Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2019

It’s a special mix of entrepreneur and company, regular in every respect except for having the courage and foresight to make an idea happen that was supposed to be impossible. Innovators have more than the vision; they have the drive to lead, and the focus to stay on target. The computer mouse, Tivo, and Teflon are examples.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner." Instead, he created Mickey Mouse, who went on to kick some serious rabbit a$$.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In my experience as a business consultant, I find than most people still believe that technology drives business disruption. Many companies try to recover with more advertising and rebranding, and discover that these strategies don’t work well in today’s market. Most companies take too long designing new products and services.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Growth like this, this early in a company’s lifecycle rarely happens. Quiet-as-a-mouse Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures. Rob Bailey is the CEO of DataSift. He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. You should read it. ” His argument is as follows. What Rob wrote in his post is right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2017

It’s a special mix of entrepreneur and company, regular in every respect except for having the courage and foresight to make an idea happen that was supposed to be impossible. Innovators have more than the vision; they have the drive to lead, and the focus to stay on target. The computer mouse, Tivo, and Teflon are examples.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2014

It’s a special mix of entrepreneur and company, regular in every respect except for having the courage and foresight to make an idea happen that was supposed to be impossible. Innovators have more than the vision; they have the drive to lead, and the focus to stay on target. The computer mouse, Tivo, and Teflon are examples.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

It’s a special mix of entrepreneur and company, regular in every respect except for having the courage and foresight to make an idea happen that was supposed to be impossible. Nanovators have more than the vision; they have the drive to lead, and the focus to stay on target. The computer mouse, Tivo, and Teflon are examples.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

It’s a special mix of entrepreneur and company, regular in every respect except for having the courage and foresight to make an idea happen that was supposed to be impossible. Nanovators have more than the vision; they have the drive to lead, and the focus to stay on target. The computer mouse, Tivo, and Teflon are examples.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. Why did the VC markets freeze so quickly? VC’s are not immune to this phenomenon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2010

In retrospect, however, Bill Gates did a lot of things right as a startup that I still look for today in aspiring entrepreneurs and their companies: Build a strong team. Paul Allen was the visionary, believing in graphic user interfaces and a mouse, when the Xerox Star was still a kludge. Steve came from Procter & Gamble Co.,

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

Users range from consumers who are bloggers and/or active on Facebook and Twitter to entertainers who want to share content and better engage with fans, small business owners who want to more effectively share promotions, discounts, contests and products, and big brands who want to generate more awareness and drive traffic. Are you Funded?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

“The 2nd mouse gets the cheese.” The Annual TechZulu Startup Forecast is one of our most anticipated events. This year’s TZ #startupforecast (Jan 28, 2014) was no exception. This year’s TZ #startupforecast (Jan 28, 2014) was no exception. Get yourself up to speed by reading through JATI, Inc.’s Summary of Topics.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. It is an LA-based company that was recently acquired by Amazon, which you can read more about in this incredibly well-researched article.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

After starting three companies, I've found that some widely accepted advice lead me to failure while. The time is once again upon us. Thousands of people submit their panels for SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive) and only a handful will be selected to present. The best thing of all is that there are no judges! Erik Deutsch, ExcelPR Group.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

Computer Vison Startup Nanit If you follow me on Snapchat ( msuster ) you might already know that I’ve been looking at and investing in a number of companies in the computer vision space. The major source of input throughout the past 50+ years has been a keyboard and then in the past 25+ years this added a friend called a mouse.

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