Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
In my years of advising startups, and also as an occasional angel investor, I still recommend this set of best practices to prepare you for platform applications: Formalize a business entity immediately. Market research from credible third parties, such as Gartner Group, is also critical to success.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 13, 2011
I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. How big is the market? That notes only told part of the story. Bijan is right.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” ” If you don’t create the message about yourself, the market will. And if you want to be a CEO one day you need the messaging to reflect that.
Frank Addante
JUNE 4, 2006
Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Go-to-Market 5. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 5, 2010
The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. Because the formation of a business is so dependent on “product / market fit&# these are the critical roles for me. CEO, VP Products and CTO must all be in the physical location.
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