Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

See the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos for an example of product snags leading to a disaster. Keep control by writing every check personally, and manage receivable and payables tightly. Smarter entrepreneurs don’t wait for a crisis to drive change, by defining key milestones and metrics for tracking progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

Even if it’s only a few PowerPoint slides or typed paragraphs, writing something down is the first step toward making it real. Always write in the future tense, what you will do, and name yourself as the key person responsible. Set target date milestones and metrics to gauge progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and the fading MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2022

Like any coach would ask, you need to brainstorm and write down the short list of things that are getting in the way of your joy and satisfaction at work, as well as the single biggest thing that would grow your joy in business and personal life. For example, you may find out that being your own boss is a driving force in your life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2019

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and Instagram leads as the top social media app for teens. Communication and writing skills are required. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2022

I’ve seen many examples of this in my own business life, and yet I gained a whole new perspective on how it works from a classic book by successful entrepreneur August Turak, titled “ Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks.” Don’t be afraid to write down what you expect, and what you are willing to commit to. Never make people ask.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 16, 2014

Are each set of goals consistent with the other’s including for example personal wealth, business success, and autonomy? Example: cash, assets, equipment, connections… Regardless of what it is, a partner’s contribution needs to increase the value of the business. Example: salary, equity, joint venture, etc… Can the business afford it?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Some examples of common objections across many companies: 1. As a company you need to invest in ROI calculators (spreadsheets) that are easy for sales reps to plug in basic customer metrics and pop out with an expected benefit. More experienced sales leaders seldom compete on price. We’re a premium product.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days. Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

In a funding round with 1 or 2 VCs and 15-20 angels or 4-6 seed funds if you gave every investor you financial information and performance metrics your proprietary information would increase in its probability of leaking out. Let me give you a real world example from this week. There is a reason for this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2017

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd. Use strong communication and writing skills. In additional to strong journalistic writing and storytelling, you need business acumen, strategic thinking and planning, and the ability to do the right research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2017

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and Instagram leads as the top social media app for teens. Communication and writing skills are required. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

I always ask when somebody sends me a deal, for example, are you already a shareholder in the company? I’ve seen you write a $10 million check before. He called me 15 months later excited to show me his metrics and wanted to talk about his A round. I’m not saying all dealflow is bad or all referrers are hucksters.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. I’d like to give you a few examples that are more nuanced: 1. CEO transparency. It almost sounds uncontroversial. Of course not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2019

I’ve seen many examples of this in my own business life, and yet I gained a whole new perspective on how it works from a classic book by successful entrepreneur August Turak, titled “ Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks.” Don’t be afraid to write down what you expect, and what you are willing to commit to. Never make people ask.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2012

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and the fading MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

You are writing about the essentials of business. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” Startup Metrics discusses what a Startup needs to consider before “going live.” And how it relates to what you are talking about in [link] ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2011

For example, LinkedIn is attuned to business professionals, Facebook is dominated by the social and upwardly mobile crowd, and MySpace is for tweens and creative types. Communication and writing skills are required. Return-On-Investment metrics are not new, but the tools are different. Find the right tools to analyze the ROI.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

If you write a lot of Java code, then you should read that book and follow its advice. The iterable.spliterator() method is critical when it comes to stream performance, but writing a custom Spliterator from scratch is a non-trivial task. Write a benchmark afterwards to confirm your assumptions. They have a bit of a PR problem.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies. You're in the thick of it and about to write a small chunk of server-side code. Vanilla node.js, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Apache Cordova for example.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

We spent a lot of time talking about what type of company we wanted to create, how many employees we’d eventually have, whether we would take funding, our lifestyle, and a dozen other things that had nothing to do with writing software. Semick: We’re a very metrics driven company, and we have been from the beginning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

I’ve seen many examples of this in my own business life, and yet I gained a whole new perspective on how it works from a recent book by successful entrepreneur August Turak, titled “ Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks.” Don’t be afraid to write down what you expect, and what you are willing to commit to. Never make people ask.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Admittedly, that last part is an exaggeration but they were bad enough that I am writing this essay in the hopes that you will read it and not make these mistakes. Check out these examples: Q: What is your solution? We want hard data and metrics – we want proof. with actual data and metrics. The #EpicNovelFail.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2: As expected at least one person accused me of writing this post because I want to see lower valuations. For example: If you were to invest $41 million into a company (and one could assume that you owned between 33-50%) then the company is worth $82-123 million at funding. I acknowledged this in the article. That’s stupid.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” For example, look at the following graph. The example chart is not actually atypical. ” Quick examples: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2017

I’ve seen many examples of this in my own business life, and yet I gained a whole new perspective on how it works from a classic book by successful entrepreneur August Turak, titled “ Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks.” Don’t be afraid to write down what you expect, and what you are willing to commit to. Never make people ask.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2013

I’ve seen many examples of this in my own business life, and yet I gained a whole new perspective on how it works from a new book by successful entrepreneur August Turak, titled “ Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks.” Don’t be afraid to write down what you expect, and what you are willing to commit to. Never make people ask.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. They’re easily impressed when you’re selected for TechCrunch50 but not easily engaged in a detailed discussion about your conversion metrics. One quick example. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. You know in your gut who they are.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2009

We also allow the users to have a custom URL, for example, resumebucket.com/joshstomel. For example, they spend a lot of time reading resumes, and want to have the latest updated version, and candidates often don't have them with them. Plus, we will provide resume writing services. We also blend in ads with our job results page.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary. They all offer a list of requirements that might take 50 pages to address, but of course they ask you to write concisely. That’s your metric to see if you have their attention. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

An example, was my iPod, which I had but no longer was using because I had a new iPhone, basketball sneakers I had but never really fit me. There was a bag of things to keep, a bag to give to goodwill--mostly warm clothing--and, a third bag of stuff I no longer used or wanted, but I know a friend might want or potentially might enjoy.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

See Five Things Meme as an example. as an example. I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. See Supporting New Managers and What Would You Do to Support New Managers?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage. Let me be very direct.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Metrics availability. Automating the Path to a Better User Experience - The Product Guy , July 5, 2010 I started writing about Quick-UX in 2008. Here’s an example in a direct sales channel. Not so bad. Performance. Angel vs VC? - Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? First, let me recommend reading a previous blog, called omg I’m just a startup, I can’t do those fancy metrics.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

Alex Taub – Social Rank , Twitter metrics and engagement tool. I was originally introduced to them as a great example of a great example of a double-bottom company, who’ve been able to do social good in the clean-tech field without the need to lean on the clean-tech name.

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