Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Make sure your team members feel that you are always willing to listen to new ideas, and never penalize or reprimand them for thinking outside the lines. Help them improve their skills and discover new career options while doing higher-quality work. He found that the returns were far greater than the cost.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. Sometimes they’re working full time at a company or sometimes they’ve already left their employer and they’re bouncing around ideas with friends. Even if you keep it dormant for 2 years while you work on your idea. Not worth it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Everyone knows and admires the leaders , including Google and Zappos, but most entrepreneurs have only a fuzzy idea of what to do to get there. Everyone wants feedback on their performance, new career options, and work-life balance guidance. This requires leader effort daily – annual reviews are not the answer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

With Google, you get all the storage you need in the cloud for free. You can now get tooling and products built very quickly either in the US or in China, with delayed payment options. You don’t need to count on the old myth that all you need is a new idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will throw money at you.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. There, I learned that there is a lot of top level churn from small businesses because Google ads cost too much. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Your parents want to know why on Earth you’d leave a job at Google. They can’t wait to hear your brilliant idea. You left our team to work on THAT idea? So the tech team departed en masse to find the next great stock option scheme to make their big bucks. “Honey? ” “Yeah, Ma. “What?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

He had a stock option vesting program and had vested a significant amount of his stock but not all. He’s suing the company to get all of his stock options even though he signed a vesting agreement. Most ideas are fungible. I’m not being sued but the company is. Lawsuits are particularly common amongst co-founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Now … these are stock options and not restricted stock so you’ll likely be taxed at a long-term capital gains rate. Or you have to hit the lottery and be an early player middle management player at Google, Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. Stock options are the icing on the cake. Don’t join for the options.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We see the stories of young founders leaving college with a big idea, going to work in their garage, and building something that changes the world. For example, Google was already a big company when Paul Buchheit was unhappy with the capabilities of external email for internal communications at Google.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

For instance, What Are My Options Worth? Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them. What Are My Options Worth? Ideas Are Worthless. Of these entries, four of them are also in my “all time” Top Ten. Appeared on Reddit’s front page. Organic traffic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. It’s an opportunity for that “big bang” return of 10X to 100 times your initial investment, like early investors in Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Join an existing angel investor group.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The constraint between good ideas and growth operates in both directions. It’s not merely that you need a scalable idea to grow. If you have such an idea and don’t grow fast enough, competitors will. Not Google. “Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? Growth, again. million and then $5.9

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2017

In addition, I always recommend the following strategies for critically evaluating every startup opportunity: Let Google warn you about entering a crowded space. Don’t trust your conviction that your idea has never been done before. Many customers will not want to pay for all, or will be confused by the additional options.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2019

Many more, as detailed in a new book, “ Trillion Dollar Coach ,” by Google executives Eric Schmidt, Alan Eagle, and Jonathan Rosenberg, tout the value of self-proclaimed coach Bill Campbell in Silicon Valley. Give people the room to debate differences.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 9, 2012

Upstart approaches risk capital differently, investing in youth as they wait to fuel the next generation of entrepreneurs our economy so desperately needs with their future earnings as security not the project or idea or firm as they chase their dream career in whichever field they want. Upstart received a $ 1.75

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2011

The gist of MG’s argument is that he’d rather work with people who are openly critical of his ideas if it helps him to perform better than to have a bunch of “yes men” around who just say what a great job he’s doing. In today’s economy it is counter productive because the best employees have options.”

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Ryan Eberhard is the co-founder of PointHub, who we spoke to about what the startup is up to, and to get a more in-depth idea of what the company is about. The idea behind PointHub, is that it simplifies reward point management and redemption. Ryan Eberhard: My co-founder, Justin Byers, came up with the idea. What is PointHub?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We want to become a resource for people with those kinds of questions, and want to be able to provide answers, points of view, and accurate information and options for them, to make the most of their purchases, or make the most of what they already own. We're including retailers from the Google API, which is something we're depdnding on.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? They tell you the other option is to provide your email and password. StoreEnvy has a sign-up with Facebook option on it's first page. It grabs your email.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

There are some stats out there that say that 80 percent of the market is doing online research, and out of those 80 percent, 60 percent are looking at sites like Youtube and Google to help with their purchasing decisions. They can check it out on the inside, on the outside, and really get a good idea of what it looks like.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

Nobody really knows whether or not the idea is yet going to be big, so I believe in not over capitalizing too early. It takes options off of the table. If you’re creating truly innovative products, you often have no idea whether the proverbial dog will eat the dog food. This benefits you, the entrepreneur.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Because I was the Acting CTO for eHarmony at it's start, I quite often get introduced to people who have an idea for a startup company that is based on some kind of matching algorithm. In fact, you can get a good idea of these various things by just searching on Google for "eHarmony of" startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

With Google or Amazon , you can get all the application storage and computing power you need without even thinking about an IT staff and big up-front costs for computer servers and applications. All costs are month to month, with scaling options to match the size of your business. Use low-cost subscription software and cloud computing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. It’s an opportunity for that “big bang” return of 10X to 100 times your initial investment, like early investors in Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Join an existing angel investor group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

First of all, it’s more of an investment in people than in a business, since the startup is usually an idea barely half-baked when they need your money. It’s an opportunity for that “big bang” return of 10X to 100 times your initial investment, like early investors in Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Join an existing Angel investor group.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I knew change was inevitable, but I had no idea how stressful and exhausting maintaining my internal reality distortion field had been until they gave me permission to turn it off.” It was great to get some new ideas around the table and to have some money to execute on our plans with more resources than before.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

We have lots of companies like Namechief, Dreamhost, and Google, as well as lots of others, who use our APIs under the cover to provide domain names to their customers. It''s interesting, because up until about a year ago, when you would go to any domain registrar and type in a string, you''d see all of the options in.com,net,org.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. We wanted to replicate that experience online.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

Given the limited nature of how many people you’ll approach (ie not that many) I actually just do these in Google Sheets. I literally have a Google Sheet for nearly every portfolio company who is in the process of raising a round. not bad options but just not your first or second choice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Even if you work every day in the world of new-venture funding, as I do, the options are confusing, and their meanings seem to change on a regular basis. I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Yet, knowing this distinction is important.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Their memory – the idea was theirs in the first place and you ran with it and didn’t include them.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for. free weekly Infochachkie articles! 1) The economy sucks, but you guys are hiring.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2013

A K-Pass option can be purchased for full access to all of the Easter eggs they have planned throughout the “experience.”. Fans are encouraged to create screening events via Tugg and to add interesting elements — like costume parties or Google Hangouts with the director. Not too shabby. It doesn’t end there.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ideation & Protecting Ideas. Vet your idea with the idea checklist. Protect your ideas when sharing them with others by using an NDA. Check Google , Yellow Pages , and local directories to ensure your business name is not taken. Get paid online ads, such as Google AdWords and Facebook Advertising.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). Company : FindTheBest. You can fool me on an interview, but two months from now we’ll know.”. 10) Kevin, why does the world need FindTheBest (FTB)?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). My partner Greg Bettinelli gave me the idea for the title of this post because he ran a breakout session at the Upfront Summit titled “How to Out Amazon, Amazon.” Here are some ideas of what I believe matters.

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