Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

If you have a proven business model with some sales, it’s credible to apply a multiplier of five to 10 times this number for the first element of valuation. Patents filed, even provisional, as well as trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets count as barriers to entry and sustainable competitive advantages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2021

Of course, no business wants to be the next Blockbuster , which kept charging straight ahead despite subtle clues that the Internet was changing everything. A smart business owner always maintains a list of the top five current and future areas that may be ripe for growth, and has one or two experiments going.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Measure and measure again, and be quick to course correct. According to the authors, a good culture survey will show you the relative strength of the five desired cultures in the organization: the “can do” culture; the “will do culture; the “must do” culture; and the “team performance” culture. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2023

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. Keeping it simple is the best course. He found the dysfunctional engagement that sent snow blowers to his store in Miami every year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2023

A few years ago, I enjoyed one of Guy Kawasaki’s first books, “ Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition.” That’s right: In five minutes, people decide if they are interested in you, just as in bars and nightclubs. Of course, there is much more, but I think you get the idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

I can think of at least five ways that this benefits the business, as well as customers: Products in a purpose culture more readily sell at a premium price. Companies can use this strategy to improve their profitability and competitive advantage. Doing good opens the door to a broader customer base.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2020

A few years ago, I enjoyed one of Guy Kawasaki’s first books, “ Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition.” That’s right: In five minutes, people decide if they are interested in you, just as in bars and nightclubs. Of course, there is much more, but I think you get the idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. MySpace, for example, boomed after launch for five years without a revenue model. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Of course, there are good ways and bad ways to ask for help. Here are five concrete tips on doing it right, which I am paraphrasing from the author: Do your homework first, and ask for help on specifics. If possible, you should always couch your questions around a specific case, leading with the options you know or have tried.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Measure and measure again, and be quick to course correct. According to the authors, a good culture survey will show you the relative strength of the five desired cultures in the organization: the “can do” culture; the “will do culture; the “must do” culture; and the “team performance” culture. Marty Zwilling.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

So when do we know which course to take? And if that new strategy is proved to be true, the five–hundred–pound gorilla in that niche just moved out of the way of many of its smaller competitors, leaving a market that will surely see a scramble of new competition in the near future. At least that is the conventional wisdom.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model. Montgomery, which does a great job of laying out specifics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2011

Formal training courses. The result is a sinking feeling after some time that you are no longer vital and competitive in your own domain. Daily attendance is mandatory in order for the business to succeed and be profitable, and the so-called freedom is hard to find. Vacations and time-off don’t happen for years.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 31, 2016

For larger or later stage companies, it could be to increase market share through acquisitions with the attendant elimination of competition or increase in a company’s reach. Email readers, continue here…] I prefer a financial goal, such as “achieve $20 million in revenue within five years.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Of course, if the board is set up or used incorrectly, the impact can indeed be more negative than positive. I recommend three or five members to start (an uneven number prevents tie votes). It’s a complex competitive world out there, and learning is a full-time role. Size does matter. Less than three is not a board.

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Berkonomics

JULY 23, 2011

There are five major classes or niches a company should examine and make its own in calculating positioning in the marketplace. They are: Price. Innovation. Companies that compete on price rarely compete against others who emphasize service or quality.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 5, 2024

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2020

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. Keeping it simple is the best course. He found the dysfunctional engagement that sent snow blowers to his store in Miami every year.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 8, 2017

Now, five years after Elon came up with the Hyperloop, Elon’s own Boring Company is planning to make it reality. Wired has a collection of a few warning signs that Musk was planning to move forward with his loop, and they’re not exactly subtle: “You could see this coming last month, of course.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

Those airport drone incursions shut down Gatwick over the course of three days, which caused major delays at Heathrow and Newark. Unlike the number of drones out there, there are really only about sixteen different protocols out there, and over 95 percent of the drones in use encapsulate about five of those protocols.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

I can think of at least five ways that this benefits the business, as well as customers: Products in a purpose culture more readily sell at a premium price. Companies can use this strategy to improve their profitability and competitive advantage. Doing good opens the door to a broader customer base.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby Here are some ideas of what I believe matters.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

It is the bane of every startups existence because it takes up so much time, it is so competitive to sign people and it feels like unproductive time because it’s not moving the ball forward on product, engineering, sales, marketing, biz dev, fund raising. It consumes time and energy and the payoff doesn’t come for a long time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This statement leaves no confusion in the minds of investors, or customers, of what the company does and how it is different (and better) than the competition. Of course, now that you have investor attention, the devil is in the details. Of course, we all prefer billion dollar opportunities, with double-digit growth rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Yet, in the interest of full disclosure, and an honest intent to save future entrepreneurs some grief and money, I would remind you that starting any business has key dependencies on at least five major elements, including product design and delivery, the right people on the team, adequate funding, a sizable market opportunity, and marketing.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 3, 2022

billion company in the brutally competitive beauty industry, especially one with such broad appeal. Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low. . And of course, those startups are by no means innocent when it comes to bad management. “If

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2015

None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. I like his outline of five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media. Of course, more resources are “better” for marketing, but re-allocating existing resources can be equally effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Of course, growth is implied in every focus, and profit enables growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Some investors seem to focus wholly on the strengths of the management team, or a sustainable competitive advantage, and in reality these are the core attributes for every funding equation. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model. Montgomery, which does a great job of laying out specifics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2018

In the same way, great entrepreneurs and company leaders should no longer rely on faceless and nameless processes to drive business strategy and innovation to stay competitive. Keeping it simple is the best course. He found the dysfunctional engagement that sent snow blowers to his store in Miami every year.

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Social Media Metrics Customer Custom 96

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Pull Quote: “If you are smart, competitive, hard working and passionate about what you do you will have the best experience of your life. Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!]. How do you stand out?”. from the Wharton School.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2017

None should be considered competitive mutually exclusive to any other. I like his outline of five steps to the proper utilization of integrated media as follows: Analyze your existing media. Of course, more resources are “better” for marketing, but re-allocating existing resources can be equally effective.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2014

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. According to a recent Dow Jones VentureSource report, the average time to liquidity of an equity investment in a startup is now about five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2019

Yet in today’s competitive and rapidly changing world, top notch sales and marketing skills are critical to the success of every business. Five basic rules for closing include treating closing as a process, setting a closing objective, waiting for the right moment, wrapping a conversation around it, and then celebrating every victory.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2011

Note: This is part IV of a five part series. Amarillo’s advice is consistent with my comments in the Startup Competition ; get to know your competitors on a personal basis, while appearing as innocuous as possible. Be vigilant and keep your eyes on your competition, especially when they are dealt their hands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Of course, you wouldn’t include this data in your customer product pitch. Intellectual property and sustainable competitive advantage. Five-year financial projections of revenue and expenses. Of course, investors want to see a positive return on their investment, with timeframes and growth expectations.

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