Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2022

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. I think many entrepreneurs under-estimate the benefit that capital early helps in being able to produce product and differentiate yourself in a nascent marketplace. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Framework Benchmarks. How much does your framework choice affect performance? Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. We have our own personal favorites among these frameworks, but weve tried our best to give each a fair shot.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. How much does your framework choice affect performance? How much does your framework choice affect performance? Show me the winners!

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TechEmpower

MAY 1, 2014

The latest round of our ongoing Framework Benchmarks project is now available! Since the first round, we have known that the highest-performance frameworks and platforms have been network-limited by our gigabit Ethernet. With ample network bandwidth, the highest-performing frameworks are further differentiated.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment. In the name of this cause, the company donates time, services, and at least one percent of their sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

They helped create over 5 million new businesses in 2022, a forty percent increase over the previous year. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Incorporating a business entity early through online services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment. In the name of this cause, the company donates time, services, and at least one percent of their sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups around the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. Here is also an ideal opportunity to use your external advisors and Board to help identify external resources, potential partnerships, and acquisition opportunities.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we sat down and spoke with David Loo , the founder and CEO of Perspectium (www.perspectium.com), a startup which is developing service management applications designed to help connect different, enterprise service management software products together. What is Perspectium? How did you get into this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

You’ve got some friends interested in helping out and you think you can make this work. How do you decide between a raw infrastructure provider or platform service, and how much work do you do yourself and how much should you rely on service providers? You’ve got a great idea for an app.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Incorporating a business entity early through online services. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. Another is DeviantART who are able to tap into hundreds of millions of people around the world who produce art and help them making a living.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2017

At year end 2017, Association Executives would find it useful to see the world as their members do and understand what help they need to make progress in their Industry or Profession. Since the end of the great recession, Boards are helping their Associations see the world as they see it. Will not be hired by your prospective members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

But we all know that these are not solutions by themselves, but require integration into an innovative framework to solve real customer problems. Today there are a wealth of disruptive technologies available, including the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), advanced virtual reality (VR), and high-function robotics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

In building successful businesses, I find that creating a new and innovative product or service is usually the easy part. Existing business frameworks are the recipes, and great entrepreneurs creatively use new tools and strategies to hone these frameworks, just like a master chef.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

We then made groupings of the common features of each piece of logic so we could figure out what “shared services&# we could build so that we could have reusable code. That alone will help us solve the problems.&#. The book is expensive but for me personally this helped me enormously. This is bottom-up planning.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. We spent a lot of time developing talent coming out of YouTube, and helped to grow that business.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Let me start with Professor Christensen’s definition: “An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumers access to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.&#. Perhaps the best they can do is to help fund their successors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.” Allocation planning in product management in ingenious and helps a lot with CEO meddling. It’s harmful and hurtful to the startup and those that lead it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. Here is also an ideal opportunity to use your external advisors and Board to help identify external resources, potential partnerships, and acquisition opportunities.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Earlier this week, a new startup, Porch (www.porch.com), launched its service to let people get a look at their neighbor''s home improvement projects -- complete with before and after photos, costs, and details on contractors and more. One of the major things we learned on the business level was how poorly serviced professionals are.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Craig has recently uncloaked his stealth startup, BetterWorks (www.betterworks.com), focused on helping companies to manage and offer fringe benefits to their employees. We sat down with Paige to get more details on what exactly BetterWorks is doing, and why--plus why he's focused in on the B2B area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Every entrepreneur tries to maximize his startup growth by building and selling more product and services for the widest geographic area that he can support. Here is also an ideal opportunity to use your external advisors and Board to help identify external resources, potential partnerships, and acquisition opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2016

Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment. In the name of this cause, the company donates time, services, and at least one percent of their sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups around the world.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

We had a fine business in 1-800-DENTIST, our phone-based referral service. People are all now using their mobile devices to find products and services. It has been challenging, but we both have autonomy and even just the physical separation to help, since we're 2500 miles away from corporate.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I attempted to do a fair balance job of an increasingly important service – AngelList – started by a friend of mine – Nivi with the feelings of a colleague who I respect – Bryce – who has opted out of the service. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. So I feel the need to speak up.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Nanxi had no idea what to expect, going from Biotech to David’s world of digital signage : “We were able to provide an innovative service by focusing on helping businesses increase value to their customers. “We’ve built an app framework. ” Active expansion is in the cards for Enplug’s team.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. We built a whole, loyalty rewards and points system to incentivize changes, and also helps with behavior management and sustained change. Tell me about Connected Travel? Bryan Biniak: Connected Travel was founde d n 2016.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Synhergy Marketing originally was a company setup to be a full service marketing company for the entertainment industry – the record label, the webzine, everything you would need as an artist. The letters “HER” in the name Synhergy represents women and the passion that the founders hold in wanting to help women founders.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

Earlier this year, Nervana began offering its AI technology in the cloud to business customers , using a software-as-a-service model. 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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. Ever use an online messaging service like Kik, MessageMe or such? But many people benefitted. But it works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Incorporating a business entity early through online services. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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