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. Balance here comes again from the operational expert, who is very good at leading, managing, and holding people accountable. Cause organizational whiplash.

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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.

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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 are hungry.

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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. Balance here comes again from the operational expert, who is very good at leading, managing, and holding people accountable. Cause organizational whiplash.

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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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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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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. On the left is the Pentagon with highly connected data centers with high bandwidth. Joint Common Foundation.

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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

JULY 14, 2019

The inherent conflicts between innovation and ongoing operations are simply too fundamental and too powerful for one person to tackle alone. What you want is integration with real world operations, not an undisciplined and chaotic mess. The first principle is to do no harm to existing operations. Everyone can be an innovator.

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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. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. Mike Baker – CEO of DataXu. The Purpose of Entrepreneur Advisors.

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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. This way, you can ensure the safety and operability of your office space.

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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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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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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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Algorithms that were designed with enormous datasets, depend upon such large datasets in operation. The legal department wants to give that help while complying with headcount and bandwidth constraints. Most enterprises that have implemented AI tools confront the training dataset problem. The requester wants prompt, accurate help.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

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. Balance here comes again from the operational expert, who is very good at leading, managing, and holding people accountable. Cause organizational whiplash.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 12, 2021

We’ve seen it over and over again in our own investment portfolio – and helped to mentor our founders through these strategic decisions and transitions. As such, we decided to bring in an experienced operator who has seen growth from our scale to more than 10x our scale to lead us through this phase. It’s all part of the journey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. According to one study a while back, 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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2012

” “Bandwidth and mobile data is precious. At US$79 which includes an initial 1 GB free bandwidth it even ditches the subscription model – so yay, no more monthly subscription payments. The concept of social bandwidth. There’s never enough of it.” ” “Sharing is for losers.”

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures says: “I feel that the ability to spin up and then successfully operate remote engineering locations is a skill that technology companies need to develop earlier in their development than used to be the case.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. According to one study a while back, 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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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2014

by Zeynep Ilgaz, co-founder and president of Confirm BioSciences and TestCountry. Scaling operations can be a daunting task, so here are some tips for handling the inevitable growing pains: 1. As your bandwidth expands during your first growth spurt or the market changes, you may have the urge to try lots of different things.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms. The next major entrant is the Android platform, an open source mobile operating system that has led to the introduction of several handsets that are based on this OS and many more to be released over time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and Founders being replaced, to their chagrin. According to one study , 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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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

sales operations. Reasons it might make sense to hire a COO: when CEO bandwidth becomes a bottleneck (i.e. there are signs that operations are creaking – deadlines get missed, too much time is spent fighting fires, key people are leaving the company (or won’t join). process improvements across the business. people management.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. The app had made communicating with the team much more efficient and high bandwidth for me. I immediately liked what I saw.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. According to one study a while back, 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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Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

There were instances of, "I want to offer 10 times the performance, or 10 times the storage, or 10 times the bandwidth, or 1/10 the latency," and if you could actually deliver on that in the timeframe proposed, you could feel pretty confident that you would build a big business. If you're the second person, you're an operator.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 25, 2012

But are there any apps that are must haves for entrepreneurs and startup founders? Plenty of startup founders are already experts in this area. Great for conference calls on the go - just don’t leave it running when you’re not using it (its a battery and bandwidth hog). Heck, apps are the business of many startups these days.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Amy Keller , PurePlus Co-Founder and CEO calls this a revolution in the whole plant foods-based economy. Since there won’t be any content or bandwidth for this level TV for years and the human eye can’t tell the difference between 4K and 8K, is it really worth upgrading TVs so often? We are surrounded by top-notch people.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 28, 2020

Business organizations, large and small, are responding to this crisis in different ways, depending upon the nature of the business, size of operations, and financial standing. Employees at startups and SMBs look up to the founders and HR managers for direction and confidence. Build Confidence and Provide Direction to Employees.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

It’s harder to train people and keep your culture going, and those founders who were brilliant at seeking market-fit and constructing the foundation of a startup might be ill-suited for scaling that organization. In the case of WP Engine, we knock off 2% for credit card fees and a certain amount for hosting and bandwidth costs.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 25, 2012

But are there any apps that are must haves for entrepreneurs and startup founders? Plenty of startup founders are already experts in this area. Great for conference calls on the go - just don’t leave it running when you’re not using it (its a battery and bandwidth hog). Heck, apps are the business of many startups these days.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

In my first company, ESL , I sat in secure locations and taught complex intelligence gathering systems to a classroom of maintenance and/or operations students. High bandwidth, low noise. Customer interaction is necessary for startup founders. It was all about the efficient transfer of knowledge. Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2015

While certain processes and strategies may have worked for a business early on, a rapidly increasing customer base and the increased bandwidth needed in response will often bring those very same process to their natural breaking point. ” – Jonny Videl, Callsheet Operator. People just want to know they are in good hands.”

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