Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2020

Risk level has always been directly correlated to the number of unknowns, so eliminating even one variable will improve your odds: Eliminate one aspect of research and development. Market research can thus be based on real customers and a previously tested market. There is always a related market or new country.

Startup 157

Startup Social Media Study Research 157

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. Leadership brand development. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment.

Technical Review 129

Technical Review Funding Organization Coach 129

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

If you are the hot-shot technical innovator that invented your solution, make sure you have an equally adept business and marketing expert to complement your skills. “If Pivot early, as required, to tune your features and marketing to meet the market and technical realities. The market is unpredictable and changes fast.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Case Study Mentor Software Review 131

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Outsource Development Startup Competition 131

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. Leadership brand development. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review Organization Coach Invest 124

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

By definition, every startup is predictably unpredictable, since new solutions have no proven track record, startups are usually building a new market, and the world around them is changing faster than ever. Five major elements of every business include your people, product, opportunity, money and marketing.

Startup 105

Startup Entrepreneur Marketing Satisfaction 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2015

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. You don’t have enough control over your time, investors, the market, or your startup. But nobody said it would be easy. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Social Media 111

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Risk level has always been directly correlated to the number of unknowns, so eliminating even one variable will improve your odds: Eliminate one aspect of research and development. Market research can thus be based on real customers and a previously tested market. There is always a related market or new country.

Startup 65

Startup Social Media Study Research 65

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2014

Risk level has always been directly correlated to the number of unknowns, so eliminating even one variable will improve your odds: Eliminate one aspect of research and development. Market research can thus be based on real customers and a previously tested market. There is always a related market or new country.

Technology 103

Technology Entrepreneur Study Research 103

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

Outsource Development 99

Outsource Development Startup Competition Ideas 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The key elements of leadership in a company, both individual and organizational, are less tangible, but very critical in setting a market value for investment, acquisition, or going public. Leadership brand development. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Organization Coach Invest 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2016

Risk level has always been directly correlated to the number of unknowns, so eliminating even one variable will improve your odds: Eliminate one aspect of research and development. Market research can thus be based on real customers and a previously tested market. There is always a related market or new country.

Technology 57

Technology Startup Study Research 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2016

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. You don’t have enough control over your time, investors, the market, or your startup. But nobody said it would be easy. Marty Zwilling.

Search Engine Optimization 55

Search Engine Optimization Satisfaction Entrepreneur Social Media 55

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. Most companies have a roadmap describing what they’re planning to build, deliver or market. We have had to take sub-market salaries.

Venture Capital 115

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Solution development and delivery. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

Ideas 62

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Competition 62

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2016

Sets realistic goals with milestones and metrics to gauge progress. Building a new business is essentially turning a vision into a financially self-sustaining operation that provides satisfaction and value to both the customer and the entrepreneur. Accepts full responsibility and accountability.

Startup 58

Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2013

They drive the market, rather than the other way around. Ann outlines six fundamental principles that are key to building this culture, or changing an existing culture to improve financial return, customer satisfaction, and employee performance: You can’t force culture, you can only create environment.

Startup 100

Startup Customer Custom Social Network 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2017

Develop an attitude of gratitude and humility. That fosters a lack of attention to new markets and new competitors, instead of an eagerness to learn and innovate. Takers can never get satisfaction, and they antagonize those around them. A completed task is fulfilling and energizing; and incomplete task drains energy.

Software Review 57

Software Review Technical Review Startup Press 57

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

They drive the market, rather than the other way around. Ann outlines six fundamental principles that are key to building this culture, or changing an existing culture to improve financial return, customer satisfaction, and employee performance: You can’t force culture, you can only create environment.

Startup 101

Startup Tips Education Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2012

They drive the market, rather than the other way around. Ann outlines six fundamental principles that are key to building this culture, or changing an existing culture to improve financial return, customer satisfaction, and employee performance: You can’t force culture, you can only create environment.

Startup 100

Startup Customer Custom Social Network 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

They drive the market, rather than the other way around. Ann outlines six fundamental principles that are key to building this culture, or changing an existing culture to improve financial return, customer satisfaction, and employee performance: You can’t force culture, you can only create environment.

Startup 92

Startup Customer Custom Social Network 92

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The term a gile development is defined, and the panel agreed unanimously that maintaining this mindset is necessary. You need to research what they do, and on the development/API side, that’s something that you’ll have to go in and fix too. Instead, focus on what metric outputs, more views, more downloads?

Product 87

Product Fandango Design Startup 87

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In my experience, developers can be so committed to a technology, such as hydrogen engines for cars, such that they may be unwilling to change as the business pivots for market reasons. Setting your own metrics, and measuring yourself , will facilitate accountability. Document plans and progress, with checkpoints.

Activity 109

Activity Organization Mentor Training 109

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In today’s market, no solution is perfect for everyone, so achieving perfection is unrealistic and unproductive. I recommend that entrepreneurs test the market with a minimum viable product (MVP), before burning resources on the ultimate solution, only to find the market has changed. Fight procrastination and fear of failure.

Tips 100

Tips Activity Startup Product 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2012

It seems like some CEOs are just more tuned in to the market realities, customer dynamics, people interactions, and are better leaders. By first understanding market problems, then building the products people want to buy, and communicating to buyers an understanding of their problems, everything else falls into place.

Customer 89

Customer Custom Organization Summary 89

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

It seems like some CEOs are just more tuned in to the market realities, customer dynamics, people interactions, and are better leaders. By first understanding market problems, then building the products people want to buy, and communicating to buyers an understanding of their problems, everything else falls into place.

Startup 93

Startup Organization Customer Custom 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

By first understanding market problems, then building the products people want to buy, and communicating to buyers an understanding of their problems, everything else falls into place. Build from the market outside-in. Tuned in leaders understand the complete picture of market problems before building products.

Organization 89

Organization Customer Custom Summary 89