Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. Here is my summary of the ten top creativity mistakes we both still see too often: Criticize any new idea or employee suggestion. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Design thinking” is a methodology used to solve complex challenges, such as the ones faced by every business in today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive environment. Using design thinking as a framework not only increases your ability to listen, but also develops your inquiry and conflict resolution skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. ” The idea is that teams that allow everybody to speak, allow dissent, encourage safe discussions where it’s ok to be wrong – succeed more.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. Mithril is struggling to compete against ferocious competition in the growth-stage equity market. If there was a process or bidding war or something resembling a competition, he would just walk,” the employee said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Design thinking” is a methodology used to solve complex challenges, such as the ones faced by every business in today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive environment. Using design thinking as a framework not only increases your ability to listen, but also develops your inquiry and conflict resolution skills.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Croquet is developing software for collaborative applications, which has applications in virtual worlds and augmented and virtual reality. The idea is pretty simple. In the real world, the idea that what you see is what I see is a central aspect of our experience. Are Android and iOS then your competition?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. Here is my summary of the ten top creativity mistakes we both still see too often: Criticize any new idea or employee suggestion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Most business leaders today realize that smart management of scarce resources is the key to competitive success. Like most investors in startups, I rank the credentials of the team well above the value of an idea in deciding where to put my money. Develop leaders who deliver results and inspire.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

They become obsessed with why the problem exists and they start chipping away at ideas for solving the problem. The develop so much conviction that they can solve it that they do the most difficult thing one can do with one’s ego. Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

They outline the following framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Startups often find it difficult to retain key personnel and to control proprietary ideas. External scanning for resources.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Below are 50 ideas for step 2.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

No, the ideas aren’t conflicting. And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. Talk about the existing solutions, the market opportunity and the competition. Mobile app?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Too often people dive straight into their shiny solution ideas without thinking about why they’re doing what they’re doing or considering the change they want to see in the world. I recently developed a more human framework for early-stage startups to define their startup DNA and lay some foundations for a sustainable business.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It's quite a different framework from an Airbnb or HomeAway. How did the idea come about for Overnight? I was just starting out in mobile app development, and a friend of mine was just starting out as a VC at Greycroft. It gives our hosts an opportunity to not live by a calendar. From there, I was working at a starrtup here.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide. Microsoft, meanwhile, announced a new 5,000-person group Thursday dedicated to the development of AI technologies and products that use them.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 13, 2013

This isn’t AT&T Developers Program’s first rodeo at SXSW. The competition was fierce and the winner was…… Airping! Java Web App built on the Spring Framework. Technologies used: Google Maps API, to help us give passengers an idea of their ETA according to distance/traffic. That is some serious cash!

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