Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. Entrepreneurial lawyers like Don Lee , Dave Young or Ted Wang are good at sussing out which entrepreneurs are high potential. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I attended events.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Shouldn’t you just hire the most senior guy you can out of Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, EA or whatever your relevant industry is? I had always been a scrappy entrepreneur. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle) as long as they’ve done a start-up after that before coming to you. - Not so fast. Let me tell you my story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. Clearly, engineers should think twice before assuming they have an advantage over the rest of us toward being an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. I like to repeat the mantra, “necessity is the mother of all invention,&# meaning that because investors have this expectation you find entrepreneurs that focus on nearer term monetization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2014

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you probably don’t have a business. business entrepreneur focus startup' Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

So I would go to lunch with our senior architect and ask 50 questions about the differences between Postgres , MySQL and Oracle databases. At my first company we went with Oracle because it had better handling of “ clustering &# at the time where we could have multiple instances of databases that we could keep synchronized.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2012

The Thursday launch of Data Collective demonstrates the increasing uptake of Big Data and signals a new door for entrepreneurs building Big Data companies. They say , “We believe another even larger scale disruption is underway and we are poised to help our entrepreneurs take advantage of it”. Founded Two Years Ago. Doors open.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I know because many entrepreneurs I spend time with I can tell are in their own brains when we’re meeting rather than trying to understand what my position is. You’re in sales mode. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Many of you are “tellers,&# too.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. But the “no sales people” mantra isn’t what I’m here to take on. It’s the second belief system that is even more engrained and even more wrong.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2016

It's unclear how Rascoff's presence in the city might or might not benefit the local tech community, as Los Angeles is a popular location for homes for jet-setting technology executives and entrepreneurs, including Oracle founder Larry Ellison (Malibu), Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson (Beverly Hills), and Google chairman Eric Schmidt (also (..)

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

When evaluating a potential Institutional Investor, entrepreneurs should consider what they are not , as much as what they are. Entrepreneurs in search of startup capital are well served to seek an UnVentureCapitalist (UnVC), an investor who understands and appreciates the unique benefits of capital efficiency.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Venture Capital.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2009

I'd used every CRM tool out there--Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft--you name it, I've used it. We're developing this to also work with Microsoft Dynamics and Oracle in the future. On the second hand, Salesforce's reason for the Force platform is to get into the enterprise space, and compete with the Oracles of the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2020

Aspiring entrepreneurs who struggle in a corporate environment often can’t wait to start their own company, only to find that relationships are even more critical and volatile there. The message here is not to use the public personas of leaders and entrepreneurs as the model for building and maintaining your business relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Aspiring entrepreneurs who struggle in a corporate environment often can’t wait to start their own company, only to find that relationships are even more critical and volatile there. The message here is not to use the public personas of leaders and entrepreneurs as the model for building and maintaining your business relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

So if you’re enterprise sales that might mean hiring people from Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce or whatever who have never been at an “unbranded&# startup. I find myself often saying to these entrepreneurs, “having watched you I can see why customers are interested in buying.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Every entrepreneur and business executive I know wants to emulate that boss, but most can’t even describe the attributes required. In my opinion, great examples in today’s entrepreneur world include Elon Musk (Tesla), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), and Richard Branson (Virgin Group). Take chances on unconventional talent.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

When evaluating a potential Institutional Investor, entrepreneurs should consider what they are not , as much as what they are. Entrepreneurs in search of startup capital are well served to seek an UnVentureCapitalist (UnVC), an investor who understands and appreciates the unique benefits of capital efficiency.

Entrepreneur 140

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. Clearly, engineers should think twice before assuming they have an advantage over the rest of us toward being an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 100

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

We are looking at a market which is primarily mid-level, where they are too big for using Quickbooks as their solution, but they''re not big enough to use an Oracle or SAP. entrepreneur pitch startup processing payment billing subscription thaeres scherzay taher' They''re left in the middle ground. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Thus one of my key messages to entrepreneurs, as a business advisor and angel investor, is “focus.” For example, it’s all too common for a technology entrepreneur to highlight a new battery technology as the ultimate power for smartphones, medical heart pacemakers, and home lighting. Realistically characterize the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose. That’s not a big margin, but every little bit counts in this space.

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Frank Addante

MAY 23, 2012

I asked the young entrepreneur how he's managing to compete with this free alternative. So, in a matter of weeks, this 10-year-old entrepreneur found a market (yo-yo owners), identified a need he could serve (fixing and upgrading yo-yos), secured an investor (his brother), and is now facing competitive pressure from a new market entrant.

Oracle 111

Oracle Google Competition Marketing 111

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

Actually, the latter could be a reasonable strategy for super technical entrepreneurs who can sustain themselves without big financing needs (see: Atebits, owner of Tweetie). Often these were things that would make Salesforce more competitive vis-a-vis Oracle and Microsoft.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose. That’s not a big margin, but every little bit counts in this space.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 109

socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2014

Todd Davis: I''m a veteran of Oracle, and had been CEO of an equipment finance company for the construction industry globally. todd davis startup entrepreneur gary winnick globalgrossing truckast cement concrete construciton mobile smartphone logistics' What''s your background, and how did you get into this? READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Startup Oracle Los Angeles 133

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. business entrepreneur investor Maxwell Wessel Silicon Valley startup location' Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

Unfocused entrepreneurs boast that their new technology will generate multiple disruptive products for consumers as well as enterprises around the world. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you probably don’t have a business. entrepreneur startup investor focus business' Marty Zwilling.

Startup 103

Startup Competition Technical Review Oracle 103

InfoChachkie

MAY 23, 2011

As noted in Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid , exclusivity can kill a small company. If the BDC has no competitive incentive to market your solution, there is a real risk that it will put your technology “on the shelf” and move on to the next entrepreneur whose technology must be kept out of reach of the BDC’s competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2023

Every entrepreneur and business executive I know wants to emulate that boss, but most can’t even describe the attributes required. In my opinion, great examples in today’s entrepreneur world include Elon Musk (Tesla), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), and Richard Branson (Virgin Group). Take chances on unconventional talent.

Oracle 94

Oracle Organization Examples Coach 94

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2009

How much competition is there in this space with people like Oracle, SAP, etc? You'd think that SAP would have a module, or surely Oracle has a module. Tags: therese tucker blackline systems interview startup finance financial entrepreneur. Therese Tucker: Here's the difference. Those companies offer transactional systems.

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Startup Software Review CTO Hire Oracle 124

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. M&A has shown some spectacular results including Zappos to Amazon for $928million , Sun to Oracle for $7.4 There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

A lot of first-time entrepreneurs think that a brilliant solution is the most important ingredient in building a successful business, but it's only one of many important elements. Execution: Execution - the hard task of turning ideas into products that people will buy - is what separates successful entrepreneurs from dreamers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose. That’s not a big margin, but every little bit counts in this space.

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Startup Technical Review Oracle Software Review 97

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. The whole point of this story, is that it's these little, small insights that entrepreneurs need to know.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When an entrepreneur takes on investors who take equity (i.e. I had the former head of Oracle, UK, Philip Crawford , on my first board and I found his advice and experience invaluable. Founders on the other hand recognize that over time they are likely not to have complete control of the board of directors of the company they founded.

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