Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. If establishing physical offices in a developing country, split them into at least two physical areas hundreds of miles apart from each other. Fortunately none of our employees lost their lives and the second office 300 miles away in Manila continued operating as normal.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Meanwhile, Wendy’s poured marketing and operational resources to deliver on their “Hot and Juicy” promise and carved out a niche for customers who wanted fresh, larger burgers with customized condiments. However, you must assess the feasibility of actually delivering your visionary, flank-exposing innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. Today, I want to talk about the reasons smaller batches are better.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

And, if I told you that by the beginning of May, you’d make every hire remotely, you might have laughed in my face. …suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

There are three fundamental situations that change what your company needs to do: creating a new market (the original Palm), bringing a new product to an existing market (Handspring), and resegmenting an existing market (niche, like In-n-Out Burger; or low-cost, like Southwest Airlines). What is customer development?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And that's mostly gonna be the labor cost of the work that we do for clients.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

But it goes beyond that, including techniques for improving the economics of product development. Reinertsen weaves together ideas from lean manufacturing, maneuver warfare, queuing theory, and even the architecture of computer operating systems and the Internet. Today, only 2 percent of product developers measure queues.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. Thats why we need continuous integration and test-driven development. First of all, its a myth that cutting corners saves time.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

I got one of those in 2018, mere months after I started at data.world as their first growth marketing and demand generation hire. But such a simple funnel works only if you have a lot of inbound interest and a sales team focused on fielding inquiries. Align with your sales team’s view of deal creation. Image source ).

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

This report will help you identify where your company should invest in when it comes to mobile content and what kind of people to hire for the mobile awesomization team. Here's the report for operating system. So what else is going on? The stuff you see above. And how hard was it to get to the above? You have many choices.

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

January 21, 2009 Why Your Startup Can’t Afford To NOT Hire a CTO As I mentioned in my last post, one of the many things I do as an entrepreneur is to advise other start up companies. Unfortunately in many cases, the choice to hire a CTO is the worst choice a CEO or management team could make. This is critical! this story.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Checkout [link].net

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