Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

I think many board members (including VCs) were trained 10+ years ago when life was very different and their advice often comes from an outdated lens. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. Journalists don’t often write stories that talk about, “This cool new company I met at a conference.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. If you can’t quantify or document your service for repeatability and new employee training, you will kill yourself trying to grow the business. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

Persuading a journalist to write about you rather than the 1,000 other companies bugging them. And for which I was sure were designed to screw me. And most of us start with zero training. His lawyerly training has helped him become an excellent negotiator. Getting a recruiter to agree to work with you. I talked too much.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Not too many people are aware of the success and story of Lynda.com (www.lynda.com), started by Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin , and how the firm's now grown to a double-digit, multimillion dollar business which is known as THE source for online training on such things as web design, graphics software, animation, video editing, and much more.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

We were crowd sourcing artists and design. We provide the software platform, and if a client needs some custom design we can quote them on creative and setup, or they can handle it on their own. Our clients who work with us, have access to about 15 hours of webinar-based, daily deals training. It's similar to a franchise.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

Let AI write the script. Or Apple, which designs its own devices to carry out superior software experience,” explained Ma. For one, it needs a lot of technical talent to train Morpheus with screenplay data. Rct wants to take the experience to the next level by recruiting artificial intelligence for screenwriting.

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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. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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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. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. I will write about that as soon as Caroline is ready.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

The other nice thing about that, is as things are happening on the same computer, there is no server code to write. It's really simple to write an application, compared to the complexity of an application that is multi-user. If you have a bunch of bouncing balls, they all bounce identically, and you don't have to exchange information.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I went to college at K-State, and then I started with a little Internet development company, W3 Design, which became USWeb Los Angeles. For example, the person who is managing our farm right now has been training for the last two to three years, and has already bought some land to start her own operation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?”

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

. “President Biden is calling on Congress to make smart investments in research and development, manufacturing and regional economic development, and in workforce development to give our workers and companies the tools and training they need to compete on the global stage.” The administration doesn’t stop there.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

When those megastores started closing, I saw the writing on the wall, and handed Branson back his keys, and set up a digital agency to do for other companies, what we had been doing for Branson. Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. I used an analogy I heard from Michael Dougherty (founder of Jelli) recounting what First Round Capital told him, “sometimes you’re on the local train and sometimes you’re on the express train. That’s awesome.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

When those megastores started closing, I saw the writing on the wall, and handed Branson back his keys, and set up a digital agency to do for other companies, what we had been doing for Branson. Cricket Wireless had us design, develop, and operate that platform, which was one of the first subscription music services built into your home.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’ve seen that in courses and in design specs many times, and it’s a HORRIBLE IDEA. It’s one thing when you provide a blank space to write your goals when you are in a classroom and there’s a teacher who can help you. There’s a bit of training required to cover things like roles, alignment, how things work.

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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

JULY 23, 2013

This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. In my next post I will take on the topic of how to control your brand. Persistent?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

We thought it was a real opportunity to bring in some taste-maker editors, who could write specifically for that audience, and break news. I studied it, and very much enjoyed it, but by the time I got to my fourth year of school, I figured out I really didn't want to be that engineer in the lab, designing microprocessors.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

One, is this fund is really designed to pile onto its winners. We can now write $20M, $25M, and $30M checks to existing, breakout companies in our portfolio. Consumers and you and I have been trained by Google and Amazon on expectations. To me, there are a couple of elements of the fund we're very excited about.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Large technology firms who are training sums of talent, check; one box filled on the startup ecosystem checklist. Peek left Freshbooks to work with boutique UX design firm, Jet Cooper , which is another major staple to the Toronto tech scene.With a team of about 20 designers, Jet Cooper is well known in their city for their work.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We Harry Shum, an executive vice president in charge of Microsoft’s Technology and Research group, is heading the new unit, called the Microsoft AI and Research Group.).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A Despite the importance of creativity, there seems to be almost no focus on teaching it, encouraging it, training at it & incorporating it into our daily routines. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. In addition to Seth, the core team he pulled together consisted of Elaine, a product person with front-end engineering skills and sharp design sense, and Sandy a back-end server engineer. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. If they don’t have a call center already with trained sales reps answering calls, they’re probably not a good fit.”. How has your history with Jason Spievak , Colin Kelley and the rest of the former CallWave team shaped and benefited the company?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Large technology firms who are training sums of talent, check; one box filled on the startup ecosystem checklist. Peek left Freshbooks to work with boutique UX design firm, Jet Cooper , which is another major staple to the Toronto tech scene.With a team of about 20 designers, Jet Cooper is well known in their city for their work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

So before you quit your day job, task all your friends and investors for money, or max out your credit cards to design and build a product, I recommend that you seriously contemplate the following more basic questions: Are you prepared to adopt the entrepreneur lifestyle? Which business model best suits your mentality?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. In my bones I’m convinced that entrepreneurs are more nature than nurture although I know both are involved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2019

So before you quit your day job, task all your friends and investors for money, or max out your credit cards to design and build a product, I recommend that you seriously contemplate the following more basic questions: Are you prepared to adopt the entrepreneur lifestyle? Which business model best suits your mentality?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

It’d been a big year in tech, and the different supporting parts of team TZ – so what better way to kick off the festivities with an inaugural train-bound journey, courtesy of the good people at Amtrak. Q Manning – Rocksauce Studios , mobile ap designers and developers.

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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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