Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2011

Another mistake many consultants make is to charge by the hour, and customers lose track and lose confidence as things change. Report within the organizational structure. In the past, consultants were taught to report only to the top executive, and to assume leadership rights in the organization. Be exceptionally easy to find.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Another mistake many consultants make is to charge by the hour, and customers lose track and lose confidence as things change. Report within the organizational structure. In the past, consultants were taught to report only to the top executive, and to assume leadership rights in the organization. Be exceptionally easy to find.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2011

I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer. How about talking to some real customers to see if they are as excited about your idea as you are? Comment on other people’s blogs, as well as writing your own. You need to do it yourself. Give it to them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Even practical issues, like understanding reporter deadlines, and your own editing rights, are critical. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Even practical issues, like understanding reporter deadlines, and your own editing rights, are critical. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

I’m definitely not lobbying here for promising things you can’t deliver, or hiring a publicist before your first programmer. How about talking to some real customers to see if they are as excited about your idea as you are? Comment on other people’s blogs, as well as writing your own. You need to do it yourself. Give it to them.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I finally got around to writing it having read Fred Wilson’s post about what a CEO does. Almost by definition to be a great leader you need to be an effective psychologist. In your case this might simply be a VP of Sales or Customer Support for multiple locations. Both are basically people businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. Even practical issues, like understanding reporter deadlines, and your own editing rights, are critical. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2010

Another mistake many consultants make is to charge by the hour, and customers lose track and lose confidence as things change. Report within the organizational structure. In the past, consultants were taught to report only to the top executive, and to assume leadership rights in the organization. Be exceptionally easy to find.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

If you’re an early investor like I am that often means writing the first $2-3 million check into a business that previously had either survived on fumes or on a $500,000 angel round. One of the interesting things about being a VC is that you often see companies in transition. But your job isn’t to make every decision for him.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

If you have a team of 10 people then by definition 90% of the time spent on activities is not put in by you and on a team of 100 it’s 99%. A great leader knows customers and has direct relationships with them. He seemed to never care about fans (customers) who also were happy to let the door hit his butt on the way out.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

I like to get a mix of people who have reported to the candidate, whom the candidate has reported to (2x) and peers. Finally, if the person has some degree of seniority you should definitely make off-list references from general people in the community. As your candidate for at least 5 references. You expected no less.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

If you have a strong-minded sponsoring partner who has a high degree of influence at his or her firm they will often be able to overcome any objections and will just report back what they found to answer the doubters. And if they asked me for money in their next fund I would definitely say “yes.” ” Guys?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2010

I wonder if more college students ought to take a journalism course for a semester or do an internship at their school newspaper in investigative reporting. developing a product you might like to survey prospective customers without biasing their answers. I’ll likely write about other question strategies at a later time.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

A Writer Is Someone Who Writes. A writer is someone who writes, not someone who goes about telling their friends that they are “a writer”. If your character cracks under the heat of a startup, your stakeholders will feel cheated, just like the ceramic customers in ancient Greece. Hint: He was an entrepreneur.

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Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. We didn’t wait for planning meetings, we didn’t discuss strategy, didn’t discuss architecture, didn’t talk to customers, didn’t look at similar or competitive products , didn’t write specs or requirements.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Why You Should Write.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

And aside from having great market power (the main reason for Twitter to own the client and the customer) advertising is one of the primary reasons that I believe Twitter needs to own the client applications. It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. Still, my wife had seen a report that almost all sun blocks for kids had a chemical known to be dangerous to kids. Naval says valuations are definitely going up, but isn’t completely sure why.

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