Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2020

I found some great help in outlining the elements of this process in the classic book, “ Disruptors ,” by Kunal Mehta. In fact, Mehta focuses on a special class of entrepreneurs that he calls disruptors. Then write them down. It outlines their perspectives, struggles, and heartbreaks, as well as their successes. Take action now.

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JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Cialdini who is also author of a very well received book called “ Influence &# (which I plan to read). You should, too. (no, This is all explicit decision making.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Bruce, along with his wife Lynda, created a learning company from their garage, initially by holding in-person classes and later selling VHS tapes via mail order. Bruce and Lynda eventually grew their startup into a global powerhouse, offering 5,700 classes and 255,000 video tutorials to over 4 million users.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. You might write a piece now and then that catches fire but there is nothing repeatable that would be useful for a business. If you publish a book, how do you get on the NY Times best seller list? Simply write a great book?

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2015

They hoped that taking a controversial stance against the immensely popular book would help Contagious cut through the clutter of the 11,000 business books which are published annually. To make his point that the message matters more than messenger, Professor Berger writes, “…think about a forest fire. Igniting A Forest Fire.

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

I even wrote about my experiences attending Web Summit , something I rarely ever write about. If you want to see world-class speakers and hear what they have to say in person – you will get that. This is how he gets world-class speakers to travel half way around the world. He’s back stage like an orchestra conductor.

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MAY 21, 2017

I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. In fact, I don’t know how you can be an investor without reading this book.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Most VCs are book smart. In fact, book smart can be a negative. Neither class of people should give up easily. Smart is simply not a differentiator. It’s not you. It’s all of you. Commitment.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2011

And make sure to pick up a copy of his book. 22:53 Eric’s book: The Lean Startup. 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! There are many in this episode. 20:42 Looking for the “Up and to the Right” charts. 31:10 Mozy Pro Ad.

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JUNE 21, 2014

You join teams that got good write-ups on TechCrunch, have great VCs, have star CEO’s, whatever. ” Strangely, the best I’ve ever heard this exemplified is in Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential - which is really a book about startups as told through kitchen stories. Writing a book will be fun.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2012

Alain Theriault, better known as StartupCoach , tells entrepreneurs that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start by writing a cook book (business plan), you work in the kitchen for a while, you learn some tools of the trade, you experiment with a few recipes, you test on willing clients. then you can start writing a recipe.

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JULY 9, 2012

I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. He is profiled in my favorite book about ADHD, Delivered From Distraction , where the author talks about high-performance ADHD professionals. I’ve been told so. How can anybody do 500 startups?”.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

A couple of years ago I read the popular book, “The Four Hour Workweek &# by Tim Ferriss. Let me start by saying I’m a huge business book cynic. I think too many books are written by charlatans and have too much management jargon / double speak that I can’t stand. So I don’t read too many of them.

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Tech.Co

MAY 24, 2017

And not just the token two children, but to actually be the one who volunteered in their classes and screamed at them to stop picking flowers on the soccer field. In her book, “Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,” Sheryl Sandberg stated, “When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2014

I found some great help in outlining the elements of this process in a recent book, “ Disruptors ,” by Kunal Mehta. In fact, Mehta focuses on a special class of entrepreneurs that he calls disruptors. Then write them down. By writing these goals, you add validity to each target and create a mental desire to see them fulfilled.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

The concept comes from a Stephen Covey book called “ First Things First ,&# which is a worthwhile book ( Wikipedia overview here ) but if you haven’t read his seminal book “ 7 Habits of Highly Effective People &# you should start with that. I thought through the steps: Get a class of interesting companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2011

Alain Theriault, better known as StartupCoach , tells entrepreneurs that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start by writing a cook book (business plan), you work in the kitchen for a while, you learn some tools of the trade, you experiment with a few recipes, you test on willing clients. then you can start writing a recipe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I found some great help in outlining the elements of this process in the classic book, “ Disruptors ,” by Kunal Mehta. In fact, Mehta focuses on a special class of entrepreneurs that he calls disruptors. Then write them down. It outlines their perspectives, struggles, and heartbreaks, as well as their successes. Take action now.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

If you haven’t read Adam Lashinsky’s awesome new book about Apple , you should. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. I wrote separately about that here – regarding “hiring people who punch above their weight class.”

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socalTECH

MAY 19, 2017

Not to plug myself, but I've done some writing and published a book with O'Reilly, talking about security misconceptions. That's why we are so excited to have their addition to this round. What's the biggest lesson you've learned from this so far? Andrew Peterson: I've learned a bunch. Finally, what's next for you?

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you're an expert in a certain technology--say, business process design--and have thought about publishing a book, this is a quicker, faster, and more comprehensive way to share it with the world. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Something to write your notes, another to set reminders, and one that does both. Kind of like a disarrayed choose your own adventure book about your life. No folders, submenus, or “category-container-box-lists” Write your reminder with a string of hashtags: #todo #pickup autobiography of arnold schwarzenegger from #amazon.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. Despite my cynicism of MBA’s , this class was very valuable to me. A certain amount of infighting is clearly going on and would make for a great book about this era if some enterprising journalist would write it. VC’s are not immune to this phenomenon.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

If you're teaching classes of 32 maybe even 37 students, it's difficult to know where students are. Over 12 months, until we were generating enough dollars of cash flow, we basically used that credit to write ourselves convenience checks, so we could pay our rent, pay for materials, and for those sort of things.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

No summary of what we did, no easy way for me to recommend my trainer to my friends, and no way for me to easily book the next appointment. Andy, a trainer, uses amSTATZ to book appointments, handle payments and message with multiple clients. Jenna can also search for local events, boot camps, or fitness classes. How many users?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

This does not mean you shouldn’t solve big, complex problems or write complex code. You imagined him as the kid in your class at school at the front of the room raising his hand at every question and saying, “Oooh, me. Save your over-intellectualizing for your book club. Before that he was a US senator. Call on me.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. To anyone who believes his data proves anything please do me a favor and go read The Black Swan – my favorite book of the past 5 years. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you've taken a course, and need an application to do chemistry or math analysis, there's a store where you can write, share, sell, or buy those applications. Teachers can also put the list of books for their course, and students can buy directly from their session or account. The other part of this is an app store.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Being in business since I was 18 years old has led to a lot of conferences, meetings, mixers, classes, tradeshows and after parties. 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. Some have called me a “super connector”. Help a Reporter Out (HARO). Blogs and Forums.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

A Writer Is Someone Who Writes. A writer is someone who writes, not someone who goes about telling their friends that they are “a writer”. Repeatedly organize yard sales in which you sold your broken toys, books you wrote and illustrated, along with overly sugared lemonade and burnt cookies. Hint: He was an entrepreneur.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

. */. private static E [] getUniverse ( Class elementType ) {. There is a single backing array instance of those Month constants living in memory somewhere ( a private field in the Class object for Month ), but it wouldn't be safe to pass that array directly to every caller of values(). return SharedSecrets. getJavaLangAccess ().

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. Obviously to understand a “class&# of people you have to make broad generalizations. You can book them at budget hotels – but don’t go too far. Here are mine.

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JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. But the problem with being all in – all in for me, let’s say I can write $10 to $12 million per company. Am I allowed to say this? What’s not?

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OCTOBER 31, 2015

So suck that every teacher who scolded us for not paying attention to boring classes or making people with ADD feel less accomplished. I have checked Twitter at least 10 times during the writing of this post so far and Facebook 3 times. I can’t write a blog post and then wait 3 days to publish. Don’t worry.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

Even from a young age, my experiences as president of my college fraternity were more formative in my experiences as an entrepreneur than my economics classes were. But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. Don’t get me wrong – I loved economics. It globalizes.

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