Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

The good news is that everyone expects entrepreneurs to make mistakes, since founders explore uncharted territory. In fact, investors recognize that founders usually learn more from mistakes than from success, so a well-explained startup failure can improve their odds of funding the next time around.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

“Learn from the mistakes of others. During those same 25-years, I also made innumerable mistakes. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. Even benevolent BDCs lose interest in your solution once this competitive risk is eliminated. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

I only later became a dual citizen having lived there for 10+ years.) I did not mean that mistake.” I wish we had better policies to help those that weren’t born with the same educational backgrounds as I was since education seems to be the great divider in terms of future opportunities. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

I recently developed a more human framework for early-stage startups to define their startup DNA and lay some foundations for a sustainable business. Whilst the tide is turning, there’s still a need to educate startup founders about the competitive advantage well-designed products and services can bring.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

As you work deals they might move up or down in the priority list but when you start you should have no more than 8–10 priority A’s (more is unrealistic) and no more than 8–10 priority B’s. The next pass is the “competitive pass”?—?have People make this mistake all the time. The third-pass is geography.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Bootstrapping development, team management. . Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Bootstrapping development, Startup, Website content. . Bootstrapping development, minimum viable product, startups. . Jon Loyens, Bazaarvoice. The constrai.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Why MOST smart people are better at solving other people’s problems… - Life Beyond Code , August 10, 2010 And, not their own problems. I've gotten to be a lot more productive as a programmer since I started casually 15+ years ago and seriously about 10 years ago. made all of these mistakes in my first companies. Dying at 70?

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