Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

Many startups these days are started by young, technical or product founders who are in the idealistic phase of their lives and careers. – it’s just that the more experience you get in your career the more you come to realize certain truths. Trust me – ignore startup politics at your peril. You know, no b t.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Processes should be in place to ensure that even if something does not go as planned, you, your family, and even your job are secure. Let your passion drive your cash flow projections.

Startup 63

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 63

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

Duffy emphasizes the often overlooked personal side of entrepreneurship, including balancing finances, relationships, and your health. Processes should be in place to ensure that even if something does not go as planned, you, your family, and even your job are secure. Let your passion drive your cash flow projections.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Framework 106

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business Running a small business as an entrepreneur is a never-ending challenge of new products, customers, competitors, and an unpredictable economy. This week is National Small Business Week in the US, so it’s a good time to celebrate your successes, and allow the rest of us to acknowledge your dedication and innovations.

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Startup Tips Satisfaction Entrepreneur 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But rather than dwell on the failures, I’ve tried to extract from them a list of practical action items that will improve your survival probability. I offer these pragmatic recommendations: Buffer your funding requirements. Adapt your strategy monthly. Assume your initial strategy will be wrong. Manage your time.

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Tips Help Startup Blogging 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

If you aren’t so sure, need something fast, or need to keep your costs low, then an LLC is the best legal and taxable entity to facilitate your startup. Here are the key steps: Form the simplest legal entity early to cover your efforts. Now would be a good time to see your lawyer or accountant if you need more details.

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Startup Tips Examples Guide 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Great startups are getting ahead of the game with “anticipatory customer service,” like providing smart phone access to product and account data to head off complaints. Here are seven rules derived from his insights to start your thinking: Customers expect a choice of channels. Respect your customer’s view of usability.

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Customer Custom Services High Tech 89

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

I created this resource to have the single most comprehensive guide anywhere on all the different items involved in starting a business. Determine whether your business name needs to be trademarked, and if does Trademark it at the USPTO. Protect your written works and code through the Copyright Office. Recommended.

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Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 3, 2014

There are 3 vital questions to ask when putting together a campaign; 1- Is the thing I’m raising money for a great product? 2- How am I talking about my product? He shared, ‘When creating a campaign it’s key to remember that people are fans of you – not the actual product, so you want to be sure to communicate your why.’.

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Startup Examples Social Media Media 109

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time. He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. The money slide is the graphic below. He’s right about this.

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Web HTML Mobile Social Network 355

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

It’s also a great way to build relationships with people interested in your topic area. Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. How to find your “voice&# ? Be authentic.

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Blogging Startup Writing Summary 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

With a bank account full of someone else's money, it's hard not to feel flush with cash and have a false sense of security. An inflated sense of financial well-being can result in sloppy budgeting and accounting as you write checks here and there without pause. Your mortgage and grocery bill depend on it.

Startup 92

Startup Capital Blogging Ideas 92

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur? I realized I had to move on, my wife and I looked at the bank account, and gave ourselves a time budget.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. Who are your customers, partners or suppliers? accessibility.

Blogging 373

Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

Berkonomics

MARCH 17, 2010

As the new generation of digital natives enters the work force, management is being pressed to open their networks and their thinking to allow social networking inside the firewall, workers who are more productive and comfortable anywhere but in a cubicle, and management of a virtual workforce. 1. A great smartphone.

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Mobile Doc Google Resource 149

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

Startup 99

Startup Report Equity Resource 99

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2013

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

Startup 95

Startup Report Equity Resource 95

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. short answer: very, very rarely. But it does happen.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Ran gold Resources Ltd. Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal.

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2011

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

Startup 93

Startup Report Equity Resource 93

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

At the same time it’s been getting easier and easier to use the identity of choice at your favorite social media site to establish an identity and log in using OpenID or Facebook Connect. Tired of the day-long round-robin between your e-mail, SMS, Twitter, Facebook, and any other services you use to keep up with what’s going on?

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29