Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

Managing Your Startup Board?—?A It was an amazing gathering of some of the most ambitious early-stage CEO’s looking to make a dent in fields related to healthcare, biology, AI and other transformative fields. My talk was about “ managing your startup board ” and the full deck is on that SlideShare link and embedded below.

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Management Startup Dividend Early Stage 234

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In addition to being the startup entrepreneur, there are other key roles where Boomers can be a force in driving successful startups, in concert with leaders from Gen-X and Gen-Y: Early-stage angel investors. Manage customer service. Personnel Manager. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

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Advisory Board Dividend Angel Investor Cofounder 368

Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2021

For many startups and small businesses, talent management can sometimes be deprioritized from the everyday chaos and operations. If your company is evolving, your performance management strategy should be evolving alongside it. If your company is evolving, your performance management strategy should be evolving alongside it.

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Employee Management Salary Retention 139

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 27, 2010

I was just interviewed by Frank Peters - Tony Karrer and the Founder-Developer Gap. And I always recommend it to people involved in early stage startups. I received a follow-up question from an early-stage startup about the Founder Developer Gap that I’ve described before and that was part of the interview with Frank.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This allows the studio to develop processes, well-organized development teams, and growth plans. Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers.

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Incubator Startup Software Developers Software Development 188

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. Leadership brand development. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance.

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Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. One of the biggest mistakes I see early-stage startups making is hiring “seasoned&# sales professionals or hiring people too senior, too early.

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Hiring Sales Startup Early Stage 346

Up and Running

MARCH 12, 2019

For a lot of non-technical founders—that is, entrepreneurs with a business idea but without technical expertise— sourcing software development talent is critical. In many areas, however, the high demand for tech talent appears to be larger than the supply of qualified tech and software developers for hire. It’s a valid concern.

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IP Software Developers Software Development Intellectual Property 80

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

In addition to being the startup entrepreneur, there are other key roles where Boomers can be a force in driving successful startups, in concert with leaders from Gen-X and Gen-Y: Early-stage angel investors. Manage customer service. Personnel Manager. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

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Advisory Board Startup Dividend Angel Investor 312

Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It might seem easier to put off thinking about your first essential new hires. You’re not going to be an incredible CFO/CEO/graphic designer/web developer. Try to do it all and you’ll spend a lot of time learning new skills (that you’ll eventually hire for) when you should be focusing on growing your business. It’s that simple.

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Hiring Technical Review Small Business Forecast 77

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. But not anal if one founder who shares equity graciously with early employees who are treated as “co-founders” My idea startup team is heaving on tech personnel but also has strong product management.

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Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 388

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users).

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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 127

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users).

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Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Structure development contracts appropriately or directing the in-house team appropriately. And it made me come to a new realization: Every early-stage web/mobile/online startup should have at least one technical advisor, probably two. Do you really have control of the development? Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review 332

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

regulation happens on three levels: federal laws that are applicable across the country developed by Federal government in Washington, D.C. As an example, this is a diagram of the multiple beneficiaries and stakeholders that a software company developing math software for middle school students has to navigate. In the U.S.

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Washington Government Marketing Silicon Valley 271

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A good early-stage CEO needs to be accessible, to be accountable for producing results and should be establishing the cultural norms of the company through direct leadership at all levels. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres. I’m not a big believer in too much hierarchy.

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CTO Hire Management Technical Review Part-Time VPE 308

Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

Things like product development, materials and packaging, performance-based bonuses, and more. In the excitement to develop a product and push it to market, an entrepreneur may overlook paying all of the necessary state and federal taxes, filing licensing paperwork and paying the appropriate fees to do so, and more. Variable expenses.

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Forecast Early Stage Software Review Technical Review 77

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Data Collective has already made 46 investments from its first fund, which it calls “comparable with other seed and early stage funds” (Ocko and Bogue wouldn’t reveal fund size.). Headphones. CrunchBase.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad.

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Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Once your startup begins to grow, you might want to hire a professional with more experience in finances to focus on this part of your business. Running a business will likely mean simultaneously juggling between different projects, especially during the early stages. Web development. Project planning. Leadership skills.

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Startup Australia Web Development Forecast 108

View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

CC: Our customers are companies that are collecting, managing, and tracking their ESG data. . RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? One hour I’m deep into product development, the next I’m thinking about our hiring needs and recruiting, to the next on a sales call. And your least?

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DC Software Review Government Boston 156

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Most technology startups seem to be founded by three types of people: product managers, engineers or biz dev types (MBAs and the like). Very few of them are started, in my experience, by sales people and very few early stage companies really understand sales. Here’s mine: Let me start with a few biases.

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Early Stage Startup Sales Campaign 350

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. As an early-stage VC I love this phase.

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Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have an edge in the highly competitive world of early stage investing that comes from some combination of your experience, industry knowledge, and personal network. You have developed a depth of expertise in a highly attractive area of investment (eg: digital health, web3.0, You act as an “ invited guest.”. consumer, etc.).

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Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

Transformify

OCTOBER 26, 2019

SpdLoad is a startup development company focused on web and mobile development of Minimum Viable Products( MVP) for early-stage startups. In our case, the target audience comprises of web-developers, designers and business developers. Our company has set out two global objectives.

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Developer Differentiation Channel Audience 49

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 22, 2021

However, early-stage companies often deprioritize proper talent management and place all their focus on the day-to-day operations of the business. These companies eventually find themselves reaching a point where their talent management processes aren’t keeping up with growth. 1) Define company values. 2) Align goals.

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Management Early Stage Startup Employee 158

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Over the years, the Truss team has worked with several early-stage startups, and noticed a consistency in inter-series problems (regardless of the industry). Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers. Automated testing is the most efficient solution in this growth phase.

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Technical Cofounder Burn Rate Seed Stage Cofounder 113

The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

What you may not know is that 82% fail due to poor cash flow management, according to a study by a US Bank. In their study, they found that most businesses fail due to poor understanding of cash flow and lack of a well-developed business plan. Needless to say, you don’t need to hire a CPA for his or her accounting services on day one.

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CPA Software Review Bankruptcy Early Stage 70

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 11, 2022

Seed Stage Startups Don’t Hire Fulltime For These Roles, And Certainly Not Senior Hires. You’re trying to build a software product, do customer development and find PMF. Hiring Marketing or Comms Consultants/Agencies At Seed Is Often a Terrible Idea. It’s just not worth their time.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Founder Marketing 102

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

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Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

In addition to being the startup entrepreneur, there are other key roles where Boomers can be a force in driving successful startups, in concert with leaders from Gen-X and Gen-Y: Early-stage Angel investors. Manage customer service. Personnel Manager. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

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Entrepreneur Advisory Board Dividend Angel Investor 266

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics.

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Los Angeles Technical Cofounder Southern California CTO Hire 150

Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2020

If you’re just starting out, you’ll need to strengthen your marketing muscle and bring awareness to your company before you worry about follow-up or account management. Technology helps you stay accountable for some of the difficult decisions you’ll need to make, so it’s worth it to prioritize that expense early.

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Entrepreneur Sales Cycle Early Stage Texas 149

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2019

Burn rate, much like fire itself, must be managed effectively, or your start-up—like the nearly 30% of all small businesses who fold due to cash flow problems—will burn too hot before sinking below the waves,” PurchaseControl explains. Hire the Right People. People are the lifeblood of any business. Putting it All Together.

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Burn Rate Startup Lean Early Stage 176

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Today, in steps 10-12 I want to discuss with you raising your first round of money, hiring to develop and maintain your company culture, as well as defining your role in the management of your startup. Before you start talking to large VCs, find some early stage investors.

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Management Cofounder Startup Bootstrapping 120

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78