The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

He is the Founder and CEO of The Eye Centre franchise which operates in four locations, with two more scheduled to open this year. Dr. Noufal Mais: I’d say to first understand the importance of differentiation. Noufal Mais is a successful optometrist and entrepreneur who has established multiple eyecare businesses in Western Canada.

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Differentiation Canada Business Model Leadership 148

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. How will you differentiate from these? Do you have the internal staff to manage changes?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2021

She is a widely acclaimed C-suite advisor, speaker, and founder of HORN Strategy, LLC. As you expand the business into new geographies and market segments, focus on culture inclusivity rather than trying to manage multiple subcultures. Differentiate your brand based on a higher cause. Accommodate and integrate multiple cultures.

Leadership 426

Leadership Management Brazil Differentiation 426

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. How will you differentiate from these? Do you have the internal staff to manage changes?

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Developer Founder Viral Oauth 384

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Leaders are judged on key elements of execution, including a focus on priorities, ensuring clear accountability, managing decision making, mobilizing others, adapting quickly, and communicating execution urgency. Modern information management tools.

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Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. Personal Finance Cross-account visibility and management – Today’s AI products can analyze and move money between accounts – as agents improve, they will make trades across accounts.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. An example of the systems companies build are pricing & revenue management tools to best help to optimize yield.

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Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Fillios offers expert insights and practical strategies to help small business leaders managing evolving technology to their advantage and avoid racking up debt that could put their company in peril. . My team and I felt it was important to revisit this definition, and in particular, with an emphasis on small to medium-sized businesses.

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Technical Review Small Business Software Review Security 246

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

by Lu Zhang, founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund. Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Aaron is the CEO and Co-founder of Leadferno, a business and text messaging platform to close more leads faster. Questions I ask Aaron Weiche: [2:00] How do you advise business owners who may quite frankly be fatigued from all of the available customer communication channels to manage all of them today? [3:35]

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SMS Marketing Cofounder Software Review 101

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

How to Balance AI Magic with Human Expertise written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jeff Coyle, the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer for MarketMuse. And that's really the differentiator.

Artificial Inteligence 74

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Differentiation Technical Review 74

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. As a startup co-founder with a growing team, here are the recruiting tips I’ve learnt over the last couple of years. Robert Metcalfe, co-founder and CEO of 3Com, says you need to think about it as “recruiting, not hiring”. Hiring = Sales. Be Specific.

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Cofounder Elevator Pitch Hiring Dividend 164

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The most important factor for differentiation in CXL Live is its unique format. Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Win beyond product : use a powerful narrative, positioning, messaging, content and differentiation strategy. Daniel Layfield, Growth Product Manager at Codecademy. Daniel Layfield.

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B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US.

Technical Review 380

Technical Review Software Review Cofounder CTO Hire 380

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. He has many of the attributes I look for in an entrepreneur and importantly he has deep domain experience in ad management. I’ll explain in detail below.

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Mobile Management Southern California Application Development 282

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s disheartening, but sadly, this is one experience that many startup founders face. I understand the struggles that come with being a startup founder. It makes the product more user-friendly and can also help build trust with customers and differentiate the product from competitors in the SaaS market.

Design 105

Design Product Churn Rate Architecture 105

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley. The investors were giving away part of their ownership of the company — not just to the founders, but to all employees. Here’s why.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

Venture firms wanted to meet talented Black founders but didn’t know where to start to find them. In fact, one of the biggest criticisms I personally get when I suggest that founders should “get introductions to VCs” is that this might reinforce existing racial imbalances by providing easier access to White professionals than people of color.

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Founder Database United States Networking 314

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The Differentiating Factors of High-Growth Startups. Most startups start with a burst of momentum from the founder, slowly add some customers, and stagnate, before ultimately fizzling out. Inexperienced founders pick a conservative funding target and tend to raise just enough money to reach that goal. They Raise More Money.

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Balance Sheet Startup Audience Retention 107

ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

InvGate , a provider of IT service management and IT asset management solutions, has secured $35 million in a growth round to fuel its international expansion. CEO and co-founder of InvGate Ariel Gesto says the company will continue to expand this year.

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United States Management Mexico Artificial Inteligence 121

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

I’m sure I would speak for the entire board and management team in asserting this. I’ll try to do a future blog post on some of my insights in watching Nanea enter the role and how the founders enabled her success. Here are some things we discussed: User experience focused product management. Company Organization.

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Technical Review Leadership Engineer RSS 315

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. how to evolve our management team. Experience.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

Selecting a good project management software is the first step followed by endless reviews and continuous improvement as the organization grows. The 5S System is thought of as a visual management system. Where to start? The five Ss in 5S in Japanese are Seiri, Seiton, and Seiso as well as Seiketsu and Shitsuke.

Lean 56

Lean Management Technical Review Software Review 56

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. It consists of a highly intelligent and opinionated founder – Nick Halstead.

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Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2018

Just as national cultures influence and shape a country, so does the startup culture set by founder strategy drive the future of a new venture. Most startups are created by one or two entrepreneurial founders, with a vision and focus on developing an innovative solution, rather than on developing people. Start today.

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Silicon Valley Retention Metrics Architecture 143

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

It turns out it actually takes time to build a high-growth business with differentiated intellectual property and roll out large, enterprise-class marketing solutions. I remain a huge supporter and am very proud of our accomplishments and hugely optimistic about our future. 5 years ago.

Los Angeles 387

Los Angeles Intellectual Property LP Venture Capital 387

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2018

This engagement gap can be attributed, in part, to an inflexible adherence to old-school management practices and HR policies that treat employees as adversaries. For starters, act like a rebel with regard to management behaviors, and apply that rebel spirit in these key areas: 1. Align management with culture change.

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Employee Technical Review Leadership Demand 145

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. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. AskAnything.VC Advantages.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

There is a myth among first time tech founders that product is everything. Here are five financial concepts that every startup founder should know to build an everlasting company. The basic lesson that founders can learn about asset valuation is that Accounting is past and Finance is future. Asset valuation. venkatarag.

Founder 148

Founder Valuation Dividend Startup 148

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes.

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Venture Capital Fractional CTO Cofounder Early Stage 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. The best technologists often aren’t amazing people managers. They work on their own schedule and are often hard to manage. But for non-technical founders let me offer you a definition that you can use when you build a team. Sometimes they are introverts.

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 400

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

Ask early candidates how they differentiate themselves from their peers. Use existing team to find a new manager or peer. If you already have some technical people on board, like software developers, and need a new manager, you supply the candidates based on credentials, and let them do initial interviews and make recommendations.

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Technical Review Partner Entrepreneur Architecture 236

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company. Leaders are judged on key elements of execution, including a focus on priorities, ensuring clear accountability, managing decision making, mobilizing others, adapting quickly, and communicating execution urgency. Modern information management tools.

Leadership 120

Leadership Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation 120

Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

Establish technology as a differentiator, when it is. On the other hand, as a writer, manager, and user of business plans as tools for steering a business, I believe you should discuss your technology in the plan for any business. Technology in business planning for owners and managers. Technology in a plan for outsiders.

Technical Review 72

Technical Review Software Review Business Plan Development Team Review 72

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? Build a true, peer-to-peer management culture.

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Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

ReadWriteStart

JULY 14, 2020

Entrepreneurs often think of an asset as funding for their startup, talent that provides a competitive advantage, or proprietary technology that differentiates their offerings in products or services. Time is a critical asset — augmented by time management skills. That’s where good time management skills come into play.

Management 151

Management Entrepreneur Demand Differentiation 151

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. He looked at his resume, and asked just one question: “ What’s your edge? ” My friend got the job because his answer was differentiated, credible, and backed up by a history of investing success. – Thoughtful fund management.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60