Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Hire more help than helpers. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Clayton Lewis: What Arivale does, is we help our participants optimize their wellness. The second thing, which is different from other companies, is we have translated that into bite-sized recommendations, and we give you a coach. It's not just about wellness in the short term, but it's about wellness for decades.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. That gift of livestock can help families out of extreme poverty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Hire more help than helpers. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

Startup 108

Startup Sales Metrics Entrepreneur 108

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We''d bee talking about it for over a year, and it hadn''t made any sense at the stage of development of the company I was working on at the time, but it''s now come to a good place where it made sense. That might be overused, but it''s an important metric. So, we made it happen. What''s your focus area at Upfront?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. And my company is hugely relevant to what they’re doing so having an advocate at senior levels there is certainly a help.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Hire more help than helpers. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

Startup 56

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 56

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team.

Startup 99

Startup Ideas Organization Entrepreneur 99

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Not only do our business clients turn to us for lawsuits, but they also ask us to create efficient processes and develop their brands. We have a number of startups (or pre-startups) that we are helping get launched. Any thoughts on my recent post Startup Metrics ? You are writing about the essentials of business. That's great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Hire more help than helpers. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

Sales 96

Sales Metrics Startup Entrepreneur 96

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

This person is the glue that can hold the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of a developing startup together. Again, the solution is a partner who is the voice of reason, who filters all of the visionary’s ideas, and helps eliminate hurdles, stumbling blocks, and barriers for the whole leadership team.

Startup 55

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Organization 55

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. The challenge is to move from doing the work to managing the work and leading others.

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Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 29, 2014

Professional athletes in the past (and present) always had the money and resources to measure and gather every bit of information to keep them at pristine shape, but all an average person had was a weight scale and a mirror to help determine if they were heading in the right or wrong direction. The MVP option goes at a rate of $5.99/month

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

There are people like Gus Tai who any entrepreneur who’s worked with him well tell you is that he has helped coach them into building a great business. Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant. There are many great VCs.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur 297

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In my experience, developers can be so committed to a technology, such as hydrogen engines for cars, such that they may be unwilling to change as the business pivots for market reasons. Setting your own metrics, and measuring yourself , will facilitate accountability. Be available for mentoring and coaching to others.

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