Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Write it down, make it specific, expressive, yet succinct and jargon-free. Don’t stop believing, learning, and developing. Outside of work, it’s important to join a club, do volunteer work, and help at local events. Both should be thought of as in perpetual motion, so finding your sweet spot is not a one-time event.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 3, 2018

million to bring to market a service that basically hits pause on the execution of a contract so it can be arbitrated in the event that something goes wrong. If a dispute cannot be self-resolved, parties then graduate to a dispute resolution marketplace of third party vendors,” Wan writes. Thus, we are dispute process agnostic.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Write it down, make it specific, expressive, yet succinct and jargon-free. Don’t stop believing, learning, and developing. Outside of work, it’s important to join a club, do volunteer work, and help at local events. Both should be thought of as in perpetual motion, so finding your sweet spot is not a one-time event.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

We’re expected to be at conferences, events, sales meetings and be publicly visible. Recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same. We are over-intro’d and at the same time under-resourced in terms of staff to handle the barrage of in-bound requests.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2013

So I thought I’d write a piece on how not to suck when you give a presentation. No one gives a s**t about your features other than your product manager and your developers. is there a theme for the event? Don’t write sentences on them – only key words to help you remember what you’re going to say.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The challenge is how to develop that self-leadership in every aspiring entrepreneur and business professional role. It may be time for you to start your own blog, write a book, or volunteer as a speaker at public events in your domain. Many entrepreneurs I know wait for that big event to celebrate their leadership.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

I saw him on stage at the event talking about how he used social media to engage audiences. I reached out after the event to learn more. After seeing Chamillionaire interact with several entrepreneurs both at events and as an investor I started introducing him to startups in an advisory capacity. Welcome to the family.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. Tony: I personally am torn by choices around Networking Events in Los Angeles – you can go to something almost every night. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

I worked with an entrepreneur who was to appear at a startup networking event where he was to talk about his company’s plans. He considered pulling out of the event because he wanted to stay in “stealth mode&# and felt an event like this compromised him. A funding announcement is a stand-alone event.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Get to know the developers.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Have you ever found yourself in a conversation with developers and found yourself lost or even overwhelmed with new information? If so, then JS Saturday is the event you can’t miss! He is also the creator and lead developer of the Facebook C# SDK. Have you ever wanted to learn Javascript?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The key to networking in the tech world is you do not need to be the best in the world, you just need to be passionate, willing to learn and in a lot of cases be the best designer or developer that people know. Write to designers you look up to and ask for feedback, you will be surprised at how many people will write you back.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. A few years ago, my CTO spotted a need that local groups and organizations have in handling RSVPs and registrations for meetings and events. for face-to-face general networking events. Cliff, remind me about your background?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

PR is a process, not an event - For starters let me say that you shouldn’t do PR around milestones. You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. I write on my blog how I think in my head.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

We've had event companies, and clubs, and web businesses, all vertically focused on either passions or really exciting subjects like knowledge management, sales, field force automation, and home office computing, small business, bedtime reading. That's absolutely crucial in magazines, and in the way we ran events.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2022

Need to represent your company at industry association events. The other four are: new product development, writing, time management, and sales/marketing. But it won’t be long before employees expect to hear and see their executives exercising the sensitivity and communication skills of other industry leaders.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. You bump into the person you’ve always wanted to chat with or your perfect business development partner who can “make” you. I’ve met Sam several times and each time I’ve been at an event with him I’ve heard his opening line, “My name is Sam Jones. It was a dinner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Communicate the risks, and write down the agreement. Look for ways to get some traction with a minimal product, while you are still developing the main event. But your chances are minimal of finding someone who will give you that much to start. Don’t take money from family or friends who can’t afford to lose it.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2019

I also think there's an interesting opportunity in Los Angeles, as the tech scene continues to develop and mature. It took about half of one day for the event, focused on the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur, and showcasing what women are building. It's a great event.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

This week we’ll focus on the city of Austin, gain insight into Uber’s spending habits, do a little scooter number crunching, the Tesla Model Y, and the so-called “race” — an overused and inaccurate term — to develop autonomous vehicles. ONM … There are OEMs in the automotive world. Cymbal clash!)

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

Working in the film and event industry for many years, Taylor Freeman decided to put his career on hold and travel around Europe reflecting on what is important and discovering his true passion, technology. “My Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. And UploadVR was born.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

I thought I’d write a post about how to talk about valuation at a startup and give you some sense of what might be on the mind of the person considering funding you. If you don’t perceive that you have any potential “issues” (raised too much, price too high) then this should be a non event. Want to read more?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA , which I wrote about previously. The other worthwhile exercise is to write down what your competitors uses as its USPs – even ones that you don’t think are really valuable to customers. The first post covered the topic of “P” or pain.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

I speak a lot on college campuses and entrepreneur events and amongst the most common things I’m asked to talk about are: What do VCs fund? 70% Team, 30% Market I also talk often about how much the team plays a critical role in my decision backing an A-round company because so much changes as a company develops.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

San Diego-based Wildfire Systems , led by startup veteran Jordan Glazier , has developed software which product referrals and automatically transform them into trackable links across email, text messaging, chat, and social messaging. Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. How does this work?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 17, 2019

The slate of programming in development includes: The Hating Game – A Sally Thorne bestseller that’s also being adapted into a film later this year starring Lucy Hale and Robbie Amell. Lion of Ireland – Combining historical events with magical realism this book from Morgan Llywelyn has sold over 40 million copies sold worldwide.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If angel investors are pressuring you to set up a board and if you don’t have the leverage to push back a little then I might suggest a 3-person board in which all 3 seats are appointed by the common stock and you agree to appoint one of these seats to the angel investor but perhaps make it either time based or event based.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2014

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. From a networking standpoint, it’s a lot more efficient than going to seminars and other industry events. Populate your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

Final features approval event. Make a visible event at the executive level out of the final specification approval, detailing features, costs, and time frames. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule. If you are the sign-off, don’t be afraid to say “no.”

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time. It has to be a pretty good event for it to be worth attending.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

Journalists write stories that have an appeal to readers whether the accusations have merit or not. In any event, I’ll take a free press any day. Journalists aren’t going to write about you all the time unless you’re Facebook. Use it as an excuse to get a journalist to write about you. What a shame.&#.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

At KnowledgeBase, he worked with EdgeCast co-founders James, Phil and Lior, and as CEO was involved in all aspects of the company and responsible for its development. Additionally, he has extensive application development, web hosting, and data center build-out and management experience. He holds a B.S. Want to Sponsor?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2013

I know that finding time is hard, and good writing is simply not what most people do. Too many entrepreneurs spend big money on development, only to find out that the solution isn’t quite right. From a networking standpoint, it’s a lot more efficient than going to seminars and other industry events. Populate your team.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2015

Trade show veterans know that the louder you scream at an industry event, the less your voice is heard. Hosted by SAAS giant Salesforce, it is more akin to a circus than a professional event. Why am I writing an article about a trade show that occurred nearly four months ago? Good question. I am a trade show skeptic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Final features approval event. Make a visible event at the executive level out of the final specification approval, detailing features, costs, and time frames. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule. If you are the sign-off, don’t be afraid to say “no.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. This Dave knew I was running an event on “the future of television” that was important to me. The Dave I know is very insightful about marketing, channel management and building developer ecosystems.

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