Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

In the last few years, Southern California has been a key market in launching mobile applications and services, due to a huge, mobile-savvy consumer population. So, it''s no surprise that the area--specifically, San Diego--was chosen for the pilot launch of a new service from eBay, called Close5 (www.close5.com),

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Of course you could start your own company. Of course I’m not suggesting people shouldn’t start a company. She joined Yahoo! So it could be that a sale would yield you seven figures and you could move on to your next role but the CEO wants to “go big or go home” and sometimes go home is the outcome.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. It’s why I was always critical of the “acquihire culture” at places like Yahoo !

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. We give them options and advice on the best course to reach their goals, such as responding quickly and getting to market faster. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty.

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MAY 13, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to be a great leader and seem to be having this conversation a lot lately about Facebook, Yahoo!, How much do we cut back public services to shrink our national debts? Take Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! I never worked at Yahoo! I really loved Yahoo!

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Furthermore, AltaVista paid lip service to the importance of search, lost focus, and was suffocated by an “angry mob” of search purists in the company who essentially did everything they could to prevent AltaVista from monetizing search.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Design a product or service that you can sell.

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