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. The top two on the personal side are “urgency” and “desire,” but these have to be matched on the business side with the willingness to burn the platform (change any aspect of the business) without a crisis.

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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. The top two on the personal side are “urgency” and “desire,” but these have to be matched on the business side with the willingness to burn the platform (change any aspect of the business) without a crisis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Some people are so passionate about a cause that they forget to consider the lack of business potential, while others are so enamored with profit that they jeopardize their ethics. Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, universities, and even high school programs. The challenge with an Innovator is to focus as hard on the business realities as the product possibilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Some people are so passionate about a cause that they forget to consider the lack of business potential, while others are so enamored with profit that they jeopardize their ethics. Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2013

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. I often hear entrepreneurs talking about ideas they have been honing in their head for years, or even a decade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2019

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. Earned media.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. 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. Simulating production environments. Motivation.

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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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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. The top two on the personal side are “urgency” and “desire,” but these have to be matched on the business side with the willingness to burn the platform (change any aspect of the business) without a crisis.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Milana Rabkin: As a platform, we work on a consensus model. They can use Stem as a platform to distribute that content. As revenue comes back from the platforms and services they've monetized that content on, we automate the disbursement of payments to everyone at the same time. So where is the product now?

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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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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase. Jeff left a comfortable Wall Street career to enter a world he knew little about. I promise I will never tweet about Amazon deals or tell you about that killer burrito I just ate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Image via Pixabay Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Obviously, the platforms and how you use social media would be different for lead generation versus service and support. Measuring is all about return-on-investment (ROI).

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Platforms eschew threading and then re-invent threading anew. Sure we still get excited and animated about a new JavaScript library, a new CSS trick, a new device, or a new data store. We've learned to think about how this really fits with the business needs of our clients. We love technology, but. They have enough worries.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. We caught up with founder and CEO Bryan Biniak to hear more about the company and what Connected Travel is doing. Tell me about Connected Travel? That's the hard part.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

And while the market’s reaction was negative, there were folks who noted that the Model Y’s likeness to the 3 meant it was getting serious about selling vehicles. The framework of the agreement is expected to include VW making an investment into Ford-backed autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI. billion investment in 2018.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

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? Developers interact with the operating systems directly, build/use their own frameworks (eg, Django, Rails, etc), and consume server resources directly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. Earned media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2015

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. Earned media.

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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. That was about 18 months after our first round of funding.

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socalTECH

APRIL 3, 2012

We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company. Tell us a little bit about Mob Science, games that you develop? We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

He’s right about this. He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. We had to develop whole frameworks of “middleware” to deal with this problem. But only temporarily in my view.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. User experience is suffering and it’s the worst possible time with the product taking off. Framework Benchmarks.

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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. The top two on the personal side are “urgency” and “desire,” but these have to be matched on the business side with the willingness to burn the platform (change any aspect of the business) without a crisis.

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

What we're giving companies, is a platform to create, manage, and measure perks for all of their employees. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition. It forces you to think very deeply about the problem they are solving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2013

They advocate investing in their new framework, where the Z.E.R.O. New products and startups often require a culture shift to drive acceptance, which can best be accelerated by zealots or a visible chief disciple, like Steve Jobs. As I mentioned, this framework is powerful, but none of these elements are free. Earned media.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company. It's grown significantly since last year when it was about 12 percent of our traffic.

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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. The top two on the personal side are “urgency” and “desire,” but these have to be matched on the business side with the willingness to burn the platform (change any aspect of the business) without a crisis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2017

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

And while that cliché has been said about everything in the Lone Star state for years, it rings particularly true for the hottest startups showcasing their big innovations at SXSW Startup Night 2018 presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo. Everything is bigger in Texas. Aperiomics (Ashburn, VA). Culpability (Atlanta, GA).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. I’m a product geek more than a spreadsheet ninja. I’m sure there are many more.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Obsess About Customers, Not Colleagues Or Competitors. “We The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy. If improperly administered, meetings become counter-productive, especially as an organization grows beyond its initial startup phase. Know When To Throw Away The Organizational Chart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2012

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. The first thing that entrepreneurs need to realize is that the process and framework for making social media marketing work are different from traditional marketing, and trial and error certainly doesn’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Over 500,000 new businesses were created last year, or about one per minute of every day. Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2016

Some people are so passionate about a cause that they forget to consider the lack of business potential, while others are so enamored with profit that they jeopardize their ethics. Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment.

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