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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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Products vs Services – Critical Success Factors

Startup Professionals Musings

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing.

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SYNCFAB | Connecting Creative Community to Local Manufacturing Businesses

Tech Zulu Event

New and innovative designers are popping up everywhere, thanks to new technology like 3D printing. Local manufacturing on the other hand can produce quality and more complex products, but the costs is what prevents many taking this route. More technically speaking, SYNCFAB is a technical hybrid 3D print and design solution platform.

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Scaling a Business by Cloning Yourself is Tough

Startup Professionals Musings

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

socalTECH

Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. We build mobile products, not just mobile applications, but products around them. We want to create something that serves a purpose, has a unique design, and is farily simple to use, and where people can understand what that app does. What are TenFarms and PhotoPoll?

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

socalTECH

Gene Dolgoff: After years of research and development, we have developed technology which converts two dimensional video to 3D. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. Why turn to crowdfunding and Fundable for this?

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage. Early customers and contracts in progress add value.

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