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. Minimize investment in prototypes and tooling. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.

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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. Minimize investment in prototypes and tooling. budget business e-commerce entrepreneur startup' Savings here can easily reach another $10K per month.

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socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2018

The concept, is we want o get them to an accelerator, get them investment, or get them to revenueany one of those paths would be great. Most of our mentors are people who have been successful entrepreneurs and investors, who have been there, and understand how to get a company to the next sage. Also, you have to have a team.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Or he may be the founder’s brother, idea person, or inventor, who can’t be bothered actually working on the nuts and bolts of the real business. Chief Evangelist. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

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. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications? The platform approach we took allows teams and companies and venues to access the best functionality, at a subcription price, rather than a custom development price. Laurence Sotsky: That's a great question.

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