Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

Words alone, like “improved efficiency”, “paradigm shift,” and “breakthrough technology” won’t convince people to follow you. For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2013

Words alone, like “improved efficiency”, “paradigm shift,” and “breakthrough technology” won’t convince people to follow you. For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers.

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Startup Resource Metrics Technical Review 101

Inverted Software

JUNE 15, 2018

Experimenting with Bleeding Edge technologies. They learn and try new frameworks and technologies and often get excited about the possibilities of incorporating technology they deem cool into their code. Developers love to experiment. Miscalculating Financial Data.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

But, due to lack of visibility or lack of resources, or lack of know-how around marketing, they lack distribution and monetization. We were looking for a couple of things, one is someone who could take a step back and figure out how to get to self-sustainability, and a person with the background and framework on building a business model.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. Unless the thing you’re building has real value to someone, it’s just a vanity project, no matter the technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

controlling your psychology ) you no doubt have heard me say that raising capital is a sales & marketing process. Decision Dynamics Each firm makes decisions in different ways so understanding the firm’s decision framework matters. This is Sales 101. How does the partnership typically make its final investment decisions?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

At the big consulting firms, investment banks and established large technology companies we’re taught to produce long reports, make sure that every document is perfect quality and that every possible bit of diligence has been done. It says that you need to take due care in selecting team members. Check your legal framework.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

I’m looking for somebody who can sell, but not better than our head of sales. You do a startup and decide you want somebody to step in and run the company so you can focus on technical excellence. You want somebody who can raise $15 million to build out your R&D, business development and sales organizations.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions.

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