Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2022

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. You really need a partner who is complementary, and can tackle the operational roles, like marketing, finance, and sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Pew says the Boomer demographic is the largest mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today, and will be for the foreseeable future. Member of the Advisory Board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Sometimes contributors may get compensated later, but usually the rewards are just kudos and intellectual satisfaction.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2019

Ian Chen: In my previous life, I was working in private equity in LA. We did another round with angels and early customers of Discotech. However, it's a very competitive market, and there are a lot of clubs and a lot of cities, and in every city we are in there are venues looking to drive more foot traffic through their doors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. The right time to start dilemma. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. They've solved it at the enterprise paint point, where we are at the mid-market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Sometimes contributors may get compensated later, but usually the rewards are just kudos and intellectual satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Gallup says the Boomer demographic is the largest and still growing mainstream pool of experienced talent in the market today (76 million people strong).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. The right time to start dilemma. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2019

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. You really need a partner who is complementary, and can tackle the operational roles, like marketing, finance, and sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2016

Maintaining your team’s passion and freedom to focus first on innovating for customers are only a couple of the reasons for thinking hard before you seek money from crowdfunding, angel investors, venture capital organizations, or attempt to qualify for a public stock offering. Investors want board seats and a vote on key decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. The right time to start dilemma. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 57

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. The right time to start dilemma. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

In my activities as an angel investor, and my work with new ventures seeking investment, I find the “due diligence” stage to be fraught with the most risk. Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. Update reference customers, partners, and vendors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2017

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. You really need a partner who is complementary, and can tackle the operational roles, like marketing, finance, and sales.

Startup 59

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. You really need a partner who is complementary, and can tackle the operational roles, like marketing, finance, and sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. You really need a partner who is complementary, and can tackle the operational roles, like marketing, finance, and sales.

Startup 97

Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur Writing 97

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. Most companies have a roadmap describing what they’re planning to build, deliver or market. We have had to take sub-market salaries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. You really need a partner who is complementary, and can tackle the operational roles, like marketing, finance, and sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2010

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. You really need a partner who is complementary, and can tackle the operational roles, like marketing, finance, and sales.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. " 34; To which I say "we don't think we can time markets." It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so. Keep going.

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