Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outsourcing your core competency does not work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Unfortunately, too many of the technical entrepreneurs I mentor and advise are focused on their technology, and assume that the value will be self-evident to customers. It forces you to prioritize the health of your organization from the inside out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2019

After various roles in this one, he worked his way up the corporate ranks to run the organization of now almost 30,000 stores. Steve Jobs started his technical career creating circuit boards at Atari, before joining Steve Wozniak to build personal computers in his garage. Recognize career growth requires changing with the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. I had organized European operations into regions and the country manager for Italy reported to the central European manager based in Germany.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

I’ve had many startup founders tell me that their startup literally has no competition,” said Frank Gruber, Cofounder of Tech.Co, Startup of the Year , and Established. “In What startup teams don’t realize is that having competition is good. I would advise trying not to get into an argument with an investor.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. He went from recruiter to IT manager to technical sales… Then, he did such a great job in sales that we had to build up more infrastructure for our ad-serving and email delivery platform to support the increased demand.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide. As the technology has advanced, so has the competitive landscape. The partnership is not set up as a lobbying organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. I often advise these CEOs to make the tough choices early in the company’s history – either move up North or build your tech team in LA. What about offshoring?

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

I think it is evidenced by the fact that many people from our team went on to be very successful; some are successful entrepreneurs, some are holding very high level executive positions at successful companies and some started non-profit/charity organizations. I’m proud of all of them. We had fun; worked hard and played hard.

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