Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more new business solutions than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Specifically, I often point to the NSF or the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for high-tech startups. Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. Most of the new investments we made this year -- and the ones in the pipeline we're most excited about -- were referred to us by founders with whom we've already invested.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

We thought we'd learn a bit more about the practical barriers in taking many eco-friendly technology innovations into the market, plus the contrast between the construction and architecture business and the high tech investing world. First, explain what your company is all about? It's been around for about 20 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Only the under-35 age group need apply. News & World Report , people over 40 were key players in 86.6%

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2010

Another variation is technology business incubators, which nurture high-tech startups and present a technology oriented variant of business incubators. However, many research and technology parks also house incubation programs.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: The name is a reference, actually, to Thomas Edison and the research lab he created. At the time, that was high tech, and bricks were a combination of mud, hay, and muck. Part of what we're building out are more resources and funding opportunities for companies who are pre-series A, which currently has a big gap.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

WEMO Media is an interesting combination of Hollywood, computer games, and deep technical experience, one of the few companies we have seen which seems to combine both the worlds of high tech and software with content, interactive, and Hollywood. Our focus is really what we refer to as globally shared media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2010

This insidious disease kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. Feature creep” (or scope creep) refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product before first delivery.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. According to Wardog, “We registered the domain www.standuppaddlesurfing.com on October 21, 2005, before the sport was even referred to as ‘standup paddle surfing.’”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

The fifth one was a high-buzz, high-tech play with lots of big-name angels, and we eventually brought in a rock star CEO and a major VC followed us in with many millions. My fourth investment, and the first one I led, was into a mobile applications company, which was also ahead of its time and never truly understood its market.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 7, 2008

It was referred to the Labor/Education Committee and was there left for dead. But the point is that these are the kinds of bills that would greatly benefit folks like you who work in the high-tech industry.

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