Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2019

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

Whatever you’re working on now, the half-life of innovation is so rapid now that your product will soon be out-of-date. In this globally connected world product leads disappear in nano-seconds. We know that if you start with ho-hum founders you’re less likely to assemble a world-class team. Is this philosophy exaggerated?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. How profitable is my product or service? As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2019

Most trend watchers agree that it is time for a revolutionary new category of medicine treatment devices and customized healthcare solutions. In my experience the key attributes in any sector would include the following: A product or service with depth and a robust set of features.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2013

million in cash for SeatMe and up to approximately 263,000 shares of its Class A common stock, for a total purchase price of approximately $12.7 The deal will see Yelp connect more restaurants and bars to customers through online bookings. SeatMe has developed a truly compelling product for restaurants and bars of any size.”

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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. That’s why productivity wasn’t tough for me as a CEO.

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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. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support. Feedback isn’t always an excuse – and often sales people can provide the best feedback to your product teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2016

In reality, the picture is a bit larger than this, as outlined in a recent book “ Leading with GRIT ,” by Laurie Sudbrink, a well-known business leadership coach and speaker. To explain accountability, she and I are strong proponents of the Accountability Ladder , which has been included in every Management 101 class for many years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2015

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2014

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. I wish I were good in the email category.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

This is probably because many founders are product or technology people. The mistake many startup people make is they hire a “sales person&# to go out and talk with customers so they can do what they’re good at which is building product or “running the company.&# Sales people are a different breed, you say.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2017

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. Yet very few achieve that great aspiration of really driving economic, social, and environmental changes on a global scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The most memorable businesses, like Starbucks and Apple, no longer sell products, they sell ‘experiences’ with a product at the center. The challenge is to transform and hardwire your entire team to think in these terms, rather than the default focus on distinct towers of product quality, closing the sale, or fixing a complaint.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues. The leadership group is currently looking at options to tie in relevant coursework in entrepreneurship, business, and engineering, while also contemplating an alumni-only, mid-year class of startups. Categories Deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This is one book-end of the cycle. There has already been at least one high profile funding from this class, which is Thread – a product that raised $1.2 I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. "Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says on its website. Forget the Valley—pack your bags for Google L.A.". It will open later this year. And in August 2011, Facebook began leasing about 13,000 square feet in Playa Vista.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For every layer if I mention companies please don’t assume that I’m suggesting there aren’t other players in that category. Especially to a company that sells books! I’m not covering the actual layers of the Internet (under the OSI model) but rather the Cloud Services layer. I was dead set against it.

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