InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. I was not disapointed.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

If you're a startup business owner, how do you get to the next step, and build your first product? That's the idea behind a new startup, Fundable , headed by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter , which allows you to use rewards -- product, company schwag, an even equity -- as a tool to get your startup to the next stage. What's Fundable?

Startup 223

Startup Equity Venture Capital Ideas 223

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2014

Right or wrong, the name you choose, or don’t choose, speaks volumes about your business savvy and understanding of the world you are about to enter. When choosing an identity for a company or a product, simple and straightforward are back in style, and cost less to brand. In the trade, this is called “stickiness.” Give a clue.

Google 117

Google Customer Custom Sample 117

Tech.Co

JULY 24, 2017

Below we’ll outline how to squeeze those last drops of talent out of your own social circles, how to incentivize current employees to lure in potential candidates in their networks, and how to entice “superconnectors” to recruit through their own far-reaching nets. But how do you go about pitching your friends? Tap Into Your Network.

Networking 82

Networking Startup Software Review Conference 82

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2013

Right or wrong, the name you choose, or don’t choose, speaks volumes about your business savvy and understanding of the world you are about to enter. When choosing an identity for a company or a product, simple and straightforward are back in style, and cost less to brand. In the trade, this is called “stickiness.” Give a clue.

Startup 104

Startup Google Customer Custom 104

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

We sat down with Derek to learn more about the new $5M fund and what it's all about. Tell us about the new fund? Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs. Our investment thesis we refer to as the connected consumer. It all starts there.

Invest 145

Invest Funding Capital Startup 145

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Right or wrong, the name you choose, or don’t choose, speaks volumes about your business savvy and understanding of the world you are about to enter. When choosing an identity for a company or a product, simple and straightforward are back in style, and cost less to brand. In the trade, this is called “stickiness.” Give a clue.

Company 108

Company Companies Google Customer 108

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Right or wrong, the name you choose, or don’t choose, speaks volumes about your business savvy and understanding of the world you are about to enter. When choosing an identity for a company or a product, simple and straightforward are back in style, and cost less to brand. In the trade, this is called “stickiness.” Give a clue.

Company 92

Company Companies Google Customer 92

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. It’s OK, You Can Create Kick-Ass Web AppsAre you tired of getting verbally beat up about developing web and HTML5 apps? We will also look at versioning and other advanced topics.

Training 65

Training Technical Review Technology Software Review 65

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. After all, when I’m in Facebook they know one hell of a lot more about me than Google does. Why am I excited about in-stream advertising then?

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

WebEx also charged exorbitant setup fees (again, much like cellular carriers), averaging about $4,000. They knew that price restructuring would significantly impair their gross revenues as well as their net income, which would dramatically impact their stock price. A typical 60-minute meeting with one attendee cost $54.

Entrepreneur 225

Entrepreneur SaaS Pricing Cloud Computing 225

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. Our approach is often additive to all parties, resulting in ongoing, productive relationships. spoke with Jeff for about 40-minutes. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: Subject: Reference for Twilio. John Greathouse <john *@ *.com>

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

I often speak about co-founder fighting and how this ends in lawsuits but this has become much more prevalent. He regretted the decision and sued the company and the board – it’s still not totally clear to me what he was suing about. He signed a release and remained on the board. He sued anyways. It was a pure shake down.

Startup 150

Startup IP Writing Ideas 150

Both Sides of the Table

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. Great programmers are artists, for sure, but rock stars is about the last definition I’d choose. The reality is quite the opposite.

Startup 419

Startup Entrepreneur Design Funding 419

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2020

You see, inventing a business is about attracting money from investors and customers, rather than spending money on a challenging dream. billion net worth. There is always the urge add just one more feature or enhancement, which makes the product harder to use for the average customer, more expensive, and delay introduction.

Customer 136

Customer Custom Examples .Net 136

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

The reference may be well-intentioned, but the lawyer’s allegiance may be divided between the investor and you. You can also greatly reduce the risk of employee lawsuits with a few simple preventative steps: Employ consistent and disciplined hiring procedures, including background checks, backdoor references (i.e.,

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

A writer is someone who writes, not someone who goes about telling their friends that they are “a writer”. If people who know you well think that you share traits with good old Uncle Harry, then you may want to think twice about leaving The Herd. You can learn more about his experiences at johngreathouse.com _. — Impatience.

Entrepreneur 153

Entrepreneur Ideas Writing Startup 153

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. They come in the form of personal references. I learned about revenue recognition.

Startup 285

Startup Venture Capital Sales Software Review 285

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

What is wonderful about this interview is that I got Tom on the record on: what angels look for and how they work? some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. Angels will largely take a product risk (they bet on the product or idea and your ability to build it). “A”

Angel 302

Angel Startup Ideas .Net 302

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views.

Course 280

Course Startup Framework Marketing 280