Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

Starting a new business is fraught with challenges, and none of us has the bandwidth to kill them all. Very few entrepreneurs have the skills and bandwidth to adequately cover all the business bases of product, marketing, and finance. Sharing your business ownership increases the risk. Trust is required, so build relationships slowly.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You have a deep desire to hone your skills as a venture capitalist and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. You are hungry. A Final Note.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity. Blinded by its advertising revenue , Yahoo let customer experience take a backseat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

Due to founder visibility, the team is so tuned in to the visionary and current direction that every turn to the right to pursue a new idea turns the whole team to the right. But in my experience, very few entrepreneurs have the bandwidth to make this work, and the adapted entrepreneur ends up doing both jobs poorly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

Due to founder visibility, the team is so tuned in to the visionary and current direction that every turn to the right to pursue a new idea turns the whole team to the right. But in my experience, very few entrepreneurs have the bandwidth to make this work, and the adapted entrepreneur ends up doing both jobs poorly.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

We make fewer investments on a per-partner basis than nearly all seed funds in the country, so we have the bandwidth to take board seats and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with founders at the seed stage to try to make the biggest possible impact. Check out our blog for how we think about company building and investing. . A Final Note.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. Who Are We Looking For. You are a native of NYC tech with a strong network. You act as an “ invited guest.”.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I suggested they do some research by reading founders’ and investors’ public post-mortems of what went wrong. Since Mei and Bill were networking, there would be a lot to learn if they talked to the founders of startups that built products similar to theirs, but didn’t make it. You’d be surprised how many founders will agree to chat. (At

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Some of these folks are founders and CEOs, but not at high-growth tech startups. Helpful investors should use their sage advice and support of the founder to make them into better, data-driven decision makers to impact a company, instead of relying on their contractually held voting rights. Perhaps they inherited it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2023

A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills. Network to find co-founders just as you network to find investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Burns off high energy and bandwidth. Are you ready to step up to this table?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 28, 2022

Today, the company advertises up to unlimited wireless internet for rural areas, but back then, the founders were stuck on a single problem. The RV park in the city trusted the Garza to deliver enough bandwidth to the park so everyone could use their devices. Humble Beginnings . The Garzas came through on that promise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2018

In my experience, the initial idea for a new product usually comes from a single entrepreneur, but the implementation plan for a new business requires a team, or at least a co-founder. The reason is that any one person rarely has the bandwidth, interest, or skills to manage all the tasks required to build a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2019

Yet most team members don’t have the bandwidth or interest to do their existing job, and well as address major innovations. Everyone can be an innovator. Ideation is everyone’s job, as are small improvements in each employee’s direct sphere of responsibility. Real innovation happens bottoms-up.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah and Steven Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. Mike Baker – CEO of DataXu. In some cases , the advisors’ companies form business relationships with startups NextView is vetting.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She is the author of The Content Fuel Framework: How to Generate Unlimited Story Ideas , and the founder of StoryFuel , which teaches entrepreneurs and companies how to tell better brand stories. If someone only has the bandwidth to create in one format, where should they focus their time? Not everyone listening has a content team.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. Investment – All of these individuals are busy people with limited bandwidth, but they?’re

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 19, 2014

When companies are just getting off the ground, the founders often build the websites themselves, increasingly with flat HTML because it is simple and efficient. Every hour invested in this marketing infrastructure comes directly out of the bandwidth available for product improvements. The startup’s ops and engineering team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills. Network to find co-founders just as you network to find investors.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. According to one study a decade ago, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

If in-house development resources have the bandwidth, why not assign them the important task of creating a new platform or application? Ryan Gerhardy is the co-founder and CEO of Pitchly , the leading cloud-based content service platform for M&A professionals to organize and activate their proprietary client experience.

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Steve Blank

MAY 27, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. The issues our lawyer had raised about the contract, while correct, were strategy questions the founders needed to answer, not legal questions. My co-founder and a few board members brainstormed to make sure we weren’t missing anything.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2013

My partners and I often worry about companies we’ve invested in having enough bandwidth and resources to adequately cover issues of reliability, availability, and security. Watch David Campbell, one of JumpCloud’s other co-founders, explain JumpCloud at TechCrunch Disrupt. And then much pain ensues.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The legal department wants to give that help while complying with headcount and bandwidth constraints. Rudy DeFelice is co-founder and CEO of Keesal Propulsion Labs , a digital transformation company serving the law departments of the Fortune 500. The requester wants prompt, accurate help. Once the world stops laughing, of course.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. In the bandwidth example, picking a point in 1986 and a point in 1998 exactly predicts the bandwidth I have in 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Burns off high energy and bandwidth. Are you ready to step up to this table?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, according to Founders Forum’s survey of 400+ startup owners, 94% of the respondents were already working from home before the pandemic. In simple terms, the video quality doesn’t dip for participants with poor internet connectivity and low bandwidth. Image Credit: pixaby. Aubot : Cutting-Edge Surveillance.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. For example, Acquia runs its Drupal infrastructure on more than 8,000 AWS instances and serves more than 27 billion hits a month (or 333TB of bandwidth). Because they are open source. What will come next?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In addition to Nand, the class also heard from Chris Lynch, founder of the Defense Digital Service (DDS), now the CEO of Rebellion Defense, a new vendor of AI to the DOD. On the left is the Pentagon with highly connected data centers with high bandwidth. Connecting Systems End to End. We’re applying AI across the board.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion interactions occurring during the television program, but JD’s cloud computing service JD Cloud was able to successfully manage the bandwidth during the large traffic increases and ensure a smooth experience for participants. Participation was at its highest in the show’s interactive campaign history, with 69.1

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills. Network to find co-founders just as you network to find investors.

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Mucker Lab

JULY 11, 2023

Bandwidth - A web host that provides ≥ 10 GB Network for data transfers is more ideal. If you are the founder of a seed-stage company interested in learning more about Mucker funding, apply to MuckerLab and/or contact us.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Especially in the age of zoom pitching, founders can create a fairly wide top of the funnel, and talk to a large number of investors to find a good match for their round. In other words, by the time the term sheet is signed, everyone else in the syndicate is already known and have been talking to the founder already.

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