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I spent this week in San Antonio speaking with the Alamo Angels about what we are doing at symphonie.ai to help optimize contribution margin for e-commerce brands everywhere. I met some wonderful people there that I suspect will become friends as much as investors – I highly recommend anyone reach
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When we launched symphonie.ai, my co-founder and I had zero experience raising capital for a start-up. We were 1) ex-Amazonians; 2) ex-c-suite senior leaders (previously Chief Supply Chain Officer and Chief Technology Officer at unybrands, which has sadly been in the news for the wrong reasons since we left)
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I spent 5-years at Amazon and I enjoyed the experience tremendously. Amazon is known for a bruising, rough culture as summarized in Kristi Coulter's memoir "Exit Interview" so I sometimes wonder if the root cause of my positive perception of Amazon is at least partially my
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The New York Times recently wrote an in-depth article about the Humane Ai Pin. If you have not heard of it, its an "AI" device you pin to your chest; you interact with it through voice commands and a laser that projects a 720p low-resolution display onto your
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In my prior post, I discussed the importance of 'intelligent resilience' for co-founding a start-up. Today let's discuss the third most critical decision you make when you co-found a start-up: funding. We will discuss the first (i.e., the business idea) and second (i.e., co-founders)
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In my prior post I discussed my motivation for co-founding a start-up. Today let’s discuss the importance of ‘intelligent resilience’. To give you an idea of what I mean by 'resilience', let’s look at one simple metric: 76/80 or 95%. When I co-founded symphonie, 95%
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Let’s discuss what motivated me to be the co-founder of a start-up during arguably the worst time to launch a technology start-up in the five (5) years: 1. my experience in e-commerce and technology over 20 years, including building teams, processes and technology across multiple companies; 2. my network
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The journey from being a leader of multiple technologies teams in a diverse set of industries to a start-up co-founder might seem natural and straight-forward but I do not think it is. I also believe there are many people in my professional network who have thought about making the leap