Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform. Deciphering one’s personal purpose should be priority one.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

Correct your course quickly. They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. What's going to go wrong? While You Are Building Your MVP Look for the following Symptoms of a Weak Development Team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

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. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. Of course reciprocity matters so they would all leap into action. But it wasn’t to be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform. Deciphering one’s personal purpose should be priority one.

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TechEmpower

MAY 1, 2014

The latest round of our ongoing Framework Benchmarks project is now available! Since the first round, we have known that the highest-performance frameworks and platforms have been network-limited by our gigabit Ethernet. With ample network bandwidth, the highest-performing frameworks are further differentiated.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Framework Benchmarks. How much does your framework choice affect performance? Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. We have our own personal favorites among these frameworks, but weve tried our best to give each a fair shot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. How much does your framework choice affect performance? How much does your framework choice affect performance? Show me the winners!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” ” Of course I agree with this. Here is where I see this really play out: Product Management. CEOs often meddle in products and dev teams hate it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. It seems to me that we obsess too much with product features, sales pipelines, competitive pressures, fund raising and such.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I spoke this past week at the LeWeb conference in London, which was a superbly well run event with a very quality production team. You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. The 20-minute video of my presentation is here if you’re interested. Will this Trend Last?

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Inverted Software

JUNE 15, 2018

Our proprietary processes and unique experience helps us evaluate and correct software development practices that have proven inefficient and instill practices that insure productivity and success. Off course now they were unable to compile the software locally and were forced to blindly code until the end of the day.

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Berkonomics

JULY 9, 2011

Turning these into statements instead of questions provides a framework for the sales presentation from the highest levels of collateral materials and marketing support, to the salesperson on the front line. Is your product or service one that responds to a customer need, real or perceived?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Developers interact with the operating systems directly, build/use their own frameworks (eg, Django, Rails, etc), and consume server resources directly. The developer doesn’t have to manage compute resources directly Instead she gets to build on frameworks specifically provided for her application.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Of course, with social media marketing, trial and error is not the only way to fail. Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Most technology startups seem to be founded by three types of people: product managers, engineers or biz dev types (MBAs and the like). They’ll have taken 10 sales courses and they’ll list them all on their resume (why??). They’re great at orchestrating your company to deliver product demos. Enough said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. “There was no real framework for a $15 million fund at the time so I had to make one up … it was really sort of an experiment … I invested across Funds I & II in 90 companies” Jeff then raised $55 million in 2010 and $85 million in 2014.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

I don’t really care if I’m wrong as long as I’m not dogmatic if evidence later shows we need to change course. They over think the decision framework. Time spent onboarding new talented team members always yields more productivity than doing everything yourself. Check your legal framework. Be open and productive.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. When you see evidence that there is this so called “product / market fit&# then you may be ready for larger amounts of capital. Respectfully, of course. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t.

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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. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Gap closed, right?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

McKinsey had their “ 7S framework &# and BCG had the “ BCG Matrix &# with cash cows, dogs, stars and question marks. And of course there was the Michael Porter’s “ 5 Forces.&# Frankly, I kind of found all of this stuff to be bullshit (bull shiitake?) But tell me how practical is the 7s’s, really?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2013

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. Make sure the inspiration that launched your vision isn’t lost in the course of a pivot or market change. Revisit your startup vision and values.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

If your culture rewards those who seek the truth, your team will be prone to objectively identifying tactical course corrections. If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase. Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But a newly minted developer given access to Hacker News can develop ADD in a week's time, waste countless hours reading the opinions of professional and amateur technology opinion-makers, and nervously fidget about selecting the hippest framework and libraries to (briefly) avoid the scorn of hacker pop culture. Easy stuff should be easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2012

The basic alignment framework of strategy, customers, people, and processes hasn’t changed, but the pace of technological, competitive, and social change has increased at an amazing rate. Make sure the inspiration that launched your vision isn’t lost in the course of a pivot or market change. Revisit your startup vision and values.

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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. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hilariously simple tutorials, gaming, Windows 8 real-time, Windows Azure as a virtually unlimited scaling mechanism, and of course, awesome web and mobile possibilities are just a few of the examples you’ll see demonstrated. Given this shift in web app development, quite a few client side frameworks written in JavaScript have emerged.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Anyone who has worked in a large company further knows that timing a product launch or a new marketing strategy has more to do with internal politics than reading market forces. It’s obvious that we can be too late to these decisions of course. Burn the management fee in a fireplace if it makes the deals happen.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. Ask if you could shadow different functions like marketing, finance or product management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2016

For example, the handmade-item platform Etsy sponsors free entrepreneurship courses for underemployed and unemployed people, including assistance in setting up a store on Etsy, thus adding more artists and artisan sellers to their platform. Deciphering one’s personal purpose should be priority one.

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