Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I refer back to the classic book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run several successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised many millions of dollars. billion globally by 2030, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

He is the author of various best selling books including Practical Information Architecture, Web Dogma ’06 and Usable Usability. Reiss will sign copies of his recently published book, Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better after the Usable Usability — Lean UX starts right here workshop.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. Pro tip: take on the mantle of book editor for a major tech publication, and the publishers will mail you books for free. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

I recently spoke with Steve Blank, author of the new book The Startup Owner’s Manual. So the fact that it is a badly edited, missing sentences, complete your own and finish your own sentences (book) – basically we can blame it all on Eric. Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. Enter Eric Ries .

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JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. Many people are visual thinkers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

I refer back to the classic book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run several successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised many millions of dollars. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. If the authors are inviting fans to write fan fiction about a universe they created, who owns the derivative works? Another unabashed proponent of fan fiction is N.K.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

I personally find that writing down my business plan is a good discipline to incent me to think through all the issues, and do the research on the alternatives available. As a hardware designer, I’m sure you do the same thing as you document your product specifications and pass them on to other members of your team for implementation.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You likely are writing your first one of these. Send across any graphic designs you currently have. Towards An Integrated Approach to UX Design You should definitely look at Steve Blank's book and review his blog. So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The book Summerhill School greatly impacted Lynda as a child. I had problems with reading and writing and comprehension and a lot of social abilities. In 1995, Lynda wrote one of the first books on web design, Designing Web Graphics. Frustrated Students Create A New-Fangled Learning Company .

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 16, 2015

It is leading you to the bookstore, past the magazines, past the thrillers, mysteries and travel guides and directly to that coffee table book about World War I aircraft your father has been talking about buying for six months. Picture a coloring book where the image you’re coloring comes to life when you point your smartphone camera on it.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 15, 2015

People care about salving their pain, not the origin, design and composition of the painkiller. In describing effective writing, the best-selling author Stephen King notes that, “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.” In his book Fiction Writer’s Brainstormer, James V. Stephen King Startup Tip.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2018

They allow me to preview new devices and technologies before release so that I might write about and speak about them in my “Tech Trends” keynotes. It did not hurt that Apple always seemed to trump the competition in design of the product and the product’s user interface too. My “way too early” story. How it worked. Our test sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

These are tech launch events designed to see new startups unveiled. And ever since then every year we are subjected to the tech press corps writing the annual, “What will the hot company at SXSW be? I’m not advocating that you shouldn’t present at tech startup events like Launch, TechCrunch 50, DEMO or similar.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. 8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. Meredith Publishing.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. 8 ) I love the fact that you literally “wrote the book” on web design, because it was a book you wanted to read and it didn’t yet exist. Meredith Publishing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time. Frankly, it’s the life of ANY executives with whom you want to sell product, do a business development deal with, execute M&A, a journalist you want to write about your company?—?anybody.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2015

As a creative director at a software development company, I am always looking for ways to speed up our design and development process and to include as many people and teams working on the project. These teams are usually: business, design, frontend, development, and quality assurance. Sitemap & Wire-Framing. Pretty, cool.

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JULY 9, 2012

I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. He is profiled in my favorite book about ADHD, Delivered From Distraction , where the author talks about high-performance ADHD professionals. I’ve been told so. How can anybody do 500 startups?”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Recently, I completed a new book, “ Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself ,” by Mike Michalowicz, that really helped me pull my own thoughts and recommendations together for the beleaguered business owners I try to help. Make sure you focus your design efforts on this area, and delegate or cut time spent on all the rest.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2011

They allow me to preview new devices and technologies before release so that I might write about and speak about them in my “Tech Trends” keynotes. If a future date was already booked at 80%, then they would eliminate any discounts below 10% from the “rack” or standard room rate. Marriott called theirs “tier pricing”.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

Designate a Work Area . In fact, if you don't have a regular meeting on the books, preferably over video, you could end up not seeing your employees at all. You don't have to write out an hour-by-hour schedule or even keep track of your daily activities. Designate a Work Area. Avoid Public WiFi . Avoid Phishing Scams

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Now, you’re handling payroll and doing writing as well. You may even discover that you enjoy writing more than crunching numbers. Piaw Na, who spent over six years at Google, writes on Quora that she recommends fresh grads to join a startup instead of big companies. Evernote office image courtesy of Design Milk via Pinterest.

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Venice Beach-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com) has created sofdtware designed for those application developers to help protect those web applications. There are a whole lot of companies outside the realm of Silicon Valley who you need to build and design for as well. In that world, the risk of security holes is huge.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

25 Years of Writing Code. Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. and Schlumberger.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

In the 17 th & 18 th centuries, deep thinkers such as: Milton, Bacon, Locke, Franklin and Darwin jotted down their ideas in Commonplace Books that they maintained throughout their lives. His talk was especially intriguing, as he attended UCSB, but dropped out to start a clothing design company. Chaos By Design .

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Essentially, it guides the author through a four step process to design, build, test, and publish their creation. If you're an expert in a certain technology--say, business process design--and have thought about publishing a book, this is a quicker, faster, and more comprehensive way to share it with the world.

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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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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” Your revenue is the $75 million you got paid in booking fees. One of them is profitability. ” You can be profitable while losing money.

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DECEMBER 24, 2010

I write the annual “state of the Suster’s&# summarizing our year. Every year we designed our own company holiday card with our logo, a fun message and some humour (we were in England, after all). For most people sending 100 cards is less paper than the last physical book you read or newspaper you bought.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. Are you looking for a Phd wireless chip designer?&#. Is it book smarts? Amy Chua, a Yale professor, wrote a book about raising children the “Chinese Mother&# way. I love the design of your product. He is still not sure.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

It’s pretty common for us to get requests from movie-makers about showing our graphics or posters or books in movies. But I think having good science content—like, say, good set design—can help elevate a good movie to greatness. Writing Code. It’s an interesting script,” said someone on our PR team.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2012

Govindarajan is referencing his new book Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home , a book on strategy, or what Govindarajan refers to as “pushing back the fold of the future.” In the boxes he writes: 1. Manage the present. Selectively forget the past. Create the future. Don’t we all do that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I just finished a new book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run seven successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised more than a million dollars. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea.

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