Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

As a long-time business advisor and angel investor, I’m a believer that “two heads are better than one” in building a new business. If they or you find it hard to trust others, love to work alone, always have to be in control, or insist on micro-managing, it may be time for change or looking elsewhere.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2014

Here are six tips to help you manage the stress and ease the transition: 1. If you’re not a strong software developer, for example, hire someone or bring on a co-founder who is. Be ready to commit time to gathering funding from friends, family, banks, and angel investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Investors check your burn rate to assess your efficiency, and project your remaining runway before you run out of money and into a brick wall. Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Be a miser with contract services and facilities.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Even when your startup is a one-man show and lots of fun, a “business” needs some discipline and controls to keep it from being defined as a hobby by investors, and assure some financial return. Manage human resources.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

It’s difficult to be an entrepreneur — whether you’re a recent college graduate or have managed multiple companies. Angel investors, venture capital firms, accelerators, and (maybe) the newer equity crowdfunding will look to see if you have previous experience in startups. Don’t start a company right out of college.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Equity investors. Debt investors.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It’s a practical collection of tips, suggestions, and myth-busting from a prolific and very well known and experienced angel investor, head of a group of New York angel investors,” Berry says. It’s an instant introduction to the high-end tech startup and angel investment scene. Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2012

While some lucky startups attract angel investors or have access to money from friends and family, the vast majority are on their own, at least at first. So far, Herman has put about $60,000 on his credit cards, using them mostly to finance software development.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. We weren’t the first investor in Rally. Ryan quickly raised about $400k of friends and family money.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. But we investors often allow too little slack in our estimates as well.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

Now that you’ve managed to escape Peter’s situation, make sure you don’t replace it with an entirely new set of hassles that you can’t do anything about. Like risks, they’re not necessarily bad—just something to be managed. Managing hassle may take the form of putting your reputation on the line to get someone to partner with you.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Participants in the incubation program learn valuable lessons in entrepreneurial management, finding financing from incubator companies, modern office space, and fully permitted labs with a wide range of technical equipment and engineering resources. Harvard Innovation Lab. Innovation Depot.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.”

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Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

We looked at several SaaS based systems for accounting, sales automation, calendaring, product management, scheduling our company airplane, travel, etc. At the time SaaS just wasn’t mature enough and people at the company weren’t comfortable enough to make the change; too many old habits of installing software.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2013

How to manage legal costs. This is especially important if you plan to be a venture or angel investor backed company (because the type of entity you create will impact many other things). Most business owners are frustrated when they finally start receiving bills from their legal counsel. When to hire a lawyer.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue. Founder , Palo Alto Software. Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund. Managing Partner , Tangent Capital. Hundreds of tips from top investors. He openend with his first issue. I talked too much.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

If you’re selling a revolutionary inventory management system - well, that’s a hell of a lot drier. Crowdfunding] investors are not as sophisticated as professional venture and angel investors. It comes down to a sales pitch. A product that can be easily and clearly communicated to a consumer stands a better chance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This is a positive in uncoupling them from a dependency on a single company or boss, but the downside is that they have to suddenly manage all facets of a business, including finances, strategy, and savings for the future. Software Development Professional. Sales Professional.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

There is a relationship between time and money that is more complex than most managers think. What most managers miss is that every month cut from the time it takes to perform such tasks cuts the cost by the value of a month’s worth of fixed overhead or burn. Email readers continue here.]

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

The Other 1% – Ranking The Top 20 Angel Investors | 500 Startups – crowdspring.co/1is3Iiw. The Importance of Hometown Investors for Startups – crowdspring.co/1z8kNTu. 4 Mistakes New Product Managers Make – crowdspring.co/1rXNZrC. The Perils of Founder Fighting – crowdspring.co/1qnNtlJ. 1v5KzmJ.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

This is a positive in uncoupling them from a dependency on a single company or boss, but the downside is that they have to suddenly manage all facets of a business, including finances, strategy, and savings for the future. Software Development Professional. Sales Professional.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

Whether I like it or not I’m an angel investor , even though I prefer a different label. If I were a fulltime money manager, or a VC with a responsibility to LPs , I would have a duty to find investments with the best possible rate of return from a strictly financial standpoint. I would not want to be in that position.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The Low-Down: Successful Start-Ups Have More Senior Women Managers - [link]. Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. A Founder’s Guide To Replacing Yourself | TechCrunch – [link].

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Pick Your Investor With Care.    He's also requiring that you source your software development through his consulting company at a price "to be negotiated." 

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Transformify

JULY 16, 2019

Many recruiters and hiring managers are avoiding candidates having an entrepreneurial mindset as they are perceived as ‘’ dreamers’’ who will always search for something new somewhere else. The sponsor is a person who is not a direct manager but has a vested interest and is willing to help. Sponsorship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

This is a positive in uncoupling them from a dependency on a single company or boss, but the downside is that they have to suddenly manage all facets of a business, including finances, strategy, and savings for the future. Software Development Professional. Sales Professional.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

This is a positive in uncoupling them from a dependency on a single company or boss, but the downside is that they have to suddenly manage all facets of a business, including finances, strategy, and savings for the future. Software Development Professional. Sales Professional.

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Entrepreneur Angel Investor Social Media LLC 120

Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Managing and Properly Growing The Business – this includes several things, depending on the size of the enterprise: managing employees, administration, hiring, firing, leases, expenses, unhappy employees, fixing other problems, etc.

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Transformify

JULY 25, 2019

Over the past 30 years, Brian has held senior executive software development and management roles in a number of industries/technology sectors including cloud computing, supply chain, healthcare, finance, telecommunications and utilities. Lilia Stoyanov is CEO and angel investor at Transformify. About the author.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

A business person may have equal or more valuable skills than a software person, but they are not universally understood in the simplistic way that software people’s skills are. Ask anybody what a software developer does and they can give you the one-sentence “makes software” answer.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?". This is Part 2 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.???

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 1, 2013

Currently there is a barrier to this – you must know some coding to optimize this and it’s difficult to manage multiple sites. People and companies will have a portfolio of websites and not even think about it. Most of the tools already exist but need a lot of refinement; it will take another 2-5 years.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Im interested in sweat equity parterns, rather than raising capital and just hiring key employees, because sweat equity partners will be even more motivated to help than, say, an angel investor who invested 1/4 of 1% of his assets in my business. The sweat equity partner is a blend of employee and angel investor.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Manage Your Basecamp Projects Like 37signals – crowdspring.co/15uJNJ3. My First 9 Months as an Angel Investor – crowdspring.co/18n5adQ. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. How to hire – crowdspring.co/15u6LKW.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. . Three of them were sold.”

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Lessons from a top Angel Investor: Fabrice Grinda talks about his 100 early-stage investments – [link]. Managing Your Own Psychology | ben’s blog - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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