Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2012

Managing employees is a whole separate discipline, and most true entrepreneurs aren’t very good at it anyway. Make sure any employees needed are a function of your “bandwidth,” not your confidence or interests. Operating without a plan is a sure way to spend lots of money. Don’t hire any employees. Build a low-budget plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2011

Managing employees is a whole separate discipline, and most true entrepreneurs aren’t very good at it anyway. Make sure any employees needed are a function of your “bandwidth,” not your confidence or interests. Operating without a plan is a sure way to spend lots of money. Don’t hire any employees. Build a low-budget plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

billion in revenue and has a public enterprise value of $44 billion. I’m a stickler for focus, being efficient with capital and building out operational excellence, so our strategy initially was very constrained. The most important is management bandwidth. Fragmented markets can be a great target for disruption.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. In addition to fresh products, you need people smarter than you for real help, with the right combination of skills, experience, and passion to foster and manage new growth.

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Gust

JULY 29, 2012

Managing employees is a whole separate discipline, and most true entrepreneurs aren’t very good at it anyway. Make sure any employees needed are a function of your “bandwidth,” not your confidence or interests. Operating without a plan is a sure way to spend lots of money. Don’t hire any employees. Build a low-budget plan.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 28, 2020

Business organizations, large and small, are responding to this crisis in different ways, depending upon the nature of the business, size of operations, and financial standing. Employees at startups and SMBs look up to the founders and HR managers for direction and confidence. Build Confidence and Provide Direction to Employees.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 25, 2015

David is an active angel investor in Texas and is a former management consultant, where he obviously plied his trade well. – Dave. Bazaarvoice, a company in Austin, Texas is a great example of this kind of operation. Yep: revenues of over $100 million per year with a market cap around $800 million. Have an open mind.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 3, 2009

  Bandwidth-limited general partners and frenetic CEOs are under pressure to move fast and get things done, leading to rushed, sloppy work to secure the deals.   Here are a few specific examples of things VC boards should do, and management teams should openly encourage: 1)    Audit Committee.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2010

Managing employees is a whole separate discipline, and most true entrepreneurs aren’t very good at it anyway. Make sure any employees needed are a function of your “bandwidth,” not your confidence or interests. Operating without a plan is a sure way to spend lots of money. Don’t hire any employees. Build a low-budget plan.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

All software is supposed to save time, raise revenue, cut costs and boost productivity, but we now know how difficult it is to meet those goals. Most companies don’t have the cash or bandwidth to support long development cycles and hire boatloads of developers. They’re chopping costs and upping revenue.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth, and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket. Both these roles require unique skills, but both can benefit from operating in the other mode. Burns off high energy and bandwidth.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Here’s the list of industries that will get new business opportunities and increase the revenue with 5G: Enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) services will drive developing of 5G. Retail revenue will grow as well. Telecom Operators will get a chance to become enablers for industry apps. trillion (£9.3

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Put it this way: if you’re operating on the basis of making decisions at 95% significance, there is a 5% probability of a type 1 error (“alpha error,” or a false positive). Whatever the maximum you can manage as far as resources, beta of concepts, and traffic, that is the goal. What’s the point? Efficiency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth, and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket. Both these roles require unique skills, but both can benefit from operating in the other mode. Burns off high energy and bandwidth.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. mobile is ~50% of revenue, shorter form works better. Flip your funnel – only 5% of revenue comes from optimisation but 92% of revenue from retention. Managing a lot at once. Result: -45% revenue per visit. updated footer.

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2022

Uses up a lot of bandwidth. Because all individual backup files are stored separately rather than stored in a single compressed/encrypted container file—this allows for direct access to backup files without performing a restore operation. Uses less bandwidth. How would you continue to operate? Requires more storage space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2017

Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth, and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket. Both these roles require unique skills, but both can benefit from operating in the other mode. Burns off high energy and bandwidth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket. Both these roles require unique skills, but both can benefit from operating in the other mode. Burns off high energy and bandwidth.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Totally automate all that so it doesn’t bring me down all the time and instead I can sign all the revenue, because that’s fun. It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. Patrick: How close did he get? Ryan: 50%, sort of. Patrick: All right.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Websites can be content management systems (CMSs), web applications, or document-based platforms. These operate fsimilarly to a dedicated physical server but are defined by software, making them less expensive and easier to create and configure to specific user needs. Managed hosting. Loss of revenue. What is web hosting?

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

For the last 75 years computers (we’ll call these classic computers) have both shrunk to pocket size (iPhones) and grown to the size of warehouses (cloud data centers), yet they all continued to operate essentially the same way. This reduces network bandwidth issues and eliminates latency issues. Supply chain management.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

The most poignant realisation of this for me has been the general awareness that few of them pay their fair share of taxes in localised operations. To be run with separate management, in a separate building, and keep their cultures away from each other. It’s another case of the infrastructure and bandwidth catching up to desire.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

The most poignant realisation of this for me has been the general awareness that few of them pay their fair share of taxes in localised operations. To be run with separate management, in a separate building, and keep their cultures away from each other. It’s another case of the infrastructure and bandwidth catching up to desire.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

Our system is managed by a patent-pending combination of distributed, grid and peer to peer technologies along with sophisticated analytic algorithms to do the smart matching beween your media and the device. We analyze your bandwidth and make all your stuff very simple. How are you planning ramp up the revenue?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. They deal with energy management, security, physical device failures, etc.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. This allows customers to create, manage and track processes that include tagging of physical objects using barcodes. Aerotel Medical Systems. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Craze Productions.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did. A few, like John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins and Don Valentine at Sequoia, had operating experience in a large tech company. We now have specific management tools to grow startups. The founders.

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