Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2014

Small groups of consultants have now become groups of specialists – CFO Services, Marketing Services, or Management Services. Results” these days are not PowerPoint slides, or theories and recommendations. Speak to people, rather than write a document every time you want a change. Specialist versus consultant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Small groups of consultants have now become groups of specialists – CFO Services, Marketing Services, or Management Services. Results” these days are not PowerPoint slides, or theories and recommendations. Speak to people, rather than write a document every time you want a change. Specialist versus consultant.

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JULY 25, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while and was going to use AngelList by Nivi & Naval as the basis for my example and the perfect prompt came yesterday when I read Fred Wilson’s blog post on AngelList. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2011

Small groups of consultants have now become groups of specialists – CFO Services, Marketing Services, or Management Services. Results” these days are not PowerPoint slides, or theories and recommendations. Speak to people, rather than write a document every time you want a change. Specialist versus consultant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2010

Small groups of consultants have now become groups of specialists – CFO Services, Marketing Services, or Management Services. Results” these days are not Powerpoint slides, or theories and recommendations. Speak to people, rather than write a document every time you want a change. Specialist versus consultant.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2013

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. The faster you grow, the more cash you need, to build product, facilities, staff, and service. They pay just the smallest bills and let the rest slide.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

It seems sort of silly but for enterprise sales at least, if you don’t have buffer built into your price & services you’re bound to get hacked down anyways. Once percentage was agreed we’d negotiate “service credits.&# The standard contract had no remedies in the event we didn’t meet our SLA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2016

Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help. The faster you grow, the more cash you need, to build product, facilities, staff, and service. They pay just the smallest bills and let the rest slide.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Because they’re street smart, most great entrepreneurs tend to prefer getting out and talking with real customers rather than sitting in a cubicle all day doing beautiful PowerPoint slides. Do you like our product & service? It leads many of these people to be more street smart than those defined by convention. Ok, thank you.

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JULY 13, 2013

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. It was like nobody would give me any respect and they just saw me as the guy who goes and talks to senior people who does PowerPoint slides. If I write $2 million and we hit a bump in the road, I can write another $2 million.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2019

you can sign up if you want to try the service. Initially that means a creative, collaborative toolset for visual communications, allowing users to develop really compelling slides, print materials or social media posts that are more visually compelling and easier-to-build for those who aren’t naturally gifted as visual story tellers.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. They had slides with moving images and music. If you really get nervous and are afraid you’ll forget your lines have one 3X5 cue card in your hands for each slide. It is not sufficient to write yourself notes and read them before hand.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

June 2019 (left) and November 2020 (right) I’ve been reluctant to write this blog post because historically I don’t like talking about weight. I’ve been reluctant to write about weight in part because I don’t want to sound self righteous. Then should write down your “target goal.” I figured out something that worked for me.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. I have a few slides later that address that.&# (obviously if you say that you need to come back to the question either later or after the meeting. Congratulations.

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MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.)

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JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. How could it be when they always have “schlocky” ads or PSAs (public service announcements). Online text book rental service. Online radio music service. Competitor: Slide. Read more: TechCrunch.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. The Past (1985-2002).

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AUGUST 30, 2010

It eventually closed at 11,204 in April ’10 before sliding back around 10,000 as I sit here and type. VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#. I saw this first hand in the first dot-com crash.

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