Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
We can all point to examples of successful entrepreneurs who dropped out of college, but still went on to make a big impact. If offered at your college, don’t forget the practical business skills like “Critical Thinking”, “Business Writing” and even “Dress for Success.” Take advantage of inside and outside advisers at school.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2013
I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. ” F**k.
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TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Often this situation is characterized as a “good problem to have” until you’re the technical person who needs to solve the problem—and quickly. We don’t know just how often this occurs, but judging from the calls we get there are lots of anecdotal examples. Examples would be intranet or special-purpose B2B applications.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2009
In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them. I’m reluctant to put it into writing because people get so passionate about this issue and many disagree. Register a company.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2011
Most people totally advise against stealth. I think a great example right now is turntable.fm. Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. They think that only by being open and testing your ideas in an open marketplace can you be successful.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
” It was meant both as a call to those writing angel checks into other people’s companies that they ought to think about putting that capital toward themselves either by becoming a startup founder or (and this was my real point) by taking an under-market salary in a company where they can learn the right skills to do it in the future.
Xconomy
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We
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