InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2011

Part I of this series describes the 360-review that I conducted at a growing, dynamic SaaS business which has recently graduated from the startup stage and entered the early-growth phase. One of the most compelling conclusions I drew from the reviews is that both Founders need delegate more of their day-to-day tasks.

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Technical Review Software Review Startup Outsource 182

socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2015

Los Angeles-based CapLinked , which develops virtual data room software for managing deals, said last week that it has launched a new, Live Document Editing feature for its software. The company said the new feature lets users update and edit all of their documents while working within the software. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. We only want software revenue.” These are the lifeblood of your sales organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. The assistant tried to end the meeting twice but was shoooshed away. What do I do now? Some were interesting, some weren’t. That wasn’t you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2019

Image via Flickr by Phil Gyford Starting a new venture still costs real money, even though the entry price has come down dramatically in last few decades. For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Fortunately, the Startup of the Year program aims to make it easier for founders to connect with resources. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. Greater Fargo Moorhead Economic Development Corporation (Fargo, ND).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

Search, combined with ratings and reviews become key in separating the useful from the rambling. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. This process works well in today’s extremely flat and non-hierarchical startup organizations. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data.

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Social Media Media Software Review Social Network 112

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I spend a lot of time with startups and thus hear many companies talk about their approach to sales and their interactions with customers. Given customers & sales are the lifeblood of any organization you’d imagine everybody would respect their customers. Starting with a positive.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Fast forward to almost exactly one year later, and a lot has changed for the payments and software startup. 4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise. But the company says its offering extends beyond traditional payment processing and point-of-sale software.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

CapLinked , the online, cloud-based service which helps startups and others manage their fundraising, has added a new sharing feature which makes it easier for users to share their information via email, Skype, and AngelList.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. After leaving Juno, he founded his own software company, Fog Creek Software. Defensibility in Software.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post in which I pointed out that many investors & advisors discourage enterprise startups from having a professional services (PS) business and I think this is a big mistake. I think it’s important for enterprise startups to layer in professional services into your revenue stream. rollout support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Tips Startup Technical Review Equity 104

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

To address that disaster, Ken Button and Randy Bishop�two veterans of the startup industry�created ContractSafe (www.contractsafe.com), a new online service aimed at helping companies to tame that mess and manage and store their contracts in the cloud. So how'd you end up starting the company? Why is this needed by companies?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. What can I do to best equip myself to step up when the need to officially fill this role arises? I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. How can we address this risk?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. Gap closed, right? Probably not.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. The firm recently showed up as one of the fastest growing companies in LA as part of the Deloitte Fast 500 rankings. How were you able to find success there as a startup?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Search, combined with ratings and reviews become key in separating the useful from the rambling. It can also be for solving everyday problems, like logo design or open source code. This process works well in today’s extremely flat and non-hierarchical startup organizations. Platforms: setting standards and sharing data.

Framework 159

Framework Social Media Software Review Social Network 159

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based Signal Sciences (www.signalsciences.com), which develops web application firewall software, just inked a big, $35M series C funding round a few weeks ago, and now has plans to dramatically expand its hiring in Los Angeles. Tell us a little bit about this round? Were excited about both angles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels.

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Technical Review Pricing Software Review Custom 88

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? ,p> In addition, in this new digital first world, nearly every type of purchase from what's for lunch, to where's the nearest ATM, starts with a 'near me' search on Google, Yelp, or one of the many other discovery networks.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

However, 10 years after the software was first released, the kanban-based system is getting a major overhaul. The software now offers Timeline, Table, Dashboard, and Calendar views. You can also adjust start and finish dates on-the-fly to account for any delays — or even bring things forward!

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. The first thing I do is suggest they explore if they really need to hire a full-time CTO for their startup and if so, what kind of CTO they need.

CTO Hire 282

CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 282

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

However, savvy startups can leverage LinkedIn to create a customer acquisition and a churn reduction tool. When SimpleLegal follows its users into a new organization, there are generally no alternative solutions being used. It’s not about helping them use our software. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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Custom Customer Software Review Technical Review 100

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

There are thousands of grants up for grabs through government website portals, but since this type of financing is designed to support the public, their eligibility criteria tend to be quite specific. Government business grants are financial awards issued by federal, state, or local authorities. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Outsource Development 207

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 27, 2017

It’s six months down the road and time to check in on startup that had high hopes when the year began. How many are you practicing in your organization? Here are five trends startups are considering for their operations in 2017. It’s hard to skip the importance of a smart home office for startups with a remote staff.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Startup Mobile Software Review 69

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Reviewing financial & operational performance. As You Start to Mature.

Startup 325

Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different. A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels.

Product 159

Product Technical Review Pricing Software Review 159

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Join a startup incubator. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Startup 128

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 128

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

There has been a lot of public debate over the past several weeks about whether it’s a good thing to be “gross margin positive” or not and commentary always reminds me that some people at startups don’t quite understand financial metrics or even how to think about which ones are healthy. So here are some more details …. That bit is easy.

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Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

SoCal CTO

APRIL 27, 2011

Several people have recently come to me to help them source and/or hire full-time CTOs for their startup having found me through my post that looks at: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data. The first thing I do is suggest they explore if they really need to hire a full-time CTO for their startup and if so, what kind of CTO they need.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach Technical Review Startup 225

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Article first published as Why Selling To The Government Can Downgrade Your Startup on Technorati. Now, more than ever, government agencies in the US and abroad are lousy startup customers. Some startups opt to partner with larger companies which have pre-established relationships with government customers.

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Startup Outsource Development Software Review Sales 207

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2021

If you are the first to deliver this, your startup might be the next Google! Here is an entry-level benchmark for the new software personal assistants: Simple and intuitive communication. A good assistant know how get things done efficiently, recognizing user hardware and software limitations. Technology environment savvy.

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Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 152

Berkonomics

JUNE 16, 2016

He is a trusted technology and security consultant and public policy advisory to some of America’s most influential people and organizations. . Many websites are compromised and have been hacked with or set up with embedded nefarious software. Never enter data into a pop-up. By Kevin McDonald.

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Anthem Software Review Email Organization 120