Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” on the first steps that determine long-term success. Your idea will attract the funding you need. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Now take your expenses and double them.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. Sometimes this pays off, other times it doesn’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

But we all know that these are not solutions by themselves, but require integration into an innovative framework to solve real customer problems. Take a deeper dive into your idea before you declare. High-level ideas rarely make good business solutions. He is quoted as saying, “I have not failed.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. That's the framework we've build with Evolution. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2019

In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams. There are many resources out there to help you address team dysfunction , but very few provide much insight on a process for maximizing startup team innovation once you have the motivated people.

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Ideas Framework Satisfaction Entrepreneur 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2021

I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Startups often find it difficult to retain key personnel and to control proprietary ideas. Partial acquisition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2019

Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders. Most investors admit that they invest primarily in people, not ideas, and they inherently believe that they can sense this leadership ability needed to get the rapid growth and 10x return we all strive for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” on the first steps that determine long-term success. Your idea will attract the funding you need. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Now take your expenses and double them.

Startup 127

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 127

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

I support being socially and environmentally conscious, but you can’t help anyone else if you don’t eat. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective.

Startup 112

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams. There are many resources out there to help you address team dysfunction , but very few provide much insight on a process for maximizing startup team innovation once you have the motivated people.

Ideas 97

Ideas Framework Entrepreneur Satisfaction 97

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 14, 2010

Gain tools, frameworks and perspective to help you through the process. Test your ideas with angel investors who may help in the process. Learn how two promising ventures struggled and found the balance they needed. Hear from angel investors how they have contributed the process. See [link] (more).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2015

Establish a daily framework for action. You will build discipline and get much more accomplished if you build a self-imposed schedule, and commit yourself to following that framework. Obstacles and challenges help you to grow your intestinal fortitude and your skill sets. Also connect with people you can help.

Entrepreneur 108

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Go Trexx (www.gotrexx.com), which is based in Mission Viejo, think it's by engaging kids with mobile applications which provide background information, helps to build excitement, and gets kids involved in traveling to different destinations. Where did the idea for the company come from? I'm more of a serial entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2014

Establish a daily framework for action. You will build discipline and get much more accomplished if you build a self-imposed schedule, and commit yourself to following that framework. Obstacles and challenges help you to grow your intestinal fortitude and your skill sets. Also connect with people you can help.

Entrepreneur 109

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

" In this case, he had a pretty compelling idea, had very little money, and didn't have the capacity himself to build it. The situation is pretty common it got us to riff a bit around how to get programmers to help him build out a proof-of-concept version for his startup. Ask for help. Is this a Wordpress hack?

Guide 349

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Establish a daily framework for action. You will build discipline and get much more accomplished if you build a self-imposed schedule, and commit yourself to following that framework. Obstacles and challenges help you to grow your intestinal fortitude and your skill sets. Also connect with people you can help.

Develop 57

Develop Development Framework Startup 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2015

Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders. Most investors admit that they invest primarily in people, not ideas, and they inherently believe that they can sense this leadership ability needed to get the rapid growth and 10x return we all strive for.

Product 103

Product Coach Framework Entrepreneur 103

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

You’ve got a great idea for an app. You’ve got some friends interested in helping out and you think you can make this work. Developers interact with the operating systems directly, build/use their own frameworks (eg, Django, Rails, etc), and consume server resources directly. You’re a startup.

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SaaS Framework Resource Google 90

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

" In this case, he had a pretty compelling idea, had very little money, and didn't have the capacity himself to build it. The situation is pretty common it got us to riff a bit around how to get programmers to help him build out a proof-of-concept version for his startup. Ask for help. Is this a Wordpress hack?

Guide 296

Guide Startup Mobile Framework 296

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2017

Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders. Most investors admit that they invest primarily in people, not ideas, and they inherently believe that they can sense this leadership ability needed to get the rapid growth and 10x return we all strive for.

Coach 64

Coach Framework Entrepreneur Tool 64

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2013

In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams. There are many resources out there to help you address team dysfunction , but very few provide much insight on a process for maximizing startup team innovation once you have the motivated people.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Ideas Framework Satisfaction 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

.&# In many of the meetings you’d meet clients who would tell you everything you needed to know, would offer to help you and then would never follow up on the help that they had offered. McKinsey had their “ 7S framework &# and BCG had the “ BCG Matrix &# with cash cows, dogs, stars and question marks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2013

Great entrepreneurs are not just idea people and then managers, they are extraordinary leaders. Most investors admit that they invest primarily in people, not ideas, and they inherently believe that they can sense this leadership ability needed to get the rapid growth and 10x return we all strive for.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Coach Framework Tool 101

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. We spent a lot of time developing talent coming out of YouTube, and helped to grow that business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

I support being socially and environmentally conscious, but you can’t help anyone else if you don’t eat. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective.

Startup 94

Startup News Framework Outsource 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2012

In fact, some very innovative individuals, known as ‘idea people’ or inventors, often end up creating the most dysfunctional teams. There are many resources out there to help you address team dysfunction , but very few provide much insight on a process for maximizing startup team innovation once you have the motivated people.

Startup 101

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 101

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. ” The idea is that teams that allow everybody to speak, allow dissent, encourage safe discussions where it’s ok to be wrong – succeed more.

Coach 150

Coach Technical Review Framework Google 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2015

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” focusing on the first few steps that determine long-term success. Your idea will attract the funding you need. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Marty Zwilling.

Startup 109

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 109

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2018

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” on the first steps that determine long-term success. Your idea will attract the funding you need. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Now take your expenses and double them.

Startup 63

Startup Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 63

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2014

The Critical 90 Days From Idea To Market ,” focusing on the first few steps that determine long-term success. Your idea will attract the funding you need. You now have a clear financial framework to help you make better decisions, and you will act more strategically, less impulsively. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Framework 106

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2012

This mantra is complemented by a framework known as the five M’s, which are five key principles for unleashing creativity in any environment: Mood. These are the tools and processes of creativity that help you engineer inspiration into the way you work and empower your organization to embrace the kind of behavior that fosters innovation.

Case Study 101

Case Study Ideas Framework Entrepreneur 101

socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2011

Craig has recently uncloaked his stealth startup, BetterWorks (www.betterworks.com), focused on helping companies to manage and offer fringe benefits to their employees. Part of being an investor is questioning the ideas of founders. Beyond that, it's really about real time recognition.

Startup 216

Startup Technical Review Software Review Platform 216

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s very easy in venture capital when you’ve seen thousands of companies have read thousands of decks and spreadsheets and been to numerous conferences and exchanged ideas with other investors and entrepreneurs to feel like “you know better” and that’s precisely what we try to encourage Team Upfront not to feel or how not to behave.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest Course 150

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

We built a whole, loyalty rewards and points system to incentivize changes, and also helps with behavior management and sustained change. The idea was that it would gives kids and parents a way to interact, an application so people could play with their kids while driving at the same time. That's the hard part.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

I support being socially and environmentally conscious, but you can’t help anyone else if you don’t eat. With no competitive advantage, startups with new ideas gaining traction are never feared, and are usually eaten for lunch as sleeping giants wake up. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup News Framework 105

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The reason being is because Silicon Valley is out of ideas. I have heard it from lot’s of people, most notably Robert Scoble ­— he said he hasn’t seen an original idea come out of Silicon Valley in 3 years. The framework in L.A. We want to do something in the same vein and see what kind of awesome ideas can come out of L.A.,”

News 95

News Los Angeles Ideas Startup 95

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I like their recommended framework for emerging firms, as well as large multinationals, to help build an optimal growth strategy for your company: Evaluate internal development versus external sourcing. Startups often find it difficult to retain key personnel and to control proprietary ideas. Partial acquisition.

Acquisition 88

Acquisition CTO Hire Startup Outsource Development 88