Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2018

Every entrepreneur thinks he can relax a bit after his business model is proven, funding is in place, and revenues are scaling as projected up that hockey-stick curve. Customer acquisition gets harder and more expensive. Successful entrepreneurs and successful companies never stop re-inventing themselves.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

When evaluating a potential Institutional Investor, entrepreneurs should consider what they are not , as much as what they are. Entrepreneurs in search of startup capital are well served to seek an UnVentureCapitalist (UnVC), an investor who understands and appreciates the unique benefits of capital efficiency.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

As discussed in Hiring Entrepreneurs, the impact of each new hire during your startup’s early days is tremendous. As noted in Optimistically Pessimistic , successful entrepreneurs are indifferent as to the specific tactics they must employ to accomplish their fervently held strategic objectives.

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Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. Do you have any words of caution or advice for entrepreneurs who attempt to “Get Their Band Back Together”? “In At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Xconomy

MARCH 20, 2018

Mythic, based in both Redwood City, CA, and Austin, TX, is one of the upstart companies benefiting from a surge of investing in the chip-making field, where the growing computational demands due to the use of AI are creating an opening for young entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 77

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 18, 2012

As IBM goes flash with its acquisition of Texas Memory Systems and the recent public launch of Data Collective for Big Data entrepreneurs DNA was the least expected move for storage. A Harvard researcher says data can now be stored in human DNA devices with more capacity to store exploding quantities of digital data.

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JavaScript IBM IBM Journal 72

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

socalTECH

JULY 23, 2012

We caught up with Navid --one of a number of executives to have recently departed Buy.com after its acquisition a couple of years ago by Rakuten--to hear more about his new startup. Describe what Recmnd.me is all about? Navid Nobakht: We are building an online recommendation system that focuses on social recruiting.

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CTO Hire Startup Sites Technical Review 147

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Entrepreneurs who experience promising initial success also play a similar game. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Acquisition Pricing 124

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Entrepreneurs who experience promising initial success also play a similar game. A similar experience occurred at a cloud computing company where I acted as an addVisor. The company was approached by a Big Dumb Company (BDC) who made a nominal acquisition offer within months of the company’s founding.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Acquisition Pricing .Net 124

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347