Team Building

Its all about “getting the right people on the bus” right? If theres one thing I’ve learned about 2+ years of being a Entrepreneur/Chief Slave Driver its that you’ve got to give your employees incentives to do good work. Sounds simple enough. But it’s an incredibly difficult thing to do when you are a startup and cannot match the salaries of companies that are 3X your size. So what do you do? You evangelize the shit out of your company vision. For us it is “reforming health care through information... Read The Rest →

Market Research

Until joining the Founder’s Institute, I hadn’t thought too much about the market characteristics like growth rate, total revenue estimates, and avg company size mainly because I haven’t had to do too many investor pitches. Sales presentations are a lot different than investor pitches, but they do share one thing in common which is Return-On-Investment. In the electronic health records space, solar installations, or enterprise software your customer is primarily interested in what the rate of payback is and how much your product will increase their productivity. When you approach... Read The Rest →

Founders Institute

So last night was the first night at the Founder’s Institute in Del Mar Heights. There was an eclectic group of people there mostly in the web space with a smattering of people in nanotech and biotech. Got put on the hotseat unexpectedly. Thanks Adeo. Got grilled. Met great people. Meditations: Ideas don’t mean much Launch a project Act Now: Biggest mistake entrepreneurs make is that they wait too long Innovators Dilemma

 
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