America, and developed and sold Fit TV, and runs Exercise TV, of which Comcast is a shareholder. Exercise TV is the largest, on-demand, fitness TV network, and is in nearly 40 million homes now, providing on-demand, fitness content from expert trainers.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. I think there is also no denying the role that Richard Rosenblatt has played in building the LA tech ecosystem and spawning great entrepreneurs who followed in his footsteps. ”).

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JANUARY 17, 2011

From left to right I wrote in boxes: talent discovery, content development, production, post-production, distribution, & marketing. Where do the new entrants like YouTube, Pandora, iTunes, Huffington Post, Boxee, Netflix, Demand Media and other disruptive offerings fit into that equation and how is it changing?

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 The arrival of techies has also had a profound effect on the rental market, brokers and real-estate developers say. Developers are scrambling to cater to the influx. Loading… Real Estate. » More.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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