socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2013

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of cloud-based, customer relationship management and contact management software, has debuted a new dashboard feature, the firm announced Tuesday. nimble contact management software saas cloud' READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica SaaS Summary Screening 153

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Summarize all of the above in an executive summary. This summary if often extracted as marketing collateral, with text and graphics for pitch handouts.

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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

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. Don't be fooled by a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development. And when you have Poor Software Developers - Pull the Plug Early.

CTO Coach 219

CTO Coach Metrics Framework Software Development 219

Tech.Co

JUNE 3, 2022

. “This latest data demonstrates that the SMB rent crisis has reached a new and concerning 2022 pinnacle, regarding both rent delinquency and soaring rent costs,” Alignable explains in a summary. Or, to put it in more clinical terms, 52% of all SMBs polled have dealt with a rent increase within the past six months.

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Report Newsletter Pricing Startup 155

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. Don’t get caught off guard.

Outsource Development 121

Outsource Development Outsource Entrepreneur Summary 121

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Modern Internet communication and video meeting software have given new scope and immediacy to communal work efforts and customer feedback. In summary, I am supportive of the trend toward delayering, reducing the number of managerial layers, and managerial training for those interested in that role.

Outsource 133

Outsource Training Organization Social Media 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Scott, published a classic book that I still recommend, ” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media.

Marketing 114

Marketing Invest Social Media SEM 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2023

Here is a paraphrased summary of the eight-level scale she offers, with my own insights and experience added, for your consideration in starting your own self-assessment and move up: Extreme bias toward status quo as the right way. In many cases, this new focus on innovation has the potential to kill your “cash cow.”

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Organization Activity Resource Examples 111

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.

Activity 133

Activity Startup Ideas Technical Review 133

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

For example, I once worked for a small software company selling a sophisticated enterprise workflow solution. Here is a summary of each: Complementary strengths allows extended market penetration. Of course, this path involves some risk, but you never get anywhere unless you take a chance.

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Startup Outsource Development Examples Customer 173

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

I like the summary of the competitive reality in a new book, “ Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age ,” by Ram Charan, who relates a wealth of current experience from global clients: Customers expect a personalized experience. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem.

Competition 142

Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. It would be great to get notes and summaries from these. It's the same as when I've created financial models and then have it reviewed by a hard-core CFO, sophisticated investor or similar kind of expert. That's fairly uncommon.

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Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Scott, published a classic book that I recommend, ” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media.

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Customer Custom Marketing Startup 146

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Between the mid nineties until 2007 wireless carriers around the world religiously protected the software that went on to phones and they guarded the end consumer relationship by controlling this software. In summary, many advisors, board members or executives will steer you away from exclusivity agreements.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Customer Custom 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. Don’t get caught off guard.

Outsource Development 72

Outsource Development Outsource Summary Training 72

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2013

This is my third post in a series on Enterprise Software. In part one I covered the need for early-stage enterprise software companies to build up professional services staff to ensure successful implementation projects. For starters as a young enterprise software company you need to think about the customer segments you serve.

Customer 297

Customer Custom Pricing Startup 297

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. Don’t get caught off guard.

Outsource Development 104

Outsource Development Outsource Startup Summary 104

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Jeb Spencer: For TVC, closing on our new $115 million software focused growth equity fund at the end of last year made for an exciting 2015.

Capital 100

Capital Beverly Hills Artificial Inteligence Equity 100

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

No summary of what we did, no easy way for me to recommend my trainer to my friends, and no way for me to easily book the next appointment. Sergey’s diverse experience as an entrepreneur, technology consultant and software executive qualifies him to lead amSTATZ’s technology development. Why did you venture into fitness?

Social Network 92

Social Network Networking Training Summary 92

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. Android Applications Apps & Software Entrepreneurship iPhone Mobile caregiving elder HomeHero Kyle Hill Mike Jones Mike Townsend Science Inc'

Software Review 77

Software Review Technical Review Southern California Summary 77

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. Most people don’t remember that Bill Gates first software venture, called Traf-O-Data , was a dismal failure.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Software Review 131

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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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Or if you’re pinched on time the summary is below and the time coding can help you watch a brief snippet on topics that interest you. 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! what lessons can we draw from Steve Jobs successes? 48:30 Vanity metrics.

Social Media 301

Social Media Startup Metrics Media 301

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2010

These include chips, computers, software, telecom, and the Internet. Unless you know a VC personally, the chance of getting them on the phone and pitching them, before they have had a chance to look over some kind of summary, is zero. Hone your executive summary. Last quarter winners were clean tech, biotech, and medical.

Venture Capital 90

Venture Capital Capital Startup Summary 90

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2013

You would never sell to one department and then trust them to manage all of the relationships with other departments who have to use your software. In summary, VC partnerships are like any organization. It’s best to think of your VC partnership as a customer.

Venture Capital 309

Venture Capital Summary Organization Entrepreneur 309

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product. Summary Boards are organizations that need managing just as you would do for your management team. Below is just the highlight points. How Do Boards Get Out of Sync?

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Startup Slides Venture Capital Course 234

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. TWIVC Summary – Richard de Silva. The idea was right but the timing was early and required a pivot into being a software company. The in invest in IT (Software + Internet + Healthcare).

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

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. Yet, it’s still worthwhile to understand the issues so you can minimize your own risk of failure.

Startup 109

Startup Summary Software Review Sites 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. You will need to invest more in training your own team, and increase your capital budget for new hardware and software. Don’t get caught off guard.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Outsource Entrepreneur Startup 92

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2013

I’ve been writing a series on a simple methodology that we used at my first enterprise software company. I know many modern software companies that are abandoning email in favor of more open systems as a way of reducing bureaucracy. There are many out there and many books have been written on the topic. Maybe they don’t?

Sales 328

Sales Customer Custom Examples 328

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2013

Draft a business plan summary. Rather than starting with a full business plan, I recommend that you start with an executive summary of a couple of pages, or an executive level presentation of maybe ten charts. These would include people and money first, and maybe software or manufacturing later to produce and deliver the solution.

Ideas 106

Ideas Startup Summary CalTech 106

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” If you’ve been involved with a number of software projects you already have an intuitive sense for this. In summary – I have been involved with software development for 25 years.

Software 344

Software Startup Design Course 344

Tech.Co

MARCH 9, 2020

Update Antivirus Software . This is where tools like project management software can really help. Even better, many of these software provide other helpful features that can make tracking productivity even easier. Project Management Software. Update Your Antivirus Software. Check In Effectively. Use a VPN .

Tips 160

Tips Software Review Study Email 160

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

I just completed a new book on this challenge, “ Disrupt-It-Yourself ,” by Simone Bhan Ahuja, which includes a great summary of the required attributes to maximize your success potential in this area. True entrepreneurs, like Thomas Edison, realize that the biggest innovations come from solving problems, such as failing light bulb filaments.

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Company Companies Software Review IBM 93

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. It is more important to find and nurture team members who have the right expertise, and have them respect and appreciate their work, as well as yours.

Software Review 98

Software Review Ideas Outsource Development Entrepreneur 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2012

Draft a business plan summary. Rather than starting with a full business plan, I recommend that you start with an executive summary of a couple of pages, or an executive level presentation of maybe ten charts. These would include people and money first, and maybe software or manufacturing later to produce and deliver the solution.

Ideas 97

Ideas Summary Startup CalTech 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM Social Network 102