Startups – The Musings of the Big Red Car

CEO Shoptalk: The Escape Hatch, The Startup Pre-Nup

Big Red Car — Mon, 06 May 2024 17:07:51 +0000

When a founder is giving birth to their new baby, he or she is filled to overflowing with the giddy excitement of creating life. Sure, they may create Corporate Bylaws, Articles of Incorporation, a Shareholder Agreement, or even an Operating Agreement — really good companies have Employment Agreements which subsume job descriptions with each of […]

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Startup, Founder Super Power — IGNORANCE

Big Red Car — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 18:41:25 +0000

In the world of startups, founders: “Know what they know” — which is often a substantial body of knowledge. Some, “know what they don’t know” — for which they find co-founders to buttress or they learn. All startup founders “don’t know what they don’t know” — which gives rise to the super power called “ignorance.” […]

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CEO Shoptalk — Not Cleared In Hot

Big Red Car — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:45:22 +0000

When you are calling in CAS (close air support — might be Snakes, Warthogs, fast movers, Puff the Magic Dragon — I know, dating myself) you will tell the flyboys they are “cleared hot” meaning they can bring their special brand of firepower and turn it loose on the target and that the friendlies are […]

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CEO Shoptalk — Fragility

Big Red Car — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:59:12 +0000

In the early days of a startup, when you are running on pure adrenalin, co-founders are in constant contact. Every new development is shared completely, you are likely to be in close physical proximity, and the novelty of it all creates a glue that binds the co-founders together thereby provoking a level of communication that […]

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Practice Like You Play

Big Red Car — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:43:14 +0000

One of the best bits of advice I ever received was to practice the same way I intended to play — good advice when pertaining to sports, the military, and business. Startups are often given a pass for not following sound practices. “Hell, they’re just startups.” The challenge becomes this — when is a startup […]

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CEO Shoptalk – Energy

Big Red Car — Sun, 29 Apr 2018 22:00:37 +0000

Energy, today we focus on energy. Big Red Car here after an afternoon of menial labor. I like menial labor, I do. So, today we talk about how a startup, a small business, or a medium size business deals with energy. First, there are energy sources and energy sinks. An energy sink is an absorber […]

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Revenue, the Essential Nature of Revenue

Big Red Car — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 21:05:56 +0000

Revenue. Big Red Car here to talk about revenue. Y’all love revenue as much as the Big Red Car loves revenue? I think you do. If you whip out your accounting text, you will read first about operating and non-operating revenue. Scratch a little harder, you will learn about sales, rent, dividends, and interest. If […]

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Managing the C Suite

Big Red Car — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:07:57 +0000

Big Red Car here. Rained like Hell last night in the ATX. It is that time of year — we get the rains in May and September and this is September. Bring it! So today, we talk about the C Suite and how it operates or should operate. First, let’s make sure we’re all talking […]

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One More Reason to Love Texas — Texas Women Entrepreneurs

Big Red Car — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 16:23:26 +0000

Big Red Car here on another warm August Texas day. On Earth as it is in Texas, y’all. When you live in Texas — even if you’re originally from Detroit, like me — it’s hard not to be proud (obnoxious) about how great Texas is. Here’s one more reason: Texas women entrepreneurs. Turns out that […]

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Politics as Startup — The Donald Startup

Big Red Car — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:09:10 +0000

Big Red Car here. Another — another — great day in the paradise that is the ATX. On Earth as it is in Texas. So, the Big Red Car is interested in the phenomenon that is The Donald from the perspective of assessing a political campaign as a startup. The Donald Startup! In the end, […]

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