Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Studies of software teams, for example, show differences as great as ten to one in productivity between working team members. Much has been written about the external influences of office environments, motivation, and personal health impacts, but I see evidence that there are personal productivity tactics that contribute just as much.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

The funding, a Series C, will be used to continue expanding Boulevard’s product and engineering teams and to build out more tools targeting an ever-wider set of users in the bigger wellness and beauty sector (those product additions are typically big — it most recently added a whole new payments feature).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. This early stage is often called basic research , well before any specific commercially viable products might be envisioned. Commercial product prototypes. Product verification and clinical trials.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We wondered why they weren’t on DoorDash, and the reason was two-fold: a bakery has to plan production days ahead of time, and every delivery sales takes away from retail customers. “We saw the crazy lines outside of popular bakeries, but when the pandemic hit, it wasn’t something you could do,” Friedland told TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 19, 2022

More people are focused on the beginning of the product lifecycle; very few are focused at the end.”. The end of the product lifecycle is where Murthy and Kaplan feel Ghost has “an enormous opportunity to help people be more efficient in that process,” Murthy added. That’s our vision.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 9, 2019

When a company raises capital it inevitably begins to look for office space in order to increase worker productivity and happiness. It can compare hours booked vs. used as well at number of people booked vs. attended with the goal of helping the enterprise better manage its limited space resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2022

The challenge in to know when and how to ask for help, and not let bravado and ego mask anxieties. The best people know when they don’t know, and know how to find the right help. Unfortunately, too many entrepreneurs I know are terrible at finding and accepting help. Seek help or get out. You start playing the blame game.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Leveraging LLMs to help users fill in text, whether it’s by providing starter content, samples, or highly personalized tips, makes their lives easier. Now that AI is here to help, every textbox is an opportunity to help a customer through the challenge. Are you a founder or CEO or head of product?

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

You might be here: You have a great new product or service that you and your associates love. I would be very, very nervous without testing the product in the market as early as possible, ready to make changes and enhancements before committing to production and release. Even with a perfect product, is the market ready for this?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket , which provides a B2C platform for consumers to order produce and other food and home items for delivery, and a B2B service where it supplies grocery stores, meal-kit companies and other food tech startups with products that they resell, is today announcing that it has raised $60 million in a Series D round of funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman).

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 16, 2021

Squarespace founder & CEO Anthony Casalena said the fresh capital will advance the company’s growth initiatives and help it scale its product suite. Squarespace, which has helped millions create their own websites, was founded in 2003 and bootstrapped until a $38.5

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 17, 2020

As the company said, there are no other methods available on the market that can allow for the creation of complex products from animal cells. Unlike the 3D bioprinting process used by its Russian partner, Beyond Meat uses plant-based products exclusively to make its faux chicken meat. ” Image: Beyond Meat. . ”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Eventually you need a VP of Product to handle your product roadmap, a CTO for engineering leadership and VPs of sales, marketing & biz dev. You help them prioritize their objectives and review the results. And then there’s product management. Most companies that are scaling have CFOs, heads of HR or talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2013

Yet some simple techniques can help massively improve your ability to get people to take action on your important emails. The minute you send out an email to a group and say, “I was wondering if anybody could help with …” each person thinks that somebody else is going to help. It is simply unmanageable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. I helps me be even longer in the positions I am still in. Since then? This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010.

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Berkonomics

JULY 13, 2017

So, you have a great new product or service that you and your associates love. I would be very, very nervous without testing the product in the market as early as possible, ready to make changes and enhancements before committing to production and release. Even with a perfect product, is the market ready for this?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

and of course a relentless pursuit of helping founders succeed. She took an operating role helping run Citysearch and Urbanspoon. On paper she’s more qualified than Yves or myself so with that out of the way can we now just focus on her skills and how you help me recruit her?” She had all of the skills and traits we sought?—?leadership,

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Berkonomics

JUNE 19, 2025

If improving individual steps is not the solution, then scrap the process entirely and attempt to define a way to meet the goal through a differing route, such as outsourcing parts or the entire process, doubling the capacity of a segment of production, or redefining the goal itself.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. It’s understandable - a hands-on developer can produce a product. A CTO can help you find the right answers. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Finally, OpenSource helped a lot having realistic feedback from production, even if the project and the associated FreePascal compiler are maintained by a small number of developers, and object pascal as a language is often underestimated. tew_cta text="Want to learn how TechEmpower can help make your web application faster?"]

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TechEmpower

MAY 1, 2014

However, this is acceptable as we want each implementation to be production-grade and typical for the framework, not tuned to include only the response headers we require. If your favorite framework is showing up as "did not complete" at the bottom of the charts, we''d appreciate your help in correcting that for the next round.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Other common scenarios that we’ve seen: Scaling and new markets: Your company and product are established, and now you’re scaling or going after new markets. A technical review can help your development team adopt new processes and strategies to maximize their speed and efficiency. A technical review can answer that crucial question.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ensure that you investigate the designers' past work, samples of their work product, and their process. Quality of Work: The end product should not only look good but function as expected. Or do you need help evaluating software firms? Either way, we can help!"] cto , product , saas

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Just like attorneys, technical advisors can help navigate waters that many find murky. Specifically, they should know about, and help with: Asking and answering the 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators Knowing when and how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit?

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

It plays a crucial role in product development too, where generative AI speeds up design processes, streamlines testing, and tailors user experiences effectively. This technological integration into software engineering not only enhances the productivity of development teams but also ensures that IT infrastructures are robust and reliable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

” Bill Gross, who is one of the Godfathers of the Internet, once told me, “ If you don’t design a product that is 10x better than the competition then you’ll never build anything truly big or amazing.” ” That’s what we’ve set out to build at MakeSpace. 10x the experience. I’m long NY.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2021

The company aims to have its first product approved by European regulators by 2023 and notching commercial sales by 2025. These products don’t get at the full potential for cellular technology according to Daan Luining, Meatable’s chief technology officer.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Weve done our best, but we are not experts in most of them so help is welcome! Simulating production environments. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion. Motivation.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

“What was cool about our financial management product was that we were trying to use Dave as a replacement for their current bank,” says Jason Wilk, Dave’s co-founder and chief executive. “It’s one thing to help people with budgeting. It’s another to actually manage their money,” says Wilk.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

These two questions/answers can help define the early proof points for your company. Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Please write us at blog@techempower.com !

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

We''ve done our best, but we are not experts in most of them so help is welcome! Simulating production environments. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion. Motivation. Conclusion.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

And while the grocery delivery market has become increasingly competitive, Hall argued that Good Eggs stands out thanks to the quality and breadth of its products — 70% of its products are locally sourced, and it often delivers them within 48 hours of harvesting. Image Credits: Good Eggs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Still, if you’re a business leader and your developers haven’t asked you these questions, look for a Fractional CTO to help navigate the critical early stage of development. Wireframes?

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socalTECH

JULY 2, 2020

Los Angeles-based, low-cost e-commerce products site Hollar is no more, and will be swallowed up by new owner Five Below , six months after the acquisition of Hollar by Five Below. Five Below--which runs a chain of "dollar store" style retail stores--acquired select assets of Hollar back in January of 2020.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 2, 2025

So, heres one to help you with squeezing the most out of your own available resources. The wrong person in most any job causes everyone below or above that person in the production system that depend upon that person to operate at a reduced rate or quality of output. The four Ps: People, productivity, performance and process.

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