Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.”

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JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. Summary : YouTube as a customer acquisition tool to building great online businesses is unrivaled today. I believe that the high revenue share YouTube takes encourages platform competition. I’ve written about that, too.

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JANUARY 12, 2014

It’s building a product that is substantially differentiated, and, as Bill Gross, one of the most prolific tech entrepreneurs of our era says, “ It needs to be 10x better than the competition ” (because if you shoot for that then in competitive markets you might achieve 3x. Mea culpa and get right back into line.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? Talk about the existing solutions, the market opportunity and the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Even if you know your product/service suite down cold, understand the strengths/weaknesses of the competition, and have built pro forma financials that are sane. Make the repayment terms as clear as possible at either the beginning or end of the Executive Summary. They will likely only read your plan’s Executive Summary – at first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. Getting a fixed price bid works for well-defined short-term projects, like blogging or programming. Fixed price bidding is the only effective outsourcing model.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2012

I found a great summary of key strategies used, with life stories, in a book titled “ The Risk Takers ,” by Renee and Don Martin. This is the origin of the “first movers” competitive advantage. Challenging convention can open the door to competitive advantage. Start with social media, blogging, and word-of-mouth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I found a great summary of key strategies used, with life stories, in a book titled “ The Risk Takers ,” by Renee and Don Martin. This is the origin of the “first movers” competitive advantage. Challenging convention can open the door to competitive advantage. Start with social media, blogging, and word-of-mouth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. In the latest book by business guru Joe Wozny, “ The Digital Dollar: Sustainable Strategies for Online Success ,” I found a good summary of some great strategies, with some practical advice on how to implement them: Understand what’s in a name on the Internet.

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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. Keep an archive of your old scorecards.

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MAY 13, 2018

As a VC I of course want you to come see only me because that means I have no competition and have time to properly get to know you. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon! Come back to this blog over the next 2 weeks and I’ll explain. But the previous is that I wouldn’t send your data lightly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

Think of a brand evangelist team online as people blogging about your product, or posting links to it in every forum. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2010

Value creation is about filling a real need in the market in a way that allows you to enjoy some sustainable competitive advantage. This is usually in the form of an elevator pitch, an executive summary, a pitch deck, a financial forecast, and a business plan. This is what entrepreneurship is all about.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

Seth Levine of Foundry Group addresses this important topic this morning on his blog with a post, “ Has Convertible Debt Won ?&# Simple: he/she feels the deal is “hot&# and therefore competitive. Seth was basing this on a Tweet by Paul Graham that said&#. “Convertible notes have won.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Because more technology people probably read startup blogs I’m guessing this post will come under more scrutiny. new features need to go into the sale people’s slides so that they know the latest and greatest about how to differentiate from the competition. In summary. I have much experience in this domain.

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JULY 22, 2010

Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I found a great summary of key strategies used, with life stories, in a new book titled “ The Risk Takers ,” by Renee and Don Martin. This is the origin of the “first movers” competitive advantage. Challenging convention can open the door to competitive advantage. Start with social media, blogging, and word-of-mouth.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! A polite follow up email saying, “just wanted to follow up with a quick summary of some exciting news.&# Yes, I know only 2 weeks has passed. Do a 5-page PowerPoint competitive assessment. Let’s be honest.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2014

They were a little too fierce in their competitive practices against Lyft to sign up drivers. As somebody who has to rub shoulders with big tech companies often I can tell you that there is much blood spilled in the competitive trenches of Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google and so on. Hardly “evil.” Changes to algorithms.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. I think Dave has blogging Tourettes Syndrome when he hears the word VC. We then started talking about Dave McClure. I love the concept.

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MARCH 22, 2010

It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are. Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition. Also, remember that this is the era of the blog.

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MARCH 3, 2013

Watch the 30-minute interview to hear why but summary notes below. ” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. We also spoke about technology systems in the perspective of global competition. ” Who else does Clayton pray for?

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JANUARY 11, 2011

A summary of what we discussed is below: Not 100% in order of the video, but close. All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “ Raising VC &# tab). Competition. Will a VC sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement)? Details on the solution.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! . Relaxing 2. Incubation 3. Go-to-Market 5. Spam Changes Everything 6.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld. In Summary. Either fund your share or accept the consequences to your previous investment.

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