Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2022

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.

Design 106

Design Coach Ideas Organization 106

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2021

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. That means keeping all the players and all the organizations centered on what matters amid the crosscurrents of change.

Social Media 143

Social Media Startup Framework Course 143

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2022

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. In fact, people lower in the organization are often closer to the customer and have more insight into what works and what doesn’t.

Ideas 111

Ideas Framework Summary Organization 111

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

I share her view of the ten key elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage. Open microphone: encouraging participation. Democratic. Distributed.

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Media Social Network Technical Review 92

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2016

He succinctly outlines the key behaviors that I believe every business leader must focus on, to drive innovation without waiting for the next competitive crisis: Avoid the assumption that current gifts will keep on giving. A business that relies on static skill replacement is falling behind, and ripe for the next competitive crisis.

Framework 59

Framework Competition Ideas IBM 59

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

I share her view of the ten key elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage. Open microphone: encouraging participation. Democratic. Distributed.

Software Review 90

Software Review Social Media Social Network Technical Review 90

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.

Design 97

Design Coach Ideas Organization 97

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Cyber & nuclear threats, disruptive innovation, and increasing competition for market share will continue to reshape how members view their memberships. This means organizations will require new and different external research to understand what tools they must provide in order to help their members make progress.

Research 140

Research Organization Help Product 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

A while back, I wrote about the value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment, and using every opportunity to highlight and emphasize your relative advantages, whether they be price, features, or bargaining power. Exceed customer expectations. Make it easy for your people to win.

Customer 104

Customer Custom Startup Organization 104

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. If the questions aren’t organically flowing you have “pocket slides” after the main deck you can pull out to share more information or analysis. How does the partnership typically make its final investment decisions?

Venture Capital 314

Venture Capital Technical Review Invest Slides 314

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. In fact, people lower in the organization are often closer to the customer, and have more insight into what works and what doesn’t.

Ideas 94

Ideas Framework Summary Organization 94

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. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Enter the decentralized Internet.

Course 280

Course Startup Framework Marketing 280

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

I support her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage. This process works well in today’s extremely flat and non-hierarchical startup organizations.

Social Media 102

Social Media Entrepreneur Software Review Social Network 102

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Recent surveys of global business leaders show that they overwhelmingly agree, but less than a third believe their organizations’ culture and leadership are ready today, They and I are always on the lookout for ways to prepare current and future leaders. Listen with mutual respect and fearless exploration.

Design 62

Design Coach Organization Ideas 62

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x.

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage. Open microphone: encouraging participation. Democratic. Distributed. What do you think?

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Social Network Software Review Social Media 97

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Too much emphasis on organic growth can become a straightjacket that leads only to incremental innovation and limited horizons.

Acquisition 88

Acquisition CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development 88

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Most business leaders today realize that smart management of scarce resources is the key to competitive success. Don’t allow key people to be pushed down and lost in the organization. Use your high-level principles to establish behavioral frameworks to guide ways of working, rather than a scorecard enforced by culture vigilantes.

Product 58

Product Startup Guide Framework 58

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. In fact, the incumbent is usually very dismissive of this new competition as our the large buyers of the incumbent’s products.

Startup 376

Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

This strategy is called “organic growth,” yet it alone may yield only a fraction of the potential you could achieve, unless you add the additional strategies of partnerships and M&A (mergers and acquisitions). Too much emphasis on organic growth can become a straightjacket that leads only to incremental innovation and limited horizons.

CTO Hire 91

CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development Resource 91

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Capitalism is fundamentally about timing, since market competition is about finding opportunities before others. The whole point of delegating investment decisions to a GP is to empower them to organize their firm to win deals and get stuff done. When should you start a company? What company should you start? When should a VC invest?

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2010

She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage. Open microphone: encouraging participation. Democratic. Distributed. What do you think?

Social Media 89

Social Media Startup Software Review Social Network 89

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

We will learn best practices for how to organize non-CRUD operations allowing for creating maintainable APIs that embrace the spirit of Web API and not just the semantics allowing for maximizing the ROI of the technology. Leveraging these techniques should put you on an even playing field or ahead of the native app competition.

Training 65

Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

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. In fact, people lower in the organization are often closer to the customer, and have more insight into what works and what doesn’t.

Ideas 56

Ideas Framework Summary Organization 56

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2013

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. That means keeping all the players and all the organizations centered on what matters amid the crosscurrents of change.

Startup 94

Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Framework 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2012

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. That means keeping all the players and all the organizations centered on what matters amid the crosscurrents of change.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Social Media Startup Framework 93

Xconomy

JUNE 15, 2016

However, even in a small startup, there are many risks that matter – such as hiring the wrong leaders, not getting sufficient investor support, or lacking a competitive advantage. Bacon observed, “One thing that companies often neglect is the competitive element. Implement an Effective Risk Management Framework.

Framework 63

Framework Startup Competition Help 63

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In fact, nearly one-third of the respondents in a recent Cisco survey reported that the primary purpose of cybersecurity is to be a growth enabler, while another 44 percent consider cybersecurity a competitive advantage.

Startup 40

Startup Framework Statistics Customer 40

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.?

Fractional CTO 225

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire CTO Coach 225

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

We noticed that most organizations are using paper-based data collection and manual processing methods, and those organizations that are able to employ technology to optimize these approaches were building very complex and costly bespoke systems, often involving dedicated hardware. Any competition? How unique are you from it?

Mobile 65

Mobile Platform JavaScript Web 65

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

As the technology has advanced, so has the competitive landscape. He does see the opportunity for some broadly applicable frameworks though. The partnership is not set up as a lobbying organization. What are the ethics, the encoded tradeoffs, in the system?

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 13, 2013

The competition was fierce and the winner was…… Airping! Special shout out goes to WeLink who helped organize the after party, and ROAR who came in as a party sponsor. Java Web App built on the Spring Framework. Up for grabs for first place at this hack was $10k. That is some serious cash! DJ 4Real had the turntables wobbling.

Java 94

Java Google Press PHP 94

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What are the biggest areas of technical risk? How can we address this risk?

CTO Coach 231

CTO Coach CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop 231