Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Member of the Advisory Board. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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. Gov’t should do regarding semiconductors? Class 4: Guest Speaker. If you can’t see the slides, click here.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Member of the Advisory Board. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2015

Our intention from day one was to have both an executive board and an advisory board. Unfortunately, a formal advisory board was something we never fully formed. The goal of this group should be to challenge perspectives and ensure a higher level of accountability than one that can be implemented among peers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

I once served on the Advisory Board of a technical software executive who refused to believe that his product was no longer competitive, and insisted that sales and marketing were no longer doing their job. Sometimes you have to kill the cash cow, or make personnel updates before the crisis, to assure long-term business health.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

The GoodBuzz team currently comprises five people – three software engineers, one marketing manager and an operations officer - and works closely with an advisory board of industry specialists. .&# He adds that, aside from event organizers, the service is also useful for startups and the non-profit sector.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

HubSpot , the company behind HubSpot 3, a “powerful, comprehensive, and tightly-integrated” all-in-one marketing software system, announced that serial entrepreneur and acclaimed author, Eric Ries , is joining the company’s Advisory Board. Image credit: Jared Goralnick/Flickr.

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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. No matter what economic cycle we go through, Fortune 500 companies need to invest in software.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

So I was standing on stage and I made, I made this comment, I didn't think it was a coincidence that Salesforce was a great place to work, you know, pretty much globally, one of the most innovative companies in the world, in the fastest growing enterprise software company. (08:02): Do you have an employee advisory board?

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Austin Startup

MAY 31, 2011

which enables any device maker or electronics retailer to deliver always-available, out-of-the-box Internet connectivity, today announced that Kent Libbey, a communications and software industry veteran, has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing. Macheen Inc.,

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. version, and talking to an advisory board and seed round investors already.” Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We built out our CXO advisory board and further cemented our Fortune 500 relationships to help our portfolio cos scale from “founder-market” fit to product market fit in an accelerated timeframe ( meet our advisors ). Some call this “ambient AI” and I just call it software.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

When I invested in enterprise software in the late 1990′s, I saw a proliferation of “best of breed” solutions. Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Or at least get some of them on your advisory board.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This dual-leadership approach would have avoided the frustration I felt in a startup a few years ago where beta customers loved our software solution as a free prototype, but we couldn’t sell one in the first few months for a price that seemed reasonable for all our work and innovation. These two jobs need to be done in parallel.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 12, 2021

We have a handful of trusted mentors we utilize sort of like an advisory board. Our security -based business was running smoothly but, with the recent rise in fraudulent emails, my mentor suggested to me an idea of developing email detection software and selling it to businesses. Photo Credit: Ryne Lambert.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

This dual-leadership approach would have avoided the frustration I felt in a startup a few years ago where beta customers loved our software solution as a free prototype, but we couldn’t sell one in the first few months for a price that seemed reasonable for all our work and innovation. These two jobs need to be done in parallel.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2018

We are significant LPs in the fund and my partner Lindel is joining the PSL advisory board. In addition to being LPs in PSL Ventures , we are major investors in PSL Studio and I’m on the board. At some point Dan’l Lewin invited me to join the Microsoft VC Advisory Board where I had even more reasons to hang out in Seattle.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. And please tweet your thanks to Software Promotions for sponsoring Smart Bear Live! Dan: Member Desk is a hosted membership site software. In this episode, we share three more interviews from our AZ Disruptors meeting last fall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2011

By Bob La Loggia, CEO StormSource Software Are startup founders who play poker statistically more likely to succeed in business? Business history has proven time and time again that it’s not necessarily the best product that wins in the marketplace, and having a superstar founding team, VC partner, or advisory board doesn’t guarantee success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2013

For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Here is where your Advisory Board can help you in finding real people with deep experience in your product domain, and gather some unbiased feedback. These days, the technical side may be the easy part. Then listen carefully to the feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2012

For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Here is where your Advisory Board can help you in finding real people with deep experience in your product domain, and gather some unbiased feedback. These days, the technical side may be the easy part. Then listen carefully to the feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2016

Build an inside advisory board of influencers and experts. If Bill Gates has agreed to be on the board of your software startup, that’s major traction, even with no paying customers. These show real traction even before you ship a product through heightened anticipation and pre-orders.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Never mind The first idea for our new company was a software product that looked something like Hypertext. The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. Those early text-based games were programmed by their own users, and it was by far the best tutorial I could ever have received in the power of software.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

A few months ago, I joined the Advisory Board of Engine to lend my support to an organization that is doing amazing work for the startup ecosystem. to talk to lawmakers about issues that are really important to the startup community — issues like immigration, software patent reform, and keeping the internet free and open.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

What are the details of your ownership structure, board of directors, investor list, partners, and so on? List an advisory board if you have one, list all employee salaries, incentives, referral bonuses for recruiting, and all such details. Software costs. Registration fees. Wait-list fees. Construction cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2011

For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Here is where your Advisory Board can help you in finding real people with deep experience in your product domain, and gather some unbiased feedback. These days, the technical side may be the easy part. Then listen carefully to the feedback.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

I got to spend time inside his company while I was using their software to analyze early-stage ventures. Finally, I suggested that he find someone he respects on his advisory board, who he was comfortable brainstorming with and would tell him when he has a bad idea. And that’s where the problem was. A Pivot a Week.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2016

At the same time, enterprises today can leverage the cloud to make faster, more efficient software changes; use social media to connect with customers; deploy predictive analytics to determine what their customers will want and connect and control devices via a central point with the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

During the 1990’s large corporations had bought different software applications to automate each part of their enterprise – finance, customer support, manufacturing, sales, etc. We had put together an advisory board, and one of our advisors was the VP of Database Marketing at Schwab. All the Data and Not a Drop to Think.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 27, 2010

In 2008 I was invited by Pamela Samuelson , who I met through several Silicon Flatiron events, to be on an advisory board at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. My partner Jason took one of them on when he wrote his post 76% of Venture Capitalists Believe that Software Patents are Important (NOT!)

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 26, 2013

It is obviously a very timely topic - as “BI” tools and software have matured in the last few years to become for the first time truly easy to use, effective, and affordable for smaller companies and organizations.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Perhaps the solution to the “punt on the topic&# is to try to get a marketer who has a feel for the “Market Type/Positioning&# question on a startup’s advisory board once the Discovery data is in. As for #3. I agree completely. That’s exactly the point I was trying to make (perhaps badly) with the post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2010

For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Here is where your Advisory Board can help you in finding real people with deep experience in your product domain, and gather some unbiased feedback. These days, the technical side is the easy part. Then listen carefully to the feedback.

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