InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

As I noted in Why Most Business Books (Still) Suck , I am generally not a fan of business books. If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. Pithy – Guy is the Steven King of business books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I refer back to the classic book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run several successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised many millions of dollars. billion globally by 2030, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2023

Other business culture experts, like Dr. Dana Ardi, in her classic book “ The Fall of the Alphas ,” argues that the rise of the betas is really part of a broader culture change driven by the Internet, towards communities, instant communication, and collaboration. These would never happen. Leaders of tomorrow need to practice ego management.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

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. It’s why I don’t write for TechCrunch or similar much any more. I am good at cranking out documents, memos, presentations, letters and spreadsheets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2022

I would challenge you to look at accountability from a more positive perspective, as I see in a new book, “ Uncommon Accountability ,” by Brian P. For example, instead of quick slide presentations, teams at Amazon write six-page memos to lay out ideas in narratives to be read in silence at the start of a meeting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

I refer back to the classic book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run several successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised many millions of dollars. Startups need to build a large passionate group of fans before the campaign.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages. Disciplining yourself to write down the plan is actually the best way to make sure you actually understand it yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. It also applies to other parts of my life such as presentations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

I found some great specifics in a classic book, “ The Leadership Challenge ,” by James M. These authors bring a wealth of experience in this domain from their workshops, writing, and lecturing on business leadership worldwide. Kouzes and Barry Z. Your questions determine the path people will follow and focus their search for answers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

You can’t start and run a business these days with a working knowledge and access to online and standalone tools, including a word processor, spreadsheet editing, and presentation software. Write a business plan for your desired new business. In my experience, a good business plan should not be a book, or a one-pager.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

In her classic book “ Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom ,” board expert Nancy Falls outlines the most common mistakes with boards, and I believe several of these apply to startups as well as to more mature companies as follows: Have too many or too few board members. Lack commitment and trust in board recommendations.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

I’m not advocating that you shouldn’t present at tech startup events like Launch, TechCrunch 50, DEMO or similar. And ever since then every year we are subjected to the tech press corps writing the annual, “What will the hot company at SXSW be?” Focus more on networking at events than attending presentations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2020

Other business culture experts, like Dr. Dana Ardi, in her classic book “ The Fall of the Alphas ,” argues that the rise of the betas is really part of a broader culture change driven by the Internet, towards communities, instant communication, and collaboration. These would never happen. Leaders of tomorrow need to practice ego management.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

“Great presentation. He is the author of various best selling books including Practical Information Architecture, Web Dogma ’06 and Usable Usability. Reiss will sign copies of his recently published book, Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better after the Usable Usability — Lean UX starts right here workshop.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

Don’t just write a carbon copy of what somebody else is doing. OK, well, actually the first thing I did is come up with a list of 50 posts that I wanted to write. I didn’t want to run out of things to write about in the first 6 months. My first series was the slides that go into a PowerPoint presentation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Thus I offer the following outline for how to organize and present your business plan, with specific examples: Start with outlining the customer problem, and your solution. I personally find that writing down my business plan is a good discipline to incent me to think through all the issues, and do the research on the alternatives available.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You likely are writing your first one of these. See User Story is Worthless - Behavior is What We Need although you don't need your behavior description to be as formal as what is presented. Towards An Integrated Approach to UX Design You should definitely look at Steve Blank's book and review his blog. Don't stress over format.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2015

People cite sources like this BusinessWeek story a while back “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ,” or even my own article on this subject, “ 10 Reasons Not To Write A Business Plan First.” Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. Pitch your company, not your product. Written business plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 5, 2018

Moonves is so liked in the industry I have no doubt that my writing a blog post will annoy some senior people in the industry that I know but that’s no reason to stay silent. If you like this topic you’ll love the book. I suspect (but don’t know) that at the end of this process a compromise will be reached where Moonves will step down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2014

People cite sources like this BusinessWeek story last year “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ,” or even my own article a while back, “ 10 Reasons Not To Write A Business Plan First.” Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. Pitch your company, not your product. Written business plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

My pal Dave occasionally presents “headline risks” for investors. 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. When he writes them online his Tourette’s comes out and sometimes the substance gets lost in the style. I’ve been told so.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2018

They allow me to preview new devices and technologies before release so that I might write about and speak about them in my “Tech Trends” keynotes. If a future date was already booked at 80%, then they would eliminate any discounts below 10% from the “rack” or standard room rate. We presented our findings. Our test sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

If you’re an early investor like I am that often means writing the first $2-3 million check into a business that previously had either survived on fumes or on a $500,000 angel round. When you hire somebody really strong in this function you can also give her the task of creating your board presentations.

Startup 381

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2019

I found some great specifics in a classic book, “ The Leadership Challenge ,” by James M. These authors bring a wealth of experience in this domain from their workshops, writing, and lecturing on business leadership worldwide. Kouzes and Barry Z. Your questions determine the path people will follow and focus their search for answers.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2015

If you need to build proposals, presentations or project documentation, I have been using lucidpress.com. Then you use the panels in the app to theme your prototype without writing any code. You can do complicated CSS3 animations and JavaScript interactions without ever writing any code. Business Documentation. Pretty, cool.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2012

Govindarajan is referencing his new book Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home , a book on strategy, or what Govindarajan refers to as “pushing back the fold of the future.” In the boxes he writes: 1. Manage the present. Selectively forget the past. Create the future. Don’t we all do that?

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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. This includes presentations, ROI calculators, competitive analyses and so forth.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2011

They allow me to preview new devices and technologies before release so that I might write about and speak about them in my “Tech Trends” keynotes. If a future date was already booked at 80%, then they would eliminate any discounts below 10% from the “rack” or standard room rate. Marriott called theirs “tier pricing”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2015

In her new book “ Corporate Concinnity in the Boardroom ,” board expert Nancy Falls outlines the most common mistakes with boards, and I believe several of these apply to startups as well as to more mature companies as follows: Having too many or too few board members. Lacking commitment and trust in board recommendations.

Startup 103

Startup Entrepreneur Mentor Writing 103

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

In a book I read about ADD it said that your brain has a slow processing frontal cortex. When I work on tasks or presentations or analyses I often get into the weeds but I often rely on a partner to make sure we cross every T and dot every I. If you’re writing and looking up occasionally you’re assumed to taking notes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages. Disciplining yourself to write down the plan is actually the best way to make sure you actually understand it yourself.

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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. The iterable.spliterator() method is critical when it comes to stream performance, but writing a custom Spliterator from scratch is a non-trivial task. Write a benchmark afterwards to confirm your assumptions. forEachRemaining(.).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

I don't know if you've read my book, but I started my career writing trading systems in a software company. I've been basically writing code, and looking at trading systems and investment criteria for a long time. I'm pitched 100 deals a week because of my book, so I've got to filter them. It's about eliminating people.

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Tech.Co

MAY 24, 2017

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. My spouse’s work is demanding, but he is an extremely present dad, covers for me during work dinners, and still spends the time to talk to me about how to handle work matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

Highlighting the problem, and the solution, I just found a new book, “ Making Websites Win ,” by Dr. Karl Blanks and Ben Jesson. By far the most effective technique for improving your writing is simply carrying out user readability tests on every piece of content, and really listening to feedback. Usability problems kill conversions.

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