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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2022
If you team with a partner who likes to sleep late, and reserves the weekend for other activities, the partnership will likely not work. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. All partners have compatible work styles.
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10 Disciplines Every Entrepreneur Needs To Practice
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Start the product design process by thinking about what a historian in the future would look back on as the one big thing that changed everything. Amazon uses this technique internally for all new product design efforts. Outsource services back to the customer. The future history assessment approach.
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Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 17, 2019
Now, more than $35 million dollars later , the company has been awarded a multi-year contract to build and operate its own rocket launch facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. That contract, awarded by The 45th Space Wing of the Air Force, is the first direct agreement the U.S. space and missile defense program.
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10 Ways Your Startup Co-Founder Is Like A Good Spouse
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 15, 2019
If you team with a partner who likes to sleep late, and reserves the weekend for other activities, the partnership will likely not work. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. All partners have compatible work styles.
Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 31, 2021
Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. ” Climate resiliency .
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing
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10 Thinking Methods That Foster Business Innovation
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Start the product design process by thinking about what a historian in the future would look back on as the one big thing that changed everything. Amazon uses this technique internally for all new product design efforts. Outsource services back to the customer. The future history assessment approach.
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10 Key Traits Of An Ideal Entrepreneur Partner
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 22, 2014
If you team with a partner who likes sleep until late morning, and reserves the weekend for other activities, the partnership will likely not work. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Compatible work styles.
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10 Partner Qualities to Test Before Sharing Equity
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
If you team with a partner who likes sleep until late morning, and reserves the weekend for other activities, the partnership will likely not work. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Compatible work styles.
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How to Pick a Partner Who Will Amplify Your Efforts
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 16, 2017
If you team with a partner who likes to sleep late, and reserves the weekend for other activities, the partnership will likely not work. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. All partners have compatible work styles.
Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games
socalTECH
MAY 11, 2011
The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. We felt we'd have more impact over time, if we instead focused on people who are one generation younger, still working, and are active. So Nolan is behind the design of the games? How did you end up starting the site?
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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms
socalTECH
MARCH 15, 2013
Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. We want to create something that serves a purpose, has a unique design, and is farily simple to use, and where people can understand what that app does. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO. What are TenFarms and PhotoPoll? So you're making multiple applications?
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Never Negotiate Piecemeal. Here’s Why
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 10, 2012
When I started my first tech company in 1999 I had pretty good tech chops and had led teams but had very little exposure to many other things that matter in a startup including sales, marketing & business development. Negotiating was a subset of every activity in a startup – it really was a way of life. I talked too much.
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322 A Startup Partner Needs More Than a Good Resume
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 29, 2011
If you team with a partner who likes sleep until late morning, and reserves the weekend for other activities, the partnership will likely not work. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Compatible work styles.
TechZulu Top 2013 SXSW Panel Picks & More
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Community and Activism. Design and Development. Design and Development. Design and Development. Crossing Beams to Design Compelling Experiences. Design and Development. Outsourcing Startup Operations. The final panels greenlighted will be announced October 15, 2012.
Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology
Xconomy
JULY 26, 2016
Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter. million contract to Ostendo to provide the Air Force with a synthetic-holographic 3D workstation prototype.
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Ten Attributes of Your Ideal Business Partner
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 24, 2010
If you team with a Gen-Y type who likes to start work in the late morning, and reserves the weekend for other activities, the partnership will likely not work. If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Marty Zwilling.
10 Thinking Disciplines That Can Kickstart Innovation
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 23, 2016
Start the product design process by thinking about what a historian in the future would look back on as the one big thing that changed everything. Amazon uses this technique internally for all new product design efforts. Outsource services back to the customer. The future history assessment approach.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. Draft is a Fantasy Sports app designed for the mobile world and the busy lifestyle founded by Jeremy Levine.
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150 Increasing Profit Margins By Decreasing Inefficiency
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 5, 2016
Selling new products, opening new markets outsourcing business functions and every other decision affects the bottom line. A process may be defined as a flow of connected activities that lead to a business transaction. It is essential to establish control over the process to be certain that it follows the model’s designed course.
Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?
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JANUARY 23, 2007
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Interview With Kevin Smith, SolarReserve
socalTECH
MARCH 18, 2016
Kevin Smith: SolarReserve is a developer and technology provider for large scale, solar projects. We handle development activities, land issues, interconnection, power contracts, and more for both solar thermal and photovoltaic projects. We have a pretty big development pipeline around the world and in the U.S.,
Equity Compensation: A 6 Point Primer on Creative Service Fees
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APRIL 16, 2013
If you are considering a proposal from a wide-eyed entrepreneur who is looking to hire a design agency and is trying to preserve their cash here are six considerations to mull over before signing on for the job: 1. However, there are a number of considerations to explore before agreeing to accepting equity as a portion of your firm’s payment.
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From the Venture Trenches
APRIL 16, 2013
If you are considering a proposal from a wide-eyed entrepreneur who is looking to hire a design agency and is trying to preserve their cash here are six considerations to mull over before signing on for the job: 1. However, there are a number of considerations to explore before agreeing to accepting equity as a portion of your firm’s payment.
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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D
socalTECH
AUGUST 8, 2012
Gene Dolgoff: After years of research and development, we have developed technology which converts two dimensional video to 3D. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. Why turn to crowdfunding and Fundable for this?
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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. These people understand that the nature of startups have changed.
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Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.
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Student-Founded Fantasy Pollster Is Hoping To Pick The Next President
InfoChachkie
MARCH 24, 2016
Shortly thereafter, we began developing apps and websites out of Brent’s garage. They created a futures exchange in which the contracts were based upon the outcome of political events. If people are heavily invested in the outcome of an election, they will be more inclined to read the news and become politically active.
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development
Frank Addante
DECEMBER 5, 2006
. ► 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:
The Master Checklist of EVERYTHING You Need to Start a Business
Jason Nazar
MAY 2, 2016
Design a logo ( 99designs ). Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). For one-off or task based activities, use AmazonTurk or Odesk. Go mobile and consider app development. Identity and Branding. Recommended.
10 Ways to Size Your Company’s Value for Funding
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.
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Miigle Revisited | A SoCal Startup With a Global Mission
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 16, 2014
On the day of Miigle’s public launch, we chatted about developing his team, lessons learned, and how World Cup soccer fits into his vision. For example, take someone who is developing a travel solution as a mobile application. You can keep yourself updated on the activities of the startup. You can also foster it.
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104 What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. It creates a feeder system of local businesses that get their first biz dev deals or sales contracts. You can read Brad’s views of how to do it in his book.
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378 Ten Components of Startup Valuation For Investors
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 6, 2010
Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation.
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93 Innovating Telecom – Emir Aboulhosn (CEO) of Ready SIM
Tech Zulu Event
JANUARY 8, 2014
No personal information is needed to activate, therefore, calls cannot be traced to a specific name or organization in any way. ” It’s a compelling thought – especially when you consider the alternative: 2 year contracts, overage charges, hours of dealing with customer service reps. ” What?
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 7, 2011
This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Communicating with the developers who write code.
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Frank Addante
MARCH 12, 2007
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 4. Build a SWAT team
Frank Addante
MARCH 26, 2007
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU to 3,500 entrepreneurs in 50+ countries
Frank Addante
MAY 20, 2007
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we make money?
Frank Addante
MAY 8, 2006
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SoCal CTO
MARCH 4, 2010
Activities As I went through my 30+ different startup experiences and tried to classify them a bit more, I realized this is very messy stuff. That said, I think it starts with what a laundry list of different kinds of needed technology activities and what the current team can reasonably accomplish.
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 2. Under Process, Over Deliver
Frank Addante
JANUARY 30, 2007
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