Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Development and rollout. Skip the acronyms, write at an eighth-grade level, and talk in terms of “benefits” rather than “features.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Development and rollout. Skip the acronyms, write at an eighth-grade level, and talk in terms of “benefits” rather than “features.”

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2016

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If such write-downs only impacted the faux unicorns and their avaricious investors, there would be little need for alarm. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Find A Partner Not A Banker.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

On the flip-side, Assignmint is a tool for editors, which we are in the process of developing right now. I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. It’s growing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Development and rollout. Skip the acronyms, write at an eighth-grade level, and talk in terms of “benefits” rather than “features.”

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Whether it’s sensor-based medicine, computational contracts, education analytics, or computational agriculture—success is going to rely on being able to do computational thinking well. So when you write in it, you’re doing programming. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, whatever. I’ve noticed an interesting trend.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. We have 12 developers and they have 3. Sales people will often sell future development work. My first startup was no different.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” million contract over two years. There are certain topics that even some of the best journalists can’t fully grok.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 23, 2011

As noted in Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid , exclusivity can kill a small company. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Write this number down. Students expend small fortunes of their parents’ money to attend exclusive , private colleges. An Alliance Of Two.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This article will cover two things; First, the top mistakes small business owners make that end with inquiries leading you to the exit door before making a sale. On the card I usually write the date, where I met the person, how I met them and what value I can bring to the table. Getting “Leads” does not mean money in the bank.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

But while universities are developing online content they are not fundamentally disrupting leaning because the method of delivery is not a new business model. In many ways I think general purpose writing & thinking skills are as valuable as math skills. “Online education is truly going to kill us.”

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancelled it’s contract to allow DataSift to resell Twitter data to 3rd parties. Never mind that Twitter in writing specifically asked us to build this re-syndication product with them and that every step of the way encouraged us to build out the service. Just how much?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. but: Something is Still Missing.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

This article discusses java.util.EnumSet. If you write a lot of Java code, then you should read that book and follow its advice. The iterable.spliterator() method is critical when it comes to stream performance, but writing a custom Spliterator from scratch is a non-trivial task. Some developers don't know these classes exist.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. I believe this makes Twitter the perfect ecosystem for development. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas?

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