Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. Well, both of those things happened but they were lagging indicators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

Of course, it helps to have innovative technologies before you start building a business. If you have been working alone, perfecting your idea, with no new business track record, your best strategy is to license the technology to a company or team with real business experience. Truly disruptive technologies carry an extra burden.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 18, 2012

years and am due one in 2014. I average a book every 2 to 2.5 I don’t just pick on a buzzword like Gamification or Big Data and start writing. I don’t just listen to Valley VCs on what’s hot.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The press around the raise & company was fantastic and the promise of their technology – wireless charging that works as easily as WiFi – would positively affect many of our lives. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. The doubters will question you. The trolls will swipe at you. Competitors will undermine you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Every technical entrepreneur is an early adopter of technology, so naturally they build things with people like themselves in mind. Early adopters may be the most vocal, and easy to sign up, but your technology assessment panel must include customers from the early majority, late majority, and even technology laggards.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. From a technology perspective our journey is nowhere near over. It doesn’t take a huge leap to see how well the VC industry is positioned for the immediate future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2014

You need to find the skills or experience you don’t have in business, technology or money. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/28/2014. Two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. Its premise is that keeping America safe not only requires us maintaining a technological edge but also using these cutting edge technologies to develop new operational concepts and strategies. Stay tuned.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 26, 2014

In 2012, Gartner showed that by 2014 over 80% of gamified processes will be doomed – mainly due to reasons like poor design or improper rules. ( [link] ) Even if it’s just a game, managers should treat it seriously – if conducted in an improper manner, it can negatively affect team dynamics.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region represents the most fertile science and technology region in the country with about $30 billion in federally-funded R&D. That impact is now accelerating with the DC I-Corps node’s addition of the #1 research university in the country (Johns Hopkins) in 2014. It’s a Capitol Idea.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Since your product or technology may still be in the early stages of development, the investor in actually investing in you, and your previous achievements, as much as your current startup. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/28/2014. angel investors business Elon Musk entrepreneur startup traits'

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. Since July 2014 Nadella has evangelized a device-and-platform-agnostic strategy for Microsoft. Microsoft’s $2.5 Microsoft’s $2.5 Analogous to Amazon’s $970 million purchase of internet video site Twitch.tv

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

For example, the Segway personal vehicle was proven technology 13 years ago, but is still constrained by right-of-way laws, liability issues, and charging stations. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/19/2014. Availability of necessary skills and team members. One hundred percent of zero is still a small number.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. It made me realize that we’ve never properly introduced our associates: Graham Gelwicks. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

It is important from the onset to set simple rules to help ensure coding best practices are followed while dealing with the sheer number of technologies and languages that can be involved in a single project. SecAppDev 2014). Combine this with the fact that third-party code or library integration is almost unavoidable these days.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 13, 2014

Unbeknownst to the rest of the world because it was in deep stealth, GM was trying to create what we now know as the mobile Web with the world’s largest telecom service providers and consumer electronics companies based on GM’s technology. 2014 big data Cleantech Internet of Things Nest'

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

by Roger Smith, Technology Marketing Specialist at Hypersoft. I belong to 42 different Meetup groups that cater to a wide range of business and technology professionals on topics as diverse as analytics, data mining and the quantified self. minutes on 4/9/2014 and 4.2 minutes on 4/10/2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/31/2014. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. Products requiring changes to government regulations. If you have deep pockets, these ultimately can be very lucrative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. Conglomerates, which were the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have proven themselves unable to innovate, and have a tarnished public image due to financial woes and poor management. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

But as impressive as its technology is, the Apple’s smartwatch has been a product looking for a solution. Frustrated by the FDA’s 20 th century processes for 21 st century technology, companies hired lobbyists to force a change in the laws that guide the FDA regulations. When I was a kid, this was science fiction.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

An upside of this environment diversity is visibility into the ways various frameworks and platforms work with the myriad variables of cores, clock speed, and virtualization technologies. Continuous benchmarking. Round 13 is the first round conducted with what we’re calling Continuous Benchmarking.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

by Ezra Gottheil, principal analyst at Technology Business Research. 9, 2014 event was the largest its recent history, raising expectations and questions about how the company was going to deliver on its promises of new products. Thinking Aloud Apple Ezra Gottheil technology' Apple’s Sept. Apple revolutionizes the smartwatch.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2013

plus a nomination to the 2014 Mobile Premier Awards at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain next February. Manila Train Guide , a trip-planning app for Metro Manila’s railways, which highlights nearby places of interest, bagged the Inclusive Technology Award.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Interestingly, most organizations are using advanced technologies that offer data-driven insights for many of their day-to-day operational needs, yet aren’t leveraging the same advances applied to business processes. They’re a key component to keeping systems and teams aligned with goals and objectives. 4 Redundancy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

1/mo means you can’t afford customer service and it must incrementally free to run the technology behind it, both of which have implications for the sort of product you have to build (e.g. This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

By now you have many smart people around your board but probably people who don’t totally understand the nuances of your employees, customers, sales reps, marketing messages, technology challenges, competitors and strategic choices.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

Bill Phelan, president of small business ratings company PayNet, estimates that alternative lending companies, which provide billions of dollars in loans annually, grew 100% in 2014. Filling a Need. Corporate business loans, commercial loans, and secured lines of credit can help banks and credit unions achieve bigger profits.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2016

In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. Officially launched in November 2014, FilterSnap offers 72 filter sizes and a choice of 1, 2, 3, 6 or 12-month replacement schedules.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We have have been funding agriculture technologies, water conservation, wireless electricity, aquaponics and so forth in addition to our standard investment themes in software, data, video and retail innovation. We are predisposed to backing founders who solve problems in which they have personal knowledge that is authentic.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

While many analysts have equated “IoT” (Internet of Things) with wearables, I have long believed that the true value would come more from using cameras, lasers, infrared and sensors to track what is happening in the physical world through the use of technology. Brand Jamie was one of the first entrepreneurs I knew to go on Shark Tank.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We just completed the eighth week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to cover how technology will shape the character and employment of all instruments of national power. Cyber Attacks / Cyber Warfare.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2020

Technological advancements have undoubtedly made life easier but they have also left companies susceptible to data breaches. In 2016, Yahoo revealed that it had fallen victim to one of the biggest data breaches of the 21 st century (in 2014). Two decades ago, hacking was rare and most data hacks were considered newsworthy.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The world of mobility is changing at a rapid pace – from new devices to new technology, it is ever expanding in scope as adoption rates continue to climb. In 2014, most businesses have realized the need to adopt a mobile strategy, be it in the form of mobile apps, mobile marketing or even just having a mobile website.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. However each component will change dramatically.

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