Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2017

There you were ushered into a gorgeously appointed conference room for a precise amount of time with a serious-looking partner. Don’t be fooled by the informality. The strategy of “I’ll talk to him informally and early, find out what he doesn’t like, and then I’ll fix it,” is pure folly. Better safe than sorry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2014

There you were ushered into a gorgeously appointed conference room for a precise amount of time with a serious-looking partner. Don’t be fooled by the informality. The strategy of “I’ll talk to him informally and early, find out what he doesn’t like, and then I’ll fix it,” is pure folly. Better safe than sorry. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Venture Capital Slides Outsource 107

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This year’s South By South West conference in Austin, Texas, is days away. Los Angeles’s very own Espree Devora (aka The Girl That Gets It Done ), has put together quite the exciting event for this year’s SXSW conference. One mastermind focuses on how to outsource development and programming.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

There you were ushered into a gorgeously appointed conference room for a precise amount of time with a serious-looking partner. Don’t be fooled by the informality. The strategy of “I’ll talk to him informally and early, find out what he doesn’t like, and then I’ll fix it,” is pure folly. Better safe than sorry.

Entrepreneur 94

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2014

Spend time informally with candidate peers and former employers. This approach works best with business associates that know you, peers that you meet at industry conferences, or technical gurus that have no business connections to the candidate. The key here is to do more listening than talking in both formal and informal interviews.

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High Tech Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 103

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

The actual investment professionals (partners) are too busy to call companies that they’re interested in so they basically outsource it. But how can you really outsource judgment to young, smart people who have often never worked in businesses? These founders burn through precious time and divulge sensitive information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

There you were ushered into a gorgeously appointed conference room for a precise amount of time with a serious-looking partner. Don’t be fooled by the informality. The strategy of “I’ll talk to him informally and early, find out what he doesn’t like, and then I’ll fix it,” is pure folly. Better safe than sorry.

Slides 95

Slides Outsource Summary Conference 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2016

Spend time informally with candidate peers and former employers. This approach works best with business associates that know you, or peers that you meet at industry conferences, or technical gurus that have no business connections to the candidate. Former employers will normally only give you candidate employment dates or good news.

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High Tech Startup Social Media Entrepreneur 58

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2010

There you were ushered into a gorgeously appointed conference room for a precise amount of time with a serious-looking partner. Don’t be fooled by the informality. The strategy of “I’ll talk to him informally and early, find out what he doesn’t like, and then I’ll fix it,” is pure folly. Better safe than sorry. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 86

Entrepreneur Slides Outsource Summary 86

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

It is that time of year again, when the digital and tech world looked up from their busy workload just long enough to make sure that they are “represented” with a kickass submission for a panel or two at the most prestigious conference all year, SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive Festival). Outsourcing Startup Operations.

Entertainment 73

Entertainment Startup eBook Outsource Development 73

socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

xWe spoke with a few companies in the recurring revenue area space, ahead of the Recurring Revenue Conference ([link] which we are helping to sponsor next week. If you think about it today, everyone is selling through Amazon, but Amazon keeps all of that customer information. How did you get into this?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits. The Geodelic network introduces discovery, replacing the need to search for information. At Lunch, you share and discover genuinely useful information and ideas. ycombinator.com. . Lisa Stone. Rick Heitzmann.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Paul Graham on trends for the future - Business of Software Blog , August 25, 2010 Paul Graham spoke at last year's Business of Software conference. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. Say you want some code that does X.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? We turned one into a conference room and another one into a "lounge" with sofas, ottomans and comfortable, funky chairs and a flat-screen TV. I need to absorb the information and energy of the team and participate in the cross-communication.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? 10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 16, 2010 I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game.

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