Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

As a bleeding-edge startup, you can be assured of product quality problems, missing business processes, and customer support issues. If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Create a market you can’t supply and support.

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MARCH 21, 2013

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. help you integrate your product with other systems making it harder for your product to be replaced by competitors. it's all in this article if you want the details]. Only Work on Projects That Support Your Core Product Effort. rollout support. configuration.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2018

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. However, it remains fairly rare within the tech world. Year-end Planning – The inherent time and focus conflict between finalizing the year’s sales and mapping out the coming year’s pro forma financials, strategic plan and product roadmap is reduced. .

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MARCH 19, 2013

This article initially appeared on TechCrunch. While I have some sympathy with not investing too heavily in sales people until the product has properly been tested and commercialized in the enterprise environment, in the end it’s a fact that it takes sales people to move product through large organizations.

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MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Do we have a heavy-touch implementation and support or a lightweight one by integrating with products that white-label us?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 6, 2013

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. This is due to a fundamental disconnect between the increased activity of high-volume seed investors (that fill out lots of Seed rounds) and the relatively small number of Series A investors, who only make 1 or 2 investments, per partner, per year.". A from a new outside lead.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. Theodore Schleifer at Recode reported a rare deep dive into the internal intrigue at a prominent VC firm, in this case Mithril Capital.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). International money. And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them.

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MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). International money. And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them.

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JUNE 6, 2012

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. And as we know the book industry is moving fully electronic with the advent of the Kindle making the costs of production & distribution nearly zero. Even a hundred. Anime & Manga.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The project ultimately imploded due to a combination of factors. An emerging tech dystopia. James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” series might be the best example of how a writer can start their career by posting derivative stories online — before the series was an international hit, it was Twilight fan fiction.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Viewing the article through the lens of a venture capitalist there’s much to agree with under the mantra of “growth!” ” And when you read the article carefully it allows for a period of discovery in your business. It might be for technical reasons or it might be for customer adoption reasons. For example.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

This article was originally posted in a much more concise version over GigaOm if you prefer the shorter version. But what happened to me and what I think happens to others is that this tacit knowledge of how to sell your company’s products is not as institutionalized as you think. I learned this the hard way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2018

As a bleeding-edge startup, you can be assured of product quality problems, missing business processes, and customer support issues. If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. Create a market you can’t supply and support.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 23, 2012

free weekly Infochachkie articles! " I recently performed a 360-Review on two Co-Founders who were the company's CEO and CTO. The value of a startup's products must be obvious and easily accessed. . "I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then." " [Tweet this quote].

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. To say that the tech elite were cynical of Hulu’s launch would be an understatement , but by the time it launched just a few months later it was getting great reviews. I have personally always felt a sort of cognitive dissonance regarding Hulu.

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MAY 5, 2011

This article originally ran on TechCrunch. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. I’m in Seattle this week. Of course I have. Can’t list them all.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In August 2004, FastCompany published an article titled, Inside The Mind Of Jeff Bezos , written by Alan Deutschman. Although the article is informative, it is the accompanying sidebar that has remained with me over the succeeding years. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

free weekly Infochachkie articles! They also accounted for each paper and were often financially penalized for any papers which were lost , thereby developing strong internal controls. The key to effective SEM is diligent and vigilant review of the keywords and their respective effectiveness. . Boys To Men.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 23, 2013

An interesting note: This entire conversation and subsequent article was prompted by an unexpected email – “Hey, let’s cover this. It’s a promotional video for a technology company. We talk tech, get a reminder of GumGum’s goals, and get some additional info on what they’re working hard on.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

free weekly Infochachkie articles! Diddy worked as an intern for Uptown Records before creating his own Bad Boy label. Ray Kroc worked with the McDonald brothers for years before taking over McDonald’s and transforming it from a loose affiliation of regional franchises to an international corporation. Product Name.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Tech. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Order a reprint of this article now. The tech industry is going south. Tech Titans on the Move. » More.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We discuss advertising, Vidzey’s story, technology, business, interns, and entertainment. Two articles, side by side. ” Article 1 discussed the digital revolution and how companies like Netflix and Hulu were taking over. Article 2 posed the question of “Where is advertising going in this new digital age?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2010

During this process you are looking for affordable space, defining the roles of your team members, defining the product/service, developing initial sales channels and customers. Do not fail to review the assumptions underlying your initial strategy. Don't get lost in the details and loose sight of the overall strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent. Now I don’t get any.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The rest of the team is based at their head office in Northern Ireland with heavy remote collaboration to drive ProfileTree to an international scale. We also plan to introduce a premium profile – with onsite advertising for the subscriber – due to demand from our users. What is ProfileTree? What inspired you?

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AeA Los Angeles Council

APRIL 25, 2008

According to a survey performed by staffing consultant, Robert Half International 50% of 1,400 CFOs said telework is the second best way to attract talent after salary. IBM’s retention rate for teleworkers is much higher than the non-teleworkers – and they are 10-20% more productive than their office-bound peers.

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