Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is as high as 50 percent. Execution skills are weak.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup Founders dilemmas in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. business dilemma entrepreneur founder Noam Wasserman'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Check competitor numbers and industry average statistics to get you in the right range. entrepreneur financial forecast investor startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2014

The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. If your people and your startup do not change, statistics say you won’t survive. business change rate comfort zone entrepreneur startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2012

Statistics also show that building loyalty and retaining current customers is 3 to 10 times cheaper than acquiring new customers. As your business grows, it’s easy to lose your focus on customer service, or take away the empowerment and accountability of key personnel. Customers say it takes ten good experiences to make up for one bad one.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Semantic technology is important… we can aggregate individual lists into the wisdom of crowd aggregations which are more statistically meaningful than one person’s opinion about a topic.”. Do you see crowd-ranked lists as ultimately competitive or complimentary to traditional and curated search? I do everything I do all in or nothing.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The biggest mistake many corporate marketers, entrepreneurs and even investors make in the initial stages of planning – overstating the size of the (SOM) serviceable obtainable market. Be sure you can back up your claim with some form of research, then work to perfect the differentiation you offer against the competition.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2010

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Check competitor numbers and industry average statistics to get you in the right range. Calculate investment amounts and timing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. It''s designed for business people.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Los Angeles-based Radical.FM (www.radical.fm) thinks it has a new formula for Internet streaming, and can take on Pandora and others in head to head competition. I think we''re simply too small and too new of a service to have any kind of statistical base we could extrapolate. Explain what Radical.FM That doesn''t come cheap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Many aspiring entrepreneurs I mentor can talk at length about their innovative ideas and passions, and ask lots of good questions, but never make much progress in building a real business. Write all goals in the future tense, be as specific as possible, and make an effort to raise each goal one level higher to set you above your competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders quandaries in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2022

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In today’s highly competitive ad environment, both content and data are kings. DTC entrepreneurs are more focused on immediate impact, because if they’re not selling product, there’s no large brand propping them up. If the entrepreneur has trouble answering this, it’s not going to work. The key takeaway?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2022

As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Startups should seek to continually improve performance through statistical analysis and predictive monitoring. Quantification: big data, bigger results, and controls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Check competitor numbers and industry average statistics to get you in the right range. Calculate investment amounts and timing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

Many new entrepreneurs are so excited by their latest idea that they can’t resist contacting every investor they know, assuming the investor will be equally excited and want to contribute immediately. Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Nearly $50 billion is being spent annually on direct mail, according to statistics , and the amount has been increasing each year. Some consider direct mail very expensive or dead as a lead-generation tool. Yet it is more alive than ever before. Cold calling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2020

In my work with you as an entrepreneur or small business owner, I find that most understand the need try out new business models and product innovations, but trust their intuition rather than running a disciplined business experiment first. The pace of change to stay competitive in business today continues to increase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Start by reviewing current statistics, like the recent Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report 2022 , to learn which social media sites are most popular, which features drive the most impact today, and how other social media marketers have maximized their efforts and seen the greatest ROI. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is higher than 50 percent. No intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Startups should seek to continually improve performance through statistical analysis and predictive monitoring. Quantification: big data, bigger results, and controls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Many new entrepreneurs are so excited by their latest idea that they can’t resist contacting every investor they know, assuming the investor will be equally excited and want to contribute immediately. Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders dilemmas in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. The dilemma is that these goals are usually mutually exclusive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2014

As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? Startups should seek to continually improve performance through statistical analysis and predictive monitoring. Quantification: big data, bigger results, and controls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2012

Making the decision to become an entrepreneur is a major commitment, with huge implications for skills and lifestyle. Examine the marketplace and your competition. Statistics say that the failure rate for new businesses within the first 5 years is as high as 90 percent. An MBA or other academic credentials just don’t do it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Too many aspiring entrepreneurs I mentor can talk at length about their innovative ideas and passions, and ask lots of good questions, but never make much progress in building a real business. Most entrepreneurs work hard, but many don’t follow up often to check for completion. The best entrepreneurs finish something every day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup Founders dilemmas in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. entrepreneur startup founder dilemmas business'

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Many new entrepreneurs are so excited by their latest idea that they can’t resist contacting every investor they know, assuming the investor will be equally excited and want to contribute immediately. Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics.

Technical Review 109

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Even after many years mentoring entrepreneurs and advising businesses, I continue to be surprised by the primary focus on products and processes, and the often incidental attention to hiring and nurturing the right people. Almost any startup can start with Excel, and move to open-source data analysis tools, including Python or RStudio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur starting a business for the first time, I recommend that you find a product concept that is already accepted and improve on it, rather than tackling that ultimate disruptive technology. Evidence of success using this approach is all around us. Of course, the first one gets the patent. Imitation drives progress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Sales data needs to be correlated to advertising campaigns, price changes, seasonal forces, competitive actions, and other cost of sales. Operating productivity. Size of gross margin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of someday taking their startup public, and making it a multi-national powerhouse. In developing countries, like China and India, the statistics are reversed. entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg startup investor IPO exit' Public companies are always at risk for takeovers. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2013

Many entrepreneurs actually refuse to do financial projections beyond the first year, insisting that no one can predict the future. Projecting the financials should be the last step of your business plan preparation, since it assumes you already know the opportunity size, customer buying habits, pricing, costs, and competition.

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