Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2020

In my work with you as an entrepreneur or small business owner, I find that most understand the need try out new business models and product innovations, but trust their intuition rather than running a disciplined business experiment first. Yet a large sample does not necessarily lead to better data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

As an aspiring entrepreneur, one of the most important things you need is a memorable “ elevator pitch ,” to communicate your startup value proposition and leave a great first impression on friends, investors, employees, and future customers. Describe technology and features, not competitiveness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. In fact, most of the rich entrepreneurs you know actively turned away early equity proposals. Need to spread the risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2012

These are not aimed specifically at entrepreneurs, but I see how they can be applied there as follows: Living on purpose. Figure out what’s really important to you as an entrepreneur. Conquer technology. Separate yourself from technology on a regular schedule to not allow a machine’s interruptions to set your day’s agenda.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

JUNE 16, 2016

Graham calls it “doing things that don’t scale” because part of the definition of a startup is having a scalable technology. Technology added convenience and distance between us. So what has changed? Playing Startup. Doing a startup is relatively popular. You know it is when universities start offering “entrepreneurship” programs.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

JUNE 16, 2016

Graham calls it “doing things that don’t scale” because part of the definition of a startup is having a scalable technology. Technology added convenience and distance between us. So what has changed? Playing Startup. Doing a startup is relatively popular. You know it is when universities start offering “entrepreneurship” programs.

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Startup Sample Design Services 100

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

We understood the irony of the message as we sampled their sheer, almost-not-there lipgloss, then looked into a mirror decorated with white vinyl letters in the bustling pop-up shop: you look good , our reflection told us. Watson, who holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has raised $4.5 And who cares?

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InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

This series describes how entrepreneurs can craft company-changing agreements with BDCs, while avoiding Kiss of Death contract provisions. Entrepreneurs should never agree to the following provisions when negotiating with a BDC, no matter how lucrative the potential relationship. Kiss of Death ConTraps. Issue Unmitigated Exclusivity.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 9, 2011

This series describes how entrepreneurs can craft company-changing agreements with BDCs, while avoiding Kiss of Death contract provisions. Entrepreneurs should never agree to the following provisions when negotiating with a BDC, no matter how lucrative the potential relationship. Kiss of Death ConTraps. Issue Unmitigated Exclusivity.

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Outsource Development Entrepreneur Press Technical Review 124

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2013

These are not aimed specifically at entrepreneurs, but I see how they can be applied there as follows: Living on purpose. Figure out what’s really important to you as an entrepreneur. Conquer technology. Separate yourself from technology on a regular schedule to not allow a machine’s interruptions to set your day’s agenda.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

Most entrepreneurs I meet are reluctant to disclose anything about their idea to investors before getting a signed confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). Yet I can assure you that people who are paranoid, or want to avoid all risks, won’t be happy as entrepreneurs, so it’s all about balancing the risk-reward scale.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. With a focus on impact investing, their efforts to drive social change are based on three key pillars: revolutionizing philanthropy, unleashing entrepreneurs and igniting civic engagement. Watch our video series at SXSW 2018 with The Case Foundation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. In fact, most of the rich entrepreneurs you know actively turned away early equity proposals. Need to spread the risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The article summarized several findings that I personally found surprising: Technology company founders born in the U.S. There are twice as many over-50 technology company founders as there are under-25 technology company founders. Tags: entrepreneur startup boomer business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

These are not aimed specifically at entrepreneurs, but certainly can be applied there as follows: Living on purpose. Figure out what’s really important to you as an entrepreneur. Conquer technology. Separate yourself from technology on a regular schedule to not allow a machine’s interruptions to set your day’s agenda.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2018

Unfortunately, most of the entrepreneurs who contact me for guidance only seem to work on strategic issues when they are in a crisis, such as losing a major distributor or being swamped with customer complaints. I recommend that every entrepreneur and business owner carve out some time every week for proactively work on strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. Here are some examples: - You ask a small sample set so that data isn’t statistically significant. who was in the sample set? It was originally COBOL and DB2 – so what?

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2010

My partner and I, Cliff Elion, have a patent pending neck technology, which enables the guitar to be made at a very accessible price point, and also have probably more functionality and connectivity than any device in history. Our technology allows you to not play a wrong note.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Hand out copies of the slides before the presentation, with proper cover sheet, with brochures, product samples, or other marketing material you may have. Tags: entrepreneur startup investor presentation business. Opportunity sizing.

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2010

We'll also be using that to improve our technology and our user experience. I looked at what brands did themselves, sample sales, which provided brands with the opportunity to reach their customer base, and thought we could do that for them without them having to deal with producing those sample sales events. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2011

South, a solid Santa Monica bar and grill was bustling earlier this Tuesday courtesy of the good people at Tech Cocktail and their winter technology mixer. ” Said the smiling girl at the check-in table. As soon as I walked in I could detect a good positive vibe. Taking all the guess work out of initial introductions.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2012

One thing I noticed from our previous interview is that Heather is one smart entrepreneur. For a first-time entrepreneur, she is not only getting it right and getting “base hits”, but she is slugging balls out of the park! ” Pathbrite’s technology is providing a smarter, more flexible, and Web 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Hand out copies of the slides before the presentation for note taking, with proper cover sheet, with brochures, product samples, or other marketing material you may have. Opportunity sizing.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

For those just tuning into the events, we’ll provide you the long short of it in play by play fashion: AOL owned company, TechCrunch ( acquired in 2010 ), who operates CrunchBase lists their database as “the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Solution product & technology. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Hand out copies of the slides before the presentation for note taking, with proper cover sheet, with brochures, product samples, or other marketing material you may have. Opportunity sizing.

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Slides Competition Sample Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

Take a look at my website for the Sample Executive Summary , which shows what can be done in one page (both sides). Skip the acronyms, history of the company, and the disruptive technology behind your solution. You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Take a look at my website for the Sample Executive Summary , which shows what can be done in one page (both sides). Skip the acronyms, history of the company, and the disruptive technology behind your solution. You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

It's like an old world punchcard, taken to the current 21st century technology. At the time, they were shipping out CD ROMs with 300 albums, album artwork, and three song samples each. If you earn enough punches, you get rewards, such as cash back, free merchandise, in-kind store credit, that sort of thing.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

See a sample reprint in PDF format. In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier. Order a reprint of this article now. October 5, 2012.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

The funnest theme we discussed was John’s belief that the technology changes that are sweeping through society today are as important, dramatic and pervasive as those that swept across the world in the 1800′s during the industrial revolution. 12:45 Describe the structural, cyclical trends you’re seeing in technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

Here’s a short sample of what we now do. So we planned a Technology Summit. In fact, some entrepreneurs we find so inspirational that we put them on stage even if they’re not portfolio companies – call these “future portfolio founders – we hope!” So I decided to change up our format a bit.

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