Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Don’t forget business writing and communication. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. Get real experience early.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

We were looking at it, and saw that if we could take all these off-the-shelf sensors, and put it all together, and write some code, and make a user interface, it''s basically done. Unfortunately, those providers decided the gold leads were expensive, and decided to use a Chinese vendor which would provide them at half price.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. Market Size.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

My mother and father started a little hardware company in Price, Utah and they turned it into a very, very successful construction company. In addition to changing the company''s name to Big Frame and taking on accomplished Co-Founder Steve Raymond, Sarah also received assistance from the startup incubator LaunchPad LA.

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Networking Startup Santa Barbara RSS 214

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

It was a pleasure to write them myself. He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups. Summary notes, as always, provide below.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. I see this emerging in Seattle and the passion of “a few key individuals&# who can help shift the game.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

The prices of angel deals have recently crept up, VCs have also gotten their checkbooks out again, frothy deals are happening and people are feeling bullish. VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

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