Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In his book, “ Out-Executing the Competition ,” seasoned executive Irv Rothman provides tips to corporate executives on how to dig in and “get their fingernails dirty.” Instead, set long-term business objectives and develop a framework for the trajectory your team needs to get there. Balance the long-term with the short.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

He worked his ass off and delivered an amazing technical infrastructure to support a “big data meets social analytics” platform that could be used by any developer. Yet our initial customer success didn’t translate into big revenue growth and we faced issues such as: Do we support developers, end-users or both?

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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? Accounting?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

At the B-round great teams often hire their first business development person. The C-round CEO still gets her hand dirty but shouldn’t be a control freak or become a bottleneck in the organization. The C-round CEO has to be more leader, less doer. You hired a head of product for a reason. They happen to those that level up. *.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2014

Development schedule and checkpoints. A product plan must include the timeline and milestones involved in product research and development. Free is a dirty word to investors, since it’s hard to get a financial return from free. Each of these activities should have associated costs and resource requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I was mentoring some graduate students at a local university recently, and I sensed again that profit seems to be a dirty word these days to many aspiring entrepreneurs. Every business needs to develop a revenue model even before a product. Expect extra costs for development, testing, documentation, and support.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Based on my posts Startup CTO or Developer and Acting CTO , Chris O’Meara wrote an interesting post Startup CTO: Could It Work? Common sense says you'd do your best to hire or otherwise permanently engage that lead developer. Even with this almost mythical person is there a possible Founder Developer Gap ?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

The fund has been about two years of development with Peter Warnoe, who is a serial entrepreneur who is very famous in the Nordics. We love working with people, getting our hands dirty, getting on the phone with them, and being part of their team. We expect in 2018, we will have as much as 150 million Euros, or around $180M US.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

Development schedule and checkpoints. A product plan must include the timeline and milestones involved in product research and development. Free is a dirty word to investors, since it’s hard to get a financial return from free. Each of these activities should have associated costs and resource requirements.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

What we are doing has the potential to allow companies to develop more, novel treatments, for conditions, more effectively. We do what is basically a quick-and-dirty prototype, to see what kind of a trial they can design, get some learning, and take it to the next step for a more fully backed Phase 2 trial.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2015

The whole time, I was focused on very early stage entrepreneurs, so I got my hands dirty and rolled my sleeves up. It''s the same as a software company, which might take a lot of time and investment to develop a software program, and then license it on a per-seat basis to their enterprise partners. I did that for eight years.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

It takes some courage to engage ambiguity and to develop hypotheses that might be proved wrong. Fear of failure often limits or prevents many people from leading and developing maturity for the future. Developing maturity. So how do you develop maturity? The easiest way is to put yourself in a position of leadership.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. I’ve seen other VCs who seem to never have time to get their hands dirty. Connections? I’ll let you decide which you’d want. Commitment. Startups are hard.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2013

Usually, you pay lots of money to park your car in a dusty airport parking lot, and at the end, all you have is a dirty car, and less money in your pocket. That''s how we developed the project. If you travel a lot, or for long periods of time, you know how expensive it is to park your car at the airport.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

There are many analogies here for software development. He spoke about his Grammy-winning song Ridin’ (as in Ridin’ Dirty) and how the labels wanted to extend life of song by getting somebody famous to remix the song. A way to do music this way.&#. Cham had other ideas.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As noted in the Dirty Team Building , adversity can bring your team closer together. However, when faced with a precarious bank account, successful ventures quickly develop and release a Minimally Viable Product , thereby avoiding an over-engineered solution. Great Campfire Stories. Harry Golden, US newspaper publisher.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Developed first floppy disk operating system. The original name of the software Microsoft licensed to IBM was Quick and Dirty Operating System (QDOS), which Gates artfully renamed it MSDOS. Some of the additional “firsts” attributed to Kildall include: Wrote first PC operating system. Established basis for PC local-area networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

Rannala said being an entrepreneur is all about figuring things out, getting hands dirty and executing cheaply. Blayze , the first online video audience development platform that empowers brands, YouTube channels, and media companies to buy and sell highly targeted new viewers. Founded by L.A.’s

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2014

E3 brings out developers to show off their future games to the masses. When a handheld game is released simultaneously – or around the same time – as the console game, the handheld iteration is usually terrible thanks to the console version getting more of the development attention. Nintendo | Super Smash Bros. Not with this version.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Co-founder and CEO Mark Weidick was VP and General Manager of Cisco’s TelePresence Video Exchange where he was responsible for a team of 150 developers that built and supported video exchange platforms for AT&T and other Service Providers. Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

two people involved in commerce, such as a salesman and a buyer, business development executives jointly crafting a deal, etc. You know you have successfully Bro’d up when your fellow Bro starts to share her company’s dirty laundry, often in the form of bad-mouthing members of their team, criticizing their processes, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

He started his career promoting a newspaper ad campaign in the dirty streets of Delhi. Fun Fact: There was a tough moment when the business was operating without developers or teachers! He’s traveled the world and developed a unique accent as a result. He’s helped shut down more companies than he’s started. . Drivio, Inc.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Build a SWAT team 3.

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