Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Most technology startups seem to be founded by three types of people: product managers, engineers or biz dev types (MBAs and the like). are, as the name implies, the people who have “ learned a trade and work for another person usually by the day.&# Almost by definition. More on that later. They are hugely process driven.

Early Stage 350

Early Stage Startup Sales Campaign 350

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

By the late 1930′s when HP started, a small group (measured in hundreds) of engineers who made radio tubes were building the valleys’ ecosystem for electronics manufacturing, product engineering and technology management. Who would have known? And these microwave engineers were working at startups – not large companies.

Silicon Valley 302

Silicon Valley RSS San Francisco Technical Review 302

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. Back then it was a larger than life ex country manager from PTC named Kai Krickel. By definition an MVP (minimum viable product) means there’s room for improvement. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. He called his business TEDIC.

Sales 316

Sales Technical Review Matching Hiring 316

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. Seriously, this happens.

Operations 286

Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Put yourself on the site.

Internet 294

Internet Web Affiliate Advertising 294

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 12, 2014

Can’t be the logo, or even the name. Can someone in their first week of tech support decide whether it’s OK to give a customer a large refund or spend extra hours to go above and beyond to fix something? Isn’t that the definition of empowerment? Can’t be the office space, Lao Tzu already pointed that out.

Laos 279

Laos Technical Review Startup Engineer 279

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Metz provides a good definition in his book as follows: “The customer owns the conversation now, so companies need to change the way they do business. They are namely: monitoring, mapping, middleware, management and measurement. 5 Integrate with social advertising and technologies. Defining Social CRM.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Software Review Customer Social Media 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Put yourself on the site.

Startup 263

Startup Affiliate Advertising Technical Review 263

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

I was an early user of Quora and like all new technologies they take a bit of playing with them for a while, discussing them with others and reflecting on them to let them sink in. You definitely notice the people who are engaged with your content and you can’t help but click on the link of their name to see just who they are.

Silicon Valley 301

Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Software Review 301

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

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. I’m writing this post to make sure you’re all on that same playing field.

Investment Bankers 415

Investment Bankers Mobile Software Review Japan 415

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. Prices have definitely gone up in 2011 as depicted in the anecdotal chart below.

Pre-Money Valuation 336

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Yet talk with people at Twitter these days and many seem to feel like they are part of a movement – and that doesn’t just come due to product success. Those are the easy cases.

Founder 340

Founder Cofounder Sacramento Technical Review 340

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

When added to my volume of Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, blog comments and Tweets my head is definitely below water. It made me laugh because the technical world has this exact phrase to talk in computing sense about the need to block out interruptions in order to complete a task. Admittedly I also fall into this trap.

Product 280

Product Technical Review Email Search 280

Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Initials of a longer name. With a different business model, we wanted a name that didn’t sound like areal estate brokerage.

Naming 110

Naming Cofounder Wisconsin Entrepreneur 110

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Your business name , your logo , your website design should all grow from the concepts you laid out here. Prepare your design resources (fabric swatches, sewn samples, and tech pack or renderings). It’s also relatively easy to create an e-commerce presence nowadays without a lot of technical knowledge.

Small Business Administration 133

Small Business Administration Social Media LLC Small Business 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2012

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Put yourself on the site.

Entrepreneur 241

Entrepreneur Affiliate Advertising Technical Review 241

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

It was by definition a hits-driven business. It had the effect of greatly reducing the industry size but also of allowing some less known artists to reach audiences that previously would be unthinkable due to cost constraints. Yes, it’s true that their deep libraries are virtual and therefore fit the long-tail properties.

Media 302

Media South Korea Distribution Technical Review 302

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an untrustable country, or don’t have a clue. Put yourself on the site.

Startup 230

Startup Affiliate Advertising Technical Review 230

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).

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Israel Technical Review Startup 122

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Put yourself on the site.

Affiliate 221

Affiliate Advertising Technical Review Social Network 221

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2017

New tech is certainly going to play apart in the future of logistics. They’re not the only ones testing this tech either. Probably not as long as you think and in the next few years you can bet companies are going to be toying with this tech. However, Amazon has stated they are keen to further develop this tech.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Security Cost Cloud 138

View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

There is always some debate about the methodology and accuracy of the list, but I think it’s a pretty interesting data set that reflects some of the things that have been happening in tech and VC over time. This was definitely one of the major trends over the last 10 years. What will be interesting to see is whether this persists.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital China Technical Review Africa 313

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

While some technical aspects in the post quickly changed (e.g., It's definitely worth a read if you've not seen it before as background for this post. However, if you sign-up with twitter, it puts a check mark next to it and leaves you on this page still requiring you to enter your name and email address. It grabs your email.

Design 225

Design Social Network Oauth Caching 225

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2011

But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. This is the classic pyramid scheme where you get an email with a list of names, you are asked to send a dollar to the person at the top of the list, add your own name, and forward the updated list to a number of other people.

Technical Review 228

Technical Review Internet Startup Email 228

Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2020

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Photo Credit: Amber Christian.

Technical Review 146

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Artificial Inteligence 146

Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

No one wants their hard work to do go down in the name of a shoddy investment. Technology has proved to have a great driver of the rise of ‘future industries’ and those that were previously seen to be tech-proof. 2-Technology. Trends that could spur investments in Technology. 1- Sustainability. 3- Self-publishing.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review Affiliate 133

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

You Get Their Facebook ID: These tend to last forever, where as business emails expire on average 4% / month due to people changing jobs, etc. If you use a chatbot tool like MobileMonkey, this is easy because they handle all the technical stuff. And be sure to use your business name in your messages.

Marketing 87

Marketing Software Review Campaign Widget 87

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Starting up a business is an enormous and serious task that will most definitely pose many challenges along the way. The competition is fierce and with the constant development of technology and social media advances, everything has become bigger, better and faster. Another thing you must not forget is the choice of your brand name.

Technical Review 173

Technical Review Social Media Startup Naming 173

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. These are all creative processes. So I thought I would.

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Definitive Guide To Instagram Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like literally we will submit everything and then when the technical editor gets to it, they're like, this screenshot's out of day. So it's definitely still popular.

Marketing 99

Marketing Social Media Video Technical Review 99

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

I would start by asking the candidate, “How did you decide on these five people” as part of your review process. Most people delay reference calls until that point both due to expediency of time (why make phone calls unless you think you might hire the person?) And they have a general sense of reputation.

Technical Review 302

Technical Review Hiring Later Stage Employee 302

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 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. And that’s what your name is. Jason: SyncBloc. Well I know what Sync is, but Bloc.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In fact, JW Player was the technology that ran the earliest version of YouTube. It has continued to offer technical capabilities at the forefront of online video. The technical features of JW Player have attracted enterprise-level publishers (e.g. Here’s a demo featuring my name: Who is personalized video right for?

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

Here’s how I break down the four quadrants (and I’ve put my definitions in here – not Covey’s). So things that have to be done early get done early, but only at the last possible moment that the early task is due. The Urgency Addiction – Deep down I’m a procrastinator. I couldn’t.

China 374

China Asia Email Technical Review 374

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

Small business owners need to have diverse knowledge in many different areas of their company, in addition to having the necessary proficient experience and technical skills required to perform the core functions of business. No shark wants to invest in a company that has no definite marketing plan–no marketing, no business!

CPA 160

CPA Technical Review Later Stage Equity 160

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

For many CEOs, competition with the tech giants an existential concern. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech. Commercial – a data/tech/commercial partnership or client relationship.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

That’s definitely a waste of time no matter who you are. Patrick: Definitely. You’re going to tell Jason and Bob just the name of your URL, nothing else, and see if Jason can figure out what it is. It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging.

Cofounder 208

Cofounder Technical Review Software Review Differentiation 208