Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Mik Kersten’s new book, Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework [IT Revolution Press, November 2018], based on two decades of research, spanning almost every domain of software delivery. In my upcoming book, Project to Product I introduced the concept of the Flow Framework.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 20, 2021

Consequently, I’m excited about a new book called LEVERS – The Framework For Building Repeatability into Your Business, a collaboration between Amos Schwartzfarb , Trevor Boehm , Cody Simms , and Troy Henikoff. The book is a play-by-play series of frameworks that any company can use to become data and metrics-driven.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2014

What is a founder to do? Draw from Frameworks. The most helpful type of advice in my mind are frameworks for how to solve a problem. On market segmentation I often recite my “ Elephants, Deer & Rabbits ” framework. Each is a framework for thinking about a problem. For example: 1.

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View from Seed

APRIL 5, 2016

Founders’ stories can be truly heroic, but inspiring stories don’t start and end with them. It contains practical steps for each stage of your process, as well as frameworks for making sense of the sheer number of startups and complexities of offer negotiations. Click here or below to download the PDF version.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 25, 2022

I love me a good framework. And Geoffrey Moore is the kind of good product/marketing frameworks for technology companies. In Zone to Win, Moore shows you how to put the three Horizons into action by creating an overlay framework to managing your company to help optimize all three zones simultaneously.

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View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

Founder: Connor Cash. Get to know the founder. I’m Connor Cash, the founder of Caesar and I grew up outside of Boston but currently live in DC! RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? CC: Being a founder is a rollercoaster ride. . Company: Caesar Sustainability. ” – Lee Hower.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ari Ioannides: A distinguished board member at Park City Institute and founder of BoardDocs, Ari provided unique perspectives on integrating AI into both nonprofit and educational sectors, supported by practical insights from his own experience. As your organization explores AI initiatives, it’s important to have a strong framework in place.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

Over the intervening years, we’ve heard continued and consistent feedback about the value of it for seed stage Founders in providing both strategic thought and tactical help in assembling their post-financing investor communications. Again, we’ve put together the full template here for founders to utilize.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 28, 2013

In Web Framework Benchmarks , there are some very interesting and surprising numbers around the performance of various web frameworks. Startup Founders really need to see these numbers. In some ways, this frees us from worrying as much about the specific framework that's being used.

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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. It’s been a while since they’ve updated their RFS list and it captures all the buzzword’s of today’s tech world: AI, defence tech, climate, spatial computing, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Read on to find out what exactly the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is and why traversing that gap is so critical to your success.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 On Launching and Finding Early Traction.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Each engagement is personally undertaken by their founder and principal, Mitul. Their services are built around the ACT framework (Assess, Create and Transform), which is a proven process for accelerating growth. Mitul Ruparelia – Founder, Citius Partners.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I did a presentation recently for a graduate class from The Founder Institute around getting online/mobile products out the door. I LOVED it because, the presenting part was over quickly and we got into specific issues that the founders had in terms of getting things built. CTO Founder - Do they really still need a technical advisor?

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TechEmpower

MAY 28, 2015

By Jeffrey Papen, CEO and Founder, Peak Hosting. At Peak Hosting , we're big fans of TechEmpower's Framework Benchmarks, an open source project the company has been coordinating since early 2013. Hardware comes into play when performance is important. And TechEmpower will tell you performance is always important.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

This is one of the many challenges that you’ll have to take head-on as the founder of a tech startup. Most startup founders agree that it’s best to choose people first and language second. The communities for these languages are large and always expanding, making it easy to find frameworks for just about anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Establish a daily framework for action. You will build discipline and get much more accomplished if you build a self-imposed schedule, and commit yourself to following that framework. Similar to the framework step, you have to build systems that get the right work done. Know your strengths, and learn some new skills.

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www.jonsamsel.com

MAY 12, 2011

Jon Samsel Social media, SEO, marketing and writing Home Bio Books Portfolio Login A Framework for Web Analytics On May 10, 2011, Heardable’s CEO, Jon Samsel, was asked to speak at the Jamba Juice Digital Marketing Summit in Emeryville, California. Guest speakers included reps from Google, Manatt, Twitter, Facebook and Heardable!

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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

When a founder is raising money, he/she should expect that any serious investor will conduct some level of due diligence before getting to yes. They tend to have some sort of framework in their mind with a hierarchy of conviction and hierarchy of pain they are willing to put founders through.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. What's going to go wrong?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In the seconds, moments, weeks, and months after a felt loss, founders have the precious chance to monitor the movement of their thoughts. Does the mind metabolize the failure quickly, is there a good, natural framework for reflection in place? Do they have a habit to dwell, lose confidence or lose sleep?

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

And as the internet shifts gears into Web3, founders in The Magic City working to find novel ways to monetize everything from attention to color will be pleased to know that they have the continued support of the biggest industry players.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6% of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Editor’s note: Understanding how to divide founder equity at a startup can be tricky, even to the point of reaching emotional riffs between founders. I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It is often written that founders ‘struggle to scale’ with a business, and this change in the skills required to lead a business explains why. Anyone who has observed a lot of startups grow will have witnessed brilliant founders who were talented at the chaotic process of innovation struggle as the business scaled to 50 or 100 people.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. AskAnything.VC Advantages.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Those tactics allow you to fit within a unique JTBD (“job to be done”) framework. One of the key aspects to out-convert competitors and get in that JTBD framework is using effective messaging. The small group roundtable discussions were amazing. What are its use cases?

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 27, 2017

Here’s a question I recommend founders ask Seed or Series A VCs during their fundraising: “What’s a risk you’re more comfortable with than the average VC?” Here are two: We’re more comfortable with certain types of founder risk (first time, non-traditional) than some funds.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I have had a few founder friends reach out to me asking about how much equity to give to an advisor, and had some operators reach out asking how to become an advisor for an early stage founder. An underutilized action by founders is canceling their vesting due to lack of interaction or help with your company. Some are not.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder. But not all co-founders are equal in terms of title, ownership, responsibilities, and so forth. Sometimes co-founders put off the equity split question for some time.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

While investments to generative AI startups are red hot, founders have to battle quite a few investor biases. This is the an important part of Hamilton Helmer’s 7 Powers , a solid framework for business strategy. Shameless plug, at Remagine Ventures , we’re looking to back founders that have internalised this.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 17, 2012

That means that founders as a group will be right around 50% ownership after two rounds. Generally, each round is going to set you back between 15-30%. That means investors are going to buy that much of your company at a time. It's a function of a few things.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Traction is a biweekly podcast where founders share the creative or unusual things they did during the seed stage to make early progress. Founders from LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , The Muse , Behance , InsightSquared , and more have appeared on the show. Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Past episodes include stories from founders of LinkedIn , DraftKings , General Assembly , Mattermark , InsightSquared , and more. Can you use a framework and process to gain initial startup traction? The brilliantly simple but effective framework startups use to gain initial traction. You’ll also hear….

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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