Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It needs to be funded to be successful. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. They often can help a lot in navigating to expertise and to possible resources. The grind is too much and too long if it gets beyond that size.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

They outline the following framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Building through internal development, or organic growth, makes the most sense when you have a core set of skilled internal resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

The smart ones have a plan for how they intend to spend these resources, and measure themselves against the plan. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. You can be a small tiger with big teeth, or an aging dinosaur.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It needs to be funded to be successful. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. They often can help a lot in navigating to expertise and to possible resources. The grind is too much and too long if it gets beyond that size.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2019

and China, as thought leaders in this area, so their framework for reinventing your business organization, with some of my own insights, is definitely worth a look: Environment: Fund a group to track market changes. These authors are widely recognized, both in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Most business leaders today realize that smart management of scarce resources is the key to competitive success. Yet the truth is that a more scarce resource is really the time, talent, and energy of your team. That’s why they manage money so carefully. Build a culture guided by principles, not rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

Your idea will attract the funding you need. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Mix personal and business funds. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Never commingle personal and business funds.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. An example was Rob Thomas, the Producer of Veronica Mars, where we helped him partner with Kickstarter to help fund the Veronica Mars movie. Talk about this funding and what's next for you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

Your idea will attract the funding you need. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Mix personal and business funds. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Never commingle personal and business funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

Your idea will attract the funding you need. Will key funding be your family’s entire nest egg, or just half? Mix personal and business funds. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Never commingle personal and business funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

The smart ones have a plan for how they intend to spend these resources, and measure themselves against the plan. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. You can be a small tiger with big teeth, or an aging dinosaur.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

There is much talk these days that startup valuations have decreased and may continue to do so and that the amount of time it takes to fund raise may take longer. months for fund raising start to finish and make sure you have at least 6 month’s of cash if it takes longer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. Here I talked about Lending Club where I understand hedge fund managers are now deploying capital to lend directly against pools of borrowers. That always happens.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Just over a year later, Jurvetson led the Series A round of venture funding for Nervana Systems. Nervana says the souped-up capabilities of its Neon software framework enable it to run 10 times faster on Nvidia processors—faster even than Nvidia’s own software framework.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2017

The smart ones have a plan for how they intend to spend these resources, and measure themselves against the plan. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. You can be a small tiger with big teeth, or an aging dinosaur.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? Accounting?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2012

The good news is that most entrepreneurs and startups have more inspiration than almost anything else, and it sometimes leads to success despite their lack of resources and business skills. This mantra is complemented by a framework known as the five M’s, which are five key principles for unleashing creativity in any environment: Mood.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

It also lets potential investors know why you’re asking for the funds that you are asking for—and how much they can expect to get as a return on their investment. Your job is to create a numerical framework that complements and reinforces the vision you’ve painted with words.”. How do you use your financial model?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

The smart ones have a plan for how they intend to spend these resources, and measure themselves against the plan. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. You can be a small tiger with big teeth, or an aging dinosaur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

But you can’t secure the funding needed to scale. . Today, we have Ryan Feit, CEO of SeedInvest to give us a bit more insight on some important key points – useful for any founder who’s looking to raise funds. Finding a better way for entrepreneurs to raise funds. Introducing SeedInvest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2011

The good news is that most entrepreneurs and startups have more inspiration than almost anything else, and it sometimes leads to success despite their lack of resources and business skills. This mantra is complemented by a framework known as the five M’s, which are five key principles for unleashing creativity in any environment: Mood.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2013

Nick told me that he was in the process of winding down his fund at Spring Ventures, which would allow him to focus his energy on a new business he founded with Sunil Paul. The overarching idea is based upon the well-known problems facing the economy and the environment – a constraint of resources.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The framework in L.A. It needs a few key resources; like more major funding and angel investors, more huge $100m exits with startup winners that reinvest in new local startups, and investors that actually know and understand technology. Technology companies get funded here without the investors knowing too much.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do - Steve Blank , May 13, 2010 Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources. I Be specific. Here’s why. Your Process Doesn’t Work.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

“We have been at an inflection point in the fielding of AI technologies for the last five-to-seven years in terms of large amounts of data becoming available, computational resources becoming much more powerful, and our algorithms keeping up, and getting refined,” Horvitz says in an interview with Xconomy.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Darrius Thompson--who was also a co-founder at DivX--to learn more about the startup, the saga behind how the company started, and the funding. But, due to lack of visibility or lack of resources, or lack of know-how around marketing, they lack distribution and monetization.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

While there is no right or wrong answer, having seen the extremes I’d like to offer you a framework for considering the right answer for yourselves. Plus, if you need more money it’s far less for each to dip into their respective pockets to fund you. I love that. And it’s kind of true. The Perils of Many.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. The existence of cryptocurrencies can create a way to provide economic value for those who provide computing resource or bandwidth to a product built on P2P infrastructure.

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