Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

How can my company keep up with the ever increasing rate of change in technology, core business strategies, and culture trends? In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? This applies to startups as well as big companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Even here, Elon Musk faced this issue with Tesla, needing a support ecosystem as well as new technology. With today’s pervasive Internet, the best ideas traverse continents and improve with successive waves of adaptation, through diversity in experience, culture, and worldview. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. The future of the Internet is video. Distribution costs have, too. 10 signs Internet TV is Ready to Disrupt the Industry.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Aside from ditching the storefront, there are some important things to consider when moving your distribution to the internet. While distribution channels have not largely changed over time, the demand of consumers to have fast and convenient delivery has become the norm. How does this affect your distribution strategy?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 28, 2024

Technology innovation is driving advancements in various industries, shaping our world today. From AI and machine learning to biotechnology, technology is revolutionizing our lives. This was the birth of my most successful technology innovation. Thanks to Shammika Munugoda, Apptimistic ! #2-

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

With businesses getting more globalized than ever, with offices being situated in different locations and time zones, there are different technologies being used to accommodate such settings. One of the major reasons why such technology was introduced in the first place was to eliminate the risks of all potential conflicts.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Fully remote distributed companies used to be a rarity. The fact that the Internet and remote work apps are finally fast and robust enough that near-seamless remote collaboration is possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I had two goals in mind: I wanted to be even more technical than I already was as a developer (I wanted to work on cutting edge stuff, which back then was the Internet – pre World Wide Web browsers) and I wanted to live & work in Europe. years where I developed skills building distributed systems over networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. Everything we were taught pre-Internet is still relevant. SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. Underbelly.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. You – being members of the technology community. The web browsers are as immature as the Internet browsers were in the late 90’s. But you need to think in terms of broader distribution. To an extent.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

I explained why authorities like Sam Altman of Y-Combinator , Angel List’s Naval Ravikant, Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, and Bill Gurley, GP at Benchmark Capital , believe boundaryless companies built by remote-distributed teams are the future of work. The Big Question: Why isn’t every company distributed today?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

How can my company keep up with the ever increasing rate of change in technology, core business strategies, and culture trends? In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? This applies to startups as well as big companies.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 3, 2023

Technology innovation is driving advancements in various industries, shaping our world today. From AI and machine learning to biotechnology, technology is revolutionizing our lives. We asked some entrepreneurs what has been their favorite technology innovation and here is what they have to say. #1-

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. I’ve summarized his points, and added my own, as follows: “Everyone loves ‘cool ideas’ and new technology.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Things such as driver-less cars and new medicines are far more than a technology challenge. These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The internet is rife with opinionated and polarised content over the ‘Best CMS’ of today’s times. In today’s world what drives the demand of the market are the complexity of technologies. Choosing the right technology is confusing and an equally important task. These complexities poses new challenges for Drupal as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. I’ve summarized his points, and added my own, as follows: “Everyone loves ‘cool ideas’ and new technology.”

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To be fair, many businesses had distributed teams even before COVID-19 blindsided us. Teams in different locations rely heavily on tools and technology to make their working seamless and easy. Employees, as well as managers, need to be trained to use these new technologies. In distributed teams, employee engagement is critical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. New emerging manufacturing technologies (e.g.,

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

It’s the most profound book I’ve read on thinking about how the Internet is changing business. In Netflix’s case this is their DVD distribution business. But the real threat comes from the change in technologies that rule the old business obsolete. Incumbents can’t react.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. Dan: Well, you and I also just mentioned that we’re on the bleeding edge of technology. Jason: I use them. I think you know that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2011

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. Delete these quickly. Starving girl needs a friend. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2012

I always hate it when I see startups invest millions of dollars in technology before they validate their ideas in the market, only to find that customers seem to be looking for something slightly different. Leverage the technology to change directions as needed. Test your idea early in a form that is easy and inexpensive to modify.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

The Internet and smartphones have changed everything. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. But the reality is that sellers are no longer in charge of the customer buying process.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 5, 2020

And indeed, as more and more people rely on the internet when it comes to shopping for the solutions they need, businesses will have to focus on building an effective content marketing strategy. In order to compete within your industry, you will need to analyze, create, and distribute content that attracts the right people.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

The opportunity here is in improving communication channels through the plethora of tools that technology and the internet offer. Adding value can also mean reimagining your product distribution. According to Verizon, there have been massive spikes in the use of internet in the last few weeks – and it’s becoming the new norm.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. And this is just one of the many pioneering technologies surfacing out of this mid-sized Southern city of the Netherlands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

The Internet and smartphones have changed everything. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2014

It wasn’t that long ago that web-savvy marketers were touting the advances in technology that allowed anyone to build a website, publish a blog, or embark on a social media campaign. The idea of putting everyone on a level playing field is central to the American Dream; it is an old idea being applied to a new technology.

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