Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

Here are the key elements of the strengths framework they have developed, with my own insights and experience added for your consideration: Money: the capital you have, or can easily raise. EI rates a person's ability to recognize emotions, to understand their effect, and to use that information to guide your next move.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

You company is the product and you’re selling an equity ownership in your company but much more broadly you’re selling trust & confidence that you’re going to build something enormously valuable and that you’re going to be enjoyable to work hand-in-hand with over the coming decade of each other’s lives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. I share her view of the ten key elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions. Centralized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. Talent – Every startup needs talents to give the company value. If you want to be feared.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. Look at Viddy & SocialCast.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 3, 2015

A company presents. The rest of our partners, principles, associates and EIRs can weigh in with commentary on their views of the quality of the entrepreneur, the market, the product, competition and so forth. If it’s such an obvious deal then won’t 10 other companies being doing this? The same is true at startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

For example, if I were to have a room full of bouncing balls, we couldn't share that today because of the amount of information involved. The win is we don't have to exchange all that information. If you have a bunch of bouncing balls, they all bounce identically, and you don't have to exchange information. It's all working.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. I support her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions. Centralized. Democratic.

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Xconomy

JUNE 15, 2016

Entrepreneurs and established companies make risky decisions every day in the hope that those risks will translate into better opportunities, better performance, and greater profitability. There was a time when all the data in a company was centralized and controlled by a few people, and the velocity of information was relatively slow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2012

This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions. Centralized. Democratic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. Talent – Every startup needs talents to give the company value. If you want to be feared.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

The opportunity for change is huge, with everyone taking a new look at the world after the recession, but the competition is also huge, since the cost of entry is at an all-time low. Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. Talent – Every startup needs talents to give the company value. If you want to be feared.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. Talent – Every startup needs talents to give the company value. If you want to be feared.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2010

This is counter to the traditional business premise of “control,” so many companies are still pushing back. She outlines her ten elements of the basic framework and vocabulary of open information sharing and open decision making: Explaining: creating buy-in. Updating: capturing knowledge and actions. Centralized. Democratic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

I was recently contacted by an entrepreneur who was consider a few different business models for his company. Note: before you jump down my throat this founder is no longer with the company after making a mistake and apologizing to Jcal he decided to move on.) Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

And I had 2 “strategic&# investors in my first company. 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. I had two strategics in my first company. He was also chairman of a $6 billion company! Most VCs aren’t either?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A cybersecurity report by Ponemon Institute, in association with Keeper Security, found that in the 12 months leading up to June 2016, 55 percent of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) experienced a cyber attack, while 50 percent encountered data breaches involving customer and employee information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work. Due to the information overload felt by consumers today, marketing at the generic segment level no longer works.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Bijan Sabet – investor & board member in some small companies you might have heard of like Twitter, Tumblr, Boxee & OMGPOP – took issue with the whole notion that you even need a Powerpoint deck anymore. First, if it’s an early stage company, I don’t need to see a powerpoint deck. I funded them 8 weeks later.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

This always makes me chuckle because in my first company we had 5 investors in our first round and we picked up 5 more before we finally sold the company. In my second company I had only 1 investor. Most companies hit a bump in the road at some point. You are then a “stranded&# portfolio company. I love that.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

Competition abounds, mostly in the form of Lyft , another Bay Area-based purveyor of ride-shares. The concept seems simple, but the regulatory framework facing the industry is daunting, making it difficult for companies such as SideCar and Lyft to maneuver. It may sound like semantics, but it’s not.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

What you’ll also find is that of the 25 companies, our founders represent an inclusive group with 40 percent female, 52 percent minority and 12 percent veteran founders from 14 states and 5 countries. Once uploaded, the company safeguards the data in their secure cloud. AdWallet (Albuquerque, NM). That’s the concept behind AdWallet.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Journey is especially useful for companies that want to streamline their internal business processes. Journey was created by our company, Embark Mobile (or “Embark” for short). As an example, Banking Machine Services is a company that maintains thousands of ATMs across Southern Africa. Any competition?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

This leads to a set of questions: What is the role of a CTO in the early stages of a company, and does that role change later on as both the company and that individual matures? It specifically answers the first questions about role and how it changes as the company matures. How will I know when the need has arisen?

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