Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

If you have completed four out of five milestones, we can both see success in your future. Initially, you may be able to do everything in your startup, including product development, marketing, and shipping orders. As you move from development to rollout, a team effort is required, including marketing, sales, funding, and customers.

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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. For example, “Nielsen projects that the market for smart phones will double every year for the next five years.” You need both to survive. and trademarks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2010

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not require a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or even the Apple iPad. So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? The impact of global instability. That’s the great thing about being an entrepreneur.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace. That's what we do over the course of our two year contract. She's actually won five Emmy's, and knows how to produce content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. Even with this, crowdfunding today means any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model. angels crowdfunding entrepreneur investor'

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. 2) Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early. 6) Rely On A Public Relations Agency.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

First came Inception Sciences , a holding company for spinning out biotech startups established by Versant Ventures and Peppi Prasit, the veteran San Diego drug developer. We really have a development focus,” Martin told me. “We We outsource everything. But it’s structured differently. We don’t have our own laboratory.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We also have a cloud-baesd, billing and practice management solutions, which enables them to manage all of their internal financial processes, and we also have solutions for billing and cloud-based outsourcing of back office tasks. Dan Rodrigues: Yes, we''ve raised around $70M in venture funding to date. doctors in small offices.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. What our company is doing, is it is developing an online tool for people to find addiction treatment to meet their needs. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. I was a digital media agent at the United Talent Agency for five years, prior to founding Stem.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. Obviously, anyone except the largest five to ten content companies in the world, such as Google, Netflix, or Amazon, does not need to own their own CDN. Instead, they outsource to an expert like Edegcast. That might be debt, or public and private markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The reality is that over 80 percent of new businesses will never attract venture capital or Angel funding, according to experts , and there are many good reasons for skipping that painful and distracting process. Outside funding is not a startup entitlement. Don’t let early funding increase risk and dilute your potential.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Sometimes, the call is quick and easy five minutes, sometimes we have to ask a lot of questions to make sure we have everything we need. How are you funded? Jon Grishpul: We've been around for the last year, and we've been completely self funded. We take as long as necessary to find that contractor.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

They offered me a contract job at the intersection of science and graphics, which is satellite imaging, a dream come true. That turned out great, which I did for five years. One of those tips, is a half an hour walk, five times a week results in 33 percent less risk of developing Alzheimers. How is the firm funded?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

For those who may be living under a rock and have no idea what SXSWi is, its five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks). Funding: The New Indie: BONA FIDE film.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Taking other people’s money to fund your startup changes your life in ways you cannot predict. At the very least (or perhaps it’s the very best), they ask me how to get ready for funding. If you raise an angel round consisting of five investors who put in $100K each, that’s five people you have to answer to.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Gene Dolgoff: After years of research and development, we have developed technology which converts two dimensional video to 3D. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. There also automatic converters.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2011

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based zuuka Group , the publisher behind the iStoryTime (www.istorytimeapp.com) line of children's books on the iPhone, announced a first round of funding. Congrats on the funding. How were you funded before this round? We bootstrapped the company, and just started making books.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to help develop tools to secure the power grid. OT networks had a parallel development track with IT systems, but had primarily been focused on industrial applications. Thanks for the time today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

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. And if it’s not I’m generally not that interested in funding it. THE FIVE C’S.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. I've funded some myself. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another. So Alice, Mark and Nick are going to hire ten people over the next five (now four) weeks. twenty in your wallet? See me I’m stacking money.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2011

Note: This is part III of a five part series. When you play Monopoly with your children, you can subtly underscore an entrepreneurial mindset in their gameplay which will ultimately help them develop valuable startup skills, as described below. Monopoly is a great training ground to develop rudimentary cash management skills.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? I might also be concerned about taking my idea directly to a large, well funded competitor who is know for innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? I might also be concerned about taking my idea directly to a large, well funded competitor who is know for innovation.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 29, 2013

The flik app is a new social video platform developed for the iOS, utilizes short videos for sharing and discovering. Chris and I started to work on developing flik from the web platform into a mobile app where people can share and upload videos. After my contract was over, I was injured and had to go undergo Tommy John’s Surgery.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2016

For our interview today, we have an interview with Gabe Grifoni , CEO and founder of Rufus Labs (www.getrufus.com), which has has developed an Android-based, wearable device which is aimed at use in the enterprise, warehouses, and factories. That's how we got our start. So where are you now with your product?

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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. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. call to arms.

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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. You realize that only five minutes of downtime makes you unproductive without the Internet. What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is?

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Christopher Brereton is one of the founders and lead guru of PictureHealing , a company that develops community, awareness and support through photo sharing on iPhones. Sizhao “Zao” Yang – COO and Co-founder at BetterWorks.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

► 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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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. Gramercy Park Condo Goes Into Contract. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Developers are scrambling to cater to the influx. » More.

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