Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This process costs money, which professional investors are not willing to contribute, since their interest is in scaling a proven product and business model into a growth business. Specifically, I often point to the NSF or the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for high-tech startups.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I even plan to use it in my upcoming UC Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Selling class. As Guy notes in the accompanying video interview, his primary goal with Enchantment is to reach a broader audience, beyond the high-tech, startup world. An entrepreneur, in particular, has to be likeable and trustworthy AND have a great product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The sales professional. The operations superstar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The sales professional. The operations superstar.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

If you're familiar with YCombinator or TechStars, you know that companies also get access to a deep network of top tier mentors and advisors, who help them with a variety of things, such as product marketing, go-to-market, and funding. At the time, that was high tech, and bricks were a combination of mud, hay, and muck.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. What better candidates than your Advisory Board?

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 27, 2012

At the outset of their careers, they are forced to market themselves with little to no budget and differentiate their product so that they gain adequate attention without alienating too many potential customers. However, despite relative salary equality, there remain far fewer high-tech women entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2011

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. What better candidates than your Advisory Board?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

For instance, in the High Tech Sales class, we discussed the necessity of tracking ad performance. Since we have released our product, and are now looking to acquire new users, this has proven to be extremely valuable for getting a high return from our advertising expenditures.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. According to Doug, “ productivity fell dramatically whenever the surf was up.”. Three decades later, it has matured into a multi-hundred million dollar product category. UCSB alum Doug Otto had two.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Our mentors as we've built up this effort in LA are TechStars, Tech Wildcatters in Dallas, and Accelerator Labs in Chicago.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I wanted to do business projects and I got in touch with a guy from the strategy consulting practice in the telecoms & high-tech practice in London. You’re a tech guy. What was nice was that I got to take some of my practical skills from consulting and apply them into class discussions with operational leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2010

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. What better candidates than your Advisory Board?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

They can travel the world, take classes in interesting subjects, spend time with loved ones or start new hobbies. We were high tech at the very start of the boom. These are great products but if you have them open all day and see the pop ups telling you, “You’ve Got Tweets,&# then you’re sucked in.

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Xconomy

JULY 26, 2016

With the Republican National Convention behind us and the Democratic convention in full swing, it seems like a good moment to ask how a Donald Trump presidency or a Hillary Clinton presidency might affect the prospects for high-tech entrepreneurship and business growth in the United States.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. The spending contraction is inevitable in a period of declining real prices of housing, high unemployment and tightening credit. We took $2.3 Sound familiar?

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