Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites? Even IBM, with their personal computer, had trouble making their elephant dance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. That’s the bar you should aspire to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

Otherwise they will likely look back later, and find that one or more of the laws of the jungle have been compromised: Time – Start with a timeline of how much runway you have, with objectives and milestones mapped against the timeline. Time management is an art. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites? Even IBM, with their personal computer, had trouble making their elephant dance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She bought our first computer – an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive – in order to do her books electronically. I love my dad equally, of course. We need to start encouraging it in our youth. AWS helped lower the cost of starting a company by 90%. And why starting young isn’t as scary as it once was.

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Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

After starting my career with IBM and building three successful IT companies, I’ve decided to follow my true passion. Of course, I will bring my passion for “Mind Blowing Customer Experiences” to the business. I also manage product development, business development and of course, IT. Yes, coffee.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The myth that arose to explain why IBM selected Microsoft’s Operating System over Digital Research’s market leading software is that Mr. Kildall opted for a joy ride in his private plane the day the IBM executives visited his offices. In reality, Gary Kildall was present when IBM came knocking during July of 1980.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

Otherwise they will likely look back later, and find that one or more of the laws of the jungle have been compromised: Time – Start with a timeline of how much runway you have, with objectives and milestones mapped against the timeline. Time management is an art. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2015

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. In all cases, it’s more effective and less painful to do it as a planned process, rather than a crash course in survival. Don’t wait for the descending darkness before you start. Carpenter, Gary F.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2013

Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. I decided to become a parallel entrepreneur, and started a whole series of companies in big data. Second, we only incubate companies we ourselves start.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. In all cases, it’s more effective and less painful to do it as a planned process, rather than a crash course in survival. Don’t wait for the descending darkness before you start. Carpenter, Gary F.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2014

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. In all cases, it’s more effective and less painful to do it as a planned process, rather than a crash course in survival. Don’t wait for the darkness to get started. Carpenter, Gary F. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Of course, we all love disruptive new products, like the Pebble Smart Watch and Google Glass, but recent innovative services startups, including Uber for transportation and Airbnb for lodging, have grown much bigger and faster. There is no excuse for not starting today. Everybody wins. Advisory services. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2014

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. That’s the bar you should aspire to.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2016

In my experience with entrepreneurs, there seems to a wealth of self-proclaimed “idea people” who aspire to start businesses, but only a few who are willing and able to dig in and get the job done. I worked with Bill Gates in the early days of Microsoft and the IBM PC, while I was with IBM.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. And so I started playing with it when I was young. It was an IBM XT. It was the first ever IBM to ship with a hard drive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites? Even IBM, with their personal computer, had trouble making their elephant dance.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

And then in ’87 we started making the spinouts official rather than just go out the backdoor. And we started to do it more officially, take some equity in the companies, allow the faculty to have equity—but still have exclusive licenses. Just about nothing, one or two courses— Ed Roberts had one—on entrepreneurship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2013

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. Of course, more resources are “better” for marketing, but re-allocating existing resources can be equally effective. None should be considered mutually exclusive to any other.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Otherwise they will likely look back later, and find that one or more of the laws of the jungle have been compromised: Time – Start with a timeline of how much runway you have, with objectives and milestones mapped against the timeline. Time management is an art. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

In 2012, total entrepreneurial activity in the United States hit its highest level since their survey started in 1999, according to Babson College. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. That’s the bar you should aspire to.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 110

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

Otherwise they will likely look back later, and find that one or more of the laws of the jungle have been compromised: Time – Start with a timeline of how much runway you have, with objectives and milestones mapped against the timeline. Time management is an art. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

Startup 57

Startup News Framework Entrepreneur 57

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

We sell directly to big enterprises, like IBM and Cisco. I've been living in Santa Barbara since 1996, and over the course of my career I've gone back and forth to the Bay Area several times. So what's your plan to ramp things up at HG Data? Elizabeth Cholawsky: At HG Data, our data products are out in a number of different forms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding.

Startup 101

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The place to start today is if your company only uses traditional media for marketing, or no marketing. Of course, more resources are “better” for marketing, but re-allocating existing resources can be equally effective. None should be considered mutually exclusive to any other.

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Media Social Media Marketing Resource 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. Did you know that both YouTube and Facebook started out to be dating sites? Even IBM, with their personal computer, had trouble making their elephant dance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Now, of course, they all do much more, but those things came later. Focus means starting with solving a specific problem, rather than a generic list. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you have a big challenge that you can’t afford to meet. Customers want a solution from you, not many.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2016

Before you finalize the product is the best time to talk about it and see if you can get some buzz started. Of course, even startups can get into serious trouble by talking about products and direction with no intent or ability to deliver. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

starting when a new gTLD is created and ending when the general public can register a domain in it) is called the “sunrise period.” The trademark verification itself is performed by Deloitte and the data is managed by IBM , who are partnered with the TMCH to provide mark vetting services. This window of time (i.e.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. That’s the bar you should aspire to.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

Of course that’s not true. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. If they start sucking – they’re out. But a sales person needs to be able to demonstrate the business case of why using your product will deliver more total ROI than your competitors. “Sure, they can sell at 50% of our price. . They know this.

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