Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

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 classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Bank as well as many startups like Gusto and MakeSpace and innumerable massive clients that weren’t on my approved list of clients I could disclose ;) but we partner with Google, Adobe, Salesforce and many others. When you think about what makes Google so valuable?—?it’s But here’s the big “aha.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

These days, you can find existing patents and trademarks through Google and the US Patent Office online site without spending thousands of dollars with your favorite patent attorney. Of course, existing patents don’t stop you from innovating, but charging ahead into a wall is no fun. Find a recognized billion dollar and growing market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

With Google, you get all the storage you need in the cloud for free. Of course, not all new businesses can benefit from all these recommendations, so think carefully about what you can do, and what you can’t. Gone are the days of required $50K computer servers onsite, with big software license fees up-front.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2020

These days, you can find existing patents and trademarks through Google and the US Patent Office online site without spending thousands of dollars with your favorite patent attorney. Of course, existing patents don’t stop you from innovating, but charging ahead into a wall is no fun. Find a recognized billion dollar and growing market.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We look at stage, geography and of course sector. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives. We have another investment in the Ag Tech space but as I couldn’t find it in any Google Search I’m assuming neither party has announced the relationship.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

In today’s world of social marketing, it takes someone knowledgeable if not expert in understanding how to use available resources in promotion and marketing. And of course, that could easily require a large amount, far beyond the capability of a small company looking for its initial audience.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. He will use it to get answers to questions on Wolfram Alpha or just by Googling it. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

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HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 139

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

When building a new application, the fundamental rule is that you should choose any services that allows you the greatest combination of flexibility and resources to meet your application’s needs. For example, IaaS providers will give you raw infrastructure like compute and storage resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

David encourages entrepreneurs to stay away from the big tech firms (such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple) because they are hard to compete with. And Dropbox & Box.net in a Google, Microsoft, Apple world. We once thought nobody could unseat Google since all inbound traffic to the web came from them. Of course not.

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Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. He will use it to get answers to questions on Wolfram Alpha or just by Googling it. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

HTML 100

HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100

Eric Greenspan

JANUARY 15, 2014

I didn’t take a single course on computer programming in school. I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. He will use it to get answers to questions on Wolfram Alpha or just by Googling it. I’ve learned much about French history as a result.

HTML 100

HTML Search Engine Optimization Santa Barbara Education 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We teach through video tutorials, with courses around specific sites, like how to make content for FunnyorDie, taught by one of the staff writers from FunnyOrDie. We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. Those teachers are what set us apart.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete. We made mistakes ourselves that proved to us that you can’t make markets move faster than they inherently want to just by throwing more resources at them. In the end, of course, our productivity actually suffered.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. What this meant was that rather than buying really expensive UNIX servers (and multiple machines in order to handle redundancy) we could buy cheap, replaceable servers for compute resources. Not Google.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2015

And mid-course corrections are not bad things. As a funny side note, when I did a Google search to fact check the amount, one of suggested searches was 67 billion Dollars in Rupees. Lief Morin: In the Enterprise Technology sector, arguably the biggest impact event was the announcement of Dell acquiring EMC for 67 Billion dollars.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Of course, since you know those questions, you can just collect up the answers and provide them to your developers. Of course, they could use new technologies that they are not familiar with, but is that really what you want? Of course, it’s never complete.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Of course not. Your parents want to know why on Earth you’d leave a job at Google. Of course you need to be open. Of course you shouldn’t f **g buy a house. CEO transparency. It almost sounds uncontroversial. A CEO should tell her staff everything! All of a sudden you know you’re going to be judged.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer. Of course not every VC has the fund size or the fee size to build services at this scale yet many provide extremely well-regarded programs that are valuable.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If you haven’t read Reed’s explanation of this split make sure you read it (of course, after you’re done with this post ) —> here. It would be like if Microsoft undermined it’s Office franchise by aggressively pursuing a Google Docs like strategy. It’s simply brilliant. It defied logic.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

And even when calculated correctly often CAC’s are assumed to be constant but of course they’re not. So if you paid $100 for a customer who converted via a Facebook ad or Google search ad (SEM) that is not your CAC. Of course this is an imprecise science which is why you measure both methods.

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Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

InfoChachkie

MAY 30, 2011

Some of these capabilities are finally entering the market, primarily introduced by non-telecom entrants like Google and Apple, such as: visual voicemail, screening voicemail messages and immediately connecting you to callers with whom you wish to speak, and displaying caller ID on your television.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

I've Googled, gone through my network, posted to Craigslist, and approached universities, and much like your friend I am having a heck of a time finding developers in LA. Do you have anyone you could recommend to me, or any resources? Of course, a lot of people say the same thing. It makes you want to move north!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a second, with Google, I can find a phone number that was assigned to you ten years ago, but it takes me an hour to find your phone number on that business card you gave me last week. We need instant access to the most important of all resources: current contact info. Finally, we want it cheap (of course). That’s just wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

These days, you can find existing patents and trademarks through Google and the US Patent Office online site without spending thousands of dollars with your favorite patent attorney. Of course, existing patents don’t stop you from innovating, but charging ahead into a wall is no fun. Find a recognized billion dollar and growing market.

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Ideas Technical Review Patents Startup 83

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Copyright © 2007-11 by J.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Of course, customers love free, but investors hate it. Every startup needs focus, due to limited resources, so setting irrational goals implies overall poor business acumen. Even Google, one of the most successful recent companies, only achieved $85 million in their fifth year. Sleeping giants do wake up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2013

In a second, with Google, I can find a phone number that was assigned to you ten years ago, but it takes me an hour to find your phone number on that business card you gave me last week. We need instant access to the most important of all resources, current contact info. Finally, we want it cheap (of course). That’s just wrong.

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Software Review Social Network Email Google 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Of course, a real entrepreneur always takes a failure as a milestone on the road to success. Having no competitors is a red flag (may mean no market), but finding ten or more with a simple Google search means this may be a crowded space. Resource requirements not understood. How can you improve your odds?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

The visibility of Google, Facebook and a few others continues to propagate the myth that the ultimate objective of every entrepreneur should be to take their startups public via an initial public offering at the earliest opportunity. Everyone thinks this is the route to become the next billionaire like Mark Zuckerberg.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Startup leaders have to be relentlessly resourceful in overcoming obstacles and competition. Now, of course, Page and Brin have that same credibility with their successes at Google. Fundable entrepreneurs have to feel comfortable talking and listening to engineers, financial people, marketing and especially customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Of course, a real entrepreneur always takes a failure as a milestone on the road to success. Having no competitors is a red flag (may mean no market), but finding ten or more with a simple Google search means this may be a crowded space. Resource requirements not understood. How can you improve your odds?

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? Company : FindTheBest. Meredith Publishing.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 5, 2016

These decades are when you have the knowledge and experience, not to mention the contacts and resources, to make a new business successful. They don’t know a world without Google and Facebook; they don’t remember a time when people didn’t go around carrying Internet-enabled devices in their pockets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Use Google or one of the many other search engines to search for existing solutions to this problem. Another series of searches on Google Patents and the US Patent Office site and Free Patents Online is in order at this point. Of course, you could pay a Patent Attorney a few thousand dollars to do the same search.

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Ideas Patents Startup Google 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Unfortunately, often the result is potential customers who are confused, the limited resources of your business are spread too thin, and customers and investors look elsewhere for a better fit. People still remember Google for Internet search, Amazon for books, and Facebook for talking to friends.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

They provide the targeted expertise that you may need, with the flexibility to increase or decrease resources as you learn what has to be done to scale. Of course, not all new startup ideas can be developed this way, so pick an idea that fits. Use low-cost subscription software and cloud computing.

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