Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If we want to maintain and support sustainable economic growth while meeting the broader needs of society, we will need an economy underpinned by innovation and new technologies. Underpinning this growth is good governance. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward. Risk and reward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

A few years ago outsourcing resources offshore was all the rage. As a result the transition to remote was relatively painless but this meant managing every employee as if they are offshore. However we are finding that offshore resources are keen to work within your time zones even if it is for just meetings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Government bail-outs do not promote innovation.

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Hacking Startups

JUNE 25, 2013

Independence from any government policy. Dollars in an offshore bank. Land has even appreciated, largely due to population increase. Due to counterparty risk, Bitcoin today does not offer a good way to short itself. Independence from any government policy. Investment. Irreversibility. Freedom of capital movement.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop?

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Kodorra

JANUARY 4, 2019

When it comes to fundraising the blockchain way, you might get lost with ever-changing technology advancement coupled with roller-coaster market sentiment rides. Due to its simplicity to set up, the cost is obviously lower than IEO and STO. Because regulation and governance are tighter around securities, so is liquidity.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Is Government a good idea? Review your marketing media allocation: offline media prices will go down and could generate attractive ROI, tradeshows might have less impact due to travel restrictions… G&A Manage your DSOs tightly – they will go up! In search of Europe's next tech stars. Venture Capital.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

is due to two factors, principally “Americans’ false sense of security: the self-delusion that since nothing terrible has happened to the country’s IT infrastructure, nothing will.” government waits, the more devastating the eventual assault is likely to be.” government. is following.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JULY 12, 2012

It’s also not good that the most likely candidates for reshoring — high tech equipment intensive/low labour requirement operations — are very expensive to set up. It’s a sad truth today that VC’s are more interested in funding the next iPhone app than a start-up that actually makes something.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. This doesn’t mean just more technology stuff, though we’ll get that. Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world.

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