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Accelerators Have Resources To KickStart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give. As well, these companies usually bring real new venture funding opportunities to the startups they sponsor. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

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How to make a small problem into a big one.

Berkonomics

But a small excursion caught early and corrected saves massive corrective resources later. Here’s an example: Take for example the manufacturing company with a small quality problem in one component, resulting in a test failure rate above the norm. The post How to make a small problem into a big one.

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What is your biggest error in company planning?

Berkonomics

Most entrepreneurs quote a resource for market size but fail to then take the next step to eliminate all parts of that market unreachable by the company or product. That’s likely to be completely unreachable for you with almost any amount of resources. The post What is your biggest error in company planning?

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The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth

Both Sides of the Table

As a VC I regularly meet with companies and listen to their plans. A significant number of the companies I meet with get some form of feedback from me that: “I’m a bit worried that you’re doing too many THINGS. I always tell teams I meet with, “The scarcest resource in your company is management bandwidth.

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Are you or your business “time bankrupt?”

Berkonomics

Time bankruptcy results from the deliberate over-commitment of core resources. I created the term “time bankruptcy” almost thirty years ago when the computer software business was young, and I was a software developer building a young company based upon quality first. You’d know the symptoms, if not the name. Why use this term?

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Building a Life Science Company with Cost- Saving Flexible Resources

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, October 28, 2010 -- Navigating the Path with Sure Footing: Building a Life Science Company with Cost- Saving Flexible Resources. With the continued resource constraints life science companies at all stages face, utilizing flexible external resources and/or virtual teams offer companies an attractive business model.

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They say “haste makes waste” but…

Berkonomics

On a larger scale, there are epoch stories of giant companies eating massive losses in a recall of product, often based upon limited testing before release. The waste from haste in this example was in not pre-thinking of enough testing scenarios for a new product. There is little need to reinforce the obvious. Where was the waste?