Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. Investor negotiations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

I remember first seeing a good summary of these risk-reduction myths a while back in a classic book, “ How to Start a Business & Ignite Your Life ,” by Ernesto Sirolli, PhD. Every investor I know will tell you that many startup businesses fail due to having too much money too early. Partner with experts who share the risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2017

I saw a good summary of these in a recent book reissue, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. I like his specifics for business leaders on improving and sustaining the best company cultures, and his summary of the culture myths facing new business leaders: It’s easy to be ethical. Ethics can’t be managed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2015

I saw a good summary of these in a recent book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. I like his specifics for business leaders on improving and sustaining the best company cultures, and his summary of the culture myths facing new business leaders: It’s easy to be ethical. Ethics can’t be managed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2013

I saw a good summary of these in a new book, “ Ethical Leadership ,” by Andrew Leigh, an expert in this area. I like his specifics for business leaders on improving and sustaining the best company cultures, and his summary of the culture myths facing new business leaders: It’s easy to be ethical. Ethics can’t be managed.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

The app, dubbed HomeHero Connect, supports phone timesheet tracking, daily activity summaries, emergency alerts and automated payments between a user and an independent home caregiver. Careseekers can view caregivers by location on an inbuilt map, HD videos, social references and reviews. LinkedIn for Caregivers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

An explanation of PublishThis and its content curation software. Los Angeles MiniTime debuted its service this week to help families find reviews and information for their family vacation. Phone Halo's WalletTrackr pitch video. Planning your family vacation with MiniTime.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. What follows is a summary which paraphrases Naval’s responses. These days, thanks to code and community, we can productize almost any process done by humans. You can watch my interview with Naval below or on YouTube here: [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

The two biggest measures for me of early-stage company capabilities are: The ability to hire insanely talented people relatively quickly and without overpaying The ability to ship product early and often (in enterprise even shipping internal code or beta code matters) Mo’ money, less fire.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

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. This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? What Is This? How Does it Work?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

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. This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? What Is This? How Does it Work?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence). In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine). How to find a startup mentor.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Or, as always, summary notes available below. But, in fact, I would rather have an executive summary than a pitch deck. And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2013

I kind of fell into it, after a period of diligence on the idea, and realizing it was a big opportunity. You can show them what your growth is like, give them a financial summary, and they can interact with you. Enough people said yes, and I thought about building the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Summary Startups are fun and exhilarating and filled with challenging problems to solve. Sam’s enthusiasm was infectious and his plans were bold.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. Selling tons of “shelfware” (customers who buy but don’t use your software) and thus having bad customer references. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. Mentorship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2011

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA. If you have enough references in your arsenal you obviously want to pick out ones that you believe will resonate with your prospect due to job function or industry. This article initially appeared on Inc. Click here. Listen more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

If Bird has thousands of scooters in a neighborhood (and if it can acquire these scooters at cheaper prices due to scale advantages) then it’s significantly more difficult for new entrants to launch without serious capital and it’s hard to get serious capital from investors who perceive you’re late to the game.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. Investor negotiations.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 110

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). Apps & Software Business Google AOL CrunchBase entrepreneur Free Use People+ Startups TechCrunch' People+ , developed by 3-person startup (Pro Populi, Inc.)

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

I worked in both before leaving to work in a software company at 17. I had a business class seat due to status of flying a lot and my family was in economy. ” In summary, I recommend some honesty with yourself. My mom bought our family’s first computer and encouraged me to learn it at 13.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. Investor negotiations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2010

For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. Let’s consider the following two software companies, both of which have 66% gross margins.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

If you want to watch the show click the image above or this link , but if you want a quick read – here’s a summary: 1. We told the horror story of the company that originally owned the URL groupon.com and lost it due to not having a trademark. We will continue to do more of this. A: It’s not best.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. But I believe it’s a very comprehensive solution and our due diligence with large app developers confirmed as much. What does it do? it has built in iPad support from Day 1.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 27, 2013

The following post is a comprehensive summary of the developer-facing changes coming in Java 8. Adding a method to an interface would mean breaking all existing code that implements the interface. It is not necessary to specify the "abstract" modifier, as this code does, in order to qualify as a functional interface.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. We're also looking, at the same time, at infrastructure--infrastructure software, which advertising agencies or marketers would use. What's your prior experience and how'd you get into this?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

But we're also technology focused, looking primarily at consumer facing software and services firms in digital media. We're also looking, at the same time, at infrastructure--infrastructure software, which advertising agencies or marketers would use. What's your prior experience and how'd you get into this?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. The pure delays due to admin if I would have had 3-4 pig farmers would have killed me. My Summary on getting access will be to tell you what most people don’t want to hear. Product : You should build a product or a prototype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

Here is my summary of key principles that you can follow to join that select realm of recognized and successful entrepreneurs: Thinking and talking won’t get you there – just do it. Starting something new is risky, no matter how many experts have reviewed it, or how much money you have. You can’t win a race that you never start.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

BTW – if anybody at Twitter reads this you need to fix your “embed Tweet” code because as you’ll see from above it doesn’t properly embed when you have a quoted Tweet. **. When I was done I had to send an email to Adam Lezack that was urgent and due by the morning. HSzvQK63th. Ezra asked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2013

Here is a summary of the “big picture” high risk considerations: Inexperienced team. An expert in software is considered high risk in manufacturing, and a Fortune 100 executive running a startup is high risk. New drugs often fall in this category, due to long clinical trials and FDA approvals required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2011

Gemassmer Startups struggling for survival are not uncommon, due to economic changes, management problems, or product issues. In this case, a private equity firm engaged me to assist in the purchase of a German software supplier. Here is a summary of the processes required, timeframes, and the results: Restructure management teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Here is a summary of the “big picture” high risk considerations: Inexperienced team. An expert in software is considered high risk in manufacturing, and a Fortune 100 executive running a startup is high risk. New drugs often fall in this category, due to long clinical trials and FDA approvals required.

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