Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2015

For survival, entrepreneurs need to be all about accomplishing results that matter for themselves, their team, and their customers. That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. Why is this so hard? Schedule the big rocks, don’t sort gravel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2016

For survival, entrepreneurs need to be all about accomplishing results that matter for themselves, their team, and their customers. That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. Why is this so hard? Schedule the big rocks, don’t sort gravel.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We caught up with Amos to learn about his new book, and to gain some tips for startup entrepreneurs on how to figure out when you're actually ready to scale your sales team. The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. The answer is almost always NO.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Two tips turned into stories this week: Ford expanding its autonomous vehicle program to Austin and GM Cruise ramping up its hiring machine with plans to hire at least 1,000 more engineers by the end of the year. Got a tip or overheard something in the world of transportation? What else are we hearing? We’ll share more soon.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? Don't scare off your prey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2016

Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment. I just finished a new book, “ The Purpose Effect ,” by renowned author Dan Pontefract, that provides a good framework and background or doing just that.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Have you tested the concept with customers using paper? Have you signed some test customers? Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers. Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? Don't scare off your prey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. Having a clear focus means it’s easier to communicate what your product is and who it’s for. Here are two examples.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In his book, “ Out-Executing the Competition ,” seasoned executive Irv Rothman provides tips to corporate executives on how to dig in and “get their fingernails dirty.” Team members and customers expect startup founders to be innovative. Stay in the game by allowing others to see your creativity in action outside your office.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

In his new book, “ Out-Executing the Competition ,” seasoned executive Irv Rothman provides tips to corporate executives on how to dig in and “get their fingernails dirty.” Team members and customers expect startup founders to be innovative. Stay in the game by allowing others to see your creativity in action outside your office.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The Microsoft PDC 2009 event had some huge announcements and not only concerning Microsoft products. One of which was the support for open-source frameworks. Will they allow their partners or some of their larger customers to build their own private clouds in the future? You can checkout all those features here.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Watch the video to hear Busher’s tips on how to effectively reach out to bloggers and get publicity for your apps using release distribution services, developer diaries, visual assets, teaser trailers and more. You have very little real estate to deal with, so build a product that works and does what you say it’s going to do.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2010

Will Hsu, Chief Product Officer for AT&T Interactive Jordan Rohan, Managing Director of Equity Research, Internet and Digital Media, Thomas Weisel Partners. Join our panelists as they discuss how location-awareness is influencing every aspect of mobile marketing -- from campaign creation, to ROI-tracking, to custom ad units and messaging.

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