Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2020

billion net worth. If you consider yourself the consummate inventor, but haven’t yet broken through on the business side, I urge you to consider the following alternative keys to long-term success that inventors before you have capitalized on: Team with a business and marketing partner. A business must have a sustainable win position.

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APRIL 1, 2015

Then we launched our service in NYC and in just one year captured 2% of all new storage customers in our target demo in just one year with almost no marketing budget. We offered a service that has a net promoter score of 87 placing us higher than such great brands as USAA, Costco, Apple and Amazon. And we needed to go to 11.

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MAY 18, 2014

We live in interesting times where working at a startup is glamorized to the point that many founders even refer to their team members as “rock stars,” which to my ears is cringe worthy. He’s also amazing with online marketing data & methods and an all-around entrepreneur’s entrepreneur.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. For instance, Guy refers to an entrepreneur’s venture as their “cause.” Obsolescence – By Guy’s own admission, his references to current technologies, such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn build in an implicit shelf-life.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

That said, there are times where you need to cast a wider net. They know what is “market&# for your recruits in terms of base, bonus & stock options. Often recruiters want to handle the final negotiations on package and/or do the reference calls. I’m also reluctant to hand over reference calling.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. lessons learned from his days as an entrepreneur. what is your ratio? (0:37:35).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

I’m not recommending that you saturate your discussions with lingo, but responding with a blank stare once-too-often won’t convince anyone that you can build the next world-changing business or outpace the market. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

Perhaps in part due to its dominant market share, WebEx adopted telecom-style pricing, which effectively penalized their users. They knew that price restructuring would significantly impair their gross revenues as well as their net income, which would dramatically impact their stock price. WebEx was the early leader in web meetings.

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APRIL 25, 2011

It would not be a big stretch to image a well run service business like this making 15-25% net profit margins. In a booming tech market like 2011 it’s easy to think your business will always expand. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. They mistake their successes in selling services as a competency in selling products.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

Wil Schroter: One would be a company that has a mass market product, and just needs some cash to get out the door. Right now, equity tends to fall to the very high net worth and professional investors. The market will prove otherwise, but we think that as a point of reference, that will be the minimum threshold.

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MAY 10, 2015

This is only an educated hypothesis but I’ll bet it’s pretty close to grounded in reality: Everybody saw “The Social Network” and everybody has a belief that suing will net them millions whether they’re in the right or the wrong. Most ideas are fungible. Humor is tone deaf in court.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

According to Albert Oaten, VP Market Development at SecureDocs , "The number of people that negotiate by saying, ''This doesn''t look like it costs you very much so I don''t know why you don''t charge to cover your costs plus a little extra or have a freemium option,'' is surprisingly large. > The Customer Is Not Always King.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs. We're taking a bit of our playbook from First Round Capital, where, if you look at their website, they provide market help and raising their next round of capital. Tell us about the new fund?

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). See Fred Wilson’s post on Twitter referring traffic. 30% is the market opportunity. is Sean Rad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

First of all, the Boomer demographic is currently the single largest, mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today (76 million people strong). The article also refers to government data showing that those 55 to 64 and older represent one of the fastest growing groups of self-employed workers. Angel Investor.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Ria Consulting is hosting its 3rd annual Dallas Day of Dot Net on February 8-9, 2013 at Sheraton Market Center in Dallas, Texas. The event is a 2-day training in.Net, HTML5, Windows 8, Asp.NET MVC and other Microsoft technologies. In addition, world renowned speakers are invited to discuss the latest trends in technology.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Despite our business model reservations, we were sufficiently intrigued by Jeff and the opportunity to seek technical and market feedback from a VoIP expert. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: Subject: Reference for Twilio. > -jeff. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

As discussed in Inventors vs. Innovators , most entrepreneurs iterate on preexisting ideas to the point that the inventions represent marketable value propositions upon which sustainable companies can be created. Conversely, most inventors are not entrepreneurs. If necessity is the mother of invention, obsession is the father of innovation.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Like most mature markets, the legal profession is highly segmented with respect to the services provided and markets served. The reference may be well-intentioned, but the lawyer’s allegiance may be divided between the investor and you. Even so, the majority of firms focus on servicing well-established BDC’s.

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