Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. No historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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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. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. No historical baggage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

The passion has to be in the business context – meaning results oriented, customer oriented, and sensitive to competition. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. No historical baggage.

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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. Carriers are already well-educated on changes and aware of the type of support they need. References. Smart cities are a good example of why.³

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." Innovation – and its sister topic, STEM education, is a topic that easily falls through the cracks. government.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

I then really quickly race through looking for some minimum qualifications such as companies for which they worked, education, grades, etc. But in a competitive job market you’re less likely to get the chance to tell me your sob story. In the last job I recruited for (our associate) I had more than 1,000 resumes.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

It was obviously a joke and a reference to the supposed Bin 38 meeting. There is no way for people to keep prices down – it’s a competitive market. It basically boils down to: educate, entertain, have a dialog, don’t be boring and don’t sit on large panels (doh!). And finally, one non VC topic.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. Page 3: Competition. Tim handled the product management, vision, roadmap and competitive questions like a pro. Page 4: Business Model.

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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. 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

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2014

MW: It’s a geeky reference to a type of sequel statement where you’re doing a “left join”. But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. Tell us how you got the name?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Maybe they wanted the branding associated with a hot company, maybe they wanted to work with the other investors around the table or maybe they thought it was a cheap way to get educated on your market – it’s always easier to learn an industry when you’re on the inside. These are all dumb reason to invest – of course.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). Make it unique.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Perhaps you’re not as finely attuned as I am to the alt-right references to “international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in oder to enrich these global financial powers” but let me translate in dog-whistle to English for you — that’s referring to Jews. Or how about if we take what Trump actually says , Peter?

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