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Life and Lessons from High Tech Start Ups
http://www.cynthiakocialski.com
Observations, lessons, and life inside a high tech start up company. An insiders' view of what works, what doesn’t work, and daily humor.
- Added on: Sep 2nd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Cynthia Kocialski
- Listed in: Innovation Entrepreneurship
- Tags: technology innovation venture capital start up high tech product development
Recent Posts
Part 2:How to reach customers and get the market validation investors demand?
How do you satisfy investor’s desire for early market validation? Surveys, focus groups, interviews, testimonials and blogs can provide an early indication of the customer acceptance. MINING THE INTERNET TO GAUGE CUSTOMER ACCEPTANCE Start-ups can c...
Part 1: One of the Toughest Questions Start-Ups Need to Answer for Funding
One of the toughest questions entrepreneurs need to answer when looking for funding is how you know your product concept will attract paying customers. While today’s investors know that it’ll be years before they will see any returns from the s...
Are you Pushing your Start-up Team out the door?
It takes a lot of effort to find the right employee and integrate them into the company, so how do you keep them from leaving the company? And what if that “right” candidate turns out to be the “wrong” employee? Contrary to the expected, ...
Building a Start-up Team, Is Everything Really Free?
In the early stage start-up, every individual’s performance matters a great deal. This is especially true today where “capital efficiency” is the hottest buzz word in the start-up community. Consider the current start-up environment, investo...
The Truth about How to Build a Start-up Team
Hiring a staff from ground zero is more difficult than it seems. One of the hardest tasks is to figure out who you need to hire. Most founders know their job functions well, but they trivialize the importance of the other functions in making the comp...
A Dirty Little Secret about Venture Capital Funding
I was at a venture capital meeting last week and one of the VCs, Bill Reichert for Garage Technology Ventures made an interesting observation about venture capital funding – he called it one of the dirty little secrets. VCs fund projects they fall ...
