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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Is your business’s success going to be based on execution or technology? Or Back in the dot-com days, competitive advantage was largely based on technology development. For Just ask the founder of TWPLY (a Twitter app) who built and sold his company in 24 hours!
It’s probably Or is it something in between?
For example, if you wanted to build an e-commerce site in 1996, it was really hard! Any efficiencies
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Monday, August 24, 2009
The first company he founded failed, but now Darrin Clement is running a multi-million dollar mapping business that he founded and bootstrapped. How did he go from having to close down his previous company to winning so many customers at this one?
His first big leap into entrepreneurship was launching Optiwave, a fiber optic consulting company. The simple answer is he learned to sell. This program will show you how he did that and what YOU can learn from his experience.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Nearly all of the mistakes I made at my first company I fixed by the time of my second company. This This is the only mistake I repeated twice and it is a mistake that I see many, many companies make.
When you start your company the very first question you need to ask yourself is which kind of customers do you want to serve. Many This post is part of my series “ Startup Lessons ”
Elephants, Deer and Rabbits – Some thoughts on start-up segmentation
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
It is tempting because you not only see that they were VP Sales at 3 other startups but also that they have great access (according to their resume) to senior executives at companies you’re trying to target. More likely this person who wants to work at your fledgling company is a decent performer but not a superstar. hiring / training / motivating staff, Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class
This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice .
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
In my post, Technology Roles in Startups , I described some of the different ways I engage with startup companies such as CTO Founder , CTO , Part-Time CTO , Acting CTO , Consultant, Advisor and Advisory Board Member. I thought it was worth capturing a bit more about Advisory Roles, Advisory Boards and particularly Technology-Oriented Advisors – who are often thought of a bit different when it comes to those roles. Actually, if you look back, advisory boards came from being Technical Advisory Boards where the advisors were primarily professors, researchers, experienced practitioners
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard. and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me).
I should be able to test these assumptions against comparable companies. This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice .
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Jeff Fluhr and his friend from school got together and created a company called StubHub which they built up and sold to eBay. But, you know, I think it wasn't until after my first real company StubHub that people, I think, thought of me in that light.
So I contacted the owner of the company and proposed to him that I be a distribution outlet for their product in retail channels outside of the Massachusetts area and began to help that company get In 2000, people had all kinds of assumptions about buying and selling tickets to events. They assumed it was illegal or
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. Yes, there are some events around particular technologies. I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database design, database administration, web development, etc. In a recent conversation
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
We’re living in the age of modern technology and there is no way to crowdsource someone’s penis or vagina? I’ve found the straw that’s breaking the camel’s back when it comes to bridging the gap between dating and technology. Or will a dark horse technology company situated in a random brick-walled office in San Francisco finally find a way for us all to spot the weirdos before we’re on date six with them? I mean, what the hell is that about?
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Many startup companies hire advisory boards. prominent industry luminaries to be closely associated with the company. It’s done partly in hopes of gaining their wisdom but it’s also done to portray the company in a positive light through association.
The CEO picks prominent people who are busy in their own right with their own companies. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice . It’s very tempting.
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