Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. You will make mistakes.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

This series describes how entrepreneurs can craft company-changing agreements with BDCs, while avoiding Kiss of Death contract provisions. Guard against a preclusion that would deny you from utilizing the IP developed during the course of executing the agreement. Get The Cheese With Your Neck Intact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In fact, I think the evidence is clear that many entrepreneurs started their journey while still in college, and capitalized on all the resources there, before moving on: Extend your technology focus with business basics. Every school recognizes the power of “hands-on” work to help you develop your own ideas into a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, many investors I know tell me they look for business plans that allocate the largest portion of a requested investment to marketing, but most often see the top “ use of funds ” to be further product or service development. Allocate resources to handle bumps along the way.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is defined as the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time – time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working. Extending the Runway book available at www.berkus.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2021

With contract players, you assume a project duration, with easy transition to new players for the next campaign. For example, if your first scaling effort is a global one, you should be prioritizing “global launch experience.” It’s a numbers game of filling positions, without clarity on the expertise needed to deliver now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2021

Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. You can only lead by example, and set equally high standards for the people around you. Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People.” Organize your work before you begin.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. Mike Hopkins: The simplest example, is where part of their grid has become congested so much, because they have too much demand for the infrastructure.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. Damir Davidovic: NEOGOV is a cloud-based, human resources suite. Companies here are really held accountable to what is in the contract, and how their products are implemented. What is Neogov?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. You will make mistakes.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. 2) Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early. 6) Rely On A Public Relations Agency.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. HR & Legal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. You will make mistakes.

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Xconomy

JUNE 23, 2016

The center also asked the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. Firms are still pretty dependent on government contracts for their business,” but the industry has moved over the past two years to more private sector customers, said Michael Combs, a CBRE research manager in San Diego and chief author of the study.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Work out of your home, and keep your own books.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

I could easily go into the board rooms of major European companies (I was based in London) and land $500k – $1 million contracts so my order book grew rapidly. It soaked up all of our development resources and didn’t allow us to focus on what we felt our company strategy was. We had to do intense training sessions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

With contract players, you assume a project duration, with easy transition to new players for the next campaign. For example, if your first scaling effort is a global one, you should be prioritizing “global launch experience.” It’s a numbers game of filling positions, without clarity on the expertise needed to deliver now.

Demand 92

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2016

They just need a little help in navigating the opportunities, they're interested in learning more about contract manufacturing, and they want to connect with capital. Finally, we found that there are a number of resources here that are hard to find, and are just starting to pop up. That's especially true of prototyping. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2016

With contract players, you assume a project duration, with easy transition to new players for the next campaign. For example, if your first scaling effort is a global one, you should be prioritizing “global launch experience.” It’s a numbers game of filling positions, without clarity on the expertise needed to deliver now.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. We spent a lot of time developing talent coming out of YouTube, and helped to grow that business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. Do it yourself and barter for services. It’s too easy, and it bites you in the end.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2013

We developed this at our first company and called it PUCCKA – the overall methodology is described here. If you think that large organizations aren’t political minefields filled with resources competing against each other’s interests you’re kidding yourself. Unique Selling Proposition. Compelling Event.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M That system allows us to arrange shoots and coordinate with contracted talent to produce that content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. Do it yourself and barter for services. It’s too easy, and it bites you in the end.

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Startup Outsource Development Development Team Review Equity 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2016

Twitter and GrubHub are just a couple of examples where CFOs have been asked to absorb COO responsibilities in the last couple of years. As startups grow from development organizations to a sustainable and repeatable business, processes must be documented, employees hired and trained and customer-support organizations built.

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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. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. For example, there once was a social network called Friendster , often credited with starting the social networking boom way back in 2002.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. You can only lead by example, and set equally high standards for the people around you. Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People.” Organize your work before you begin.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. For example, look at the following graph. The example chart is not actually atypical. ” Quick examples: 1. million contract over two years. So which company is better run?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Most new business owners I know feel the challenges of not enough time, money, and resources, and see these as problems rather than a competitive advantage. Many are quick to call this innovation, but I believe it is often just the resourcefulness of a highly motivated owner and team, who never give up in the face of a survival challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2012

Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. You can only lead by example, and set equally high standards for the people around you. Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People.” Organize your work before you begin.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Organization Training 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2011

Entrepreneurs often have formidable technical expertise, key to developing a new product or service, but a great naïveté in management skills. You can only lead by example, and set equally high standards for the people around you. Inspire, Motivate, and Bring Out the Best in Your People.” Organize your work before you begin.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Startup Organization Training 111