Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2022

You may be convinced that your technical expertise, and your passion for the product, will allow you to succeed without reliance on team members, but in my experience, I have seen many careers and businesses fail due to lack of team synergy, or even in-fighting and dysfunction. Live by your team mission and company values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2020

All of these offer the potential for a win-win relationship with a nominal competitor, rather than a win-lose deal, as long as both sides can remain humble and not try to dominate the relationship. Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. The industry leader arrogance has not yet set in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2022

These now provide better quality, better paying, and more exciting jobs than big companies. Build a personal marketing plan, as you would for a new product, including regular highlight reports, progress, and results. Don’t be too humble. Imagine your best future with digital credentials. Accept change as the new world of work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This alone will improve your productivity and effectiveness in your current role, as well as give you a head start towards a future role, including a management role or starting your own company as an entrepreneur. Work on habits and tools that improve your productivity and availability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Based on my own experience in large companies, as well as small ones, here are seven key strategies I recommend for building the teams and culture that will drive business success: Admit to yourself and others that you need help. We all need to be humble and recognize that what we need to know about technology and the market changes daily.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2019

A strong answer should be something like “Our product introduces a new lower-cost technology, which we have patented and trademarked, that makes us very attractive today, and will provide a wealth of additional products as we move forward.” The problem is that startups have limited resources to keep them ahead of big companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

We’ve had just one market since then and it could confuse one into thinking: every deal finds downstream investors, every company good or bad finds a home, you know anything at all about brazil, india, china or even saas sales, ecommerce or analytics (you know all these in a bull market). The longer I do this the more humbled I become.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s most admired entrepreneurs, primarily because of his humble style and his growth from a regular person background to a current net worth in the neighborhood of $200 billion dollars. It is also a huge productivity gain, to offset PowerPoint's infamous ability to reduce organizational intelligence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

He humbly outlines fifty-five of his own less-than-stellar business anecdotes over a career in business for all to see and avoid. As a bleeding-edge startup, you can be assured of product quality problems, missing business processes, and customer support issues. The advice you don’t get can’t save your company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). She is a coach and mentor to team members.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? We successfully accelerated our product innovation schedule to deliver, in record time, solutions to meet these challenges. It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? ,p>

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

We thought we'd get the pitch from Tim Sae Koo , the founder of the company, on how he took the idea from his business class at USC and turned it into a company, which is now part of one of the local startup accelerators in town, StartEngine. It's similar to Pinterest, and what their product does with Skimlinks. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. Nor do they exist in the investors of early-stage companies. Many great ones don’t thrive in the early phase of a company where the sales is more consultative or evangelical. Sales people often blame the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Topics we covered: B2B Companies You haven’t seen the full extent to how the correction is going to affect you. I pointed out that throughout history building companies has always taken time and we as a market have put an urgency to rush growth rates. A seed company hasn’t ramped up its cost base. Harry posed these questions.

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socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2019

The hypothesis was, companies are in an extremely competitive environment, and it doesn't matter what company or industry they are in, it's been one of the most competitive environments we've seen in a long time. That competitiveness is driving companies to make better decisions. That's the basic premise of the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

What Cham rarely tells people – he’s both private and humble – is that he started making some small co-investments with me in tech firms starting with Maker Studios where he was one of the earliest investors. I reached out after the event to learn more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

He humbly outlines fifty-five of his own less-than-stellar business anecdotes over a career in business for all to see and avoid. As a bleeding-edge startup, you can be assured of product quality problems, missing business processes, and customer support issues. The advice you don’t get can’t save your company.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 7, 2020

The current Covid-19 pandemic has had an epochal effect on businesses, and even the humble office space has taken a blow, with millions of us now working from home. While most companies are able to continue operating with employees remote working, what about those businesses where the office itself is the revenue model?

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 27, 2012

We got some good advice, we ignored it, and it… turned out to be one of the best things that happened to the company.” John made it clear to Brian that the Beatles’ role was to make the product and tend to the company’s operations. Stay Humble & Don’t Forget To Laugh. Don’t do it.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2014

A humble and unassuming character, it’s almost hard to imagine he’s also responsible for arguably one of the most successful technology companies of our time. ” Yet another reminder that even some of the most successful tech titans started with humble beginnings. He shared, “Belkin is on a campus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2015

A strong answer should be something like “Our product introduces a new lower-cost technology, which we have patented and trademarked, that makes us very attractive today, and will provide a wealth of additional products as we move forward.” The problem is that startups have limited resources to keep them ahead of big companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. ” By that we weren’t trying to demean companies building aps, games, photo sharing, etc., 6SensorLabs. 6SensorLabs.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

Purchasing products from a brand you trust can be more of an emotional buy, and trust is one of the key factors to attracting the female shopper. If they know a product is good enough for their family and children, they will share that information with friends. This is especially true when providing a product/service to children.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

All of these offer the potential for a win-win relationship with a nominal competitor, rather than a win-lose deal, as long as both sides can remain humble and not try to dominate the relationship. Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. The industry leader arrogance has not yet set in.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

The company also made quite an impression with its viral video --which you have to watch to appreciate--of CEO Michael Dubin extolling the virtues of the company's products, and panning overpriced, expensive razor brands. We talked with Dubin earlier about the company. That's the one we'll mass product.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? spread over three different companies (and) we brought it all together. Marten continues his story by describing the company's first major challenge. You must never let a big, fat American company do this to you.'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2014

A strong answer should be something like “Our product introduces a new lower-cost technology, which we have patented and trademarked, that makes us very attractive today, and will provide a wealth of additional products as we move forward.” The problem is that startups have limited resources to keep them ahead of big companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2013

As I’ve said before, all startups need to realize that every other company still has to see itself naked in the mirror in the morning. You know the truth: You are late shipping product, your potential investors are taking too long to decide, your team is fighting over strategy, not enough of your users are returning.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2014

Augusta''s rise from Zappos'' call center was enabled by the Company''s culture, which encourages personal growth. 10. Be Humble. "I So, I was selected and I''m just truly humbled and honored to be in this role and to do this work.". You can watch a 14-minute excerpt from my conversation with Augusta below.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

If you have a brand to build whether it be your company, yourself, or some affiliate product you market, there is room for you. In my humble opinion the rising stars (those who will achieve the most results) are those who keep it real, border on originality, spark creativity, and make you go hmmmm…. The answer is simple.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

If you have a brand to build whether it be your company, yourself, or some affiliate product you market, there is room for you. In my humble opinion the rising stars (those who will achieve the most results) are those who keep it real, border on originality, spark creativity, and make you go hmmmm…. The answer is simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

To a 47-year-old, married, self confident guy who thinks about how to build virality into products this seemed like heresy. What I found in meeting @John is a quiet, thoughtful, introverted, charming guy who doesn’t enjoy the public taunting that he occasionally receives for having a company backed by such high profile names.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

It’s one of several companies (many based in Los Angeles) that are turning the city into a hub for anyone looking to experience the thrill of immersive gaming. For Survios and other companies that have placed multi-million dollar bets on the viability of virtual reality, the move to location-based gaming isn’t a matter of choice.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. So many companies suck at managing their booths. So many companies suck at managing their booths. We closed a $16.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

All of these offer the potential for a win-win relationship with a nominal competitor, rather than a win-lose deal, as long as both sides can remain humble and not try to dominate the relationship. Up-sell related products or cross endorsement. The industry leader arrogance has not yet set in.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

At Computer Motion, we created two alliances, comprised of a dozen companies with an aggregate market capitalization in excess of $28B. Creating an effective alliance requires a delicate balance between humbleness and hubris, as described more fully in Humble Pride. This enhanced the relevance and cohesion of the alliances.

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