View from Seed

APRIL 6, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. You are intentional about developing a point of view on new sectors that we can learn from.

Technical Review 317

Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 317

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A lot of work goes into starting a business, developing and launching products, and running the day-to-day operations, so marketing often gets put on the back burner. Check out these critical tips for developing an effective marketing strategy for startups in boring industries. Choose your Market Audience. Choose a Brand Name.

Developer 78

Developer Marketing Social Media Startup 78

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The bad news is that they are not a good test of basic usability and ease of operation, which are always a key to the much larger market of regular customers. They are your early opinion leaders, so they are required to build the image that the rest will follow. Usability features are as important as function.

Technical Review 294

Technical Review Product Customer Restful 294

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Some commercial company roles: Business Development or “BD” roles : Case Officers are well suited for business development (BD) roles as its akin to first half of the CIA recruitment cycle. Below is the second of her three-part series. Read part one here. Here’s what I learned.

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Government Advisory Board Salary Sales Cycle 217

View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. . You are intentional about developing a point of view on new sectors that we can learn from.

Technical Review 257

Technical Review Software Review Hiring Seed Stage 257

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. Having an amazing and operationally focused CFO has freed up the rest of the team to achieve even more while giving the board much more confidence in our strategic direction.

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Operations Metrics Early Stage Non-Compete 150

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The creation of Unix operating systems prompted a standardization of hardware and software into more focused and manageable systems. This homogeneity allowed computer operators to standardize their skills and maintain systems similar to any business or company area. Unix servers (the Second Platform was born).

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Software Review Technology Architecture 160

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The operations superstar. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

Technical Cofounder 309

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Startup 309

SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2010

I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. I think we suffer because of the distance and culture but the project management team takes every late delivery or small bug as evidence that the development team may not be capable. No communication between developers.

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Developer Los Angeles Software Developers Software Development 179

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the way businesses of all shapes and sizes operate. Whatever they decide, it must be done quickly to develop resilience against the next wave of challenges. Allowing your business to return to a pre-pandemic state of operations and baselines is a death row choice for your company.

Operations 147

Operations Restful Framework Developer 147

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Enterprise tools are powerful tools that companies add to their arsenal to manage their large-scale business operations more efficiently. Another aspect of this is support for the software in general, ideally from the developer of the enterprise tool. Therefore, if you or anyone else inputs the wrong data, it can cause a bottleneck.

Database 158

Database Software Metrics Operations 158

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. Operate with a comparable level of integrity. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Brings complementary skills and experience.

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Cofounder Software Review CTO Hire Founder 221

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Because unsuccessful startups tend to fail early, and big successful exits tend to take a long time to develop, graphing growth follows the classic J-curve. Investing can be satisfying, if not lucrative, for the rest of us, for keeping up with technology, as a give-back to entrepreneurs, and building a legacy.

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Angel Investor Accredited Investor IRR Angel Groups 361

Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It isn’t unusual to act as CEO while also tackling marketing tasks and coordinating operations. The answer depends on what your current operations look like. If you’re in startup mode and have limited working capital to cover your operating expenses , you may be bootstrapping your way through the early days.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

Students formed teams and developed hypotheses of how commercial technologies can be used in new and creative ways to help the U.S. By week 2 of the class students formed teams around a specific technology challenge facing a US government agency and worked throughout the course to develop their own proposals to help the U.S.

Technical Review 361

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology China 361

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 know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. You are intentional about developing a point of view on new sectors that we can learn from.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

The bad news is that they are not a good test of basic usability and ease of operation, which are always a key to the much larger market of regular customers. They are your early opinion leaders, so they are required to build the image that the rest will follow. Usability features are as important as function.

Technical Review 240

Technical Review Restful Engineer Technology 240

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

And over time every venture capitalist develops their own gut feel for what makes up a great team in their industry. Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. ” Co-founders Skills are the First Derivative of the Business Model Canvas.

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Cofounder Founder Intellectual Property Business Model 335

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 224

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You have developed a depth of expertise in a highly attractive area of investment (eg: digital health, web3.0, You have a strong network in the NYC startup ecosystem that is additive to our team. consumer, etc.).

Technical Review 156

Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The operations superstar. In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners.

Technical Cofounder 308

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Stock Options 308

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. Enterprise SaaS/B2B software – account executives (AEs) and sales developement reps (SDRs). Businesses with a geo/city-based operations – city GMs/on-the-ground ops teams. So you’ve covered the “who”, “what”, “why”, & “when”.

Part-Time VPE 195

Part-Time VPE Seed Stage CTO Hire Forecast 195

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. I was one of four leaders of an enormous failed development project at Wells Fargo around 2007.

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Agile Leadership SCRUM Lean 113

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Operating a competitive business and turning a significant profit is even more challenging. Despite the odds against new business success, Lazarus started and operated four businesses by the time he was 25 years old. This is how he came to start and operate Luke Lazarus Consulting in Sydney more than two decades ago.

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United States Entrepreneur Angel Investor Social Media 167

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Developing a successful marketing plan for educational institutions that are based on the workflow of email. For Think-12 to maximize the potential of the channels you’re already using, it needs to have a thorough grasp of those channels and how they operate. Email workflow. They are experts at their work. Taylor-fit for you.

Marketing 158

Marketing Social Media Channel Audience 158

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Using this app, you can test your web page design easily on any and all operating systems and multiple browser combinations. Due to the advanced services provided to you by this application, you do not need to test out each combination of browser and operating system manually. Comparium will do the rest of the work for you.

Web 127

Web API Operations Design 127

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. So I helped, I was one of his first employees and wound up becoming the chief operating officer and running part of the firm and we grew at our peak to around 50 people or so. Back to Podcast.

Leadership 72

Leadership Developer Curation Hiring 72

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Also, imagine launching an operating system that didn’t include “copy/paste.” For more than ten years — an eon in tech-time — Heroku has been the dominate way that Rails developers launch public applications. When it first came out, it was rife with “deal-breakers” that developers continually winged about.

Software Review 133

Software Review Technical Review API Algorithm 133

Board Effect

JULY 19, 2021

In the most simple terms, boards are responsible for oversight and planning and management takes care of the daily operations. The board of directors is intended to be the check and balance that oversees employees and all aspects of the company’s operations. Administration interconnects with nearly every department in the operation.

Government 98

Government Management Technical Review Software Review 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If the software is ancillary to your mission, proceed through the rest of these considerations.

Intellectual Property 222

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 222

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

Very few entrepreneurs have the range of skills and experience to be the solution creator as well as business creator, or operational as well as sales leader. Operate with a comparable level of integrity. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. Brings complementary skills and experience.

Partner 140

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Cofounder 140

The Startup Magazine

JULY 15, 2020

For the companies that survived till reopening, the shadow of responsibility hasn’t dissipated over their operations. The tech industry coined the term technical debt , as Dzone explains, relates to compromises in development that affects the final product so much that it may cause problems to the company in the long run.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Washington Employee Salary 128

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

The bad news is that they are not a good test of basic usability and ease of operation, which are always a key to the much larger market of regular customers. They are your early opinion leaders, so they are required to build the image that the rest will follow. Usability features are as important as function.

Technical Review 259

Technical Review Entrepreneur Restful Engineer 259

Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

It’s becoming increasingly important for every business to have at least basic technology to run daily operations in the current day society. Data input and customer service are two examples of routine operations that could benefit from the use of automation software. Thanks to Alice Hall, Rowen Homes ! #7-

Technical Review 107

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology Entrepreneur 107

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

According to the World Green Building Council (WGBC), the following findings support a case for green building: Lower operating cost – the construction of green buildings can help building owners and occupiers save money thanks to efficient energy and water usage.

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Green California Government Valuation 176

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If the software is ancillary to your mission, proceed through the rest of these considerations.

Intellectual Property 225

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 225

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The bad news is that patent trolls (non-producing companies that make their money from licensing patents) can squeeze the lifeblood out of unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the recent mess around Lodsys suing small Apple IOS developers. Yes, the software patent process is a mess. Applying for a patent is a negotiation.

Software Review 250

Software Review Software Technical Review Intellectual Property 250