Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

One of the most influential books of my career is The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clay Christensen. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

But we all know that these are not solutions by themselves, but require integration into an innovative framework to solve real customer problems. Here are some keys to that mindset that I have seen working for successful entrepreneurs: Think customer-centric rather than technology-centric. Be forever curious and optimistic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

I was impressed by a recent book, “ The Leadership Star ,” by Brian Hartzer, an experienced business executive, offering a concise leadership framework that I believe embodies the key attributes that I recommend. Help constituents find meaning in what they do. Be proactive in helping knock down progress barriers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

In billing we literally started thinking about all of the types of bills that would be generated for customers: full payment, partial payment, split payment, senior discount, student discount, level pay plan, etc. That alone will help us solve the problems.&#. I found this book very useful but still a little bit hard to implement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

Jamie Gerdsen, in his classic book of lessons on business change, creatively titled “ Squirrels, Boats, and Thoroughbreds ,” aims first at existing businesses, but I believe that most of his points, like his laws of the jungle, can be rewritten for startups, as follows: If you want to eat. If you want to survive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

The hard part is providing the leadership required to align and motivate all the constituents and players – from engineers, to investors, vendors, and ultimately customers. Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. 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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Jamie Gerdsen, in his book of lessons on business change, creatively titled “ Squirrels, Boats, and Thoroughbreds ,” aims first at existing businesses, but I believe that most of his points, like his laws of the jungle, can be rewritten for startups, as follows: If you want to eat. If you want to survive. Survival means growth and scaling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2016

Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment. I just finished a new book, “ The Purpose Effect ,” by renowned author Dan Pontefract, that provides a good framework and background or doing just that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

Jamie Gerdsen, in his classic book of lessons on business change, creatively titled “ Squirrels, Boats, and Thoroughbreds ,” aims first at existing businesses, but I believe that most of his points, like his laws of the jungle, can be rewritten for startups, as follows: If you want to eat. If you want to survive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

Jamie Gerdsen, in his book of lessons on business change, creatively titled “ Squirrels, Boats, and Thoroughbreds ,” aims first at existing businesses, but I believe that most of his points, like his laws of the jungle, can be rewritten for startups, as follows: If you want to eat. If you want to survive. Survival means growth and scaling.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. We built a whole, loyalty rewards and points system to incentivize changes, and also helps with behavior management and sustained change. They view it as their customer's data, which is very simple and straightforward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Thankfully, I just saw some great insights on this subject, in a new book, “ Time, Talent, Energy: Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Team’s Productive Power ,” by Michael Mankins and Eric Garton, partners at Bain & Company and frequent Harvard Business Review contributors. Help make the difference makers even more effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In his book, “ Out-Executing the Competition ,” seasoned executive Irv Rothman provides tips to corporate executives on how to dig in and “get their fingernails dirty.” Team members and customers expect startup founders to be innovative. Don’t be afraid to share your view and ask for help. CEOs need to do more and observe less.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

In his new book, “ Out-Executing the Competition ,” seasoned executive Irv Rothman provides tips to corporate executives on how to dig in and “get their fingernails dirty.” Team members and customers expect startup founders to be innovative. Don’t be afraid to share your view and ask for help.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. This helps to add some constraints to the design process as everyone has a clear idea of what the product isn’t.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We caught up with Amos to learn about his new book, and to gain some tips for startup entrepreneurs on how to figure out when you're actually ready to scale your sales team. I was a sales person at HotJobs, but after we went public I helped open up an office in Los Angeles, and lived in Los Angeles for eight years.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. When asked what their objectives are they cite some form of “improving customer communications” by a long margin. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

It’s a very personal topic and I’d like to offer you a framework to decide for yourself, based on the following factors: How Long is it Taking to Raise Capital at Your Stage in the Market? Let me play open book so you can understand the situation better. Are Your Existing Investors Over Their Skis?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2022

A design mindset is not product-focused - it’s solution focused and action oriented towards creating better customer experiences and value. Yet I believe the role and requirements continue to evolve, as detailed in the book, “ Innovation by Design ,” by Thomas Lockwood and Edgar Papke, based on their studies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A design mindset is not product-focused - it’s solution focused and action oriented towards creating better customer experiences and value. Yet I believe the role and requirements continue to evolve, as detailed in the classic book, “ Innovation by Design ,” by Thomas Lockwood and Edgar Papke, based on their studies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Visualization is so important to help yourself & others conceptualize ideas. One of the books that first made me aware of the “creative brain&# was “ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain &# by Betty Edwards. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above. So I thought I would.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

By not forcing the publisher to go through a Gaikai portal where they tried to control customers, they engendered trust from the publishers. We spent a bunch of time in the video talking about “disruption” as described by Clay Christensen in his seminal book, “The Innovator’s Dilemman” which I profiled here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A design mindset is not product-focused - it’s solution focused and action oriented towards creating better customer experiences and value. Yet I believe the role and requirements continue to evolve, as detailed in a new book, “ Innovation by Design ,” by Thomas Lockwood and Edgar Papke, based on their most recent studies.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

That’s why Canecto developed a cutting-edge, AI framework designed to be a web analytics assistant and help provide owners relevant insights around their customer base and learn how visitors interact with their content. InSpirAVE is helping people “save for what matters,” and reduce impulsive spending.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? Unlike some larger, more mature organizations, most startups don't spend much time or effort helping grow their employees beyond the immediate needs of the startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other.

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Framework Social Media Software Review Social Network 159

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not. Is it book smarts? They fund people with no customers. Leaders are intelligent, for sure. And experience.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

If you write a lot of Java code, then you should read that book and follow its advice. We're all using enum types here and there, we're all using the collections framework. If you've ever used primitive collection libraries like fastutil or Trove , then it may help to think of Enum{Set,Map} like those primitive collections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Technical Review 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. Employees can share best practices with customers on social network platforms and customers can help each other.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Technical Review 90