Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2023

Ensure your firm’s fitness to act on new opportunities, and develop an evolving sense of where the future lies. Govindarajan recommends a simple and practical “three box” framework for allocating time, energy, and behaviors in the proper balance to foster continuous innovation. Both are always recommended.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I believe in this so much that, despite my post advising you to be prepared for the *norm* in VC, I wrote a post about a company that came in for a presentation and never even got the slides out or presented a demo. The “Triple Play&# of VC Presentations. Be ready to map your presentation to their preferred method.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Friday, February 13, 2009 -- "The Agile way of Managing Software Development " This presentation will provide an overview of Agile development practices and to achieve optimal results in the face of complex projects. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Ensure your firm’s fitness to act on new opportunities, and develop an evolving sense of where the future lies. Govindarajan recommends a simple and practical “three box” framework for allocating time, energy, and behaviors in the proper balance to foster continuous innovation. Both are always recommended.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. But often the result of a Founder hiring a developer or lead developer or even a VP engineering is a gap created between the founders and the developers. How will we find and interview developers?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 30, 2012

Thursday, August 2, 2012 -- LA CEOs presents: Scrum for CEOs. LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: Scrum for CEOs - How to Manage Teams in a 2.0 Does your development team need ?just How does the Scrum process change team collaboration and accelerate development? Scrum is not just for developers, it?s

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

I'm presenting Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP next week at Coloft ( Details/Registration ). They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. Have you Documented Your MVP for Your Developer s?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. I LOVED it because, the presenting part was over quickly and we got into specific issues that the founders had in terms of getting things built. Do you really have control of the development?

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TechEmpower

MAY 1, 2014

The latest round of our ongoing Framework Benchmarks project is now available! Since the first round, we have known that the highest-performance frameworks and platforms have been network-limited by our gigabit Ethernet. With ample network bandwidth, the highest-performing frameworks are further differentiated.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Colony’s presentation is intriguing (and worth a watch if you have a few minutes) because I love to see when informed people make arguments that are different than you ordinarily hear (and different from my own views). They took over the “presentation layer” of computing. I will cover this in my post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2016

Ensure your firm’s fitness to act on new opportunities, and develop an evolving sense of where the future lies. Govindarajan recommends a simple and practical “three box” framework for allocating time, energy, and behaviors in the proper balance to foster continuous innovation. Both are always recommended.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. Have you tested what you can without development? Is this compelling to a developer?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. Have you tested what you can without development? Is this compelling to a developer?

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

There was a lot of passion in the room last week when I presented Working with Developers at the Stubbs Precellerator. I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. But my developers want to go into way too much detail. Let me come back to these at the end of this post.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

We've been a recognized innovation in Southern California, and we're now ramping our development of compelling consumer products, fueled by accelerator services. What that means to us, is more about what you want to present back to a user. Second, we're becoming more agile in terms of development.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

This data is playing an increasingly important role in strategic planning and product development. While each segment presented different implications, NAIS leveraged Board guidance and took to address the differences in each member segment. The National Association of Independent Schools. This work only took them so far, however.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The remaining members came as personal referrals – Alex Ross, Zach’s roommate (also a programmer) signed up a day later to become their lead developer. Eventually, the team moved into a house (which at one point supported a crew of 20 people) and are presently in an office space in Culver City.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The remaining members came as personal referrals – Alex Ross, Zach’s roommate (also a programmer) signed up a day later to become their lead developer. Eventually, the team moved into a house (which at one point supported a crew of 20 people) and are presently in an office space in Culver City.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Framework Benchmarks. Now when we run a promotion with our new partner and get a thousand users coming in at one time, it grinds to a halt.”.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

After I left DivX, I chose to go forward with a concept that leveraged that experience I had in the past, with a way to help software developers increase their distribution and make money with their software. So, that's where we come in--we fill that gap, and enable both small and large developers out there to better distribute and monetize.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. MBA fine, but not required.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

Operating in this space, Ryan and James were essentially at ground zero for working with the ones who created the crowdfunding framework. They take a quality over quantity approach around building their platform and emphasize pre-vetting opportunities, then presenting them to interested investors. Where SeedInvest Sprouted.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Presenter: Scott A. 9:00am: Keynote Presentation: Mobile Advertising: The Hype, The Hope, and The Financial Reality. Presenter: David Gwozdz, CEO, Mojiva 10:30am Mobile Spotlight: Do I Really Need an App for That? Director, Business Development, NAVTEQ Media Solutions Kevin McKenzie, Founder, JiWire.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

And while that cliché has been said about everything in the Lone Star state for years, it rings particularly true for the hottest startups showcasing their big innovations at SXSW Startup Night 2018 presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo. Canecto (Copenhaugen, Hovedenstad, Denmark). Oria Ring by Enhancia (Grenoble, France).

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife) - Gabriel Weinberg , May 14, 2010 The other day I gave a presentation with Steve Welch on the use of social media in politics. Innovative. Disruptive.

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Jason Nazar

APRIL 2, 2016

Savor the present but don’t forget your future. This is the framework I came up with 3 years ago on “How to Make the Right Business Decisions”. TIP: Read “Business Development Advice”) . Sometimes we need to remind ourselves of this to enjoy living. (TIP: TIP: Read “The Last Lecture” and “Tuesdays with Morrie”).

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. He points out that most buying decisions are based on emotion, rather than logic. This is where the Golden Circle comes in.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 13, 2013

This isn’t AT&T Developers Program’s first rodeo at SXSW. IT then presents a view to add the new boarding pass to iOS Passbook. Java Web App built on the Spring Framework. I could feel the hackers excitement as I stepped into the AT&T and American Airline’s room at the Hilton in downtown Austin at SXSW 2013.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. If you are on the lower complexity end, the key is defining small chunks of work that can be done quickly by a developer. Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. In order to visualize how an audience will receive my presentation I have to be able to imagine the whole situation. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 27, 2013

The following post is a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8. At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. The checked exceptions (if present) in the abstract method's signature matter too. Language features and APIs may still change. Nashorn JavaScript Engine.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We're all using enum types here and there, we're all using the collections framework. Some developers don't know these classes exist. Other developers know about these classes but don't bother to reach for them when the time comes. We've had enum types in the language for more than a decade. They have a bit of a PR problem.

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