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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. For many founders, this type of mature leadership doesnt come naturally.

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Startup CTO or Developer

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Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed?

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Interview with Damir Davidovic, NEOGOV

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NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. New products we've launched include performance, onboarding, and backend HR functionality. In the past, we had been a one product company. We saw that opportunity, and executed.

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One of the Biggest Mistakes Enterprise Startups Make

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The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. We only want software revenue.” We prefer to sell software, not get involved with client systems.”

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! I was to tell noone until the contract was signed.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! I was to tell noone until the contract was signed.