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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 29, 2023
If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 3, 2020
If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 10, 2023
Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Marketing, sales, support, and service operations.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 2, 2022
A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. How do you produce your product or service? Common choices include manufacturing in-house, outsourcing, off-the-shelf parts. How do you distribute your product or service? Competition.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 22, 2023
The first thing to remember is that banks only do loans – they generally don’t do equity investments like angels and venture capitalists (and vice versa). 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.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 27, 2014
If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”
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