Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2020

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Key factors gating your success will always be your level of competency in your chosen field, level of demand for that skill, and how easily you can be replaced. Writing, audios, and videos are all great ways to do this, since these all facilitate the one-to-many multiplier.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I do not often write blog entries which reference other blog articles. However, I recently came across a truly delightful post entitled, Jeffrey Aaronson’s Improbable Journey with Steve Jobs, the Guy Who Changed His World (and Ours). Image source: ©Jeffrey Aaronson.

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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. I find it distracting that when you click on a link you’re taken away from the main blog and need to hit the back button to remember to finish the article.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Now, as demand for engineered DNA rises, a handful of startups are vying to become the go-to provider for researchers looking for improved versions of the DNA sequences. The company has developed an enzymatic approach to writing DNA that can. On Tuesday, the San Diego biotech said it had raised $12.2

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OCTOBER 12, 2014

For starters some funds are small and thus while they put $750k into your company to own 10% of your company they might not be able to write another $2 million if you then raise a $20 million round (10%). New investors sometimes want older investors NOT to participate so that the new investor can take more of the round.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

A high-performance application will be able to service a large number of requests simultaneously, staying ahead of the incoming demand so that any short-term queuing of requests remains short-term. Todd Hoff’s comprehensive 2009 blog entry on the costs of latency in web applications is still relevant today. High throughput.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Yesterday I saw a Tweet from Chris Sacca fly by that prompted me to want to write a blog post helping entrepreneurs understand why they should push back against VCs asking for “super pro-rata” rights. They might own 8% of your company after the first funding but demand up to 33-50% of your next round of financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Enter P2P lending.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Use blogging, outside publication, and speaking or mentoring opportunities to establish credibility and stand out above peers. You can’t please everyone all the time, so don’t kill yourself trying to satisfy a bad boss or an overly demanding customer. Write down some target objectives and milestones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Writing down key parameters will force you solidify the specifics, and mentally commit to them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

They write and tweet every day, with the single guiding credibility and personality that the new social culture demands. He also co-authored the book "Inbound Marketing" about the power of social media and blogs. Huffington Post, Small Biz Blog , co-founder Arianna Huffington.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2015

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Key factors gating your success will always be your level of competency in your chosen field, level of demand for that skill, and how easily you can be replaced. Writing, audios, and videos are all great ways to do this, since these all facilitate the one-to-many multiplier.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Boy wearing Oculus Rift via Wikipedia As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. It’s not easy money, so expect to work harder than you ever have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2013

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Key factors gating your success will always be your level of competency in your chosen field, level of demand for that skill, and how easily you can be replaced. Writing, audios, and videos are all great ways to do this, since these all facilitate the one-to-many multiplier.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Key factors gating your success will always be your level of competency in your chosen field, level of demand for that skill, and how easily you can be replaced. Writing, audios, and videos are all great ways to do this, since these all facilitate the one-to-many multiplier.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. There’s some stuff here that I even prefer not to put into writing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Billionaire Mark Cuban writes on his blog that it took an incredible amount of commitment and work to benefit from his luck. Gives priority to business demands over social. On the road to success, the buck always stops with you. Some argue that success is all about being "blessed with talent" or even just lucky.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Thus you end up with Demand Media that booms until Google algorithm changes (Panda) changes send it off a cliff along with many other companies overly reliant upon one “place” and one “promotional” method. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. Simply write a great book?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

It is important to realize that most people who are willing to work for sweat equity are not a) the best, b) in demand, and c) going to put their heart and soul into your project. How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea Another option is sweat equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. I actually wrote a long blog post about this but I’m trying to get TechCrunch to publish it before putting it on my blog. Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

What I found out very quickly, is there is a tremendous demand among the independent production community for this information. I really saw it as an opportunity to do something that no one else was doing at the time, so I established the site. We've found there is a big community of people who need access to our data.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. I’m a pretty natural public speaker so I can write my presentation the day before and do just fine. The Urgency Addiction – Deep down I’m a procrastinator.

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MAY 13, 2018

If you’re raising a round where a new lead investor would invest $5 million the VC fund must have no less than $100 million and if you’re looking for them to write $15–20 million as the lead their fund realistically should be at least $400 million. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words. He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. He created demand.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

When he had the idea for his company, he didn’t write a long business plan or try to raise money to hire an agency to build a website for him. If there were more great companies coming out of LA then it would create more demand for high quality VC firms. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

I’m not sure I really even need to write this at length because Nivi absolutely nailed the topic in his article “ The Option Pool Shuffle.&#. If I get demand from people after this video to do a deeper dive on term sheets we will. This starts with understanding how VCs and entrepreneurs often see valuation differently.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. Moonlighting can pay the bills.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. How does it work? How many users so far so far?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

There are many signs to look for when receiving candid feedback from your customers, here’s a few examples of things Make It Work customers say and what we are doing about it: Customer (from a Delight Survey email): Why don’t you offer billing as an option, rather than require payment on demand at the end of the appointment?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

Finally, Swartz founded Demand Progress , a group focused on advocating civil liberties and government reform. Swartz had been open in sharing his battle with depression, often writing his thoughts regarding suicide on his blog. Even without the stresses of the trials, he often felt isolated and different from most people.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

However, due to demand from his readership, Baum was forced to write him back into the adventure series. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com. Even Baum’s readers loved the Wizard. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , the Wizard departs in a balloon, presumably to never be seen again.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! I always wanted to work with Brad for this reason so I started blogging because I figured if transparency worked for Brad I would try the same approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. I think Dave has blogging Tourettes Syndrome when he hears the word VC. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! By Frank Addante Development resources are in high demand. ► October (1) New Video! . ©

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Just as you would not ask your family physician to perform a coronary bypass, do not ask your corporate lawyer to help you write your patent application. He is also the author of an award-winning entrepreneurial blog infoChachkie.com. Sometimes You Do Get What You Pay For. Get real world advice from John Greathouse, Subscribe Today. —.

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