Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. Change requests should be documented, sized, and tradeoffs presented for approval or disapproval. Change requests must be visibly reviewed by executives frequently. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

No board member will truly read and be thoughtful about the entire deck and no team can get through the entire presentation in the meeting. You can write this as a narrative in 3–5 key bullet points. Is this extra work vs. just turning up at a board meeting and presenting financials? There are too many pages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. Change requests should be documented, sized, and tradeoffs presented for approval or disapproval. Change requests must be visibly reviewed by executives frequently. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

Technical Review 110

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Very few people can do a good job with a presentation that is emailable.”. You still need the presentation to back that up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. Change requests should be documented, sized, and tradeoffs presented for approval or disapproval. Change requests must be visibly reviewed by executives frequently. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

Technical Review 96

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. Change requests should be documented, sized, and tradeoffs presented for approval or disapproval. Change requests must be visibly reviewed by executives frequently. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 75

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

One the one hand I feel great because we went out and built software that solved an industry problem. This includes writing product specs, going on sales calls, handling customer complaints, building the financial model and a host of other activities that will ultimately owned by functional experts. I did the grunt work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

Writing down your weight from your scale is obviously a manual process and it’s tedious. My favorite new software tool is DailyBurn. Problem is – Weight Watchers software TOTALLY SUCKS. 5 companies presented and all were talented. Their first batch of shipping is due out in the next few weeks.

Technical Review 278

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

In April 2011, the Association of Coupon Professionals held an Industry Conference in Atlanta to address the present and future state of couponing. The industry had seen unprecedented growth in the past decade due to a combination of factors, one of which was the United States’ economic recession. . – Paul Breummer, Search Engine Land.

Mobile 85

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself.

Technical Review 175

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

There’s one attribute (coming soon) that I need to have in order to write a check but I don’t believe is vital for success. This is exactly the reason I like people who present to me to start with their personal bios. When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months.

Entrepreneur 267

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The multi-tiered platform allows for money to be transferred between Facebook friends, the ability to click and purchase any item that you see on Facebook and through the published API’s, developers can integrate and write their own applications on top of the ZunguZ platform. As we know, developers always give their product a code name.

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2024

We also offer some advice for writing your application, to make sure your proposal is as competitive as possible. 8(a) Business Development Program For: Socially and economically disadvantaged business owners Funding limit: $7 million for acquisitions assigned manufacturing NAICS codes and $4.5

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

As of the last four months, we've had about 200,000 plus downloads, a bunch of great write ups, and a lot of mom bloggers who have been reviewing the app and writing stories on it. How did you end up in the mobile market from last running an enterprise software firm? It's the same business, over and over again.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

I’m writing this post to make sure you’re all on that same playing field. Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. He said, literally, I sh*t you not, “well, my report was due and I didn’t have much time.

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Statistics Startup Report Research 415

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2010

Define milestones for cost review and sign-off. Change requests should be documented, sized, and tradeoffs presented for approval or disapproval. Change requests must be visibly reviewed by executives frequently. Remember that in new product development, as in writing, addition by subtraction is the Golden Rule.

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Software Review High Tech Writing 51

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant. I personally ruled out Pakistan due to the perception that our staff would feel less safe there. Let me explain.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. The Present Era.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

“It would present a huge opportunity for a variety of climate tech sectors, ranging from clean electricity to carbon management to vehicle electrification.” The vast majority of those are nowhere up to modern codes. And there’s $260 trillion worth of buildings,” Smithies said last year. Financing the future startup nation.

Startup 229

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. . * Im constantly frustrated by conversations that take place in discussion groups that cant cross the border into the blog world.

Blogging 150

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

Silicon Beach Fest, created by Digital LA and presented by engage:BDR, is the first startup / entertainment fest in LA with programming by tech community team effort including companies (Digital LA, engage:BDR, StartEngine, TechZulu, PromoJam, PageWoo, venues (Hotel Erwin, Viceroy Hotel, Cross Campus, Coloft, CoWorks, Working Village, io/LA). . &

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

So you need to do one and have it in your back pocket ready to whip out your presentation or your laptop at any moment and go through it in case you’re asked or in case you’re not building the rapport you hope to just verbally. I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

If the recruiting manager’s job consisted solely of reviewing your resume it would be an easy task. Presentations. One of the most common tasks of “knowledge workers&# is to analyze a situation and present conclusions to others in order to make decisions on a project. I review many products every week.

Slides 346

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Coming up with a memorable tagline can present an even greater challenge. Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person. Not that I blame you!

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2018

For those not familiar with the writing process in Hollywood works, fill us in? We saw that there were a lot of talent discovery programs out there, such as screenwriting fellowships, labs, film festivals, workshops, and writing competitions. That's been our focus, on centralizing talent discovery on the platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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