Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Why you should set up a board at the seed round of funding I know these days with SAFE documents and rolling convertible notes many founders prefer not to set up a board early on. This is the norm and unless you have a hugely competitive round it’s not worth fighting. I actually think having a formal board can really help you.

Startup 236

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

It happens on the front end for startups to get traction, and then again later for every company as the economy, competition, and culture changes around them. Real change demands new goals based on new market realities. “Pivoting” is changing a fundamental part of your business model. Reinvent the vision for change.

Course 85

Course IBM IBM Social Media 85

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For example, I still find businesses asking you to print, sign, and return documents by mail in lieu of digital signatures or email. It takes a well-rounded and motivated team to run a competitive business today. They have to be energized and able to adapt as the market and competitors demand.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Customer Custom Startup 84

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2016

I’m not suggesting that any startup needs to demand perfection, but I do recommend that all learn and follow common business practices from the beginning. I’m not suggesting that formal legal documents are always required, but agreements without some paper or email trail are easily forgotten or misconstrued.

Startup 62

Startup Patents Entrepreneur Writing 62

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

The one thing I learned as a consultant (I worked at Accenture for 9 years in my 20’s) and working with bankers doing M&A transactions is that no matter how hard we worked there was always a lawyer who got handed the documents at 2am and had to turn them around by 8am in the morning. Why should I expect less? ” No.

Startup 150

Startup Demand Organization Social Network 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

Startup 84

Startup Technical Review Report IBM 84

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2014

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Since this document is outward facing, it is important to keep the terminology and tone consistent with that of your customer set, investors, and business partners.

Product 101

Product Entrepreneur Summary Activity 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2015

It happens on the front end for startups to get traction, and then again later for every company as the economy, competition, and culture changes around them. Real change demands new goals based on new market realities. “Pivoting” is changing a fundamental part of your business model. Reinvent the vision for change.

Startup 102

Startup Course IBM IBM 102

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

To the casual observer, it may appear that Eucalyptus and RightScale’s respective solutions are competitive. Although it can be challenging to meet the demands of an open source business model, the benefits are also tremendous, especially in the area of partnerships. They read the documentation. They just grab the product.

Cloud Computing 212

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It happens on the front end for startups to get traction, and then again later for every company as the economy, competition, and culture changes around them. Real change demands new goals based on new market realities. “Pivoting” is changing a fundamental part of your business model. Reinvent the vision for change.

Course 59

Course IBM IBM Social Media 59

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. Since this document is outward facing, it is important to keep the terminology and tone consistent with that of your customer set, investors, and business partners.

Product 55

Product Startup Summary Entrepreneur 55

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2014

It happens on the front end for startups to get traction, and then again later for every company as the economy, competition, and culture changes around them. Real change demands new goals based on new market realities. “Pivoting” is changing a fundamental part of your business model. Reinvent the vision for change.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Course IBM IBM 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 87

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Report Entrepreneur 98

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. FTC is considering an investigation into Apple’s anti-competitive practices. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The problem them was, we've got ten documents, how do we get through those. It's gone from document acquisition, to document exploitation. As the effective nature of our output become more widely known, the demand grows, and there are now customers across Europe and new agencies in the U.S. who have recognized this.

Software Review 145

Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

There is no accommodation for smaller public companies, who can’t be competitive in their space with the new accounting, documenting, and reporting processes required. Most just don’t enjoy all the challenges of communicating to analysts, placating demanding stockholders, and keeping up with legal reporting requirement.

Startup 97

Startup Report Entrepreneur Statistics 97

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Fallacy: Third-party, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) representatives succeed once the sales process is defined, proven and documented. Fallacy: AdVentures tend to evolve once you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. 2) Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

Startup 242

Startup Outsource Development Outsource Sales 242

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Who do you view as your biggest competition? Performance marketing also demands accountability. Up until a few years ago most software companies used the ‘waterfall’ method of development that required lots of documentation (detailed marketing requirements specifications, functional and design specifications, etc.) You’re right.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Such a lawyer will not go out of their way to screw you, but when crafting the investor documents and in future investor-related issues, your lawyer’s allegiance must be to your company. At the very least, you or the appropriate member of your team should document the primary deal points in bullet-point form.

Technical Advisors 124

Technical Advisors Technical Review IP Patents 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Ongoing momentum requires a move to mainstream, or even late adopters, who demand simplicity in your base function. It’s important to define your growth strategy, document it, communicate it to your team, and align metrics and employee rewards to target goals. Track competition to stay ahead of copycats.

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Technical Advisors Startup Mentor 160

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. and trademarks.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

By Frank Addante Development resources are in high demand. As opposed to the traditional methods of specing out a product in advance with well-defined documentation and then handing that off to a development team.) So, you need to develop a product? Thats when youll need to introduce "Steady" engineers to add some balance.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Every startup needs to build and monitor their list of top competitive risks, and size the cost of a quick direction shift if the worst case happens. Document the ultimate goal, so people can work backward as well as forward. Engage a qualified and diverse team, staff, and advisors. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 58

Startup Demand Entrepreneur Competition 58

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. Crowdfunding to gauge demand is not recommended, since failed campaigns don’t usually recover later.

Startup 100

Startup Equity Entrepreneur Demand 100

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. Crowdfunding to gauge demand is not recommended, since failed campaigns don’t usually recover later.

Startup 151

Startup Equity Funding Demand 151

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Boy wearing Oculus Rift via Wikipedia As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. Making something awesome will cost more than you expect.

Startup 53

Startup Equity Entrepreneur Demand 53

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I personally experienced the even more subversive side of DIGG when I learned that groups of people were actually demanding money to get stories on the DIGG homepage and I, the naive believer in online democracy and good intentions of people, learned about the black hat and gray hat monetization of the Internet.

Buzzfeed 210

Buzzfeed Media Content News 210