Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline.

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MARCH 23, 2015

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” You need to invest in good markets and bad.

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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. Of course I’m not preaching crazy, irrational spend or having Kid Rock at your next company party. You can do them all yourself, of course.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. There are always flavors-of-the-month strategies or markets that are in favor in the tech startup world.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

So I know I’m getting myself into a bit of trouble by writing this. They will often run all of the daily reports into them covering off for finance, sales, marketing, biz dev & HR. Of course they “need&# the title to convince customers, biz dev partners and VCs that they’re to be taken seriously.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2012

According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. Throughout the course of last year I never had more than $8,000 in my account. . Of course I do! And so it goes again. But he learned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. In a big company, you get used to having an IT team around configure your computer, a personnel specialist for hiring and firing, and a marketing team for strategy. Training courses are required.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. Of course they should not. All other board functions are secondary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. In a big company, you get used to having an IT team around configure your computer, a personnel specialist for hiring and firing, and a marketing team for strategy. Training courses are required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2011

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. In a big company, you get used to having an IT team around configure your computer, a personnel specialist for hiring and firing, and a marketing team for strategy. Training courses are required.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The integration of massively open online courses (MOOCs) makes strategic sense, which is likely why LinkedIn acquired Lynda for $1.5 The average cost per webinar ranges from $39-59 with longer online courses (2-8 weeks) landing somewhere between $99-799. making connections, looking for jobs, staying up on news, etc.)

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. So I did want any rational person who wants to improve does – I hired a coach. Features don’t win or lose sales – especially in nascent markets. People are buying YOU.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2010

Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. In a big company, you get used to having an IT team around configure your computer, a personnel specialist for hiring and firing, and a marketing team for strategy. Training courses are available.

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MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. But I think there is a down side that I see in startups that raise artificially at prices above what a normal market might value. What price?

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MAY 25, 2013

In the original version of his post, Andy writes. It’s a market, after all. And Coach Campbell. I’ve heard directly from top executives that Jeff Bezos (in my opinion the most talented person in the tech industry) has received his fair share of VC coaching in the early years. The industry isn’t dying.

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MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. We are judging how well you are coached on stage. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. What price?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. Due to the language and culture issues in Europe we opted for a country structure with an MD in each country and local sales, marketing & customers support staff. Both are basically people businesses.

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APRIL 6, 2014

Plus, if she does have areas where we could coach her on improvement it would help to know that coming in.” CFOs often know the other CFOs and same for heads of sales, marketing, tech, etc. You expected no less. You can ask VCs, customers, competitors or somebody who had a similar job function in the same general community.

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JULY 19, 2011

They know what is “market&# for your recruits in terms of base, bonus & stock options. You can certainly get coaching from your VC on how to play the negotiations since they do it more often than you do. I want to decide what the right “angle&# on the story it (with their input, of course). PR firms are the same.

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JUNE 29, 2011

This will continue while we’re in a tech bull market and I predict will wane when we’re not. I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. And of course hedge funds and growth-equity funds can’t resist trying to get earlier-stage exposure again.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

This is to drive marketing and any IT or infrastructure spend can be seen as such. Sure, of course I am. The bigger aha was using the information from the social graph to drive marketing. They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election. Here’s the link.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

To what extent have you been able to leverage your experiences as a brand marketer to effectively address the differing concerns of these constituents, without utterly confusing your message? Write it down…. We’re positioned well to scale.”. The key for us was realizing our primary client is the hotel management.

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