Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Based on my experience advising new entrepreneurs as well as more mature businesses, I recommend the following strategies for building business momentum, while still optimizing the limited resources of every small business: Find more customers that like what you do best. Focus first on finding more of the right customers.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Often this situation is characterized as a “good problem to have” until you’re the technical person who needs to solve the problem—and quickly. Well, there are a number of technical reasons for applications suffering performance issues. We therefore routinely advise leads of new projects to consider performance early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Another advantage of online investor and equity crowdfunding platforms is that they will force you to pull together your story and documentation in a more consistent and complete fashion than you might otherwise bother. Most solo entrepreneurs can’t show the range of experience or skills to build a winning business alone.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

You know that every turn of the legal documents can add weeks. They’re not bothered when the lawyers didn’t get the documents out when they promised. If they promised they’d ship documents and they weren’t released I’d be straight on the phone with them. Push hard to document turns. Decide what’s important to you.

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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. His manager accepted his resignation and documented the case in the personnel files. Companies became creative by selling and trading foreign exchange licenses.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Your lawyer is a trusted advisor, but in the end, you run your business, your lawyer does not. In other words, find a lawyer who will take the time to understand the issues underlying your business and advise you how to best accomplish your objectives while minimizing your legal exposure.

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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. His manager accepted his resignation and documented the case in the personnel files. Companies became creative by selling and trading foreign exchange licenses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. “Here’s how you upload a document. I’m sure there are many more. I would mostly lump me in that category.

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