Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

Due to founder visibility, the team is so tuned in to the visionary and current direction that every turn to the right to pursue a new idea turns the whole team to the right. But in my experience, very few entrepreneurs have the bandwidth to make this work, and the adapted entrepreneur ends up doing both jobs poorly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2016

Due to founder visibility, the team is so tuned in to the visionary and current direction that every turn to the right to pursue a new idea turns the whole team to the right. But in my experience, very few entrepreneurs have the bandwidth to make this work, and the adapted entrepreneur ends up doing both jobs poorly.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

We make fewer investments on a per-partner basis than nearly all seed funds in the country, so we have the bandwidth to take board seats and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with founders at the seed stage to try to make the biggest possible impact. Check out our blog for how we think about company building and investing. . A Final Note.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have 4-6 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, or investor in New York. You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. Who Are We Looking For. You are a native of NYC tech with a strong network. You act as an “ invited guest.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Some of these folks are founders and CEOs, but not at high-growth tech startups. Helpful investors should use their sage advice and support of the founder to make them into better, data-driven decision makers to impact a company, instead of relying on their contractually held voting rights. Perhaps they inherited it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2019

Yet most team members don’t have the bandwidth or interest to do their existing job, and well as address major innovations. Everyone can be an innovator. Ideation is everyone’s job, as are small improvements in each employee’s direct sphere of responsibility. Real innovation happens bottoms-up.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah and Steven Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. Mike Baker – CEO of DataXu. In some cases , the advisors’ companies form business relationships with startups NextView is vetting.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She is the author of The Content Fuel Framework: How to Generate Unlimited Story Ideas , and the founder of StoryFuel , which teaches entrepreneurs and companies how to tell better brand stories. If someone only has the bandwidth to create in one format, where should they focus their time? Not everyone listening has a content team.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. Investment – All of these individuals are busy people with limited bandwidth, but they?’re

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 19, 2014

When companies are just getting off the ground, the founders often build the websites themselves, increasingly with flat HTML because it is simple and efficient. Every hour invested in this marketing infrastructure comes directly out of the bandwidth available for product improvements. The startup’s ops and engineering team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. According to one study a decade ago, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

If in-house development resources have the bandwidth, why not assign them the important task of creating a new platform or application? Ryan Gerhardy is the co-founder and CEO of Pitchly , the leading cloud-based content service platform for M&A professionals to organize and activate their proprietary client experience.

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Steve Blank

MAY 27, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. The issues our lawyer had raised about the contract, while correct, were strategy questions the founders needed to answer, not legal questions. My co-founder and a few board members brainstormed to make sure we weren’t missing anything.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2013

My partners and I often worry about companies we’ve invested in having enough bandwidth and resources to adequately cover issues of reliability, availability, and security. Watch David Campbell, one of JumpCloud’s other co-founders, explain JumpCloud at TechCrunch Disrupt. And then much pain ensues.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The legal department wants to give that help while complying with headcount and bandwidth constraints. Rudy DeFelice is co-founder and CEO of Keesal Propulsion Labs , a digital transformation company serving the law departments of the Fortune 500. The requester wants prompt, accurate help. Once the world stops laughing, of course.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. In the bandwidth example, picking a point in 1986 and a point in 1998 exactly predicts the bandwidth I have in 2012.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, according to Founders Forum’s survey of 400+ startup owners, 94% of the respondents were already working from home before the pandemic. In simple terms, the video quality doesn’t dip for participants with poor internet connectivity and low bandwidth. Image Credit: pixaby. Aubot : Cutting-Edge Surveillance.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. For example, Acquia runs its Drupal infrastructure on more than 8,000 AWS instances and serves more than 27 billion hits a month (or 333TB of bandwidth). Because they are open source. What will come next?

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Mucker Lab

JULY 11, 2023

Bandwidth - A web host that provides ≥ 10 GB Network for data transfers is more ideal. If you are the founder of a seed-stage company interested in learning more about Mucker funding, apply to MuckerLab and/or contact us.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Especially in the age of zoom pitching, founders can create a fairly wide top of the funnel, and talk to a large number of investors to find a good match for their round. In other words, by the time the term sheet is signed, everyone else in the syndicate is already known and have been talking to the founder already.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

Due to founder visibility, the team is so tuned in to the visionary and current direction that every turn to the right to pursue a new idea turns the whole team to the right. But in my experience, very few entrepreneurs have the bandwidth to make this work, and the adapted entrepreneur ends up doing both jobs poorly.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Just like Peep, other marketers from hypergrown products, such as David Cancel (founder at Drift) argue that product-based differentiation is vanishing. This allows Speero to understand the business priority and adapt their growth, pipeline and test bandwidth models.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Have a big bandwidth. Entrepreneurs who “get it” are emotionally attuned to peers and customers, so that their gut-level instincts become informed judgments that move the business forward. Can you talk, with equal engagement and respect, to your company’s CFO and the guy who pumps your gas?

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In the 2000s, the company might rent space at a colocation facility; buy, install, provision and maintain its own servers, storage and networking equipment (as we did at MySpace , putting several new servers online per day ) ; and enter into a series of contracts for ever-changing amounts of bandwidth. Has anyone already left the picture?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2017

He is currently President and CEO of Bandwidth Logic. He is currently Co-Founder of Third Drive, a business development and marketing company located in Austin. Brandon Knicely who helped fund the deal and did intensive due diligence on the technology.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2012

” “Bandwidth and mobile data is precious. At US$79 which includes an initial 1 GB free bandwidth it even ditches the subscription model – so yay, no more monthly subscription payments. The concept of social bandwidth. There’s never enough of it.” ” “Sharing is for losers.”

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 20, 2023

After all, strategic partnerships and M&A are rare events for a startup and can be handled by the founder/CEO, or potentially by someone in Sales. The problem is that you can’t control when a deal shows up but once it does, a series of processes and tasks that are time-dependent kick in and it can consume all of your bandwidth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

That’s where I see too much entrepreneur burnout, growth plateaus, and founders being replaced, to their chagrin. According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 12, 2021

We’ve seen it over and over again in our own investment portfolio – and helped to mentor our founders through these strategic decisions and transitions. It’s impossible to sufficiently thank my co-founder and outgoing CEO David Brown for his contributions to date. It’s all part of the journey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2023

In my own experience with technical startup founders, I still find it hard to name one who was also good, or even interested in financials or business operations. Not a single one of us has the bandwidth to build a solution and a business alone. You need a team and relationships to run a business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now. Having street smarts with no inspirational ability to build teams can yield a great small business but will be difficult to scale into a large VC-backed business.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

First off, many founders don't really feel the need to have external accountability. Not only that, founders get a lot of warnings from other founders about “losing control” and to be careful about ceding too much power to investors. For one, they have the bandwidth and network to actually be really helpful.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 18, 2015

I’ve spent a lot of years as theoretically being my own boss, including more than 10 years as sole proprietor business planning consultant, working on my own with clients; and more than 10 years building a company, as founder and owner, working with employees. In my case, being my own boss, or not, was never really the point.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 17, 2022

Founder of rental matchmaker technology platform Pickmee, Felix Scholz, believes this is the first place all entrepreneurs need to start. Spooky Productions Director and Founder of virtual live event platforms Sideline.Live and LiveEventApp, Luke Thompson, always watches trends to stay one step ahead of the market. Felix Scholz.

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