Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Think about who could help you reflect-on-action.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Get an advisor to help supplement where there are gaps. By the way, do you know that most development teams use peer review of code to help ensure good development practices. I've talked about this before in Startup CTO or Developer. Is this person a CTO or a developer? Likely they will have gaps in one or the other.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

It helped make sure that we all thought about our sales campaigns in a uniform way and that we had a common language that would help us decide where to spend our limited resources. I’m going to set up the framework today and in future posts I’ll drill down into each area. We called our methodology PUCCKA. Compelling Event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Think about who could help you reflect-on-action.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In this talk, we spent most of our time on Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One and how they should be helping you: Specify the right things to be built. I'm always happy to try to help startups figure out how to go after creating their MVP. Third party products are used appropriately.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

I believe these will really help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate their own entrepreneur leadership transformation: Demonstrates a burning ambition and a burning platform (fire metaphor). Think about who could help you reflect-on-action.

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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. Think about who could help you reflect-on-action. Evolve from guru to guide, and coaching others to find answers for themselves.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

What Porch is all about, and it''s a pretty fun problem, is helping people improve their home, and help improve what can be a painful experience of fixing, maintaining, and improving your largest asset. That really helps us in thinking about the overall model of the business, and helped us along the way in organizing the information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2017

Help make the difference makers even more effective. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

We roll up our sleeves and help you do the work and analysis and try to be supportive but then we step back and you own the next move. I try hard not to fall prey to “The Narrative Fallacy” where your own past experience overly guides your decision-making in the future. Please help me in congratulating him.

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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. billion it has already coughed up.

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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. Mechanisms.

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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. Mechanisms.

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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. Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 13, 2013

Special shout out goes to WeLink who helped organize the after party, and ROAR who came in as a party sponsor. With features that will help you plan the best route, watch for traffic jams, check weather, reserve a rental vehicle, alert friends and family that you have reached your destination safely. Is that helpful?

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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. Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do - Steve Blank , May 13, 2010 Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources. The Holy Grail of. The leading provider of. Innovative. Disruptive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. If you find yourself in this situation I recommend you politely ask, “would you like me to carry on telling you about the company or would it be helpful if I went through our PowerPoint slides or do you prefer that I start with a demo?&#. Let them guide you. I recommend it.

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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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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. They are there to help you correct your course when you want to make decisions that their history and wisdom tells them might lead you into a dark alley. At best they can be your history guide.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

A Helpful Login Class Some code examples are provided by JanRain Engage. Thank you so much for the help and the tutorial! 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. We can come back and add some more later.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Visualization is so important to help yourself & others conceptualize ideas. I personally find music more distracting than helpful. Creativity is what helps us think of our ideas in the first place. It’s what helps us imagine what feature sets would be most appealing. For others they swear by music.

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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. None of those 5 investors is sufficiently motivated to help you in tough times. Sure, if you become Zynga everyone of those 5 investors will be helping you. I love that.

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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. Google balances the universe and helps all of the hardware, software and media companies ensure it isn’t a “one horse race.&#. This is where the digital media puck is going.

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