Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

New entrepreneurs, especially technical ones, are excited by early adopters, and tend to focus on their feedback, which will always suggest more product features and options. No matter how much energy, experience, and passion you have, there is always more you can learn from an Advisory Board of external experts or a mentor.

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2010

I recommend that every early-stage startup find three Advisory Board members. For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

Advisory Board

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. 90 Things I’ve Learned Founding 4 Tech Companies: Find your company’s One Thing. ?? We do twice-yearly reviews of all Fab team members. So, here goes.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Have a CTO Advisor Provide Their Guidance & Due Diligence Suggestions on a Large Upcoming Technology Expenditure. Executives interested in advisory roles often want the experience, intellectual stimulation, and opportunity to put advisory work on their resume as much as they want the compensation.

CTO Hire

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

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.

Advisory Board

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. Why do you have to make a company on the latest technology? Jason: Right. Jason: Why?

Cofounder

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

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.

Advisory Board

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Our categorization is not a technical one. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Technology-centric businesses. Minimum requirements.

Cofounder

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 12, 2021

And while he doesn’t technically work for the rest of my business, I feel like he does through me. We have a handful of trusted mentors we utilize sort of like an advisory board. Thanks to Chris Campbell, Review Trackers ! #22- Thanks to Devon Fata, Pixoul ! #7- 7- Provides motivation. Photo Credit: Daivat Dholakia.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

Technical Review

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.

Entrepreneur

Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

In fact, if you can, set up an advisory board of three or four folks, who you respect, who've been to the same dance you're at right now. Review competitors, especially the newer ones. You raise capital to acquire resources (people, technology, real estate, etc.) So let Yoda help. First things first. Third, find partners.

Early Stage

Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Their success is about execution in sales, services, and feature parity … and then eventually superiority (again, due to that single platform to rapidly evolve on advantage). There are other networking effects that we will be unleashing, both natural and technological, as we progress through our multi-year strategic plan.

Networking

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If you plan to seek funding, you should describe your advisory board here, as well. It has become incredibly easy to create an e-commerce presence without a lot of technical knowledge, making a digital presence an attractive option for beginning businesses. This section outlines your legal and management structure.

Angel Investor

Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

In fact, if you can, set up an advisory board of three or four folks, who you respect, who've been to the same dance you're at right now. Review competitors, especially the newer ones. You raise capital to acquire resources (people, technology, real estate, etc.) So let Yoda help. First things first.

Early Stage

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So I was part of the team that made the prediction that the Chief Marketing Officer would spend more on technology than the chief information officer. 03:03): But you know, sap, Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce all went out and bought marketing technology companies, right?

Employee

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. And I’ve seen companies fail the other way – the so-called Friendster effect: having a high-profile technical failure just when customer adoption is going wild.

San Francisco

www.collegemogul.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It came as a surprise to us as we thought we did our due diligence.the guys were referred to me from trusted sources with moderately high compliments. Due to the delay, we started looking elsewhere for our other web development projects. On a bootstrapped budget free is great. Originally. Turns out, it has been moderately good.

Technical Review

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Tech*if*er0*urs â?? Seed Startups.

Software Review

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

Software Review

Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

These shortcuts add up and become what is called technical debt. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. Organizational debt was coming due. And the size of the problem increases with the success of the company. Refactoring” organizational debt.

Technical Review

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

investors the opportunity to participate in the Israeli high-tech market. based Angel capital with early stage technology companies in Israel, and do so in a way that substantially mitigates the risk of seed stage investing. Janvest: In 2009, roughly 450 Israeli high-tech companies raised a little over $1.0B. Janvest: Yes.

Israel

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

Technical Review

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

Business Model

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Regularly follow reviews and influencers in your industry. I once served on the Advisory Board of a technical software executive who refused to believe that his product was no longer competitive, and insisted that sales and marketing were no longer doing their job.

Customer

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. For more on this, see An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack. Set up a Data Room, with a filled-out Due Diligence Questionnaire (“DDQ”). Lastly, gather feedback.

Private Equity

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

For acceptance at Endeavor Miami, scalable businesses don’t have to be technology companies. Examples in the Endeavor Miami group of 16 companies include restaurant, fashion, food, and education companies in addition to innovative technology companies. All product industries are different and meet the needs of differing markets.

Miami

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

In this final post, I’ll review the foundational building blocks that all companies must continuously measure, refine and optimize if they are to avoid hitting the rocks where so many other startups meet their ruin. Product Architecture. Entrepreneurs must systematically build up their teams and dramatically reduce the team dynamic risk.

Framework

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. Technically yes. I used to joke I was always “integrating” startup socials (forgive me for not giving Asian people their due credit as being minorities). Is that wrong? Most definitely. Is it human?

Venture Capital

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

In this final post, I’ll review the foundational building blocks that all companies must continuously measure, refine and optimize if they are to avoid hitting the rocks where so many other startups meet their ruin. Product Architecture. Entrepreneurs must systematically build up their teams and dramatically reduce the team dynamic risk.

Framework

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Here are some key reasons why I believe every entrepreneur should create a formal Advisory Board or Board of Directors before they ask for funding, or even build their business plan: We all need a bit of reality to balance our passion. Advisory members are Board of Directors candidates.

Advisory Board

Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

To demonstrate traction you might recruit a good management team, start making sales, build an advisory board or secure strategic partnerships. These are two things that investors will be looking for when they review your pitch or your business plan. For investors, traction minimizes risk. Cash Flow and a Financial Plan.

Exit Strategy

Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

When I experienced the loss of a close relative due to misdiagnosis, I felt that there was a need to have a free, round-the-clock service, where people can chat with doctors. Although it can lead to a lot of frustrations, I know more about employment law, tech stacks, and email marketing automation then I ever thought I would.

Entrepreneur

Board Effect

MARCH 28, 2024

By adopting a tool for the board that can also be used for staff, committees, compliance and other areas, nonprofits maximize their return on investment. A quality solution like BoardEffect has been developed to be user-friendly, supporting the experience of users at all levels of technology comfort.

Software Review

Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

Today, Aurora and Reinvent Technology Partners Y announced their agreement to merge. In my own view, this is awesome news — because I’ve been an investor in Aurora since February 2018 when I co-led its Series A round for Greylock and joined Aurora’s board. This deal has been an unusual experience for me. The Road to AV.

Technical Review

Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

It starts before the technology development even gets underway, says Stanford University computer science professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li , who is the co-founder and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. In June, HAI launched the Ethics and Society Review Board. So let’s get started. So what has happened?

Technical Review