Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2013

For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Before you design your new solution idea, gather evidence and estimates of how much money a customer is willing to spend (if any) to solve the problem. Get a reference customer. These days, the technical side may be the easy part.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2012

For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Before you design your new solution idea, gather evidence and estimates of how much money a customer is willing to spend (if any) to solve the problem. Get a reference customer. These days, the technical side may be the easy part.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Passion for what they do. No historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2011

For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Before you design your new solution idea, gather evidence and estimates of how much money a customer is willing to spend (if any) to solve the problem. Get a reference customer. These days, the technical side may be the easy part.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Passion for what they do. No historical baggage.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 20, 2011

Competition – Make it clear that only the best Interns will be granted offers for full-time positions. This explicit competitive element will cause the high-achievers to excel. . Such tours were effective because we were designing and building cutting-edge medical robots, thus there was a lot to see and touch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Brings complementary skills and experience.

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Southern California Edison Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

If your wireless infrastructure provider doesn’t have the necessary equipment and services, however, TSPs should start considering other options or risk falling behind the competition. They’re Not Following Up on Software Defined Networks. References. They Don’t Have the Portfolio to Support Smart Cities. RCR Wireless.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Web API Design Best PracticesThis session will cover the basics of Web API but dig deeper and take attendees past basic CRUD operations on resources and dive into how to create a robust API using Web API. Leveraging these techniques should put you on an even playing field or ahead of the native app competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Passion for what they do. No historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Passion for what they do. No historical baggage.

Software Review 92

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2009

One of the big, open source successes in both Southern California and the software world was Gluecode Software , which was based in Los Angeles and acquired by IBM in 2005. We caught up with Webtide to learn more about the firm's open source web server software, Jetty. Where does Webtide fit into the software world?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2010

For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Before you design your new solution idea, gather evidence and estimates of how much money a customer is willing to spend (if any) to solve the problem. Get a reference customer. These days, the technical side is the easy part. Marty Zwilling.

Tips 48

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Cojoin offers business intelligence software to collect and analyze data easily and quickly. Instead of having multiple departments to handle this function, Cojoin expects companies to easily get rid of communication problems with their business intelligence software. Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. Part II, Market) The Enterprise Software market feels ripe for a massive shift and Tact has made big innovations at the forefront of the most important changes. Why Invest?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 8, 2014

With this, we had an opportunity to create a competitively priced product for the US market with a simple model.” “ Originally, I was in software development – not as a programmer, but designing and planning with a strong marketing background. Their main goal is to create a long-term sustainable customer base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. Focus on collecting customer references. Your business model can be a better sustainable competitive advantage than your product features, or it can be your biggest risk exposure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. Focus on collecting customer references. Your business model can be a better sustainable competitive advantage than your product features, or it can be your biggest risk exposure.

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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.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

One, the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has an office called the Office of Science and Technology Policy, or OSTP, which heads up the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) ( [link] ). It was referred to the Labor/Education Committee and was there left for dead. Innovation is the heart of national competitiveness.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Yet, despite his exceptional courtroom theatrics, you would be foolhardy to hire good old Johnnie to review your software cross-licensing agreement. The reference may be well-intentioned, but the lawyer’s allegiance may be divided between the investor and you. Some companies use lawsuits as an arrow in their competitive quiver.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? How do we balance those options?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. Focus on collecting customer references. Your business model can be a better sustainable competitive advantage than your product features, or it can be your biggest risk exposure.

Technical Review 108

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

They became both a thought leader in the space as well as a beautifully designed product. eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. Do you have sales productivity software? Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. Type “personal financial management&# into Google. Some search.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. How investors’ risk differ (0:22:45).

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments.

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