Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A documented business plan for the new venture is critical here. Incubating is not enough; successful new ventures must be quickly scaled to stay ahead of competition and show a level of acceptance by customers as well as your financial executives. Don’t count on friends and family, crowdfunding, angels, or other external investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. validate your business model) Continuous improvement. Don’t stand still. For now, get cooking! Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Document and communicate a solid business plan. You may be comfortable driving your future based on vision and emotion, or have long been a stickler for details and metrics. For example , when Yvon Chouinard founded Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, his real goal was building safe products to help the environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

For example, in a conflict over the right branding logo , it may help to understand who and how the ultimate decision will be made, including key elements driving the decision, such as targeted customers and competition. Don’t let it be just a conflict over graphic design. Evaluate conflict win-lose versus win-win potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2023

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. There certainly isn’t anything wrong with a regular well-paid job and career, with health-care benefits, and a competitive retirement plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Solution development and delivery.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.) And it made me sad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2020

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. There certainly isn’t anything wrong with a regular well-paid job and career, with health-care benefits, and a competitive retirement plan.

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Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Metrics 150

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Solution development and delivery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2017

What metrics should you use to measure success? Define both hard data and soft (anecdotal) metrics on the new solution, as well as on the productivity of you team. That means you must know the current state of competitors against the same metrics, before you can assess progress or success.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents. You have seed rounds but you now have “pre-seed rounds.” We aren’t going to win every great deal in LA?—?there

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2018

For example, I still find businesses asking you to print, sign, and return documents by mail in lieu of digital signatures or email. It takes a well-rounded and motivated team to run a competitive business today. You need to communicate quantified and updates goals quarterly, including the metrics to assess progress and success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. validate your business model) Continuous improvement. Don’t stand still. For now, get cooking! Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Coach Metrics Marketing 81

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Why you should set up a board at the seed round of funding I know these days with SAFE documents and rolling convertible notes many founders prefer not to set up a board early on. This is the norm and unless you have a hugely competitive round it’s not worth fighting. If your metric move immediate up-and-to-the-right?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. All of these processes should be documented, and should explicitly include the customer buying process and perceptions as the base. Include planned measurements and metrics. Their perception is your reality.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

So how do you use financial projections as valuation metrics when you know the odds of those being accurate predictors of the future are so very unreliable? For example, in Silicon Valley, a “big data” startup might competitively call for a $1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. All of these processes should be documented, and should explicitly include the customer buying process and perceptions as the base. Include planned measurements and metrics. Their perception is your reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). Develop metrics with which to measure yourself and use these to incrementally expand and improve your offering as fast as the market and capital will allow. validate your business model) Continuous improvement. Don’t stand still. For now, get cooking! Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. All of these processes should be documented, and should explicitly include the customer buying process and perceptions as the base. Include planned measurements and metrics. Their perception is your reality.

Tips 93

Tips Search Engine Optimization Summary Startup 93

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. There certainly isn’t anything wrong with a regular well-paid job and career, with health-care benefits, and a competitive retirement plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

After reviewing her day-by-day recommendations to improve productivity in a single week, I have extrapolated her guidance to ten productivity tips specifically for entrepreneurs to regain that competitive edge: Focus on managing yourself rather than managing others. Define clear goals and metrics for your productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

.Net 89

.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. All of these processes should be documented, and should explicitly include the customer buying process and perceptions as the base. Include planned measurements and metrics. Their perception is your reality.

Custom 96

Custom Customer Search Engine Optimization Summary 96

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2016

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. There certainly isn’t anything wrong with a regular well-paid job and career, with health-care benefits, and a competitive retirement plan.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Metrics 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

For example, early social media startup Friendster was so enamored with their early acceptance that they turned down a $30 million offer from Google, then quickly ran into money woes and tough competition. As the business grows, it pays to learn how to use automated financial tools, and review the key financial metrics daily.

Startup 57

Startup Training Entrepreneur Custom 57

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Funding process.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2014

It’s easy for part-timers to make excuses that other priorities caused you to miss milestones, but predictable results and metrics in this mode are even more critical than for full-time members. There certainly isn’t anything wrong with a regular well-paid job and career, with health-care benefits, and a competitive retirement plan.

Startup 109

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Metrics 109

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Competition and sustainable advantage.

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Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. Y-Combinator’s SAFE (Simple Agreement For Equity) is a quick way to generate deal documentation, with very little downside for founders from Shayne’s perspective. According to Shayne, only 1 out of 1000 business plans might get VC funding.

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