Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 31, 2020
In my work with new startups, I often find people who believe that the terms “ entrepreneur ” and “ inventor ” are interchangeable. Yet I find a big difference between “starting a new business” and “creating a new product.” A good entrepreneur starts with quantifying the problem, rather than a solution looking for a problem.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Even bigger is the desire to stick one’s middle finger up at all of the people who doubted you all along. ” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. It is safe.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Whether you are a business professional in a big company, or an entrepreneur with a startup, innovation is a key strategy. Elon Musk with SpaceX is an example of a new business bringing in technologies from artificial intelligence and solar power to develop smart and reusable rockets to do satellite delivery and space travel.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 19, 2015
Most technologists have little interest in the mechanics of starting and building a business. I exhort entrepreneurs to keep it simple, start with a minimum viable product (MVP), and test it out with early customers. Patents are not worth the effort, since big companies will win. Fabulous solutions require great technology.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 22, 2016
In reality, that’s the definition of a successful startup these days, so every aspiring entrepreneur should take note, as well as every existing corporate executive. Elon Musk has done it with SpaceX and Tesla, and Steve Jobs did it on a regular basis at Apple. Patents and other intellectual property must be secured at this point.
SoCal Delicious
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth. 27 on the list of Most Valuable Startups. I’d say yes.
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