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Monday, June 2, 2008
The first proof of the preacher himself committing the sin is my inability to do a Blog in recent weeks – shame on me for procrastinating! Now back to preaching… Procrastinating on getting to revenue equals sudden death. Recently an entrepreneur passionately indicated that they have potential customers that are willing to buy their product NOW, but they are holding back until they raise more capital! because they are concerned about the growth and how they can control it; they have seen this before as they claimed. Upon further investigation, it became clear that the product
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Friday, February 29, 2008
So here is something new for interested entrepreneurs. Venture Farm Institute Web Conference YOU CHOOSE THE TOPIC & WE PAY FOR IT (IT'S FREE) First event : March 17,2008 8:30am-9:15 pst Pick Your Topic & Register The purpose of the series is to inform and enrich the entrepreneur to understand the Funding Process and focus on Business Execution. The Conversation series is also a complement to our workshop Series with Rapid Fire learn more >, a 3hr Live Roundtable of providing early stage companies uncensored feedback, from the investor perspective, as well as a 2-Day
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
AND CLUES FOR A SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATION! In the past couple of weeks I have heard a few pitches and noticed some common ingredients. So in my humble opinion here is what did not work. 1- Selling features and product capabilities as opposed to a vision and a company. 2- Being
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Last week, I was on a panel with other investors discussing the “do’s� and “don’ts� of angel and venture capital investing some one from the audience fired a series of intriguing compounded questions � why are the VC’s so illusive?, why don’t they have all their information available? Why don’t they disclose how they come up with
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
In my days, I have met with many many entrepreneurs. We have agreed and disagreed on things, learned from each other, and experienced disappointments and successes together. Here is “one� way to slice and dice the group. The Pure Dreamer The pure dreamer is filled with new and novel ideas -- innovations and schemes that will make a lot of money -- for some, every once in a while they see their pictures on the front page of the Time magazine .
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Monday, June 18, 2007
There is just too much to say about the topic and I have been warned about being too verbose with lengthily postings so this is a 3 posting series. Following is the first posting: Some Good reasons to Bootstrap 1- Bootstrapping ensures that you build your business on legitimate, real world value propositions. You truly focused on customer value from day one.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
I got the following question from an entrepreneur and I thought I share it with everyone. “Why do many startups actually fail? In my observation, i have felt that there are many a startups which have a brilliant idea, a genuine team to execute that and also a good support for the product they intend to build, but still the companies fail to break even. I
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
AND CLUES FOR A SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATION! In the past couple of weeks I have heard a few pitches and noticed some common ingredients. So in my humble opinion here is what did not work. 1- Selling features and product capabilities as opposed to a vision and a company. 2- Being
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
In my previous post I talked about getting the mobileStorm tornado tattoo. I also mentioned I have a $1,000 bonus for any employee willing to step up and get the tattoo in a visible location. This weekend a brave soul named Roxanne (a wonderful customer satisfaction rep) went and got an even better looking tornado than mine on the inside of her wrist.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
DEMO has officially started today and we will be there starting tomorrow. For For DEMOfall 2009 we pretty much hit it on the nose for the DEMOgod award winners , let's see if we can nail it again this year. The The DEMO conference announced the lineup of 65 companies that will share their products and value propositions to the technology community at DEMO Spring 2010 on March 21-23 in Palm Desert, California.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Local Comedian Kassem G tackles social media in his ongoing series of man on the street interviews. This time around he visits the Venice Beach boardwalk to ask our local underage girls questions about social media.
Here is what they had to say:
/via via Mashable
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. This issue comes up at the start of almost every new startup company in a variety of forms. I’m constantly struggling with trying to figure out the best way to pull together solutions, especially with how fast things move.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core. In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how will you convert them and how
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Saturday, December 1, 2007
I generally am working as an acting CTO for about 3-4 start-ups or other companies at any one time. I was just talking with someone who asked me to define how that could work and what they meant. Great question. I also found this interesting graphic of the changing needs around the CTO role in different
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
For some reason over the past week, I've been asked by three different people I know about job opportunities that might fit them. Since, I've given them the same advice, I thought it was worth putting in my blog. I personally believe that the best way to hire, find partners, and find a job is through a network.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. I always take a very different approach in early conversations. If I’m being asked to do startup software development, I’m going
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