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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

But what was interesting to me was that I found myself recommending that each of them should have a technical adviser. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups. There are two kinds of advisors that are commonly needed. Strategic Technical Advisor.

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5 Keys to Results in the Current Marketing Revolution

Startup Professionals Musings

Most small businesses I advise still rely on traditional advertising models, assuming they can create enough media “noise” to get customers attention and sway them. You don’t realize that person-to-person noise now dominates all channels through social media, effectively hiding business marketing messages.

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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my experience advising new entrepreneurs as well as more mature businesses, I recommend the following strategies for building business momentum, while still optimizing the limited resources of every small business: Find more customers that like what you do best. The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader.

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5 Priorities For New Business Leader Self-Development

Startup Professionals Musings

In my business of mentoring new entrepreneurs and advising small company owners, I recognize that most don’t start as experienced leaders, and most don’t realize that people leadership is a primary key to their future success. Building a business is not a one-person job, and leading by edict rarely works today.

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Why I F **g Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed

Both Sides of the Table

I was trying to tell a real story about grit and risk and determination and seeing the markets early but struggling to persuade others. The truth is that many “unicorns” have reached the status solely because the funding markets have said so. That’s how markets go. ” No. We f **g don’t.

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The Top 10 Types of Douchebags in Tech and How NOT to Be One

Jason Nazar

What’s the Remedy: Learn & apply any current marketable skills. You take no interest nor show any curiosity in how technical systems are built or maintained, and Engineering is the least valued/respected part of your organization. The WannaBe Board of Advisor. Business Dolts Who Devalue Engineers.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

Like most mature markets, the legal profession is highly segmented with respect to the services provided and markets served. Your lawyer is a trusted advisor, but in the end, you run your business, your lawyer does not. Even so, the majority of firms focus on servicing well-established BDC’s. but They Make Great Guard Dogs.