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Part-Time Startup CTO?

SoCal CTO

I love blog conversations. Based on my posts Startup CTO or Developer and Acting CTO , Chris O’Meara wrote an interesting post Startup CTO: Could It Work? Chris starts with a description of the person that pretty much every startup is looking for: Their primary characteristics are deep technical skills and a hacker mentality. They tend to have the knack for architecture.

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Don’t Get Burned By Your Startup Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

Cash is the fuel of every startup. Your burn rate is the rate at which that money is being spent, and allows an estimate of how long you can go before refueling. That refueling is when you will need more investment, or when you will break even and begin to make a profit. Investors look at your burn rate to see how efficient and effective you are at running the business.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Skip to content Home Startup Help Conceiving, Refining and Validating your Startup Idea Getting your Startup Funded Building your Startup for Success Business Models Customer Acquisition & Monetization Why Startups Fail Recurring Revenue The Low Cost Sales Model Viral Customer Acquisition The Power of Free The Touchless Conversion Lead Gen Models Field Sales Channel Sales Building a Sales & Marketing Machine Intro Building the Machine Instrumenting the Machine Solving Blockage Points Re

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). With his permission I’m posting it here in its entirety. If you feel the way I do about this issue, I urge you to take a stand on this issue. I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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What The iPad Means For Media Distribution In The Future

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Many years ago (almost five years ago in fact) I wrote an article about what the music industry might look like in a digital distributed world. My premise was that thanks to networked portable devices and the Long Tail , bands would survive because distribution networks would allow them to reach their fans much easier. In effect, I was preempting the arrival of the iPhone and stating something similar to Kevin Kelly’s concept of 1,000 true fans being enough for a creator (like an artist, a

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RenewData Unveils eDiscovery Acceleration Platform

Austin Startup

RenewData , a leading provider of services for the discovery, archiving, review and governance of Electronically Stored Information (ESI), today announced its eDiscovery Acceleration Platform designed to provide clients a solution that addresses the rising costs of eDiscovery and stringent litigation deadlines. RenewData’s revolutionary end-to-end platform is the industry’s first solution to expedite eDiscovery of both live and legacy electronic data without relying on significant ma

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? | Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Share this: chief technical officer chief technology officer cto interim cto job description start-up startup cto web cto Weve been swapping some thoughts with Daniel Kehoe , a consulting CTO acquaintance of ours from across

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Personal Theme Review: A WordPress Theme For Bloggers Who Get Personal

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Joel from BlogTechGuy.com is fast becoming one of the best WordPress experts around. He has already reviewed two premium WordPress themes on my blog, so when Kevin Muldoon offered a review copy of his theme, Joel was happy to check it out and then write this review. Here’s what Joel thinks of the “Personal Theme&# for WordPress… What is the Personal Theme?

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The Danger of Crocodile Sales

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my series on Startup Advice. When I worked in London there were a ton of Aussies. I love working with Aussies because their outlook on life seems very similar to what I grew up with in California. Pretty laid back and non-hierarchic. I also loved learning all of their sayings. My favorite was when I guy told me to beware of Crocodile Salesmen.

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Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain.

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Why You Should Re-architect Your Career to Amplify Your Strengths Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King. → Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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The Outsourcing Famine

deal architect

IBM sent me a press release announcing their $ 362 million data center in Research Triangle Park. Too bad they did not showcase it a month ago as I could have worked it into my upcoming book. In contrast, I. Tags: Outsourcing Negotiations/Best Practices.

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Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior | For Entrepreneurs

www.forentrepreneurs.com

Skip to content Home Startup Help Conceiving, Refining and Validating your Startup Idea Getting your Startup Funded Building your Startup for Success Business Models Customer Acquisition & Monetization Why Startups Fail Recurring Revenue The Low Cost Sales Model Viral Customer Acquisition The Power of Free The Touchless Conversion Lead Gen Models Field Sales Channel Sales Building a Sales & Marketing Machine Intro Building the Machine Instrumenting the Machine Solving Blockage Points Re

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Entrepreneurs Don’t “Noodle” They Do

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my series on Entrepreneurial DNA that was originally published on VentureHacks. I know this series has been running for a while (and is getting long in the tooth) – I promise it’s nearly over. I started with a “top 11″ list – only because I couldn’t fit them into a top 10. But in the end I ended up with 12.

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Rude Q&A

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Nothing clarifies things quite like a hyperactive, all-knowing, all-seeing, real asshole of a devil's advocate beating the living crap out of you. (Cartoon by Andertoons). Baseball players swing heavy bats before going up to the plate; acclimating to difficult working conditions makes it easier to hit the ball out of the park. What's the equivalent of the heavy bat for honing your skills at pitching your product and raising money for your company?

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Critical Considerations for a Startup Advisory Board

Startup Professionals Musings

By Bob Arciniaga In developing the content for this article, it was very apparent this advice is not only critical for startups but for most companies. The suggestions are even more vital in a startup environment with constrained resources. A properly built advisory board can be a huge strategic advantage to any company. On the other hand, an advisory board put together haphazardly can be the biggest mistake for a company in the early stages of business.

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Incentives and Legends

Steve Blank

Entrepreneurs and the early startup team all need to be motivated by a shared vision, passion and desire to build a large company. Yet it’s the company legends that live on. Fund Raising. Our little startup was less than a year-old. We had been busy assembling our team and had just hired the last member of our exec staff. We had also just closed our Series B financing with a major overseas partner.

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Where are the Dick Brasses at IBM, Oracle, SAP, HP.?

deal architect

Dick Brass, as in the Microsoft executive who wrote an Op-ed in the New York Times “Unlike other companies, Microsoft never developed a true system for innovation. Some of my former colleagues argue that it actually developed a system to. Tags: Industry Commentary.

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Challenges Associated With Legislating Cybersecurity– Some Perspectives on Senate Bill 773, the “Cybersecurity Act of 2009?

Pascal's View

I recently chaired a panel at the Stevens Institute of Technology cybersecurity conference in Washington D.C. and was asked by the conference organizers to develop an agenda based on a review of pending Senate Bill 773, the “Cybersecurity Act of 2009″ Our panel, which included two security experts– former National Security Agency Deputy Director Bill Crowel l and Ted Schlein of KPCB , focused on some of the challenges to the passage of effective legislative solutions aimed at

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An Entrepreneur Must Nurture Relationships

Startup Professionals Musings

You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. You need to have business relationships with team members, investors, customers, and a myriad of other support people. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. It does mean that you need to look, listen, and participate in the business world around you, and network through all available channels, like business-oriented social networks online (LinkedIn), local business organizations (Chamber of Co

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Memo From the Monastery

Steve Blank

Filed under: Technology. Tags: Technology.

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amazon, Macmillan and me

deal architect

In the on-going battle between published content and distribution that Larry Dignan summarizes well at ZDNet I should, as a blogger and the fact that I have a book coming out, be unabashedly on the side of content. But I. Tags: Industry Commentary.

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and l

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Entrepreneurs Need to Ask the Right Questions

Startup Professionals Musings

Most people in business seem to expect their leaders just to give orders. According to Gary B. Cohen in his new book, “ Just Ask Leadership : Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions,” as leaders advance, they tend to oblige by asking fewer questions and providing more answers. This is precisely the wrong approach. I’m a big fan of the old adage "There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.

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The Gartner Magic Quadrant - a necessary evil in IT

BeyondVC

Lately, I feel as if I have been spending an inordinate amount of time with my companies talking about marketing. Related to this, one of my portfolio companies recently received a number of nice emails from the board related to its new positioning in Gartner's Magic Quadrant. We were all quite excited since we made demonstrable progress over the last 3 years from niche player to visionary and on the cusp of becoming a leader.

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Is voice dead?

deal architect

Good to see the folks at Plantronics blog. I feature them in my upcoming book as a firm that has innovated through every twist and turn in the telecom market for 5 decades now – with roots in aviation and. Tags: Telecommunications.

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How’s That Resolution Going?

Rembrandt Communications

Did you make a New Year’s resolution this year? How’s it going? Well, if you’re having a tough time keeping your resolution, how about creating goals instead? I know. I know. You’ve heard it all before. Well, I once felt the same way. But actually writing down your goals can have a significant impact on your happiness and wealth. [.].

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Inventors Need to Find an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

In my experience, inventors aren’t interested or aren’t very good at building a business, and entrepreneurs aren’t usually good scientists. These people need to find each other, and can jointly make a great team for a new startup. Historically, it’s also not often that a good inventor was also a good entrepreneur. Some now argue that even our entrepreneur heroes, like Thomas Edison, really cheated on the invention side.

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Bottom Up Market Sizing - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations | Main. | Do we really need this help? » February 03, 2010. Bottom Up Market Sizing. A lot has been written about this.  (Google: Bottom up market sizing).  For an example written by a VC, see A Startups Guide to Market Sizing from DocStoc.

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More innovation

deal architect

On the New Florence blog The “squat” effect Tesla and Panasonic batteries The best from the 2010 Detroit auto show Comparing Big Screen readers.

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SnapCamp in Boulder – All for Good and Lots of Fun

Feld Thoughts

I think Boulder is one of the absolute best places to start a tech company. The depth of talent and overall strength of our tech community here is superb. It turns out that makes it a great place to start a community-based tech nonprofit startup, too. I’ve written before about SnapImpact’s great work in making doing good easy. Having already created the first volunteering app for the iPhone, they’re started taking on some additional challenges.

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Use Investment Banks for Exit, not Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

I used to think that an investment bank was a place where I could somehow deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. Then I learned that these banks really negotiate investments and collect fees on the transactions, sort of like commercial banks do with loans to businesses. None really provide funds for early-stage startups. Many investment banks even call themselves “boutiques.

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The One Law That Business Owners Must Break

Growthink Blog

Last month I reached my boiling point. My son Max was driving me absolutely crazy. And something had to be done about it. What was happening? Well, a couple of months ago, he started taking forever to get anything done. For example, if you told him to brush his teeth, it would take him 20 minutes. He just didn't have any focus. He would walk upstairs.

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More New Florence

deal architect

on the innovation blog The best of CES 2010 Huawei’s solar powered base station BASF’s high-tech rice Google Focused Research Awards.

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Let the VC’s Pitch You at SXSW

Austin Startup

Normally you’re out pitching the VC’s. Well during SXSW we’ve got a little party for you where the VC’s will be pitching you. Our friend Larry Chiang , who wrote What They Don’t Teach You at Business School (and writes a BusinessWeek column with the same name) is throwing a Reverse VC Pitch party downtown on March 14th.

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How to Give Your Startup Idea a Reality Check

Startup Professionals Musings

I have a certain friend who called me again a while back, all excited about his latest revelation. “What if you could go to a web site and find all the recipes you could make today, with just the ingredients you already have in your kitchen? I’m going to start a website to offer this service!” I’m sure you all realize that there could be quite a distance between a great idea and a great startup.

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Bootstrapping Your Startup or Small Business

crowdSPRING Blog

I spent this past weekend talking with 100 brilliant people at ORD Camp in Chicago. ORD Camp is an invitation-only unconference, loosely based on Foo Camp. During the conference, I participated, among many other things (including an awesome presentation about roasting a pig!), in two discussions about startups. Although Mike ( Thoughts for small businesses and startups on raising capital ) and I ( Start-up Tip: Ten Suggestions For Raising Start-up Capital From Angels and Start-up Tip: When To Le