Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

I remember first seeing a good summary of these risk-reduction myths a while back in a classic book, “ How to Start a Business & Ignite Your Life ,” by Ernesto Sirolli, PhD. Every investor I know will tell you that many startup businesses fail due to having too much money too early. Partner with experts who share the risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

In fact, they need an early focus on developing their moral compass, as well as setting the right ethical tone. I saw a good summary of these in a recent book reissue, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. This is usually an excuse for not developing ethical policies and practices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2015

In fact, they need an early focus on developing their moral compass, as well as setting the right ethical tone. I saw a good summary of these in a recent book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. This is usually an excuse for not developing ethical policies and practices. Ethics can’t be managed.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? The list is very long.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Maybe you are wondering if you have a Weak Development Team ? Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? The list is very long.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In fact, they need an early focus on developing their moral compass, as well as setting the right ethical tone. I saw a good summary of these in a new book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. This is usually an excuse for not developing ethical policies and practices. Ethics can’t be managed.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The app, dubbed HomeHero Connect, supports phone timesheet tracking, daily activity summaries, emergency alerts and automated payments between a user and an independent home caregiver. Careseekers can view caregivers by location on an inbuilt map, HD videos, social references and reviews. LinkedIn for Caregivers.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. What follows is a summary which paraphrases Naval’s responses. These days, thanks to code and community, we can productize almost any process done by humans. You can watch my interview with Naval below or on YouTube here: [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. Once your company is past the startup stage, you do need a board of directors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA. If you have enough references in your arsenal you obviously want to pick out ones that you believe will resonate with your prospect due to job function or industry. Click here. This post is about the “P” or pain. Listen more.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Summary Startups are fun and exhilarating and filled with challenging problems to solve. Sam’s enthusiasm was infectious and his plans were bold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2011

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. Once your company is past the startup stage, you do need a board of directors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Product development. They expect prompt formal follow-up to questions.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

People+ , developed by 3-person startup (Pro Populi, Inc.) Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). Apps & Software Business Google AOL CrunchBase entrepreneur Free Use People+ Startups TechCrunch'

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. Enter Burstly. I like that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Product development. They expect prompt formal follow-up to questions.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Also, it’s too dumb to follow chained redirects, by the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2010

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. Once your company is past the startup stage, you do need a board of directors.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. Let’s consider the following two software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins.

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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. Adding a method to an interface would mean breaking all existing code that implements the interface. Language features and APIs may still change.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. Do you work as a civil engineer on water projects and have great access to wealthy project developers? The pure delays due to admin if I would have had 3-4 pig farmers would have killed me. But for most businesses it is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

Here is my summary of key principles that you can follow to join that select realm of recognized and successful entrepreneurs: Thinking and talking won’t get you there – just do it. Starting something new is risky, no matter how many experts have reviewed it, or how much money you have. You can’t win a race that you never start.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

If the recruiting manager’s job consisted solely of reviewing your resume it would be an easy task. I would then have as many pages of analysis as required to show the detailes of my review. One of the great developments over the past five years has been the simplification of software. Apple has shown us the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2014

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Product development. They expect prompt formal follow-up to questions.

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