Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outside professionals are always available, but they may have their own agenda, such as building a career, making money quickly, or managing up the stock price for a quick exit. Outsourcing your core competency does not work.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Andrew Inkpen, “ The Global Semiconductor Industry ” Thunderbird School of Management , 2021. [It Our guest speaker for our fourth class was John Hurley , former Member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, an expert on semiconductors and supply chains, and former Captain, U.S. Semiconductor Case Study.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

Always manage expectations, and always under-promise and over-deliver. As a bleeding-edge startup, you can be assured of product quality problems, missing business processes, and customer support issues. If you don’t have anything nice to say, keep quiet and wait for another day. You may be dead wrong. Over-promise and under-deliver.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2012

This got me thinking, I need to have a “Heavenly Advisory Board.” I decided to do it, and created a Heavenly Advisory Board. I plan to have an “advisory board” of perhaps ten when I am done. Your Own Heavenly Advisory Board. It’s heaven after all. Why G-Dub ?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Advisory Board. At one of our initial board meetings we had agreed on the general principle of an advisory board and put together an overall stock budget to compensate advisors. Over the next week we exchanged emails over advisory board stock. I knew he would bring immense value to me and the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In his post he asserts, “You get the VCs you deserve” and the corollary “You get the performance out of your board that you deserve.” Sincerely – he is better at managing his board than any exec I have worked with.

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www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards. Why wouldn’t you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2020

Many startup founders I know avoid establishing a formal advisory board or board of directors for as long as possible, with the excuse that this is just another burden, or it has more risk than value to the founder. A voluntary board sounds good, but is generally not effective. Start with a small number of board members.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Advisory Board. Why Product Managers Wear Sneakers - Steve Blank , September 2, 2010 I gave a talk last night to the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. Carpe Diem.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Product Architecture. Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Always manage expectations, and always under-promise and over-deliver. As a bleeding-edge startup, you can be assured of product quality problems, missing business processes, and customer support issues. If you don’t have anything nice to say, keep quiet and wait for another day. You may be dead wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2018

Always manage expectations, and always under-promise and over-deliver. As a bleeding-edge startup, you can be assured of product quality problems, missing business processes, and customer support issues. If you don’t have anything nice to say, keep quiet and wait for another day. You may be dead wrong. Over-promise and under-deliver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

Don’t hesitate to micro-manage initially in a crisis. Micro-management at a later stage only increases stress and slows progress. Micro-management at a later stage only increases stress and slows progress. Map out some dedicated time for every serious issue. Your people need to know who to follow, what to do, and how to do it.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 24, 2019

The primary responsibility will be to help manage the day-to-day activities of the fund, including: Identifying new and interesting entrepreneurs and companies that align with our investment thesis on network effects. Reporting for our investors, including writing quarterly updates and preparing LP advisory board meetings.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outside professionals are always available, but they may have their own agenda, such as building a career, making money quickly, or managing up the stock price for a quick exit. Outsourcing your core competency does not work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2012

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Trusted partners quit, personal friends become enemies, and staff management becomes a huge burden.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2020

However, digitizing objects to create “smart products” for our daily work and home lives has created some last-mile challenges that have threatened to derail the promise of IoT. She is a strong STEM advocate and an active member of the advisory board for CompTIA ’s Advisory Council.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

He later worked for eight years at the European Union commission helping to develop the cultural industry in Africa (cultural products being the main exports – and revenue – for poor African countries). Peer-To-Peer Referral Network. The African Boy Who Could.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outside professionals are always available, but they may have their own agenda, such as building a career, making money quickly, or managing up the stock price for a quick exit. Outsourcing your core competency does not work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2022

Managing cash must always be your top priority. The result is low productivity, mistakes, and poor customer experiences. As your business grows, you won’t be able to manage every process personally, so you need help in quantifying results, productivity, and quality. Establish an advisory board of experienced peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2022

Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% With all that said, here are some “rule of thumb” guidelines on what might be a reasonable offer, as summarized from a classic article by Guy Kawasaki , and based on discussions I hear rattling around the investor community.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

All product industries are different and meet the needs of differing markets. According to Endeavor Miami Managing Director Laura Maydon, the selected Entrepreneurs are leaders with a clear vision of their company’s potential, a broad skill set to lead, and a commitment to give back to the ecosystem. They must scale their businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2011

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Trusted partners quit, personal friends become enemies, and staff management becomes a huge burden.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Do you have a great team at your seed startup, but your product just isn’t working? Do you wish there was a product to help companies “Get things done” by leveraging your own employees, your employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around you? You must have a strong product management pedigree.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Looking 4 entrepreneurial product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a network-based service. Do you have a great team at your seed startup, but your product just isn’t working? We’ve put together a detailed, confidential business plan; a high-powered Advisory Board; and a pool of funders eager to get this launched with the right team. .

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

Forms Augmenting the team can take various forms: Consulting – defining how to attack particular issues, possibly directly planning Coaching – advising on how to approach particular issues Manage – lead members Execute – take on specific activities Again, this is fairly fuzzy, but it comes down to having mutual expectations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Questions I ask Liz Lathan: [1:11] I read one of your recent LinkedIn posts and you said that community-first companies are growing 30% faster than product-first companies – what is a community-first company in your definition? [6:53] And then one we like to call the sounding board, which is the small five to seven people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2020

After investigating these successes, I have isolated certain strategy elements which I now offer to you as expeditors of success in starting a new business, independent of the product or service you are offering, as well as the market segment you are targeting. Look for tools to automate and simplify strategy execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outside professionals are always available, but they may have their own agenda, such as building a career, making money quickly, or managing up the stock price for a quick exit. Outsourcing your core competency does not work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Always manage expectations, and always under-promise and over-deliver. As a bleeding-edge startup, you can be assured of product quality problems, missing business processes, and customer support issues. If you don’t have anything nice to say, keep quiet and wait for another day. You may be dead wrong. Over-promise and under-deliver.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

They outline and give some positive recommendations to counter the key organizational impediments to fast transformation that I see all too often, even in businesses with top management committed to first-mover speed and agility: Passive resistance to change from within the organization.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Additionally, nonprofits that receive federal funding may be required to demonstrate that their boards match the demographics they serve. But board diversity is not a switch you can flick “on,” or a product you can purchase and install. All things being equal, it’s appropriate to prioritize under-represented populations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

You may recognize these in your own company, and can overcome all of them with a proactive management focus and conviction: Everyone is proceeding with unreasonable expectations. This almost always starts at the top, based on a founder’s dream and passion, without the proper homework on sizing the market, or assessing product realities.

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scalablestartup.berkeley.edu

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Senior Managing Director at Trident Capital. Board advisors can be an essential asset for any budding startup; however, there are important criteria to consider as you select candidates for this crucial role. By the time you start recruiting a particular candidate, he or she may already be a member of other startup advisory boards.

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