Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. If you consider yourself a technologist, you probably believe and may be propagating one of the following myths: The first priority for funding should be to develop the technology.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 17, 2016

A reader named Turner Dean recently asked me whether it’s better to raise seed money on convertible notes or straight-up equity. In contrast, if you do an equity round, you as the founder will often have to pay $20k-$50k in legal bills. Flexibility With an equity round, there’s a specific amount of money you are raising.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Instead, buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, their social network, or just plain word-of-mouth or customer reviews. Nearly four in five CEOs complained that CMOs can’t explain how brand equity can be linked to recognized financial measures such as firm equity.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. Product marketers own a variety of marketing responsibilities, which can be roughly divided into two broad categories: pre-launch and post-launch. ConvertKit and Drip both technically do the same thing.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Here’s the punchline: if you run your company as if you have closed a VC equity financing round even though you actually closed a convertible debt round, you’ll be in much better shape when it comes time to raise your Series A financing. So why would you treat your debt investors (somewhat) like equity investors?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And it doesn't have to be technology. They didn't have a lot of technology. Now, if you're running what we call a high growth startup, usually what you're doing, but not always, like I said, is using technology. You don't have to invent this technology.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? Customer Equity. What does a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) do in a high-tech company? The Year of the Black Swan. General Management.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Having reached grid parity the use of solar should soar and cost should fall further as more money is invested in the technology. That would then enable many other wonderful things, including desalination plants which aren’t currently feasible due to high energy costs. Cheap energy and plentiful fresh water. Sounds good.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Dave, Karen, and their family have been great neighbors over the years and, while we may go weeks sometimes not seeing much of each other, due to being involved in our separate professional and personal pursuits, we always know they have our back, just as we have theirs. (No, not related to the famous Wendy’s founder.)

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In smaller funds, ticket sizes tend to be lower, so pre-seed is the only stage where micro funds are able to secure their minimum equity targets. Product/ tech/ insight – In many cases, pre-seed startups might already have a minimal viable product or at least some initial functionality to demonstrate potential.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 30, 2010

” Figuring out the market for your equity, appropriate capital structures, reasonable milestones, and most important of all, the right partner, aren't things that usually happen on the first try without some amount of trial and error. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

Sweat equity or salary? Engineers are humans, we have bills to pay, families to take care of, friends that we want to spend time with, and on occasion indulge in the latest tech gadget. The best places to find us are at tech conferences or panels. By letting them learn and play with new technologies from time to time.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. Image source. Establishing strong brand identity.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

How Technology Startups Can Leverage Disability Inclusion and Become Relevant, Competitive and Gain an Unfair Advantage Image: A satirical cartoon with six identical individuals dressed in business suits and sitting around a table with notepads and pen. by focusing on products and platforms, it has forgotten about people. Pass it down.”

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Geoffrey Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm and four other books, Geoffrey Moore has been thinking about high-tech product development longer than most of have been doing anything on a computer. Adding features without making the product too complex creates real value for your customers and produces revenue for your company.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? Not surprisingly, the list above also is ranked from least to most equity stake in an investment for the investor, relative to the cash they invest.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

Having spent a significant portion of my career in high technology, I viewed LED lights as electronic devices whereas the majority of competitors viewed them as lighting devices. 7- Lost a job due to ill health. 11- Enjoy software products. I started Pi Tech because I enjoy launching and iterating software products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. Startups die due to a variety of causes. I have witnessed startup failures that were due to predictable co-founder conflicts. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. Building Product 2. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Broadly speaking, this action plan is going to be broken up into three sections: the testing plan, the execution plan, and the review section. The testing plan is exactly what it sounds like—your plan for how you’re going to test the viability of your product (we’ll go into more detail about testing in step two). or even be a U.S.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

However, due to B2B market saturation, customer acquisition costs are rising ; this digital marketing strategy of giving a little and getting a lot no longer works. You’ve completed customer research for your product development and positioning strategy. an ebook); Then you blast them with sales messaging (e.g.,

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

In brief, startups succeed because there is strong alignment of interests among all parties, especially with the people who are actually building the product. Development shops who work for $100+/hour and take no equity are poor partners in a startup. 5 Points: You have a development shop that will work for equity.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 20, 2014

With no team and no technical expertise Matt was planning to find a team and build out some product before starting to raise some seed money. TRUSTPILOT REVIEW. Whereas as hires come on board and the product develops our involvement has scaled down to more of a mentoring role and for tactical projects.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. This person does not exist.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

First, some examples: A buddy of mine had done the hard work of finding two excellent tech cofounders. Another friend was thrown for a loop when his cofounder not only quit, but then actively poached the entire tech team to work for his new agency. But because they have equity, cofounder screwings are different.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Most people want to visit your site, do some research, go away, visit other sites, come back to yours, get more confidence about your brand, go back to Google and compare reviews/prices, come back to your site and add the product/service to the cart, go and ask their spouse/boss for permission, come back and buy from you (or the other site).

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developers have worn the crown for the last 30 or more years in the technology industry - rightly. But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due. It is interesting to see the emphasis that both Twitter and Quora have put on product design, not just engineering. and the latter on tech.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Tech*if*er0*urs â?? Seed Startups.

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