Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Don’t assume titles will convey this information. You need both to survive. Include marketing, sales, and customer rollout plans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Leverage information technology. Don’t try this without a formal process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

When I started my first tech company in 1999 I had pretty good tech chops and had led teams but had very little exposure to many other things that matter in a startup including sales, marketing & business development. Persuading a journalist to write about you rather than the 1,000 other companies bugging them. I talked too much.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

I believe the old adage that you don’t know what you don’t know until you try to write it down. The discipline of writing down your plan is the best way to make sure you understand how to transform your idea into a business, and how to communicate it. In today’s information age, it takes time and money to make your solution visible.

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Xconomy

JUNE 6, 2016

Key early figures include CTO Doug Palmer, a pioneer in the development of video-over-IP technology who also worked at San Diego’s Linkabit and HNC Software, and chief engineer David Eames, one of HNC’s original staff scientists and an expert in neural networks and parallel computing applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. More information comes out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

I believe the old adage that you don’t know what you don’t know until you try to write it down. The discipline of writing down your plan is the best way to make sure you understand how to transform your idea into a business, and how to communicate it. In today’s information age, it takes time and money to make your solution visible.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast. Software-as-a-service companies write good software, and network companies build good networks, but rarely do you find both that do that well as the same time. Those two typically don't go together well.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. Her company has since signed a contract with Central Desktop. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. His lines proved evocative - from “Hey, come over here.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

On the flip-side, Assignmint is a tool for editors, which we are in the process of developing right now. I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. It’s growing. It’s horrible.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. The New York Times doesn't know that we've mobilized their site--we didn't need to use their server development team to make this work. That means these sites can be mobilized overnight.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

Would you want to run the risk that your former employer could have a claim against the intellectual property you’ve created because you broke company policies and developed your ideas on company resources? You can probably get loads of information on Legal Zoom also. Not worth it. Pick the founding members.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) Rumored to be appox.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Specific Steps for Static Sites For each page that needs share links, you’ll need to paste the HTML above and replace replace everything with double square brackets with the information from the page. What I write here is protected by a Creative Commons License. My site is both valid XHTML and valid CSS.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancelled it’s contract to allow DataSift to resell Twitter data to 3rd parties. Never mind that Twitter in writing specifically asked us to build this re-syndication product with them and that every step of the way encouraged us to build out the service. Some evidence?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. After AltaVista, Mike spent a year doing business development for USA Networks ( now IAC – Interactive Corp ). This feature is in development right now.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. Alltop is a great source of information for both Paper.li Develop your business plan. believe that is certainly true.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley? First Principles.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Pricing information.

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