SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Finding and Selecting a Technical Cofounder / Developers How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup Development Challenges Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early Symptoms of a Weak Development Team Technology Choices (..)

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The creative process - Whenever I need to do any task that requires insight I have to be able to visualize – to literally SEE the decision framework. My framework gives me a deeper understanding of the sector. Anyway, having my framework now gives me the basis for a dialog with anybody in the industry.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 24, 2015

The founders are lifelong friends and lifelong learners from Chicago who have had successful careers in tech before joining forces to create the ultimate free social online learning destination that takes the best teachers on the web and curates their content into MentorMob learning Guides. Including one on kiteboarding. How does it work?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2022

Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves. Artfully applies tools, and strategies for change (master chef metaphor).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions. In my view the best VCs are merely your guides. At best they can be your history guide. They are your sparring partners. Virtual reality is now becoming just reality. Your decisions are unknowable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves. Artfully applies tools, and strategies for change (master chef metaphor).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves. Artfully applies tools, and strategies for change (master chef metaphor).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

We thought we could add lots of value by servicing that pain, by producing real information for consumers, to help guide them through the process of maintaining and improving their property. maintenance repair home realestate guide project remodeling porch startup interview' What were you two doing before Porch? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

Here are the key elements of the strengths framework they have developed, with my own insights and experience added for your consideration: Money: the capital you have, or can easily raise. EI rates a person's ability to recognize emotions, to understand their effect, and to use that information to guide your next move.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves. Artfully applies tools, and strategies for change (master chef metaphor).

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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. Here’s my guide to how to do that. I love that. And it’s kind of true. The Perils of Many. I understand the appeal of having many VC firms on your cap table.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. Let me turn once again to the wisdom & knowledge of Nivi & Naval in their angel investing guide. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2012

Much has been published on this subject, including a recent book “ Look at More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth, and Change ” by Andy Stefanovich, which is really a guide to established companies for unleashing creativity within their organizations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2011

Much has been published on this subject, including a new book “ Look at More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth, and Change ” by Andy Stefanovich, which is really a guide to established companies for unleashing creativity within their organizations.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

There are CEOs that always seem to guide their companies to the right place at the right time and drive their stock valuations up. Startups either get three dozen term sheets or none at all, since every firm is walking around with the same frameworks and metrics in their head.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves. Artfully applies tools, and strategies for change (master chef metaphor).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Build a culture guided by principles, not rules. Use your high-level principles to establish behavioral frameworks to guide ways of working, rather than a scorecard enforced by culture vigilantes. It also means setting up a personalized coaching and mentoring system, and accelerated rotations for top talent.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Once the framework is set, it is about putting all the departments in motion to bring a cohesive picture to life. Production in CG always begins with the art department and the style guide (photos and drawings showing the look of the film used as inspiration for the art department to create “the look”). The Breakdown Behind CG.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 13, 2013

Java Web App built on the Spring Framework. Team Flipardy – When you are arriving to a new city, you can discover a complete new world, we will guide you at your visit. Press this and the app will determine the next flight to your destination and will get you on it. Deployed via Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalk.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

He does see the opportunity for some broadly applicable frameworks though. But the research it supports may help guide regulators and policymakers to specific contexts in which regulation of AI technologies might be appropriate, Horvitz says. The partnership is not set up as a lobbying organization.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. JanRain Engage provides a convenient way to enable social logins on a site via a single API. This includes support for Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and over a dozen additional services.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? Turns out like most things there are no simple answers. Here’s overall what you need to know.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. Let them guide you. Be ready to map your presentation to their preferred method. Act I – The Discussion: I think the negative reaction to Powerpoint from some VCs is that it usually becomes a crutch. It’s why I wrote that the best meetings are debates and not pitches.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. &# The classic framework for analyzing a firm’s strategic position is Michael Porter’s Five Forces. The Holy Grail of. The leading provider of. Legendary customer support. Innovative.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

I try hard not to fall prey to “The Narrative Fallacy” where your own past experience overly guides your decision-making in the future. But Kevin has made me realize that having multiple styles in our own decision-making framework is valuable and that Yves’ skills in this regard don’t eminent purely from seniority.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. This is where the digital media puck is going.

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