Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Especially if you are a first-time business owner, the payback for this initiative is well worth the effort and cost. Unfortunately, I see too many new entrepreneurs who let their passion for a new idea or invention blind them to the stark realities of customer need, opportunity size, or pricing and cost implications.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Think about the competitive edge they’d have by today in business or as a nation. In other words, a machine-learning algorithm can adjust its own settings, given feedback on its previous performance in making predictions about a collection of data (images, text, etc.). They’d steamroll everyone. What’s Different?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Say what you will about VCs, but we’re a mostly predictable bunch. You know what our incentives are and we care enough about our reputation within the ecosystem to not do anything too terrible—usually. I’m not talking about active angels. I’m talking about what someone I know recently referred to as “dentists”.

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Austin Startup

JULY 8, 2017

I can’t tell you how many times I run into first-time founders who’ve been fed absolute nonsense from ‘advisors’ ‘mentors’ or similarly named people about their ‘secrets’ for managing legal spend. There’s a related dynamic here to the first point about technology companies overstating their ability to cut legal spend. Me: “Great.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

You can learn more about the network’s design and technical specs here. While questions remain around the long-term legal feasibility of such a solution, the larger point is that the speed and cost benefits of Lightning can now be abstracted away for the end user’s benefit without any knowledge of bitcoin the asset. .

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Very enthusiastic about the potential for the NY tech ecosystem, leveraging our strength in finance. BROWN: Cost of managing a data store is negligible. DAVIS: How do you think about buying from smaller/emerging companies? y depreciated hydroelectric dams, to lower our electrical costs. Price/bandwidth is plummeting.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. One of the best things about being an entrepreneur is that there are no rules.

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