Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

If your startup is great enough to get a term sheet from angel investors or a venture capitalist, the next step for the investor is to complete the dreaded due diligence process. Some startups do nothing to prepare for the due diligence process, assuming the people and business plan documents will speak for themselves.

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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. It’s important to define your growth strategy, document it, communicate it to your team, and align metrics and employee rewards to target goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

This is the mysterious and dreaded due diligence process, which can kill the whole deal. Some entrepreneurs do very little to prepare for due diligence, assuming all the talking has already been done, and the business plan and results to-date tell the right story. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2019

Tech That Helps You Grow (And Grows With You). There’s a genuine need for technology that can provide insights and automation in the freelance economy, especially as it relates to collecting the right tax forms and adhering to the right employment laws. But what type of technology can help? Managing the Freelance Economy. “The

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. Define milestones for cost review and sign-off.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Documentation is the backbone for organized, efficient, and successful operational processes. Process documentation, contract documentation, or compliance reports help eliminate errors and improve accountability. It is the foundation of policies, workflow systems, and compliance measures that carry weight in businesses.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2020

Legal tech includes software and other tools that help attorneys and their support staff to provide legal services to clients. Here’s how legal tech companies are re-shaping the legal world. Legal tech also gives small firms and individual practitioners a chance to compete with larger competitors. Firms go global.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Remote work and freelancing are professional roles that involve an incredible amount of effort, tech-savvy, and time management. Fortunately, there are technological tools that can maximize working time by making meetings more efficient, improving your office workflow, and better managing client interactions.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Businesses in the technology sector closely deal with research, development, and products or services associated with electronics or science. Due to the numerous technological advances the world has seen over the years, the industry has vastly evolved. If you’re reading this on your phone, you can thank technology for that.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2020

Organizations are trying to switch to remote working with the help of technologies and work culture to obtain similar or better operational efficiency than before. This post will dive into an aspect whose importance often goes unnoticed i.e. documentation management. This is the key aspect of managing the documents.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

If one looks at some of the most far-reaching changes in healthcare tech over the last decade alone, they will observe a major spike in the role startups play within the healthcare niche. We will be looking at a few ways technology is helping healthcare startups streamline their operations and improve overall care quality.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2018

eCommerce might be impressively high-tech, but the tracking and verification methods that are its backbone are in desperate need of an upgrade. Of course, Niantic tried to stop such cheating, devoting months of effort diligently programing an update, only to discover the internet was able to find a work around in less than an hour.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

Focusing on generative AI applications in a select few corporate functions can contribute to a significant portion of the technology's overall impact. This technological integration into software engineering not only enhances the productivity of development teams but also ensures that IT infrastructures are robust and reliable.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

That should involve hiring dedicated staff to manage vendor risks, perform due diligence when taking on new vendors, document the vendor relationship, and even put together the necessary contractual language to, for example, obtain a certain level of data security, or put other measures in place to mitigate risk.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” It might be for technical reasons or it might be for customer adoption reasons. That leverage technology or drive change. But my definition of the word is much broader.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

When International Technological University’s CTO Kranthi Lammatha was a boy in the Indian farming village of Kasipuram, he would walk nine miles to get to school every day and another nine miles to get back home in the evening. Looking to Solve Problems. Kranthi Lammatha.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

“Attached is a copy of my full business plan for your review.” I don’t have a business plan, but the technology is disruptive.” Don’t send investors documents and notes that would be rejected by any high-school teacher. business business plan entrepreneur investor technology' Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

At the big consulting firms, investment banks and established large technology companies we’re taught to produce long reports, make sure that every document is perfect quality and that every possible bit of diligence has been done. It says that you need to take due care in selecting team members. Good enough isn’t.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 23, 2023

Technology advancement has transformed the way we live, work, and communicate. The continuous innovation in technology has led to the development of smarter devices, faster and more reliable networks, and unprecedented levels of connectivity. Better technology means happier patients and less stressed staff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Words alone, like “improved efficiency”, “paradigm shift,” and “breakthrough technology” won’t convince people to follow you. For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Unit costs are important, but don’t forget about the cash flow hit, extra storage costs, and the probability of obsolete inventory due to necessary updates or pivots. Daily updates from the top and documented processes are critical. It’s no secret that some people are more productive than others, due to skills, training, or commitment.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Adopting innovative tools and technologies is crucial for modern businesses. Businesses must keep pace with the ever-changing technological landscape, ensuring their processes remain relevant and competitive. Innovative Tools Transforming Workflows The role of technology in shaping modern workflows cannot be overstated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

“Attached is a copy of my full business plan for your review.” I don’t have a business plan, but the technology is disruptive.” Don’t send investors documents and notes that would be rejected by any high-school teacher. Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. Product people are often messy, hate paperwork and prefer to spend their time creating stuff rather than documenting it.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It is based on modern technologies for obtaining payday loans. This is due to the following advantages of this process. To apply for a loan online , you need a minimum number of documents. Making loans in a bank requires a large number of documents. All you need in this case is to issue a loan online to the card.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. If these technical challenges weren’t enough for drivers to manage, these autonomous driving features are appearing at the same time that car dashboards are becoming computer displays.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Modern frameworks and languages have many built in features for security, created on the assumption that every developer would take the time to look through the piles of documentation (or lack thereof). As part of the SDLC, we should introduce secure design review exercises. Testing and Verification.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

In addition, founders thinking about starting a company can be overwhelmed by choice, as there are so many problems to tackle with technology, but it could be comforting to know that investors are interested in those areas in the first place.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2020

It is because technology is appreciated by entrepreneurs in various sectors. VDR allows your business to ensure restricted access so that only approved participants can reach out to sensitive information and confidential data, such as licenses, contracts, staff history, intellectual property documents, financial statements, etc.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Often this situation is characterized as a “good problem to have” until you’re the technical person who needs to solve the problem—and quickly. Well, there are a number of technical reasons for applications suffering performance issues. Performance in your technology selection process. So, why does this happen?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From cutting-edge monitoring technologies to accessible reporting platforms, startups are stepping up to safeguard the well-being of nursing home residents and redefine the future of elder care. The importance of such technologies is underscored by recent reports highlighting the prevalence of abuse in nursing homes.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2014

This is reinforced by the number of processes and documentation that can be involved in a project. After all, when a company is trying to meet market needs or break into trends, the last thing it needs is a project manager/PMO saying, ‘We need to have all this documentation before we can start working on this.’

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2014

Airline engineering issues arise due to lack of oversight; methods used for risk management and the use of temporary employees and outsourced specialists. Research that solves immediate problems; improves existing technologies; is disruptive and game-changing; or is purely curiosity driven and exploratory,” he said.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

However, it should be recognized that a significant amount of that attention is due to its association with Elon Musk. The “end” in legal organizations, is a document of some kind. Documents are their widget, the thing legal teams build. Finding information that is relevant to creating a document is helpful.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

A data security plan will establish which member of the team will need access to business-critical data, and you must then introduce access levels for different folders and documents. You must also routinely review your data security plan as you hire more employees and create more departments. Facial recognition. Fingerprints.

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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. 18% of all errors come from people using the wrong documents. I encourage it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

“Attached is a copy of my full business plan for your review.” I don’t have a business plan, but the technology is disruptive.” Don’t send investors documents and notes that would be rejected by any high-school teacher. Too much detail at first contact is just as much of a turnoff as no information.

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