Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Partner decisions are more important than hiring decisions. This is a critical element of a good relationship, but a tough one. Complementary skills. Passion for what they do.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

People with the power and influence to hire your business or fire your business. For this reason, creating bottom line value and building equity for your brand has never been more critical. You might call it, hardcore social! Why is it hardcore?

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

While the company was profitable for its first 14 years of life, it has not been profitable the last two, according to Siemiatkowski, and that’s been by design. Other things the company plans to do with its new capital is focus on acquisitions, particularly acqui-hires, according to Siemiatkowski.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

Make sustainability a key design objective for every step. Hire the best people and continually upgrade your team. Hire the best people and continually upgrade your team. Build your brand equity and relationships with customers. Seek out the best practices in the industry, and improve them for your business.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 13, 2014

You can’t afford and don’t want to hire a full-time CTO or architect. For me, if I can help you within a couple hours Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions , I’m happy to do that and I don’t expect compensation or equity for that. Here’s the other aspect that both Tony and I preach: get help. I’m not the biggest fan of this personally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Design the Organization – Most grow organically and are based on people, not on the job that needs to be done. Design the Job – Include reporting relationships, authority, responsibilities, and performance metrics. Hire the Right Team – Not just on qualifications, but personality and team chemistry.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

It’s not that they’re particularly negative but the fact is that supporting roles at investment firms are designed to show the partners the risks in deals and the “upside case” always requires huge assumptions to be believed. I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals. Wait, there’s more!

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Jackson , “This financing round, coupled with hiring Adam Sroka as our head of technology, puts CapLinked in a position to further enhance our enterprise product offerings.”. Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 According to CEO Eric M. CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. million Raised.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

Via gets the “deal of the week” designation not just because its post-funding valuation is now $2.25 Seegrid, a company that makes self-driving industrial vehicles for material handling, closed a $25 million growth-equity investment from G2VP. Maybe your company is actually hiring.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

previously explained that it usually requires some equity, but here is some more step by step practical advice. 8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank. Good Design = Beautiful/Cool Design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Co-founder and equity negotiations work best if you own all the equity. Negotiation and equity ownership needs to happen when they join you, and you need the leverage of being the business owner. For more detailed requirements, it’s always appropriate to hire an attorney to guide you.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Defy teaches them personal finance like how to keep a checking account, the difference between debt and equity, what cashflow is and so forth. And as I’m sure you know the system isn’t exactly hospitable to employing ex-felons so the best way to sustain them is to find self employment and for them to hire each other. And the results?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

Instead, after a private equity firm offered to buy YLighting, we negotiated to keep the technology that we had developed. We sold it to a private equity group. Though the company moved well beyond those days, it's essentially the software I had designed, the same product. We opened up some offices, and started hiring locally.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Most of the solutions in our market are for lots of doctors, and are on-premise solutions, and are really designed for bigger physician groups and hospitals. We''ve raised around $72 million now in equity capital. We were hired by a company that did outsourced medical billing and consulting for physicial medicine and rehab doctors.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Great design/ user experience carries more and more weight these days and I have been lucky to touch some of the world’s most visible brands. It drives revenue & engages guests." Write it down….

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

By the way) They also send professional photographers food and products for their venues, then design these bits of media into collages for their clients’ screens. We asked if he was willing to take a pay cut for more equity. We ultimately decided not to hire him. All inclusive. Face Forward. He said no.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2020

The board decided this category was exploding, and consumers were turning more and more towards their phones to make decisions, they felt MomentFeed had huge potential, and was doing well, but it had the potential to grow even faster, which is why they hired me to take it to IPO scale. So July of last year, I swapped in as new CEO.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

When companies come into our incubator, we take no equity, we take no stake in the company, it's completely free for the participant. It's designed to be very open, and basically foster collaboration and working together. That's through the generosity of the Irvine Company. So, that't the foundation.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 2, 2014

For example, a startup may hire you as an accountant, but you may also be asked to do social media marketing content gearing towards finance for the company blog. Evernote office image courtesy of Design Milk via Pinterest. Startups are hiring. Now, you’re handling payroll and doing writing as well.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

For two years, it was a mentorship program, that worked with twenty three different companies, but did not have a fund, did not have an office, and didn't take any equity. It's not really the same when you're hiring a firm. Companies like Addroid provides resources for design. That's very important.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

equity debate. In my last post, I mentioned that you should strive to hire people with the right kind of ambition. How #redgate hired 10 geeks in five weeks - Business of Software Blog , August 5, 2010 In April, I wrote : Right now, we’re running a “Ten geeks in five weeks” project. Have convertible notes really won?

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

It''s designed for business people. I was hired to head up strategy, marketing development, and product management. To give you an overview, there are something like 6,000 equities in the U.S. It was interesting for us to see that, in addition to equity, you also turned to crowdfunding. How did you end up raising both?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

By the way) They also send professional photographers food and products for their venues, then design these bits of media into collages for their clients’ screens. We asked if he was willing to take a pay cut for more equity. We ultimately decided not to hire him. All inclusive. Face Forward. He said no.

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Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

In this study, the subjects were required to suffer extreme embarrassment, before they were allowed to join a discussion group that, by design, offered little value to its members. If you think hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs”. The embarrassed subjects consistently rated the discussion group highly.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

We talked with Dan to learn more about Scour, how it started, what he's hoping to do with it, plus learn more about the firm's hiring plans. I bought and sold domain names, did website design, and was the co-founder of another search engine, Findology, which we sold. What is Scour? That's how I was able to fund and start ABCSearch.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

During the course of the program, Relan and the all-star team of company builders put together over the last two years, will guide entrepreneurs through his personally designed three-phase approach. 30,000 in cash for equity and another $80,000 as a convertible note. 30,000 in cash for equity and another $80,000 as a convertible note.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Call it facts for hire. It would be a bit like the hired gun in the old west, but more suited for today’s times. Hiring The Right Candidate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). And well they should be. And so on down then line. You know what I’m talking about. You feel it, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

You decide to go out and hire a sales rep. It’s a sexy title when you can’t design products, program computers or sell! Imagine this. He’s senior and used to earning $125k basic and $125k bonus. You need channel resources – Most tech companies realize that they need Biz Dev resources to get lots of deals.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

In terms of the problem, is the majority of tools available today to help people with their money have been designed by financial times, for people more like them. That's compared to other financial products, which are designed for managing money, and just feel like work. I also wanted to approach things differently than they are now.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

San Diego''s Events.com (www.events.com) thinks so, saying it is prepared to create a new platformbuilt in the social and mobile agedesigned to help manage all kinds of events, in a way which has been completely overlooked by the incumbent event registration and management providers. He''s truly the Derek Jeter of the endurance space.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Design a logo ( 99designs ). Clarify who gets equity , and how much. Run a background check on new hires. Hire and train salespeople. Decide if you want to hire a PR Agency. Open your company bank account. Identity and Branding. Recommended. Conduct job interviews —look out for red flags. Recommended.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Here’s a hack for you.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

Awkward topics such as equity share come into play and everyone’s roles and what value they bring to the table are questioned. RED FLAG #2 : This person came in saying he was a designer, disappeared for a few hours and said he was working on some iOS mockups but by the time we were ready to pitch, he delivered nothing.

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