Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. Instead, set long-term business objectives and develop a framework for the trajectory your team needs to get there. The investor sharks attacked this move away from “getting his hands dirty,” and needless to say, he didn’t get the investment he expected.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 5, 2012
Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. Instead, set long-term business objectives and develop a framework for the trajectory your team needs to get there. The investor sharks attacked this move away from “getting his hands dirty,” and needles to say, he didn’t get the investment he expected.
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socalTECH
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. I read the book, and it was pretty profound to me, and really created a lot of the framework of how I needed to look at this business. You have to understand, in a public company, there are earnings, and all these trapping of being a public company.
SoCal CTO
JULY 23, 2012
What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What do we build in-house or outsource? If the startup lasts into a few rounds of investment, the rounds get larger, and the team grows. Accounting?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software. So back to MBAs.
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