Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, universities, and even high school programs. The challenge with an Innovator is to focus as hard on the business realities as the product possibilities.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The only way to build productive, collaborative, innovative, and cohesive teams is by resolving core dysfunction issues and implementing a structured process for innovation. In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Santa Barbara-based RightScale disclosed today that the firm has linked with WaveMaker Software, a developer of a framework for deploying web applications. WaveMaker and RightScale said that the two will integrate their products, allowing users who develop apps on WaveMaker to deploy them through RightScale's Cloud Management Platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Put your risk capital into a separate checking account before you start. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Hedge your bets by starting several initiatives or products. Decide to launch one business or product at a time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

controlling your psychology ) you no doubt have heard me say that raising capital is a sales & marketing process. Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. This is critical to build a cohesive venture capital firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

This is often true when the action of the board could dramatically affect shareholders such as raising new capital, acquiring new businesses (that drain existing cash or dilute shareholders), selling the company or raising a lot of debt. Low Functioning Boards Should All of Management Attend Board Meetings? Who Should be on Your Board?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. They offered a product that didn’t even try to compare with Siebel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2013

Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. Way back in 1979, Michael E. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Put your risk capital into a separate checking account before you start. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Hedge your bets by starting several initiatives or products. Decide to launch one business or product at a time.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. When they promise to help you with marketing, sales, distribution, integrated product development, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2019

The only way to build productive, collaborative, innovative, and cohesive teams is by resolving core dysfunction issues and implementing a structured process for innovation. In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. Many view themselves as shepherds who help with building your initial team, helping with product launch and promotion. I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The only way to build productive, collaborative, innovative, and cohesive teams is by resolving core dysfunction issues and implementing a structured process for innovation. In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams.

Ideas 97

Ideas Framework Entrepreneur Satisfaction 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

Startup 94

Startup News Framework Outsource 94

socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We had a little success with Coffee Bar, Magic Mall, and Sony's Infinite Anarchy, and those games keep getting better and we kept learning about the framework, and added more talent to our team. Michael Witz: For us to be successful, the game has to be innovative, and it has to have really high production values. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. They are also driving down the margins they make and are offering products that are initially lower functionality than their competitors. Venture capital will be easy and then hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

This has led VC & entrepreneur bloggers alike to similar conclusions: start raising capital early and be careful about having too high of a burn rate because that lessens the amount of runway you have until you need more cash. But the hardest question to actually answer is, “What is the right burn rate for your company?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2013

The only way to build productive, collaborative, innovative, and cohesive teams is by resolving core dysfunction issues and implementing a structured process for innovation. In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Satisfaction 104

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. I’m a product geek more than a spreadsheet ninja. That notes only told part of the story.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. Tesla is not. It's a great talk. But the rates are high for a reason.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

Put your risk capital into a separate checking account before you start. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Hedge your bets by starting several initiatives or products. Decide to launch one business or product at a time.

Startup 109

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 109

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

Brian Biniak: I was back at Nokia running the products ecosystem with the app store. At some point, something more compelling and interesting came up, and I left and went back to Nokia as an EIR in their venture capital fund, focused on mixed and virtual reality and IoT. We want to make your drive time much more productive.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2012

The only way to build productive, collaborative, innovative, and cohesive teams is by resolving core dysfunction issues and implementing a structured process for innovation. In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams.

Startup 101

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 101

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

Put your risk capital into a separate checking account before you start. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Hedge your bets by starting several initiatives or products. Decide to launch one business or product at a time.

Startup 63

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 63

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

Put your risk capital into a separate checking account before you start. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Hedge your bets by starting several initiatives or products. Decide to launch one business or product at a time.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Framework 106

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2012

Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. Way back in 1979, Michael E.

Competition 94

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What technology research is required?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Investors take that to mean either 1) there is no market for your product, or 2) you don’t understand the concept of business and competition. Porter proposed a Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think still makes a lot of sense today. Either way you lose. Way back in 1979, Michael E.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

These aren’t art projects, garage-electronics, and pre-production concepts. The formation of SeedInvest was deeply rooted in Ryan’s background in venture capital and investment. This is also where we were introduced to the Access Capital Act, otherwise known as HR2930″ Putting in Time on Capitol Hill.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper.

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