by David Mortaz | Mar 12, 2023 | Leadership
Top 10 mistakes to avoid as an entrepreneur I was part of an startup in 2012 and sold our Design Collabotion software to a global Contract Manufactuing firm. I had arranged a meeting to inorudce our CEO to the CTO of this company where our software was viewed as a...
by David Mortaz | Aug 18, 2022 | Leadership, Technology
What ISIS can teach US Central Command about Content Marketing Like most Millennials, I get my honest news from Comedy Central. So, I was really shocked when Jon Stewart mentioned that US Central Command is using flyers (yes, printed content) to combat ISIS’s...
by David Mortaz | Aug 17, 2022 | Leadership, Social Media Marketing, Technology
Who is responsible for the horrible User Interface on Linkedin It’s been several weeks now that I have been frustrated by Linkedin’s latest Messaging interface which is cruder than Howard Stern’s comedy. My 1st observation about the odd nature of the...
by David Mortaz | Aug 17, 2022 | Leadership, Procurement
So you want to be a Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)? It was 1996 when I met Duane Zitzner EVP of Personal Systems Group. HP was being challenged by the upstart Dell and all the resellers complained that it was easier to work with Compaq than HP. The challenges that...
by David Mortaz | Aug 16, 2022 | Leadership
Top 6 mistakes to avoid when pitching to investors During the past decade, I have attended many deal screenings at different VC and Angel groups in Silicon Valley. One of my favorite deal screening sessions happens at Keiretsu Forum which is chaired by Randy Williams....
by David Mortaz | Aug 12, 2022 | Leadership, Technology
Top 6 signs you have a bad CEO The year was 1992 and I had taken our startup’s CEO to a meeting with one of my client companies. This Manufacturing giant had agreed to a record $1.3M agreement for the global deployment of our Design Collaboration software. This...
