Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In this age of constant change, I usually find myself writing about what has changed. People who proclaim to be thinkers, rather than doers, rarely get funded, and rarely succeed in business. More importantly, these things that don’t change can be your anchor for stability and enjoyment, leading to real satisfaction as well as success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2019

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. Even artisan-based services, like graphic design and writing good ad copy, have innovative processes and principles. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2015

This required ability is aided by some supportive personal attributes, such as confidence, initiative, problem solving, and determination, but the basic learning principles must include the following: Satisfaction will come from learning something new every day. The act of communicating and writing enhances learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

His intent is to automate and simplify the process of creating and funding a startup, to minimize the mistakes that often jeopardize a high-growth startup. I found this out the hard way with my first venture-funded startup over twenty years ago, and it's something that every other serial entrepreneur will immediately confirm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2017

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We Marty Zwilling.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 10, 2016

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out. Just over a year later, Jurvetson led the Series A round of venture funding for Nervana Systems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2016

This required ability is aided by some supportive personal attributes, such as confidence, initiative, problem solving, and determination, but the basic learning principles must include the following: Satisfaction will come from learning something new every day. The act of communicating and writing enhances learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

We spent a lot of time talking about what type of company we wanted to create, how many employees we’d eventually have, whether we would take funding, our lifestyle, and a dozen other things that had nothing to do with writing software. There can be quite a bit of satisfaction in that in itself. It was a viable option for us.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 27, 2011

My response was brief and straightforward, which is common of popular Quora answers (as discussed in How To Write An Effective Quora Answer ). Although my answer was off-the-cuff, the question caused me to consider the issue of raising entrepreneurial children in greater depth, which led me to write this series.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2010

Second, in your search for partners, you need to be aware of the many considerations that can make the difference between success and failure in the business, as well as your satisfaction with the relationship. Investors routinely decline to fund co-founders who are siblings, or in a romantic relationship. “We Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

You get the personal satisfaction of making something out of almost nothing. An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause. But if you've spent all your money on the website for party supplies, you may not have the funds to have the site redone.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A huge shout out to Ricky Wong of NYCSteals for helping me with the write-up. Leverage a feedback platform like Get Satisfaction or UserVoice. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. So some show notes if you’re a bit busy to watch the video. Check out his website if you live in or are visiting New York!

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.

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