Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Conflicting visions won’t work.

Software Review 88

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. People need to be influenced and educated to change consumption habits, expectations, and buying patterns. Concept marketing is critical.

Marketing 92

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

We worked on consolidation with business units, and did that for Bridgepoint Education and smaller companies, where I actually drove a lot of cloud migration stuff. I also spend a chunk of my career in software development, working on enterprise applications. It's been really great. There are multiple values there.

Cloud Computing 133

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Online education. Far from it. Lots of it. Almost nobody believed and now look at it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

Software Review 107

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Today’s customers demand more than a good product; they expect a great customer experience. Others include the marketing awareness and education stage, online and in-store shopping stage, setup stage, support, and upgrade considerations. Keep users engaged throughout design and development.

Design 61

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. In Michael's case, he promised his parents that he would return to school if the sales at his startup did not meet his expectations. "I Great entrepreneurs are action oriented.

Tips 247

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

Software Review 103

Software Review Equity CTO Hire Outsource Development 103

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. It’s these different perspectives that have allowed us to create a great product and great partnerships. You’re right.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Conflicting visions won’t work.

Software Review 56

Software Review CTO Hire Outsource Development CTO Coach 56

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Brands book is based on the implementation of nine principles of innovation originally developed by Google way back in 2008 by Marissa Mayer. All too often, these insights are ignored by the company, and developers leave to become competitors. Ship and iterate, don’t expect instant perfection.

Artificial Inteligence 58

Artificial Inteligence Startup Google Organization 58

InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

1) Expect Independent Channel Sales Reps To Perform Missionary Sales. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Similar values and goals.

Software Review 96

Software Review CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development 96

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. If nothing else you will create board cohesion and board education by engaging your board. In Rob’s spare time he always seems to be going to a boxing class or some other competitive, physical activity. Assigns tasks.

Tips 365

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I do expect that 2010 will be a year of back-to-basics, with a focus on building businesses. As you know, the Tech Coast Angels has never charged fees for helping companies get financing, with no finder fees or locater fees, because we want to see that money going into developing products, marketing, or whatever is required in the business.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

By that, I mean that we’re entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, investors, and business minds on a mission to inspire, educate, and support entrepreneurs and innovators through no-cost consulting, programs, events, and access to capital and talent. It’s the Moneyball approach to economic development, and it’s effective.

Entrepreneur 70

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Due to Rapid City’s off-the-beaten-path location and small size — it’s tucked among the Great Plains, about 25 miles from Mount Rushmore, with a population of approximately 74,000 — the destination doesn’t typically enter the conversation for ICPC, which draws about 1,400 attendees. “We We were able to get all that accomplished.”.

Coach 75

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

Instead of having multiple departments to handle this function, Cojoin expects companies to easily get rid of communication problems with their business intelligence software. That required lots of developers to integrate it and work with it. MW: It has to do with the difference between a marketer and a developer.

Startup 85

Startup Southern California Mobile Software 85

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

If you’re building an education startup and you don’t see any logos of education companies on the firm’s website you are likely targeting the wrong firm. The next pass is the “competitive pass”?—?have The hardest thing is that after you’ve had a great first meeting with a VC (or LP) you expect it’s all going to start happening!

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Funding Startup Venture Capital News 215

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2015

It can sometimes create confusion about whether or not you’re truly a great leader or whether people feel they must just follow your orders. I worked closely with a client and a wonderful, young mother named Diane said to me, “You think you’re a great leader? I was competitive. I hated losing.

Startup 150

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Teach Like You’re the Student - Steve Blank , August 10, 2010 “I never have let my schooling interfere with my education.”. Mark Twain.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: 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 The following are the top items based on social signals. Great Suit.

Startup 217

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

It’s easy to see why people of the time would have taken great issue with machinery — it left some people (industrialists) very wealthy and made people previously in control of their economics often devastated. People who failed to industrialize, however well intentioned one’s goals, were at a competitive disadvantage to those who had.

Education 150

Education Resource Class Course 150

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s the story of what’s broken with the education system in the US. It’s an important film and the most important topic of our generation if we as a country want to remain competitive in a world that has globalized. Yesterday I went to see the film Waiting for Superman. Wasn’t that the American promise?

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