Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

This risk can be mitigated by finding a customer willing to purchase as soon as a proven model is completed, and willing to state this in writing. A great idea often fails from the inexperience or inability of management to bring the idea to market. Will the public respond in numbers to buy, license or rent your offering?

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Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 200

Jason Nazar

JUNE 22, 2010

I often get asked for advice on Business Development. Seeing how you might work together is infinitely more impactful that trying to describe in text, even if you did write the best 6 th grade book reports. This post is geared toward folks looking to do BD deals in the online world. 10 Tips for Better BD.

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Outsource Development Develop Development Tips 88

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

I believe the old adage that you don’t know what you don’t know until you try to write it down. The discipline of writing down your plan is the best way to make sure you understand how to transform your idea into a business, and how to communicate it. Not every great idea is a viable business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Funding process.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 23, 2012

It’s direct, authentic, non-packaged creative around a particular set of ideas. Brad proudly described how the company successfully used thought leadership marketing to seed a marketplace in which companies can outsource their SEO campaigns to a legion of independent, third-party “optimizers.” Write Your Own Playbook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Develop your business plan. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Funding process.

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Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Development and rollout. Skip the acronyms, write at an eighth-grade level, and talk in terms of “benefits” rather than “features.”

Product 92

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 92

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

One simple idea: “Getting online should not be that difficult.” “No one expected me to start working with Karma – we were naturally close, but I was drawn to the ideas and vision. With tablet usage on an aggressive rise, I knew Karma had a lot of potential with great ideas in a space that really needed change.

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Outsource Development Startup Incubator Press 108

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

I believe the old adage that you don’t know what you don’t know until you try to write it down. The discipline of writing down your plan is the best way to make sure you understand how to transform your idea into a business, and how to communicate it. Not every great idea is a viable business.

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Startup Entrepreneur Writing Ideas 57

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Well obviously that’s meaningless if your startup idea sucks. He asked each sales / biz dev person to call customers and tell them they had to change their contracts. We couldn’t cut product development (we had 23 people!) I need to be able to earn a profit and with the contracts we’ve signed I cannot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Development and rollout. Skip the acronyms, write at an eighth-grade level, and talk in terms of “benefits” rather than “features.”

Product 93

Product Entrepreneur Outsource Development Competition 93

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Whether it’s sensor-based medicine, computational contracts, education analytics, or computational agriculture—success is going to rely on being able to do computational thinking well. So when you write in it, you’re doing programming. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers, whatever. I’ve noticed an interesting trend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

The product plan tells your developers what to build, and the marketing team what to market. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Development and rollout. Skip the acronyms, write at an eighth-grade level, and talk in terms of “benefits” rather than “features.”

Product 48

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 48

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2013

On the flip-side, Assignmint is a tool for editors, which we are in the process of developing right now. I spent more time organizing my tax forms, keeping them safe, getting invoices together, getting invoice templates, then getting them out there and tracking down my payment for writing the article. It’s growing. It’s horrible.

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Journal Startup Writing Media 90

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words. There are many analogies here for software development. Cham had other ideas. You can click the image above or this link. Here are some take away’s: 1. On What Next?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” million contract over two years. There are certain topics that even some of the best journalists can’t fully grok. Internet scale.

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Startup Venture Capital Sales Technical Review 418

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

William--who, among prior experience developed Stamps.com's security architecture--sat down with us to explain the firm's products and plans. What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is? Salesforce.com is actually a good example, we supported it after a month of initial development of our prototype engine.

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SaaS Web Google Sites 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context.

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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Frank Addante

MAY 20, 2007

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Entrepreneur Blogging Startup Venture Capital 40

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. For instance, if you sell a software security solution, you might write an article that describes ten ways consumers can protect themselves online, highlighting your solution as one potential tool.

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Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

I often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. Sometimes they’re working full time at a company or sometimes they’ve already left their employer and they’re bouncing around ideas with friends. Even if you keep it dormant for 2 years while you work on your idea. Not worth it.

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Startup Technical Advisors IP Ideas 365

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

But while universities are developing online content they are not fundamentally disrupting leaning because the method of delivery is not a new business model. In many ways I think general purpose writing & thinking skills are as valuable as math skills. “Online education is truly going to kill us.” Stay Out of Jail.

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Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. We are about to head on a four-month, 48-state road trip to help people across America bring their ideas to life and shine the light on some of the amazing entrepreneurs and communities. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. Subscribe to RSS.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

While a great idea, wouldn’t it be better to have them floating so they’re in your line of sight when commenting? What I write here is protected by a Creative Commons License. I am happily contracted with Social Media Today and support Wordpress. My site is both valid XHTML and valid CSS.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

If you write a lot of Java code, then you should read that book and follow its advice. If you use IntelliJ IDEA , you can have it remind you to use Enum{Set,Map} with inspections: Analyze - Run inspection by name - "Set replaceable with EnumSet" or "Map replaceable with EnumMap".or. Some developers don't know these classes exist.

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Java Class Ideas Writing 330

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. We spoke about employment contracts for entrepreneurs – We talked about “change of control&# provisions in your contract and how to negotiate them.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management. I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. At the time, everyone seemed to be enamored with the idea that your company had to be ‘all things to all people’. Instead, they began thinking of ideas for a new site entirely.

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Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. Being helpful doesn’t mean telling every person their ideas are great. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change.

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Startup Help Blogging Entrepreneur 352

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. I believe this makes Twitter the perfect ecosystem for development. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas?

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? 15 minutes.

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