Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated. Personnel Manager.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops to a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. At first many start-ups hire a lobbying firm. However, many VCs have also accrued years/decades as domain experts in the technologies/and or industries they invest in.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. Organizations are assigned value by how well they take advantage of the best technology, and turn information into action.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Many startup CEOs hire COOs or launch companies with a co-founder carrying the title. When should founders hire one? For most of my career, I’ve served startups and early-stage companies as an operating executive or advisor. More importantly, A-players attract and hire other A-players. Based on what criteria?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

As an early-stage company that just closed our seed round at $8.1 So what does an early-stage company do to avoid the doom and gloom plaguing the world of startups? It’s an asset-heavy, old-school sector that is just now starting to apply technology to make the delivery of goods more efficient. That includes us.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Even if you don’t have “direct&# sales I would tell you that “everything is a sale&# including fund raising, hiring, getting press and doing business development. One of the biggest mistakes I see early-stage startups making is hiring “seasoned&# sales professionals or hiring people too senior, too early.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

Personal assistants are often hired to prepare decisions and information for managers and take care of miscellaneous tasks for busy executives and CEOs — who all earn higher incomes. What is the Role of Technology? Technology has come so far that we can essentially have a dialogue with our phone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated. Personnel Manager.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. Organizations are assigned value by how well they take advantage of the best technology, and turn information into action.

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Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2020

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every startup founder loves to prompt for questions from investors and potential key team members about their vision, and the huge opportunity that can be had with their disruptive technology. Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup.

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Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 207

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Build a Talented Team of Technology and Business Professionals. Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. Why It’s Critical to Choose a Modern Software Development Technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. Don’t hire a homogenous team. Don’t hire “relationship management” sales people too early. Tech teams are comprised of three distinct managements skills: people, process & technology.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

Clearly, hiring new team members is an expense, and running promotions means increased marketing expenses, and depending on the nature of the special, selling products at a reduced rate. Follow trends and emerging technologies and keep an eye on what your competition is doing. Look at the market and your competition.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In light of this, we’re excited to announce that we’re hiring a Head of Network to expand and develop Foundry’s network programs. Foundry Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies and venture fund managers. The full job description is below.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

Product architecture – the collection of defining technologies, applications and features in your product – is one of the fundamentals critical to achieving traction. Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

While the rewards may be a boon to their company in the short term, the consequences of accepting outside funding too early can be debilitating. There’s a reason why I refer to early-stage VC funding as vulture capital, and to be honest it’s pretty accurate. Just because you can afford to hire, doesn’t mean that you should.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2022

In the early stages of your new e-commerce venture, the expense of various small business shipping choices can add up quickly. Hire Small Business-Friendly Companies. It’s likely that you already know how expensive shipping can be for small businesses. This, on the other hand, can severely cut into your revenue.

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Small Business Software Review Technical Review Early Stage 166

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

Product architecture – the collection of defining technologies, applications and features in your product – is one of the fundamentals critical to achieving traction. Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea.

Framework 113

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

And it made me come to a new realization: Every early-stage web/mobile/online startup should have at least one technical advisor, probably two. Most early-stage, in-house teams needs to be hands on developers, not strategic. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm doing as a Part-Time CTO or Technical Advisor for startups.

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Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review 332

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Market/technology acuity (patterns of success, domain expertise). Early-stage Venture Capital firms grow their partnerships in different ways, some hire: partners from other firms. Here’s why.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

It is a truism that with more capital you will hire people more quickly and spend more liberally whether it’s on external contractors, PR firms, attending events, doing legal work (trademarks, patents) or whatever. It forces harder decisions about whom you’ll hire and whom you’ll delay. million or $4 million.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Early Stage Startup 292

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

GV (formerly Google Ventures) – Started in 2009, GV is Alphabet’s venture capital fund, focused primarily on early stage in diverse fields: from life sciences and healthcare to robotics and entereprise tech. Gradient Ventures – an early stage fund backed by Alphabet, investing exclusively in AI first companies.

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Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

We competed with other technology companies, and, like Bill Gurley, largely ignored whatever was going on in Washington. Most early stage startups don’t have the regulatory domain expertise in-house. Hire/advisors from the inside industry but use them to make you smarter not just to outsource the work.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Technology tools such as a CRM system can also help you get a strong understanding of your sales cycle and pipeline. Technology helps you stay accountable for some of the difficult decisions you’ll need to make, so it’s worth it to prioritize that expense early. Weigh hiring an employee versus implementing software.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. As an early-stage VC I love this phase. I always push companies to hire “an operationally focused CFO” during this phase because in order to systematize you need somebody who brings economic rigor to decision making.

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Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Most technology startups seem to be founded by three types of people: product managers, engineers or biz dev types (MBAs and the like). Very few of them are started, in my experience, by sales people and very few early stage companies really understand sales. More on that later. The difference is PROCESS ORIENTATION.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

It’s also not an accident that, upon stepping back from being Textio’s CEO, I’ve built a sizable exec coaching practice working largely with early stage founders. HW: Textio is open to remote hires from a specific set of states which I found interesting. As a CEO, I was at my best when I embraced this side of myself fully.

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Cofounder Founder Technical Review Seattle 96

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. You have 5-10 years of professional experience as a technology operator, founder, and/or investor. You act as an “ invited guest.”. consumer, etc.).

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Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Our families — and the families of the employees we eventually hire—come first. Yet, especially in the early stages of your business, you will have to drive the whole of that process. Running a competitive business in a modern market, whether that business is entrepreneurial or traditional, requires technology.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Silicon Valley Bandwidth 205

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Orum is a NYC-based financial technology company that makes money move fast. Experienced leadership, well-funded, and hiring in engineering, product and operations. Salonpas patches for back pain because I’m old, Andytown coffee and this GQ article about a band of watch thieves. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

6- Hire an attorney and SEO expert Photo Credit: Priscilla Christine When establishing your business, there are several essential tips to keep in mind for long-term success. First and foremost, consider hiring an attorney to assist you in setting up your business structure, drafting contracts, and establishing store policies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. In fact, they are well-qualified overall, having worked with high technology and computers for at least 20 years, are highly educated, and highly motivated. Personnel Manager.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product.

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