Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I know it may feel this way since I’m writing this tongue in cheek. It was a sufficient barrier and we developed social graces. The person writing things he or she is doing me a favor. They had to physically write a letter, address it, put a stamp on it (pay) and then put it in the mailbox. I’m not an elitist a **e.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2013

As long as somebody recognizes their million dollar idea and writes them a check, the source really doesn''t matter. A number of successful business people, some of whom become angels, develop the belief that they are destined for greatness because of their clear superiority over everyone else. Keep your attorney close by your side.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

I’ve been writing a series on a simple methodology that we used at my first enterprise software company. If you’ve done a good job in the sales process you’ve already written out a needs document in which your wrote out what you believe the customer problems are with specific examples. I’ll bet that could be quantified.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Have you ever found yourself in a conversation with developers and found yourself lost or even overwhelmed with new information? In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Product development process. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2012

As long as somebody recognizes their million dollar idea and writes them a check, the source really doesn't matter. A number of successful business people, some of whom become angels, develop the belief that they are destined for greatness because of their clear superiority over everyone else. Keep your attorney close by your side.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And covered we did.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

When I started my first tech company in 1999 I had pretty good tech chops and had led teams but had very little exposure to many other things that matter in a startup including sales, marketing & business development. Persuading a journalist to write about you rather than the 1,000 other companies bugging them. I talked too much.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Product development process. Funding process.

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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. Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Funding process.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product."

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2010

As long as somebody recognizes their million dollar idea and writes them a check, the source really doesn't matter. A number of successful business people, some of whom become angels, develop the belief that they are destined for greatness because of their clear superiority over everyone else. Keep your attorney close by your side.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Development and rollout. Concurrently, or later, it’s necessary to build a separate business plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Why you should set up a board at the seed round of funding I know these days with SAFE documents and rolling convertible notes many founders prefer not to set up a board early on. If the VCs on your board have developed good rapport and trust each other then often times one VC will trust the other to represent his or her interests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Writing down key parameters will force you solidify the specifics, and mentally commit to them.

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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. Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Funding process.

Startup 95

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Development and rollout. Concurrently, or later, it’s necessary to build a separate business plan.

Product 93

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2010

The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Here are some basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. In all documents, clearly define who must sign off on content and provide business-side feedback.

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 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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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

to “where can I get help writing one?” While it may be tempting, with everything that you have to do, to try to find someone else to write your executive summary, you really need to do this yourself. They won’t do that if they are faced with a poorly written, lengthy, and vague document. They range from “what should I include?”

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► 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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Many people start companies arse backwards.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

An example of that, is I do a lot of running, and I did a video where I ran 100 miles over the month, and documented the process, and that inspired other people to do the same thing. I can tell you that my goal is to develop the most depth I can with an audience of 100,000, instead of 10 million people. That's amazing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Development and rollout. Concurrently, or later, it’s necessary to build a separate business plan.

Product 48

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Especially for their stage of development. I know the product intimately and it rocks.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

Malte: There are quite a few artists that like the concept and would like to be part of the development. Although, the overall message of the film is quite bleak as they point to the mediocrity that more access to creation and freedom of distribution creates. Yes, that is bold. Who are the prominent early adopters of Miselu?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

At the big consulting firms, investment banks and established large technology companies we’re taught to produce long reports, make sure that every document is perfect quality and that every possible bit of diligence has been done. He encouraged me to write this post and after smoking me out on Twitter I had no choice. So here goes.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

It's a very linear process, and allows them to capture knowledge and link to centralized resources that relate to a topic, including documents, pictures, files, video. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. It's like an intranet, but has collaborative features like document management. What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

I often write about the best strategies for startup fundraising or how to manage startup financing and optimize for growth. To make sure your IP is protected — As I’ve written before, failing to develop an IP strategy, including a plan for protecting your IP as well as avoiding unwitting infringements of someone else’s, is a huge mistake.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

As a teacher, you can share documents with colleagues, or visit and forum and have discussions with other teachers. If you've taken a course, and need an application to do chemistry or math analysis, there's a store where you can write, share, sell, or buy those applications. They have developed this from a need.

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