Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

For example, I used to regularly hear pitches for the next great social media site, usually focused on a special interest or niche , such as photography, cooking, healthy living, or a thousand others. Initially, you may be able to do everything in your startup, including product development, marketing, and shipping orders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. A three-dimensional prototype is always better than just a documented specification when negotiating contracts for manufacturing, support, and marketing. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned. This model facilitates donations to charities and creative projects, and has been around for a long time via sites such as Rockethub. Donation good-cause model. Startup equity model. In the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. A three-dimensional prototype is always better than just a documented specification when negotiating contracts for manufacturing, support, and marketing. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. A three-dimensional prototype is always better than just a documented specification when negotiating contracts for manufacturing, support, and marketing. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. A good example site, and one of the earliest in this category, is IndieGoGo. This has been popular in many countries for years via sites like LendingClub and Kiva. Sites like IdeaBounty get your ideas off the shelf, and give you the wisdom of the crowds.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2009

For children with a proclivity toward business, a newspaper route provided an invaluable opportunity to develop the following entrepreneurial skills: Punctuality – Newspapers had to be delivered on time, irrespective of the weather, the fact that Sunday papers can weigh several pounds each or the requirement to wake up at the crack of dawn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In a new startup, there is tremendous competitive value in registering intellectual property early, but you don’t need to contract these tasks to expensive experts any longer. Patent and Trademark Office site for a few hundred dollars. Site marketing is easily extended through blogs, Twitter, Facebook and social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Work out of your home, and keep your own books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. A good example site, and one of the earliest in this category, is IndieGoGo. This has been popular in many countries for years via sites like LendingClub and Kiva. Sites like GeniusCrowd get your ideas off the shelf, and give you the wisdom of the crowds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Every consumer out there who goes to live sports, music, and other events is used to the drill: pay lots of money to a ticketing site, pay lots of extra fees, or have to hassle with a shady ticket broker, or pay extra to get a seat to the event you want to get to. Ticketing and league development rolled up under me.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. And of course in my 700 are people like Bill Gates and Barack Obama, neither of whom follows me just yet Asymmetric works both ways.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. As long as you have a well architected site that allows Google to properly spider your content, spend the rest of your time and money focusing on maximizing the remaining marketing tools listed below.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer. This should not deter you.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

On the day of Miigle’s public launch, we chatted about developing his team, lessons learned, and how World Cup soccer fits into his vision. For example, take someone who is developing a travel solution as a mobile application. Members can freely browse and explore the site. The site is now a lot faster.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

So it was my great pleasure to host Chamillionaire on This Week in VC this week talking marketing, entrepreneurship, old media and, of course, music. There are many analogies here for software development. Universal tried to push him to another site that had cut a deal with the label. On What Next?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2015

Almost the instant the concept of the sharing economy was introduced, it has skyrocketed into hundreds of successful and established brands by offering everyone a chance to be their own boss, and others the ability to outsource needs saving time by providing convenience. Before she knew it, her income from the site surpassed her parents.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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