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Team Member Competency Is Critical To Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Let me assure you that it is also alive and well within startups. I see startup founders and managers who are stalled transplants from large organizations, as well as highly-capable technologists trying to start and run a business for the first time. How many technologists have tried to run startups and failed?

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

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If you were a student in college, working on a startup idea, what would spur you to drop your education plans, and go full time on your startup? We understand you were in school when you started this? I started playing around with a similar idea in my freshman year. Both have been great mentors ever since.

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7 Startup Lessons from NBA Finals

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As the NBA playoffs closes to an end in a grueling road to Game 7 between Miami Heats and San Antonio Spurs, it would behoove every startup founder to learn from key elements and strategies of both teams, as lessons from the sport of basketball can directly translate to the success of a startup company. 1) Identifying Team Chemistry.

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Why Solving Big Food & Healthcare Problems Will Yield Spectacular Companies

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When we met Shireen (CEO) and Scott (Co-founder & CTO) in late 2014 they had been inspired to create Nima to address their own personal food issues and empower other people to live their healthiest lives. We are predisposed to backing founders who solve problems in which they have personal knowledge that is authentic.

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The Truth Behind Display Advertising: Adomic's Quest For Transparency

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We caught up with CEO Gabe Gottlieb recently to understand better why the company thinks transparency is important--and to try to understand better the tangled web of online ads. I grew up here, but then I moved up to Redmond after college. I met my co-founder and CTO, Tom, there, and worked on a bunch of projects together.

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Don’t Let the Peter Principle Kill Your Dream

Startup Professionals Musings

Let me assure you that it is also alive and well within startups. I see startup founders and managers who are stalled transplants from large organizations, as well as highly-capable technologists trying to start and run a business for the first time. How many technologists have tried to run startups and failed?

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How to Avoid the ‘Peter Principle’ in Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Let me assure you that it is also alive and well within startups. Forty years ago, in a satiric book named “ The Peter Principle ”, Dr. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent, and there they remain, unless they join a startup to get the next level. Practice and training are critical.

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