Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Based on my experience advising new entrepreneurs as well as more mature businesses, I recommend the following strategies for building business momentum, while still optimizing the limited resources of every small business: Find more customers that like what you do best. The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2023

You have to get past how great the product is to address clearly what your business rationale is, why it is different from the competition's, and why it will succeed. Provide a simple yet complete description of your product or service and its competitive marketplace. Be concise as well as complete. A winning product or service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

In my years of advising startups and occasional investing, I’ve seen many great ideas start and fail, but the right team always seems to make good things happen, even without the ultimate idea. You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outsourcing your core competency does not work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

You have to get past how great the product is to address clearly what your business rationale is, why it is different from the competition's, and why it will succeed. Provide a simple yet complete description of your product or service and its competitive marketplace. Be concise as well as complete. A winning product or service.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Specifically, the program was designed to provide backing to women founders building product-centric businesses – including those developing, marketing, or selling digital, physical, or hybrid products. The grant landscape can be incredibly competitive too, leaving little room for error when writing your proposal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

You have to get past how great the product is to address clearly what your business rationale is, why it is different from the competition''s, and why it will succeed. Provide a simple yet complete description of your product or service and its competitive marketplace. Be concise as well as complete. A winning product or service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. A successful sales person wanted to become more familiar with the international market and requested a transfer to the Latin American sales group, based in the US.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

From visualization to conception, and actually taking the product to market, a company usually takes about 1-2 years to create. The team needed would consist of at least 1 non-technical business person (me) and 2 or more technical people—designer and developer. We were all in such a high for winning the competition!!!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

As a self-made entrepreneur and former chairman of Diamond Resorts International, he asserts that the five biggest companies by market value today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, aren’t really tech, but hospitality companies.

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Tech.Co

MAY 22, 2018

.” “[Founders underestimate] how difficult it is to get a deal done, and how few deals get funded out of how many deals that are pitched,” said Thomas Flake , Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of bcause , and who has been on both sides of the table. What startup teams don’t realize is that having competition is good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2010

Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. A successful sales person wanted to become more familiar with the international market and requested a transfer to the Latin American sales group, based in the US.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Go-to-Market 5. We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. Something like, &# I was thinking about jumping into the demo first before discussing the market. How big is the market?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

If you remember your history the market crashed the next week. By mid September the entire market was constipated. History repeated itself in September 2008 with that market crash. If anything changed (stock market crash, real estate crash, somebody trying to buy Salesforce.com, whatever) I could end up with goose eggs.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Like most mature markets, the legal profession is highly segmented with respect to the services provided and markets served. Your lawyer is a trusted advisor, but in the end, you run your business, your lawyer does not. Some companies use lawsuits as an arrow in their competitive quiver. but They Make Great Guard Dogs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2019

Steve Jobs started his technical career creating circuit boards at Atari, before joining Steve Wozniak to build personal computers in his garage. I advise owners that they have to know when to give up a business, as well as when to buy one. Recognize career growth requires changing with the business. Accept and capitalize on change.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. They had products that were already in the market, piles of cash, tons of customers and revenue, seemingly endless resources and lots of employees. What is the Rubicon Project? Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The CEO weighs in with his perspectives, the head of product management disputes his conclusions and the marketing VP has a different take. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. If they’re not I won’t fund.

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