Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

They outline the following framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. The smart ones have a plan for how they intend to spend these resources, and measure themselves against the plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Most business leaders today realize that smart management of scarce resources is the key to competitive success. Yet the truth is that a more scarce resource is really the time, talent, and energy of your team. That’s why they manage money so carefully. Build a culture guided by principles, not rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

The opportunity for change is huge, with everyone taking a new look at the world after the recession, but the competition is also huge, since the cost of entry is at an all-time low. Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

Every startup needs a sustainable competitive advantage. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. The smart ones have a plan for how they intend to spend these resources, and measure themselves against the plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. How do we need to structure the systems to get ahead and stay ahead of the competition? Eric Ries, a great resource, What Does a Startup CTO actually do?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

Nick told me that he was in the process of winding down his fund at Spring Ventures, which would allow him to focus his energy on a new business he founded with Sunil Paul. Competition abounds, mostly in the form of Lyft , another Bay Area-based purveyor of ride-shares. In essence, ride-sharing is carpooling with a technological twist.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do - Steve Blank , May 13, 2010 Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources. At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

“We have been at an inflection point in the fielding of AI technologies for the last five-to-seven years in terms of large amounts of data becoming available, computational resources becoming much more powerful, and our algorithms keeping up, and getting refined,” Horvitz says in an interview with Xconomy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

While there is no right or wrong answer, having seen the extremes I’d like to offer you a framework for considering the right answer for yourselves. Plus, if you need more money it’s far less for each to dip into their respective pockets to fund you. I love that. And it’s kind of true. The Perils of Many.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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