Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It’s why in this article I advise that people “market today not futures” because you don’t want your playbook in the hands of the competition. You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation.

Press 319

Press Startup Writing Training 319

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. Education and training roadblocks. Does your dream require additional time and money for training or academic credentials?

Startup 94

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Crisis mode hires too often get done without due consideration for strategic fit, training requirements, and cultural considerations. I recommend a thirty to ninety-day trial period, defined in writing, where either party can terminate the relationship without recourse. Hiring before organizational structure is defined.

Organization 135

Organization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Screening 135

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. From an investor perspective, understanding and acting early to establish a sustainable competitive advantage, and barrier to entry, is the best assurance of a financial return. Effective communication requires real listening, as well as talking.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Social Media Patents Mentor 126

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

I think many board members (including VCs) were trained 10+ years ago when life was very different and their advice often comes from an outdated lens. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. Journalists don’t often write stories that talk about, “This cool new company I met at a conference.”

Startup 355

Startup Funding News Press 355

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In addition, like an entrepreneur with a new business, you have to factor in all the indirect costs previously covered by employers, including training, health care, and time off for vacations. Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation.

Startup 98

Startup Outsource Development Competition Social Media 98

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

The fitness professional network develops business tools that make it easier for fitness professionals to run their businesses and keep their clients engaged between training sessions. We knew there’s a better personal training experience to be had, so we set out to create one. We just found this hole in the fitness industry.

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2015

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. Education and training roadblocks. Does your dream require additional time and money for training or academic credentials?

Startup 109

Startup Resource Training Ideas 109

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2009

Fonality, which is a venture-backed developer of PBX software used for replacing corporate phony systems, is in the midst of its own version of an employee morale-booster: training for the "Fonality Fight Club" and a competition refereed by martial arts expert Chris Reilly, who regularly trains fighters for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Culver City 140

Culver City Startup Training Class 140

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. Education and training roadblocks. Does your dream require additional time and money for training or academic credentials?

Startup 57

Startup Resource Training Ideas 57

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. ” Climate resiliency .

Startup 229

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

Croquet is developing software for collaborative applications, which has applications in virtual worlds and augmented and virtual reality. The big win is, first of all, since it looks like a single computer to the developer, they just have to program their software as a single computer. Are Android and iOS then your competition?

Platform 168

Platform Startup Examples Web 168

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. Education and training roadblocks. Does your dream require additional time and money for training or academic credentials?

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Training 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Product development process. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business. Manage human resources. Customer service and support.

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

If you have a software development background like mine, Im sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

Outsource Development 95

Outsource Development Outsource Offshore Software Review 95

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. Education and training roadblocks. Does your dream require additional time and money for training or academic credentials?

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Training 106

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Manage human resources.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I had never had any sales training so everything we did for the first couple of years was instinctual. I’ve started writing up some of those sales & marketing lessons and I plan to continue to build that section out over time. We focused together on improving our sales methodology, our training and our comp plans.

Sales 316

Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2012

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. then you can start writing a recipe. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. validate your business model) Continuous improvement. Don’t stand still.

Startup 96

Startup Writing Metrics Marketing 96

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. From an investor perspective, understanding and acting early to establish a sustainable competitive advantage, and barrier to entry, is the best assurance of a financial return. Effective communication requires real listening, as well as talking.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Angel Social Media Patents 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

Outsource Development 53

Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Technical Review 53

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Product development process. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business. Manage human resources. Customer service and support.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Manage human resources.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2011

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. Education and training roadblocks. Does your dream require additional time and money for training or academic credentials?

Startup 94

Startup Resource Training Ideas 94

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2011

In all cases, don’t skip the basic training. then you can start writing a recipe. Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. validate your business model) Continuous improvement. Don’t stand still.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur Startup Writing Metrics 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2016

Crisis mode hires too often get done without due consideration for strategic fit, training requirements, and cultural considerations. I recommend a thirty to ninety-day trial period, defined in writing, where either party can terminate the relationship without recourse. Hiring before organizational structure is defined.

Organization 57

Organization Entrepreneur Satisfaction Screening 57

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. Write things down. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. I don’t want to lose next time.

Outsource Development 333

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. Write things down. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. I don’t want to lose next time.

Outsource Development 328

Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review News 328

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners. So often exclusivity on mega deals is of huge importance to your potential customers or business development partners.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Customer Custom 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2010

Formally, that’s called developing and maintaining a strategic plan. Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. Education and training roadblocks. Does your dream require additional time and money for training or academic credentials?

Startup 53

Startup Resource Training Ideas 53

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

By going on sales calls you pick up directly the feedback of what customers want and also what they’re telling you about competition. It might tell you that you need better sales training or to hone your key selling messages. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres.

Startup 308

Startup CTO Coach Technical Review CTO Hire 308

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. They’re competitive. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. We helped the write out their requirements for a system.

Startup 151

Startup Outsource Development Software Review Technical Review 151

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Big thank you to Darius Vasefi , of EyeOnJewels for the write up. o Put a timeframe/money – competition in the picture. Good listener, take in information, • Have pulse on what the market wants (hard to train that) cannot take this from customers only. Here’s a summary of our interview. He told them it was now or never.

Acquisition 304

Acquisition Startup Customer Custom 304

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams. Who do you view as your biggest competition? We were the first to develop solution purpose-built for this industry and with a lot of hard work and a lot of feedback, we’ve gotten things mostly right. You’re right.

Marketing 209

Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. On the product development side, we conduct retrospectives twice a month — there is an open exchange of ideas for improvement.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide. Microsoft, meanwhile, announced a new 5,000-person group Thursday dedicated to the development of AI technologies and products that use them.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you. This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. It is neither. People form perceptions of you whether you like it or not.

Technical Advisors 385

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385