Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Fear is a dangerous emotion with which to guide your actions. Then write them down. By writing these goals, you add validity to each target and create a mental desire to see them fulfilled. Be prepared to experiment. Build the courage to “think different.” Quit looking for critics to flood disbelief on your vision.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I actually just got a chance to do this in Portland, and I got to test all of the content coming in from my Portland guides on Urbandig, which I thought was very empowering. There are lots of knowledgeable people that we find to write these guides--people who grew up there, and who are experts in the area. When did you launch?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Millennials have come a long way in business since I started writing about them nearly ten years ago. They generally have strong values, around a higher purpose, and these need to be supported and honed to improve emotional stamina and guide business decisions. Their success is now vital to our success.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

But, what we are doing, is looking at how people travel and what modern tools we can provide to make the experience better, in the form of travel guides and things like that. Our first set of products started rolling out in May, and are a set of travel guides for children. Where did the idea for the company come from?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 1, 2020

In our business lives we’re having to deal with decisions that could have lasting impacts on our companies without any compass to guide us in the direction we’re heading . It feels a bit like choosing a fork in the road amidst dense fog and with nobody to guide us what to do. you should do all that you can. you should do it.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. What's going to go wrong? Learn how to test and possibly use testing and load tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2021

This is what should guide your entrepreneurial ambitions and dreams, gives you a picture of where you are going, and help you as you set the goals. Use visualization to create a very detailed picture of your dream, and write it down to see if it still makes sense. People often behave in ways they don’t understand. Describe your dream.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2020

Fear is a dangerous emotion with which to guide your actions. Then write them down. By writing these goals, you add validity to each target and create a mental desire to see them fulfilled. Be prepared to experiment. Build the courage to “think different.” Quit looking for critics to flood disbelief on your vision.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2008

West Hollywood-based Citysearch, which operates online guides to local areas, said Thursday afternoon that it has launched an application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new app, available in the Apple App Store, allows users to write reviews and access content from Citysearch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2021

I’m just your guide but you’re going to feel great when this is over. Peloton gives you individual coaches that guide you through being your best self and make you want to turn up and do more, do better and do it more often. He’ll say things like “I can’t do the workout for you. You got this! Stick with it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A real business leader must have a set of guiding values and morals, which set your reputation in the mind of others, and improve your self-leadership perception. It may be time for you to start your own blog, write a book, or volunteer as a speaker at public events in your domain. Solidify and demonstrate your personal values.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 23, 2011

This post is a short guide to what I’ve learned: 1. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. And I actually got pretty decent grades in English and writing overall. And no irony.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2022

Thus, if you are like me, with no real background or experience in public speaking, I encourage you to start early with some traditional training, like a Dale Carnegie course, or read a good book on the subject, like the classic one by successful businesswoman and speaker Jan Yager, Ph.D., “ The Fast Track Guide to Speaking in Public.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

Foursquare is good example of a modern hyperlocal site, which describes itself as “50% friend-finder, 30% social city guide, 20% nightlife game.” These hyperlocal sites don’t have to compete with global sites, and always have unique content, community advertising, and local issues. Building content is costly and time-consuming.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 16, 2016

Contrary to conventional wisdom, success as a millennial entrepreneur does not require that you become proficient in writing commercial-quality software code. Writing / English / Public Speaking. Writ 105PS Writing for Public Speaking. Writ 105PS Writing for Public Speaking. Pstat 173 Risk Theory.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

But of course it’s hard to advise people that they should do PR without a guide to how to do it on the cheap or how to do it at all. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. Every one of those writers has a byline and a bio, and are paid twice a week at a pretty decent rate for that writing or assignment. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

As the authors make clear in the book’s preface, their goal is to create a “definitive guide to venture capital deals” and “demystify the venture capital financing process.” Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Before you go out looking for your Cofounder, you should also be thinking about what will motivate them as I talk about in How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide. Here's an example of that kind of email.

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Berkonomics

MAY 29, 2014

As your business grows, a business plan serves as a guide to help you track, monitor and evaluate your progress. Studies found that people who write plans are more likely to put their goals in action and increases your likelihood of success. Will the cash flow? Did they make any headway? What have they done so far?

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Tech.Co

MAY 26, 2020

Jeff Bezos didn't get to be the world's richest man by writing a lot of checks, and one recent way to keep Amazon's profits healthy has been to cut its affiliate commissions scheme. See our full guide on How to Make Money from a Website. See our guide to the Best Ecommerce Website Builders. Selling your own products online?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

You likely are writing your first one of these. Minimum Viable Product: a guide , Lessons Learned, Eric Ries, August 3, 2009 10 examples of minimum viable products Minimum Viable Product revisited – the MVP Curve? So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP.

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Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2018

Millennials have come a long way in business since I started writing about them almost ten years ago. They generally have strong values, around a higher purpose, and these need to be supported and honed to improve emotional stamina and guide business decisions. Their success is now vital to our success.

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Mentor Coach Guide Startup 60

SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. Vince: In addition to my management writing I’ve interview many CEOs and innovators. I’d love to get your thoughts at some point about writing for these publications vs. on your own blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

.” Here’s what I mean … Let’s start with what it takes for a journalist to want to write a story. Do I have an “angle” from which to write the story (first company to do X, company does biggest X, consumer behavior is doing X)? ” Of course not. But everybody knows Luma Partners in our space.

Marketing 389

Marketing Press Blogging Startup 389

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

There are CEOs that always seem to guide their companies to the right place at the right time and drive their stock valuations up. Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days.

Venture Capital 202

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Invest 202

InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

Bill Gates – “The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. However, his first-hand knowledge of how to write, test and commercialize code facilitated his ability to lead Microsoft from startup to world dominance.

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Tips Startup Education Entrepreneur 279

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well. So why I am writing it then? A few reasons. You should read this post.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

So here’s a short guide to achieving that. In a perfect world you’d know the issues you want to discuss well in advance and you’d prepare a deck to guide the discussion. It’s your job to guide them there. If you have board members you respect you owe it to yourself to run more productive sessions where board members contribute.

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Guide Startup Metrics Conference 196

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ). Lindel Eakman led the discussion with Fred and Andy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Fear is a dangerous emotion with which to guide your actions. Then write them down. By writing these goals, you add validity to each target and create a mental desire to see them fulfilled. Be prepared to experiment. Build the courage to “Think Different.” Quit looking for critics to flood disbelief on your vision.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Satisfaction Startup Writing 100

Inverted Software

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Here are 5 essential key points to guide you when planning for Q1: Learn and overcome last year’s mistakes. Writing something that is agreed upon by all of your stakeholders and holding you and your team accountable to its completion is an invaluable technique. Set a Roadmap for the upcoming year. Roadmaps keep you on track.

Help 48

Help Outsource Guide Startup 48

SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." A Beginner's Guide to Investors How to Speak the Language of Venture Capital What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

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Metrics Venture Capital News Product 264

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2019

Thus, if you are like me, with no real background or experience in public speaking, I encourage you to start early with some traditional training, like a Dale Carnegie course, or read a good book on the subject, like the classic one by successful businesswoman and speaker Jan Yager, Ph.D., “ The Fast Track Guide to Speaking in Public.”

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Customer Custom Guide 87

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Fear is a dangerous emotion with which to guide your actions. Then write them down. By writing these goals, you add validity to each target and create a mental desire to see them fulfilled. Be prepared to experiment. Build the courage to “Think Different.” Quit looking for critics to flood disbelief on your vision.

Satisfaction 57

Satisfaction Entrepreneur Writing Startup 57

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Here’s how to write an executive summary with impact: 1. Just as I don’t recommend you outsourcing the writing of your business plan, I wouldn’t pass on this task. This is a great guiding principle. With every sentence that you write, give it the test: Will this make a VC want to know more? Do it yourself.

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