Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2020

They don’t seem to realize that investors can be the most demanding bosses your ever had, since it’s their money you are using and potentially losing. I have to explain that if you really want to exercise total control of a new venture, they you need to do it without external investors, bootstrapping your way with your own resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Gather your resources before scaling the business. You need the funding and support, but venture capitalists can be very demanding, and set high targets. You need advisors and a board of directors, but they require regular communication and reporting, a strategic plan, and discipline. Needed help can be your biggest burden.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Second, it’s a way for Spotify to save time and resources that it currently spends on its deals with the big record labels that have a powerful influence over the music streaming space. The podcast will look even more like an on-demand version of radio than it already does. No one’s saying that now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Al Gore, by just talking about it, still seems to be leading the way in monetization, having amassed an estimated net worth reported recently as around $300 million. Another approach is simply repurposing used items, or simply passing them down to less demanding users, like the ecoATM story with used cell phones, tablets and MP3 players.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 20, 2019

. “Our next iteration is to start using our drones to assist our specialized resources,” said Fields. The technologal demands of the fire department extend beyond the drone itself, Fields said. The LAFD Swift Water Rescue Team. Photo courtesy of Flickr/ LAFD Mike Horst.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Establishing and wielding influence may help you move resources in your direction in a large business. Similarly, acquiring a larger footprint of direct reports is often a sign of success at large businesses. These instincts kill you in a small company, where requiring more resources is a negative. Never cover your a$$.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Venture capital for innovators. Rustic Canyon Partners (www.rusticcanyon.com). Funding great entrepreneurs. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com).

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Xconomy

AUGUST 16, 2016

A recent Silicon Valley Bank report noted that large corporations have dramatically increased pre-clinical acquisitions in the last three years under the pressure of limited supply and competition from IPOs. With a limited supply of new firms coming into the business, venture’s ability to expand to meet demand is inherently constrained.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2013

Establishing and wielding influence may help you move resources in your direction in a large business. Similarly, acquiring a larger footprint of direct reports is often a sign of success at large businesses. These instincts kill you in a small company, where requiring more resources is a negative. Never cover your a$$.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 29, 2016

Since that event in January, which gained significant media attention, further reports have brought attention to the severe biotech gender gap. As a human resources executive who has worked exclusively in the life sciences for more than 16 years, I empathize with companies that struggle to bring females into the C-suite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Establishing and wielding influence may help you move resources in your direction in a large business. Similarly, acquiring a larger footprint of direct reports is often a sign of success at large businesses. These instincts kill you in a small company, where requiring more resources is a negative. Never cover your a$$.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now. Don’t let the demands of seasonal fluctuations spoil the party. Do your planning now, and drive your business to new highs, rather than letting the demands drag you down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Establishing and wielding influence may help you move resources in your direction in a large business. Similarly, acquiring a larger footprint of direct reports is often a sign of success at large businesses. These instincts kill you in a small company, where requiring more resources is a negative. Solve everything yourself.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Most relevant to startups is the push to fund initiatives and technologies that can help prevent or protect against extreme wildfires; rising sea levels and hurricanes; new agriculture resource management; and “climate-smart” technologies.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Jason Nazar: Legal contracts, business forms and templates, conference presentations, financial models, research reports, any kind of professional content that you have which you use on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Most people are really glad to have this premium resources, and it's risk free. A year ago, we were around 3.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

But as we now know 33% of the world’s population is now connected to the Internet, the majority of traffic to the major Internet properties is now global and at Benedict Evans pointed out in his recent report, more than 70% of the world’s literate population will have a smartphone within 4 years. Prices down. Network Up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

Dell announced years ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. It’s all available for “free” on the Internet, but your time is a valuable resource.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 2, 2012

Temperamental Superstars – These individuals episodically perform at a high level, yet they constantly demand a high level of managerial attention to assuage and reassure their oversized egos. The best way to maximize the performance of a Temperamental Superstar is to make them a sole contributor, with no direct reports.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Dell announced years ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. It’s all available for “free” on the Internet, but your time is a valuable resource.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. The really important distinction is that non-technical business people can build, deploy, integrate, and create reports on these applications to help them run their business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

With the Identity Theft Resource Center® reporting a 30% increase in privacy breaches in 2013, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Why is everyone so paranoid these days?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2017

With the Identity Theft Resource Center® reporting a 40 percent increase in data breaches in 2016, there seems to be a growing population out there worried about all the people intent on hurting them. Why is everyone so paranoid these days?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Naturally the countries reacted negatively to reporting to a centralized figure in the UK (and of course to no longer reporting to the CEO). He wanted more resources allocated to him and he would begin wondering whether he might rise in the organization. But it wasn’t just about company structures. Lived it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

Dell announced years ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. It’s all available for “free” on the Internet, but your time is a valuable resource.

Social Media 104

Social Media Media Marketing Social Network 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

Dell announced over a year ago that it had earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, and other businesses report daily on increases in web traffic up to 800%. Social media demands two-way communication, rather than outbound only. It’s all available for “free” on the Internet, but your time is a valuable resource.

Social Media 88

Social Media Media Marketing Startup 88

The Quigley Report

MARCH 2, 2008

I really don't know a lot of VCs who scour market research reports to confirm growth rates in a new industry or peruse 10Ks to confirm the gross margins of a market leading company. Getting a mention in one of these periodicals is an excellent way to stoke demand in your business from the investment community.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2016

There are so many startups, and a great demand for talent as a result of this. The biggest challenge we faced launching in Malaysia was finding good human resource. As many Latin American companies lack trust in other companies they demand same-day payment, which can result in large transfer fees. We work with U.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 17, 2015

Despite the reported benefits, and companies already collecting lots of information, fewer than 30 percent have adopted big data strategies to improve operations. When there’s high demand, there’s also high prices. This will put them at a disadvantage compared to other organizations that have the resources to hire the very best.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It’s getting there – broadband penetration in Nigeria is still small compared to the West, but as demand grows, as the infrastructure is invested in and built, and as broadband costs fall so that the Internet is more accessible to more people, we expect iROKOtv to add even more registered users in Nigeria. We found that in Lagos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. As your services gain demand, your time becomes more valuable and you can charge more. Making cakes, making baby clothes, or making birdhouses, for example.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

I think that's too bad, actually, because what search does is capture demand very specifically for your product--but broadcast will generate demand for advertisers. Buyers have less time, with flat resources, against an ever growing number of media outlets. Those expectations were probably too high, in terms of the CPA.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► February (1) What do you do when a reporter you admire misrepre. By Frank Addante Development resources are in high demand. My next five posts will be focused on 5 tips that I put together for dealing with the tech resource challenge: 1. Find a Simple Way to Tell a Complex Story (and ano. Where's Jack Bauer?

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). It’s the fucking worst.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

They had the huge financial and technical resources of a large company, and they had the right dreams, but they also had a set of challenges that most entrepreneurs don’t have to deal with: Team members are not selected based on entrepreneurial acumen. Every such deal was an exception. A single-minded focus and commitment is hard to maintain.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

because every community needs its local tech press to report on companies and run conference. on to their next companies and that produced Demand Media, a public company who even with a slight recent reduction in share price is still trading at $1.3 Marketing Muscle. It’s great to see an initiative like Seattle 2.0

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Ran gold Resources Ltd. If youre buying a luxury home or just like looking at them, check out this live chat from reporter Lauren Schuker Blum and WSJ.com real estate editor Matthew Strozier. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller. Professor Journal.

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