Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Here are a few: Business networking. For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. A numbing 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to lack of follow-up after the sale.

Ideas 110

Ideas Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 110

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2013

Here is a summary of the “big picture” high risk considerations: Inexperienced team. An expert in software is considered high risk in manufacturing, and a Fortune 100 executive running a startup is high risk. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations.

Startup 109

Startup Summary Software Review Sites 109

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Of course you can have a few competitors and still find enough charges but once you’ve gotten 2–3 big players in any city it’s hard to imagine many more players building out as efficient of a charger network as the early innovator. There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service!

Santa Monica 256

Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Here is a summary of the “big picture” high risk considerations: Inexperienced team. An expert in software is considered high risk in manufacturing, and a Fortune 100 executive running a startup is high risk. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. Dependent on government regulations.

Startup 97

Startup Summary Software Review Sites 97

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

He knows the ad management and ad network businesses. It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. But I believe it’s a very comprehensive solution and our due diligence with large app developers confirmed as much.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Here are a few: Business networking. For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. A numbing 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to lack of follow-up after the sale.

Ideas 95

Ideas Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 95

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. Let’s consider the following two software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins.

Startup 418

Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

He's an entrepreneur and operating executive, and has made investments in companies like Univision--the largest television network in the U.S.--where But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. where he is Chairman.

Southern California 100

Southern California Media Venture Capital Invest 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

He's an entrepreneur and operating executive, and has made investments in companies like Univision--the largest television network in the U.S.--where But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. where he is Chairman.

Capital 100

Capital Southern California Media Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

If you want to watch the show click the image above or this link , but if you want a quick read – here’s a summary: 1. We told the horror story of the company that originally owned the URL groupon.com and lost it due to not having a trademark. We will continue to do more of this. A: It’s not best. Tough, but true.

Venture Capital 282

Venture Capital Capital Startup Pricing 282

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Imagine if you had to release your software daily in order to keep your job or to have the traffic numbers you need to earn your paycheck. Do not equate that with them giving you glowing reviews – you have to earn that. Summary: Journalists are people. First, understand their deadlines. It’s that simple.

Tips 307

Tips Startup Press Blogging 307

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. If you’re really an entrepreneur you’ll find a way to network with the right people. The pure delays due to admin if I would have had 3-4 pig farmers would have killed me. But for most businesses it is.

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

In rare cases when a non-bot tries to participate in Twitter, the uber-bot [type T] prevents the whole bot network from negative impacts by serving a 503 error to the homunculus’ browser. This malicious piece of code doesn’t obey robots.txt, and doesn’t cache results. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41