Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. Business Email and Texting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2015

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. The act of communicating and writing enhances learning. The process of documenting what you think you know in a business plan, for the team and for investors, solidifies your own understanding of your new business.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And covered we did.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. As a teacher, you can share documents with colleagues, or visit and forum and have discussions with other teachers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 2, 2014

Emails, documents, and even tax forms are handled online, making it difficult for families to retrieve them, or even know they existed in the first place. This way, a person can leave behind a will including their tax forms, emails, and other digital documents family members wouldn’t have known about. Some have lost documents forever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2013

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. In school, you''re taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2016

It requires an attitude of self-education, versus an assumption that someone else will provide the education. The act of communicating and writing enhances learning. The process of documenting what you think you know in a business plan, for the team and for investors, solidifies your own understanding of your new business.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They write into their investment documents that they will occupy a seat on the board for as long as they are invested in the company, thinking of this as a protection for their investment and tool for them to influence growth. All other board functions are secondary. Email readers continue here.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Business Writing for Email. Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Fallacy: Third-party, OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) representatives succeed once the sales process is defined, proven and documented. 5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements. Thus, I will let my Big Dumb Company (BDC) partner write our agreement. 2) Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early. 8 ) Grant Exclusivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. In school, you''re taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. Business Email and Texting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Writing in business is not the same as in an academic environment. In school, you're taught to stretch weak ideas to reach your document page limit. Amazingly, it seems that people in business are more highly educated these days, but less well prepared than ever before. Business Email and Texting.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

It was through that experience, that I sat up in my chair when working at Intel Capital, thinking that, this is cool, I've got a pretty big checkbook to write from, and to do deals from, but there are so many more companies I could be investing in that I am not. It's a real issue, and one, frankly, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 16, 2015

If someone writes a note to you in the margin of your book or draws an arrow for you on a map, they are annotating a document for you. While this is certainly entertaining, the applications of this technology in fields like education and the arts are as exciting as emerging technologies get. What Can Augmented Reality Do?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2013

And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. And precisely because buyers usually prefer to have limited money go to investors – investors almost always have the ability to say “no” to transactions in the terms of their funding documents (aka “blocking rights”).

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

I often write about the best strategies for startup fundraising or how to manage startup financing and optimize for growth. Whether it’s something as extensive as filing patents, more simple trademark registrations, and or putting appropriate documentation in place, don’t ignore this and don’t rely on boilerplate online templates.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

It's a very linear process, and allows them to capture knowledge and link to centralized resources that relate to a topic, including documents, pictures, files, video. Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. 9) In Getting The Band Back Together , I write about the power of serial Founding teams.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

Swartz knew that creating useful programs to better educate people would not suffice if there were laws preventing us to freely access information. million articles and documents from JSTOR (Journal Storage), a subscription-only service that distributes scientific and literary journals. He allegedly broke into M.I.T.’s

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I have checked Twitter at least 10 times during the writing of this post so far and Facebook 3 times. I can’t write a blog post and then wait 3 days to publish. It’s why I don’t write for TechCrunch or similar much any more. I am good at cranking out documents, memos, presentations, letters and spreadsheets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Writing specialists. Whether you are in manufacturing or software, you need experienced writers who can document your latest technology, write patents, and efficiently manage the multitude of data formats required by printing companies and advertisers. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

With all these companies vying for attention & others just here to soak up the vibe I thought I’d write a much broader piece on how startups can make the most of their attendance at conferences & events. Write them in advance and request meetings. We didn’t have any documents due that night. We just hung.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Writing specialists. Whether you are in manufacturing or software, you need experienced writers who can document your latest technology, write patents, and efficiently manage the multitude of data formats required by printing companies and advertisers. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

Dig deeper and you see that they do: project management (like 37 Signals), share and store files online (like DropBox and Box.net), create and edit documents online (like Google Docs & Zoho), Wikis (like SocialText) and Discussions (like Yammer). We were doing an educational session on term sheets. And we had full screen video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Writing specialists. Whether you are in manufacturing or software, you need experienced writers who can document your latest technology, write patents, and efficiently manage the multitude of data formats required by printing companies and advertisers. We are becoming a society of entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

And how do you think the next person who’s thinking about writing you a check going to feel about that sort of cavalier attitude with their money? We’re going to put our product out there and fail fast!&# [note: business plan to me does not equal long Microsoft Word document. How does your brother-in-law feel about that?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. A program manager would traditionally be responsible for: Writing the detailed specification for how the software should work. Communicating with the developers who write code. Defensibility in Software.

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