Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Believe in similar values and goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Most young people who are completing their educational degree today think they will have learned all they need for their career ahead. The question is how we develop our future role and potential, while satisfying all the business and personal demands on our time today. Define personalized learning goals with a timetable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. If you want somebody to take action make it clear what you want them to do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

He outlines the key steps which together spell INNOVATION , that I believe apply equally well to startups as well as corporate environments: Inspire. Business risks are not just development risks. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

It's an intensely competitive market in developing games for the iPhone and other mobile platforms, with thousands and thousands of titles competing for attention from users. How do you figure out how to get past all of that noise, and create a popular title? How did you get into iPhone development?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2015

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do."

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

Still, we have work to do. 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. We have much to do. Still, we are cutting back on public education. Congratulations, indeed!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. The reason is that good attributes apply equally well to “external” partners, as they do to internal partners, like a co-founder or CTO. Believe in similar values and goals.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. Do you have any words of caution or advice for entrepreneurs who attempt to “Get Their Band Back Together”? “In You’re right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

However, investors do expect you know the common pitfalls -- and not repeat them. Confidently believe that you have no real competitors. If the market is new and competition is minimal, then the time and costs of educating potential customers probably exceeds your survival time and budget.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

In a matter of months, he developed technology that was superior to that created by the world’s leading scientist over the prior 15-years, despite his lack of a formal education. In most instances, small companies do not have the financial wherewithal to bludgeon the competition and establish market share through brute force.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

In light of a less than savory PR landscape, I saw this event to be an important call to attention to the developements towards the Bitcoin industry for 2014, as well as geographically important gathering of minds and enthusiasts in the space. He then dove into a keynote Q&A with Dan Held , developer of recently acquired Zeroblock LLC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Often they assume that this is only a big-company issue, having more to do with the legalities of equal opportunity, hiring minorities, and moral imperatives. In reality, diversity in a startup can be your big competitive advantage. Snowden , “embrace diversity as an essential component in the way we do business.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2011

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best?

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2009

One of those retailers -- Gamer Doc (www.gamerdoc.com) is based in Newport Beach, and we caught up with Jim Belanger, the firm's President, to dig deeper into why video game retailers seem to be doing slightly better than others. For example, if I'm going to take an hour and do something, I'm going to control that myself.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I broke the silence, “so, where do you guys live? On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. My blog was wiped out.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Too often people dive straight into their shiny solution ideas without thinking about why they’re doing what they’re doing or considering the change they want to see in the world. I recently developed a more human framework for early-stage startups to define their startup DNA and lay some foundations for a sustainable business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2010

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

Although, many people believed in my idea, I found it difficult to create a full team that can execute an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) by Sunday. The team needed would consist of at least 1 non-technical business person (me) and 2 or more technical people—designer and developer. I felt like a winner already, smiling from ear to ear!

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

He’s the most talented developer we have ever seen. The app was mainly to educate people what was going on in the world. What does WESAWIT do? It helps you understand who your fans are and what they do. To do that, we are creating tools to aggregate content from their fans to other fans.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. MW: It’s a geeky reference to a type of sequel statement where you’re doing a “left join”. Our mission is to gain efficiency through integration.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

There is an old management saying, “measure twice, cut once” which refers to the benefit of doing some planning. The benefits you will receive from doing even some basic planning before you hit the fund raising trail are enormous. I know this is CRM 101 but I assure you most startups (and VCs) don’t do this or don’t do it well.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. Rationale: I am busy and do not have time to accomplish all of my critical tasks.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. ► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2015

If your company is successful and valuable people generally do what you ask. As president I had to convince a bunch of college-age students to pay dues, turn up at weekly meetings, manage budgets, doing community service and avoid the kind of behavior that might make your organization defunct. ” I could see she was right.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

If you do a lot of pitches, spend the six minutes to watch this. Do it because you love small teams. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. In all my years in business, I have yet to hear someone say: “I love corporate politics.” In all my years in business, I have yet to hear someone say: “I love corporate politics.” clearly didn’t cause this.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I’m investing in businesses that reinvent education. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. The goal for today’s business is to educate broad groups of people in the existing workforce to improve their skills, broaden their knowledge and get ahead. And he makes it work.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Give them all a quick look over and the ones you believe would be the best to see give them a vote. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Bootstrapping development, team management. . Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Bootstrapping development, Startup, Website content. .

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. So I asked her this: “What do I do with my 1,000th post?”.

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