Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

If you’re an early investor like I am that often means writing the first $2-3 million check into a business that previously had either survived on fumes or on a $500,000 angel round. I have seen many companies raise their first $3 million and still act like a company that has no resources at all.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

What that did, is it helped us to expand the service to help publishers do the following: identify what content to write, how to distribute that content to various mediums, and how to monetize that content. Journalists are notorious for not wanting to write based on revenues or commercial intersts, or having anyone tell them what to write.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the process, you may save yourself considerable re-work and money, or even decide that your dream needs more time to mature, before you commit your limited resources, or sign up with investors to a painful and unsatisfying plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. The first step toward a business with any idea is to write it down, and build a business plan around it. As startups pass through each stage, they need to use support resources wisely to minimize costs, wasted time, and maintain credibility to support movement to the next stage.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

So, aiming a brand-new smartphone full of great features but increased complexity using AARP Magazine as your marketing resource just won’t get the job done. When you do connect with your niche, you will have resources to expand and alter your message for the next niche and then the next. Of course not. How to Find Your Niche?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. The picture above is from the actual event courtesy of Dan Farber who was writing for ZDNet. If you haven’t spent time over there you should.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. I recognize there is an issue with resource scarcity. I think starting as an extension if your mobile strategy makes sense due to resource scarcity.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 17, 2023

Trusted, close resources include sophisticated relatives, friends and business associates who know how to structure a deal as a win-win for you and for them, while allowing you to retain control over your vision and execution. So how does this fit into this sandwich of alternatives? Trust works both ways.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

The biggest problem with over-stealthing yourself is that you cut off some of your most valuable resources in terms of testing your ideas, getting feedback from smart entrepreneurs & investors and helping you figure out the potential flaws in your approach. Nobody likes writing re-hashed stories. Read their articles.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

More on the Role of the Startup CTO Eric Ries, a great resource, answers the question What Does a Startup CTO actually do? Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! And you certainly don’t want to be the company that spends time and money building something you could have picked up off the shelf.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. What's going to go wrong? Correct your course quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

If you know of more resources on this topic, or want to talk about anything startup or tech related, we’d love to hear from you. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Conclusion Bottom line – if you are an early-stage startup with online or mobile technology as part of your solution, you ABSOLUTELY NEED a technical advisor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2010

The problem is that the scarcest resource in any entrepreneur’s life is your time. “Thank you for writing to me – it’s nice to hear from you (or meet you) via email. Yet we all feel guilty not doling out time for anybody who asks – especially if we were introduced. I feel the same way. &#.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

This risk can be mitigated by finding a customer willing to purchase as soon as a proven model is completed, and willing to state this in writing. Fourth: Financial risk. Any new enterprise is at risk if there are not enough resources to get the company to breakeven, which is a proxy for stability.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2017

We are over-intro’d and at the same time under-resourced in terms of staff to handle the barrage of in-bound requests. Recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same. And every leader also has teams with constant priorities where they need: Input, feedback, decisions or meetings.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2011

But poly sci taught me critical thinking and writing skills that I didn’t get in my econ classes. He writes about the fabric of American life, often from the perspective of his Jewish, New Jersey roots. It shows us how the other 6 billion humans live, compete, struggle for resources and find clever ways to rise above their means. (I

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Berkonomics

JUNE 29, 2017

Trusted, close resources include sophisticated relatives, friends and business associates who know how to structure a deal as a win-win for you and for them, while allowing you to retain control over your vision and execution. So how does the statement above fit into this sandwich of alternatives? Trust works both ways.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

“ This will also help dealerships increase sales and bring needed sales tax revenues to local and state governments,” Peterson writes. “Startups and small businesses are the engine of every local and regional economy,” writes Peterson. There’s $25 billion in money set aside for public transit and $12.5

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

They put students on “tracks&# where the better performing students end up getting the better teachers and more resources so the young students who don’t score well out of the gate get left behind. Lawrence) both helped me master the rules of writing and tap into my creativity. Wolters) and high school (Mr.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 29, 2023

Assess your current resources and attempt to calculate the resources needed to accomplish the goal. Write these steps down in any form for now. Start with a reasonable goal, usually expressed as a revenue number some number of years into the near future.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Once people who do not know you and have no vested interest in your company's success begin expending their time, money and resources to leverage your value proposition, you are gaining traction. In a like manner, proudly profess your traction to your target VCs until they either write you a check or ask you to look elsewhere.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

If you know of more resources on this topic, or want to talk about anything startup or tech related, we’d love to hear from you. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Then use what you’ve learned in this blog post to decide if the numbers validate your business model, or if you need to rethink your approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In fact, I think the evidence is clear that many entrepreneurs started their journey while still in college, and capitalized on all the resources there, before moving on: Extend your technology focus with business basics. Write a business plan and pitch deck for learning. Learning by doing is the only way to go.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Assess your current resources and attempt to calculate the resources needed to accomplish the goal. Write these steps down in any form for now. Start with a reasonable goal, usually expressed as a revenue number some number of years in the near future. We’ll explore a more organized approach in the next insights.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. Join because as we continue our successes we will have more resources to reward you with and reward we will. CEO transparency.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 30, 2016

Rob Wiltbank and Professor Wade Brooks for Willamette University and the Angel Resource Institute (ARI). in active investments.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Some great free resources listed this month that I thought were interesting. Why You Should Write.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2013

Having a good sales methodology can help you ensure your company runs more disciplined campaigns and focuses scarce resources on your best opportunities. The other worthwhile exercise is to write down what your competitors uses as its USPs – even ones that you don’t think are really valuable to customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

Nowhere is this more apparent than working in a startup where you are definitionally under-resourced and trying to make big accomplishments in compressed periods of time. Mostly I just wanted to write this as a reminder to founders to be suspicious of people who constantly introduce you around. That’s why focus is critical.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 27, 2013

At the time of this writing, Java 8 development is still very much in progress. It is essentially another way of writing Collections.newSetFromMap(new ConcurrentHashMap ()). It performs better than RRWL when used as a plain read-write lock. Language features and APIs may still change. Reflection and annotation changes.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

It requires you to expend your two most valuable resources, your time and your money. However, in most cases, the courts have not upheld business method patents and thus startups should not expend resources pursuing such broad and pervasive patents. William Shakespeare, British Playwright, from Love’s Labour’s Lost , 1598.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

That one thing, in the case of Los Angeles-based FamousBirthdays.com , is creating an online resource all about--you guessed it--famous birthdays. If you look at Google Panda, they want you to be the best possible resource for a specific thing. That might be good if you''re writing a book report, but people love quick facts.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term. Do I have to write up the overview? Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Can you help me get funding?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. We put together the screenwriting resources ideas and collaboration platform, and the two combined to become Scripped. What's Scripped? Sunil Rajaraman: That's a good question.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

And I try my best to point them to resources that can help them longer term. Do I have to write up the overview? Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Can you help me get funding?

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