Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

I’m sure you have all seen entrepreneurs and startups with great ideas that never seem to live up to their potential, while others with more mundane solutions seem to take off quickly and never slow down. If you have completed four out of five milestones, we can both see success in your future. But even he started with just one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools. Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age , and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2012

Driven by the recent recession, smart entrepreneurs of all ages are jumping into the fray with new ideas, new recovery strategies, and discarding outmoded business models. I see it most in the newest generation of entrepreneurs (Gen-Y), who were shocked out of entitlement into action by the recession. Snap up top talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2010

Entrepreneurs who search for real pain points, and build solutions around them, have the best chance of changing the world. As an alternative, if you are an entrepreneur looking for the next big thing, where should you look? That’s the great thing about being an entrepreneur. The impact of global instability. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2011

Everyone seems to like the aspect of being an entrepreneur that goes with “being your own boss” and “able to do things my way.” People with confidence problems and fear problems should avoid the entrepreneur role, since success without accountability is rare. Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “If

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2011

In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools. Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age , and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

After you have sold your first company for several hundred million, you can then afford to challenge Elon Musk on the next line of electric vehicles, or Apple with a new and better smartphone. Surprisingly, I still find many aspiring entrepreneurs who assume that if their idea is good enough, funding will appear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. Even with this, crowdfunding today means any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model. Donation good-cause model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2013

Driven by the recent recession, smart entrepreneurs of all ages are jumping into the fray with new ideas, new recovery strategies, and discarding outmoded business models. I see it most in the newest generation of entrepreneurs (Gen-Y), who were shocked out of entitlement into action by the recession. Snap up top talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. This benefits you, the entrepreneur. It takes options off of the table.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2014

In fact, we are all media companies now, with our cell phones, computers, and professional-looking publishing tools. Rogers talks about this phenomenon in his book, “ The Network is Your Customer: Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age ,” and suggests some strategies to improve your perceived engagement level. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2013

Everyone seems to like the aspect of being an entrepreneur that goes with “being your own boss” and “able to do things my way.” People with confidence problems and fear problems should avoid the entrepreneur role, since success without accountability is rare. Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “If

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

What's the secret to creating a profitable, successful, physical subscription based business--and to do that at the scale of large, consumer product goods (CPGs) companies? xWe spoke with a few companies in the recurring revenue area space, ahead of the Recurring Revenue Conference ([link] which we are helping to sponsor next week.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. As with most of Biden’s big infrastructure initiatives, there are startups tackling these issues.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

We caught up with Lee Essner , the President of Jukin Media, to learn more about how the company thinks it has figured out how to make a business round viral videos. That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

I meet with dozens of entrepreneurs a week. Doubtful, unless I already know them really well, know the company really well, and have some spare cash. When I get funded,” the entrepreneur thinks, “I can build a prototype, hire a development team, go to market, scale more quickly, and beat my competition.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). And I feel that this skill is invaluable in both building a start-up company and in being a VC. THE FIVE C’S. He says the MBA transformed his thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Driven by the recent recession, smart entrepreneurs of all ages are jumping into the fray with new ideas, new recovery strategies, and discarding outmoded business models. I see it most in the newest generation of entrepreneurs (Gen-Y), who were shocked out of entitlement into action by the recession. Snap up top talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2010

Everyone seems to like the aspect of being an entrepreneur that goes with “being your own boss” and “able to do things my way.” People with confidence problems and fear problems should avoid the entrepreneur role, since success without accountability is rare. Every time I try outsourcing manufacturing, I get quality problems.” “If

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

Given TimeHop’s failed experiment, I was especially intrigued when I learned that a team of a dozen remote entrepreneurs hack the typical corporate structure and creates a company that generated nearly $100 million in revenue. Some companies allow employees to work remotely one day a week or on an ad hoc basis. FastSpring.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. Rationale: My company is small, I am super busy and I am not a lawyer. No one has heard of you, your company or your solutions.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary!

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► November (1) 2 Ears and 1 Mouth: There's a Reason ► October (2) Be Best at Something Tear Down Your Firewalls ► September (3) Elements of Sustainable Companies We're Not Saving Lives. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

But in my experience as a startup advisor, too many entrepreneurs get stuck there, and always find excuses for not really exploring mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and alliance alternatives. Evaluate outsourcing as a quick solution to break the constraint. Acquire or merge with another company.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The best companies are built on common beliefs and culture – a common sense of purpose. If you’re a West Coast company you need people on the East Coast. Been there.

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