Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Unfortunately, too many of the technical entrepreneurs I mentor and advise are focused on their technology, and assume that the value will be self-evident to customers. It forces you to prioritize the health of your organization from the inside out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2019

After various roles in this one, he worked his way up the corporate ranks to run the organization of now almost 30,000 stores. Steve Jobs started his technical career creating circuit boards at Atari, before joining Steve Wozniak to build personal computers in his garage. Recognize career growth requires changing with the business.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

I’ve had many startup founders tell me that their startup literally has no competition,” said Frank Gruber, Cofounder of Tech.Co, Startup of the Year , and Established. “In What startup teams don’t realize is that having competition is good. I would advise trying not to get into an argument with an investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Morgan Stanley found out about us and organized a secret Sunday meeting where they flew in a bunch of bankers to convince us to let them in on the round. Don’t over shop – If the deal you’re involved with involves raising venture capital or selling your company you naturally want some competition. I’ve seen it all. I’ve done it.

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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. As the technology has advanced, so has the competitive landscape. The partnership is not set up as a lobbying organization.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

I think it is evidenced by the fact that many people from our team went on to be very successful; some are successful entrepreneurs, some are holding very high level executive positions at successful companies and some started non-profit/charity organizations. I’m proud of all of them. We had fun; worked hard and played hard.

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