Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These were once called secretaries, who looked forward to a long career with a single company, starting in the typing pool, with careers often paralleling top executives. Writing specialists. The days when these roles were stable careers for company employees are gone. Information specialists. It shouldn’t be a huge transition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

It was a pleasure to write them myself. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. Tempus Fugit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

These used to be called secretaries, who looked forward to a long career with a single company, starting in the typing pool, with careers often paralleling top executives. Writing specialists. The days when these roles were stable careers for company employees are gone. Information specialists. It shouldn’t be a huge transition.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

I often write about the best strategies for startup fundraising or how to manage startup financing and optimize for growth. Hire professionals to handle the details of company formation paperwork when you first start up. Make sure you have a lawyer to help draft your contracts and guide you’re communicating policies and procedures.

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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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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

How did the company start? Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies. Although a new company, it is already gaining momentum—being featured in European CEO, Playboy, and Da Man Magazine.

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