Gust

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Engineering, physics, chemistry, and higher math … those degrees seem to say “smart person.”. There are some specialty fields like design and development in which degrees can be strangely, ironically, suspect. They don’t hurt unless you push them too hard. We tend to like what we did ourselves. That’s just unavoidable human bias.

Angel Investor 101

Angel Investor Software Review Technical Review Engineer 101

Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

An experienced software engineer, for example, can develop a new mobile app with his or her own resources and market the product on the web with very little capital. Clearly, new companies need to design their achievement milestones with the capital food chain in mind. million in entrepreneurial ventures.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Venture Capital Valuation Software Engineering 179

Gust

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Features you designed for average users, like wizards for configuration, and simple buttons to eliminate complex processes, will get no feedback, or removal recommendations. Emphasis on engineering robustness. At some point it becomes compulsive engineering, rather than engineering to increase value for the average user.

Marketing 178

Marketing Engineer Technology Product 178

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Back in the “heyday of the dot.com startups,” it was not uncommon to see a valuation incremented by $1M or every paid full-time professional programmer, engineer, or designer. Assign value to all paid professionals, as their skills, training, and knowledge of your business technology is very valuable.

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Gust

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Eric espouses designing products with the smallest set of features to please a customer base, and moving products into the marketplace quickly to test reaction, then iterating. Pivots come in many different flavors, each designed to test the viability of a different hypothesis about the product, business model, and engine of growth.

Silicon Valley 187

Silicon Valley Architecture Startup Channel 187

Gust

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

.” Here are some key attributes of CFOs who fit the dream team definition, based on an old article by Mark Macleod from StartupCFO: “It’s all in the details” - A professional accounting designation (CA, CPA) is the foundation. Not so much that it slows you down, but enough so that you smoothly run and grow the engine.

NDA 147

NDA CPA SEC Startup 147

Gust

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Of course, there are other positions were Boomers are sometimes not the best fit: Leading-edge technology architects, designers, consultants, and engineers. They have the maturity and sophistication to deal with your demanding executives and partners. High-travel sales and buyer positions. Retail sales to Gen-X and Gen-Y.

Advisory Board 177

Advisory Board Angel Investor Startup Equity 177