Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. He would have found somebody technical and inspired that individual to work for equity or deferred payment. Good entrepreneurs have a penchant for doing vs. over-analyzing. obviously don’t read this as zero analysis).

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Despite this technical glitch, I opted to publish our discussion, given the high-quality content of his comments. Len remains an active advisor to several startups. In this regard, I asked him to share the lessons from his early days of online marketing that remain relevant to the startups he currently advises. million people.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 16, 2024

While the program’s deadline is technically on November 1, we’d recommend applying in October it’s only accepting a limited number of applications. To improve your chances, we’d advise researching the grantor and focusing on how your venture’s goals align with theirs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In my business of mentoring new entrepreneurs and advising small company owners, I recognize that most don’t start as experienced leaders, and most don’t realize that people leadership is a primary key to their future success. Building a business is not a one-person job, and leading by edict rarely works today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outsourcing your core competency does not work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany. HR rules are local.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Unfortunately, too many of the technical entrepreneurs I mentor and advise are focused on their technology, and assume that the value will be self-evident to customers. It forces you to prioritize the health of your organization from the inside out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany. HR rules are local.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

Try to compile all the different types of questions you could be asked about your business, like technical details, financial assumptions and projections, marketing, IP, etc., I would advise trying not to get into an argument with an investor. and prepare a response. In fact, plan on them challenging your solution and data points.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Morgan Stanley found out about us and organized a secret Sunday meeting where they flew in a bunch of bankers to convince us to let them in on the round. Push hard to set up the technical reviews, the due diligence meetings, the reference calls – whatever. Goldman Sachs was going to be one of the investors in my firm. I’ve done it.

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Jason Nazar

APRIL 7, 2011

You take no interest nor show any curiosity in how technical systems are built or maintained, and Engineering is the least valued/respected part of your organization. The WannaBe Board of Advisor. What’s the Remedy: Don’t ever offer to be a Board of Advisor unless your asked first. Self-Entitled Social-Media HotShots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2019

After various roles in this one, he worked his way up the corporate ranks to run the organization of now almost 30,000 stores. Steve Jobs started his technical career creating circuit boards at Atari, before joining Steve Wozniak to build personal computers in his garage. Recognize career growth requires changing with the business.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 21, 2014

Hackers for Charity is a non-profit organization that leverages the skills of technologists to help provide food, equipment, job training and computer education to the impoverished in Uganda. Mohawk-Con – Get your head buzzed at DefCon to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation , Hackers for Charity, and your favorite Hackerspaces!

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide. The partnership is not set up as a lobbying organization. What are the ethics, the encoded tradeoffs, in the system?

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

I think it is evidenced by the fact that many people from our team went on to be very successful; some are successful entrepreneurs, some are holding very high level executive positions at successful companies and some started non-profit/charity organizations. I’m proud of all of them. We had fun; worked hard and played hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

I often advise these CEOs to make the tough choices early in the company’s history – either move up North or build your tech team in LA. I believe that startup tech companies need to develop a technical DNA and this doesn’t happen when you outsource. There are pluses and minus for both cases. What about offshoring?

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