Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” This answers the question of “why buy anything?”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

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. With a little help from a friend, you can handle expenses, revenue, and payroll, with QuickBooks or a similar package.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

No matter how much you think you know about Steve’s lean startup philosophy, Eric Ries’ contributions to the movement, or the methodologies by which companies have put lean startup tenets into practice, I am confident you will be enlightened and entertained by Steve’s frank and insightful remarks. . Preaching What You Live.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We caught up with Lauren to hear about Hopscotch, and why teams and schools are turning to the company to power their mobile apps. Laurence Sotsky: I started the company about two and a half years ago, with the intent of connecting people to their passions. We're the official mobile app for whatever our customer is.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

His impact has even helped a small country gain admission to the United Nations. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. So the most important thing is to surround yourself with people who can help you succeed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Yesterday I wrote a post about how much capital your startup should raise. In that post I was talking about how it is a bad strategy to be underfunded. How does your brother-in-law feel about that? If you believe there is a market then build a prototype product that you can show customers, investors and potential employees.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This action-based program was created to help ensure success for a few types of teams. Any team can sign up, but it is geared toward entrepreneurs who have overcome the early hurdles of finding a business idea they are passionate about and forming a founding team, but do not know how to build a business model around it.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

In reality, startup titles should be more about the division of labor than an executive position. Here are some pre-conceived notions about what non-standard titles in a startup, like the following, might mean: Chief Inspiration Officer. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag. Chief Brand Officer.

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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. With a little help from a friend, you can handle expenses, revenue, and payroll, with QuickBooks or a similar package.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2011

Development. As the judging went on, everyone took the time to chat amongst themselves about their projects, experience at the event, and waited in anticipation of who would get the big check for $3000. The coolest part about these products was that most of the were live working demos. Product Design. But this event was special.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

In reality, startup titles should be more about the division of labor than an executive position. Here are some pre-conceived notions about what non-standard titles in a startup, like the following, might mean: Chief Inspiration Officer. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag. Chief Brand Officer.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think everybody heard about this acquisition. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. We had a big discussion about DST and why these investments. On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2015

These learning tools can accommodate the learning needs of either the disabled person, or the people who wish to help. For individuals that simply require a hearing aid, SoundAMP gives the phone a volume boost to accommodate for people who don’t want to worry about potential inaccuracies through Hamilton CapTel. Parking Mobility.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In reality, startup titles should be more about the division of labor than an executive position. Here are some pre-conceived notions about what non-standard titles in a startup, like the following, might mean: Chief Inspiration Officer. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag. Chief Brand Officer.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Tyler has helped coach dozens of companies through pitching and presenting at Launch Conf and formerly TechCrunch 50. Definitely was a helpful talk and seemed to really made a huge difference — we’re very lucky to have Tyler here in the community and drop by. What a SWLA.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

On the other hand, I meet plenty of people who complain bitterly about corporate politics—sometimes even in the companies they run. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. clearly didn’t cause this.” Dying at 70?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman's 10-day forecast.

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