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. Ongoing momentum requires a move to mainstream, or even late adopters, who demand simplicity in your base function. Focus on the mainstream customer majority.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 25, 2018
The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. Advisors and investors need to see your whole story in as few as ten slides.
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Reid Hoffman
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
PayPal Japan debuted shortly thereafter, and Reid and Joi—who now directs the MIT Media Lab—struck up a friendship and collaboration that is still going strong. Talk with other entrepreneurs, not just famous entrepreneurs,” the Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston told Reid on the Masters of Scale podcast.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. .
SoCal CTO
JULY 13, 2010
Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. Now I have. " Is Your VC Founder Friendly?
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 26, 2021
Before becoming a founder, I worked at Aviary for two years and then Dwolla for two years (the latter with my future cofounder Michael Schonfeld ). HW: You then started your own company in the social media marketing/analytics space ( SocialRank ). My claim to fame is I am the godfather of theskimm — something I wear proudly.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
While he has thought through many specifics of the business he’d like to start, his main hurdle is balancing his entrepreneurial goals with the demands of a full-time job. “My cofounders and I all either hold full-time jobs or are still students. ” — Hero Huggins , Financial Advisor / Motivational Speaker.
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