Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Reuters TV Interview by Rhonda Schaffler Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2018

I’m not saying success is rare, but the list of famous entrepreneurs who started their career in a big company is small. I made the jump myself from IBM several years ago, and now have a satisfying startup advising small businesses and mentoring entrepreneurs. Already have dependents and employees who look up to you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. 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. Start in a business domain you know well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues: “Business plans are for dummies.” Sleeping giants do wake up. “No

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. 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. Start in a business domain you know well.

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Xconomy

MAY 30, 2016

Lita Nelsen has seen it up close—and played a part in its evolution—from her studies there in the 1960s, to her business-school fellowship in the late 1970s, to her 30 years working in MIT’s Technology Licensing Office. And so that’s what Stanford did, so it was set up in that model. I wasn’t the director then in ’86.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Startups Made Simple. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology). Dedicated to our Clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2013

Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders, I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues. Some startups think business plans are only for investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. We then spoke about startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

And today, more than 2,000 colleges and universities offer entrepreneurship courses – up from the just 70 schools that Boomers and Gen-X had to choose from in 1970. More and more, they choose to intern at a dynamic small company or startup. Startup companies foster a creative spirit. Experience vs. Escape. Creativity vs. Chores.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2022

Thus, ever after years as an executive in IBM and other companies, I’m still looking for the magic. We all wish it could be boiled down to a short list of actions, but we continue to be surprised and frustrated by new situations that seem to be beyond our thinking.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Startups Made Simple. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. GetItStarted (www.getitstarted.com). Technology. Think Glendale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2010

Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues: “Business plans are for dummies.” Sleeping giants do wake up. “No

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 11, 2011

Co-creator of the Lotus Share platform, which powers the new Lotus Connections Files and Wikis components at IBM. Come by yourself and team up or bring your engineering/product design friends. There will be technical and product mentors there to help. Demos and awards start at 5:30pm. Early designer of Paypal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2011

Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders, I would hope that you can learn from these failings and not stumble on the same issues. Some startups think business plans are only for investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

You are all frustrated when that never happens, even after years of 16-hour days, repeated efforts to hire the right people, and multiple campaigns to delegate more and sign up for less. Only then can you start to adjust your time and your company to let it run without your constant involvement.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2019

Image via Pixabay Everyone has heard about the big potential for using artificial intelligence (AI) to expand your business, but many of the small businesses I mentor are still wary of embracing it, because they don’t understand how it works, and fear losing control and unintended consequences. The value of a human life cannot be compromised.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 25, 2015

I put myself through college, landed a job with IBM, and learned about life. In 1995 I started my first company and bought a fleet of 3 Volkswagen Beetles. Shortly thereafter, the world changed and things went awry and three VWs ended up in my driveway. In 2001 I sold my interest in company 2 and started company 3.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2018

In one of my own stints as an executive in IBM, I found that putting a high-potential employee on my own staff for a few weeks was highly motivating and taught me the realities of senior management responsibilities better than any class could. We all have strengths and weaknesses, and most of us as managers focus only on weaknesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find. Bringing in a senior person who’s “done it all before&# is often a mistake in a startup. So what if you’re already a mid-stage startup.

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LATechDigest

JUNE 6, 2016

Startup Bootcamp. JJ Abrams Drops by AMPLIFY for a Mentor Talk ( link ). IBM WATSON Came to General Assembly. Santa Monica Public Library. 06/09/2016. 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Busby’s, Los Angeles. 06/10/2016. 8:15 am – 9:30 am. Innovate Pasadena. Pasadena Cross Campus, Pasadena. 06/11/2016 – 06/12/2016.

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