Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Most technology startups seem to be founded by three types of people: product managers, engineers or biz dev types (MBAs and the like). They’re great at orchestrating your company to deliver product demos. They sell more commoditized or well understood products that can be sold via a well-defined process.

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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. They over think the decision framework. Check your legal framework. Be open and productive.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. Theodore Schleifer at Recode reported a rare deep dive into the internal intrigue at a prominent VC firm, in this case Mithril Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2012

A while back, I wrote about the value of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment, and using every opportunity to highlight and emphasize your relative advantages, whether they be price, features, or bargaining power. Look at all systems, policies, procedures, reports and rules.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. They are also driving down the margins they make and are offering products that are initially lower functionality than their competitors. I described that phenomenon in this post. Prices down. Network Up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kaufmann Foundation , the numbers are finally here to show it. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Xconomy

JUNE 15, 2016

Then there are product risks (can we translate our vision into a successful product?), market risks (do we have customers who are willing to buy our product?), Once risk professionals have a seat at the table, the onus is on them to report risk data to the board as effectively as possible. Are they big or small?

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

I began looking at first at traditional benefits, like life insurance, health insurance, 401Ks, and while doing so I was reading a report and saw how much companies spend on fringe benefits. Our product and engineering team has spent hundreds of hours to take that complexity, and distilled it into a very simple interface.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. We move the discussion over to early product days. “We’ve built an app framework.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? Accounting? When will key hires come on?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But a newly minted developer given access to Hacker News can develop ADD in a week's time, waste countless hours reading the opinions of professional and amateur technology opinion-makers, and nervously fidget about selecting the hippest framework and libraries to (briefly) avoid the scorn of hacker pop culture.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. We move the discussion over to early product days. “We’ve built an app framework.

Social Media 81

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

The names “Embark” and “Journey” relate to how our products are used by companies who have distributed workforces that go out to all sorts of places “in the field” where they provide services. Why the name? Journey was created by our company, Embark Mobile (or “Embark” for short).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It’s a very personal topic and I’d like to offer you a framework to decide for yourself, based on the following factors: How Long is it Taking to Raise Capital at Your Stage in the Market? ” and if anybody gives you a specific number I would be a bit skeptical because there is no universal answer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2022

A while back, Gartner formalized their ‘big data’ definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Big data’ can mean big profits. Social media and web data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

A while back, Gartner formalized their ‘big data’ definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Big data’ can mean big profits. Social media and web data.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What other kinds of systems will we likely need? Accounting? How do we balance concerns vs. cost?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. And I suspect that, at Myspace, he got a lot of experience on how to run a product at scale. I don’t know the company or the details first hand. I agree with him.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

A while back, Gartner formalized their ‘big data’ definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Big data’ can mean big profits. Social media and web data.

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IBM IBM Social Media Commerce 75