ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Jim Dunlap, CIO of Alaska Telecom discussed with me the increasingly serious problem that telecom vendors are facing due to bandwidth consumption skyrocketing. Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

So as an investor, I find myself passing on opportunities at the early stage that I know could become strong businesses, simply due to bandwidth constraints. In those cases, I try to make introductions to other investors and be helpful in providing feedback, and potentially invest when my bandwidth opens up.

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Austin Startup

JULY 8, 2017

In law, it enables recruitment, technology, training, staff, and other infrastructure that turns a set of lawyers into an integrated legal services provider, with bandwidth that can be optimized to keep work moving. It is deeply engrained to each lawyer’s expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

This saves energy, mistakes, cost, time, client computer memory and bandwidth. Angel Investor early stage founder Hawaii SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO Tom Nora angel investor CEOing first revenue leadership software Software Development The Next Level tom nora twitter venture capital' It vastly reduces computer waste.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ).

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The point is that the number of angel investments that you would need to hold to significantly increase your chance at finding those 1-2 deals that really make the whole thing work is probably more than you have the bandwidth to make. In fact, that number is probably even more than the average VC fund has the bandwidth to make.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 25, 2013

Honestly, if you''re thinking about an early stage company, there really isn''t enough data to process across seven hours of meetings. The chances of that happening are so remote that it isn''t worth wasting my mental bandwidth keeping an eye on everything and certainly isn''t fair to entrepreneurs. I''m never going to do that.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The driving factors why more storage will be necessary locally include advanced gesture and voice recognition, intelligent assistant in the car, buffering infotainment to reduce network, bandwidth utilization of the peak network, and caching software updates. Parallel File Systems. Phase 2 is what is referred to as self-driving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I’ve been running our company, cycling through Customer Discovery and Validation and the board suggested that I was running out of bandwidth and needed some help in closing our initial orders. Early stage startups are still searching for their business model. They suggested I get a VP of Sales to help.”. Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2012

And while all companies can benefit from success systems, creating a culture of productivity can be a matter of survival for early-stage companies, especially in the digital age. But consider the other tools they need—bandwidth, space, freedom, and opportunities to think deeply and circle back. Expectations have changed.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2008

Unlike investing in public markets, investing in early stage companies happens before those companies have a real business, when it is just a concept and a team, and sometimes not even a whole team. What early-stage venture capital is betting on is people.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive. So if a VC wants to work with really talented early-stage entrepreneurs there are times where they have to be willing to seed fund them in order to be in the deal. A very well known early stage fund used to have a rule that they didn’t do follow ons.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Conversely, there is a belief that there is no way a fund can invest in good companies at low prices and at such an early stage. Ultimately, the question comes down to bandwidth. There must be some adverse selection if they are raising small amounts of capital at those prices.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

For entrepreneurs who really try to be the CEO of multiple early-stage startups concurrently, the hot term for this practice is “multi-table” entrepreneurs. Burns off high energy and bandwidth. Other prolific entrepreneurs, like Richard Branson and Elon Musk , simply have several startups on the table at any given moment.

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Jason Ball

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Another reason investors say “No” is bandwidth. Most people don’t realize an investor will only make 1-5 deals per year—depending on many factors (stage, size, etc.) Every VC you meet in London will say “We do early stage.” Many investors are not what they seem. Everyone says “Great companies get funded.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

20 years ago, the only content you could get online was text content just because of bandwidth limitations. Danny Iny: And at some point, as the media kind of got richer, as bandwidth caught up, people started thinking, “Well, what if I do the same thing with education? Danny Iny: Exactly. John Jantsch: Yeah. What do you think?”

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This is a common challenge for companies of all sizes/stages, but the tradeoff could be especially tricky for early-stage startups given the extremely limited engineering resources. Approach 2: Allocate [x]% of your engineering bandwidth for such activities and do not go over.

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For early stage companies and for our new investment activity: I’m very bullish. So their raw bandwidth for evaluating new investments is reduced. Here’s how I’d break it down. Second, psychologically, it’s hard to maintain confidence and optimism when you know that things are struggling within your portfolio of companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

For a startup or small business executive serving as mentor, the proverbial “win-win” is created as they benefit from an injection of essential bandwidth, youthful energy, and technical expertise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

This is important, especially if you are a very early stage company. Your writings are so very thought provoking, and now reading them will take a slice of my ever diminishing bandwidth. Ill mention one last thing about knowing what channels of communication your customers engage with. Dear E, so good to come across this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

For entrepreneurs who really try to be the CEO of multiple early-stage startups concurrently, the hot new term for this practice is “multi-table” entrepreneurs. Burns off high energy and bandwidth. Other prolific entrepreneurs, like Richard Branson and Elon Musk , simply have several startups on the table at any given moment.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 8, 2004

And back then, many large enterprise customers were not willing to have their data hosted with an early stage, private company. Additionally, the pure costs of building a data center and using bandwidth have decreased significantly. The world is changing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Sun Microsystems has a program called Startup Essentials [link] thats designed specifically to help early stage startups get into some great equipment, free software and other great stuff too. The bandwidth and level of service many of these companies provide for merely hundreds of dollars a month makes it a no-brainer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2017

For entrepreneurs who really try to be the CEO of multiple early-stage startups concurrently, the hot new term for this practice is “multi-table” entrepreneurs. Burns off high energy and bandwidth. I suspect this term is derived from the common online gambling practice of playing multiple poker games at the same time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

For entrepreneurs who really try to be the CEO of multiple early-stage startups concurrently, the hot new term for this practice is “multi-table” entrepreneurs. Burns off high energy and bandwidth. I suspect this term is derived from the common online gambling practice of playing multiple poker games at the same time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Because you only have so much bandwidth, right? My buddies, et cetera, who are of course going to support me,” or who the product doesn’t have the … The founders aren’t truly focused on a segment, and they’re sort of trying to meet the needs of too large a segment.

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scalablestartup.berkeley.edu

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Next you need to determine how many advisors of each type you need to recruit in order to achieve your goal, and how many you can actually accommodate based on your, and your team’s, bandwidth. An advisor is typically expected to spend just a few hours per year with a startup (typically 20-40 hours per year). Additional Considerations.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Michael: Well, I’m very in the early stage, and my question reflects that. If you can’t get people to take it for free, even if it is early stage, then I think that’s a bad indication that you still don’t have enough differentiators from those other three. Jason: Nice. Jason: Alright. Jason: Great.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Large funds write larger checks because they lack the mental/resource bandwidth to actively manage a portfolio of smaller investments. But if I put in $10MM and get out $15MM in a 50% larger exit, that was still a waste of my time; only 1.5x. Most individual VCs can only support about 7–10 companies at a time.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

While those initial links will be very useful in sending traffic your way in the early stage, they can be massive useful later by allowing search engines to find your site and gain authority and link value. Thanks for the such a good informative post.

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