Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

People cite sources like this Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.” Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Pitch your company, not your product. Executive summary glossy.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. By the time we had met Tracy she was running a profitable business, was paying herself a salary and was on the verge of launching her second (related) Internet business called Style Trader (more on that in a minute). So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?)

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. You probably want at least a home page, product page, order page, and contact page. I give this advice all the time – “launch fast and iterate.”

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready. “I ended up on the front page of the Business Section of the Financial Times.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

Although many are entertaining, most fail to provide entrepreneurs with a sufficient return on their time investment. If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. I was not disapointed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

I will talk about these strategies in my next blog post. You don’t exactly get to make the margin you might like but as a candy bar supplier you need to be there to build awareness of your product with consumers if you want to be a large, mass-market product. Having business models that aren’t only ad-based. Back to video.

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Southern California Edison Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2018

On-Net Locations. For companies who need to get their service up and running quickly, look for a managed network provider has a large on-net area. On-net areas are locations that are on an existing fiber optic network and thus can be easily connected. Commitment to Growth. Local Customer Service.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. So if Time Warner + Ynon Kreiz + 3 billion views / month isn’t legitimacy, I don’t know what is. This has been a very welcome addition.

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Xconomy

JULY 7, 2016

The remaining neurology and pain sales staff will operate under the same management, a streamlining move that the company hopes will help the company better target the key physicians who prescribe the company’s products. That deal added Somaxon’s insomnia drug doxepin (Silenor) to the Pernix product mix. million net loss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost of entry has never been lower.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : AngelList is the productization of raising startup funding. AngelList is the productization of that. These days, thanks to code and community, we can productize almost any process done by humans. We are productizing the raising of capital for startups. ”. For his exact quotes, watch the video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

Even more disappointing are other statistics that show most websites that do exist have a very low “conversion rate,” or ratio of visitors to the site versus ones who meet your goal of buying a product or signing up for a newsletter. Find your niche and highlight how your product meets the customer’s exact need, and is the best in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. Then came blogs. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

If you have not yet discovered Everything Is A Remix , I strongly encourage you to invest the time to check it out. Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson has created a collection of short films which beautifully underscore Mr. Jobs’ definition of creativity (the term beautiful is appropriate here, as the production values are sweet).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. Sam Rogoway: Near Networks is a national production studio that creates online videos for local businesses across the country.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

Across the board, the whole company is very focused on the overall success of that program, to really drive the awareness and education in the market on those new TLDs, make it easier for people to get them, and not just letting them buy those TLDs, but helping them turn them into sites, blogs, and applications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

People cite sources like this recent Inc.com article “ 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a Business Plan ,” or my own blog discussion on this subject, “ Situations Where A Business Plan Does Not Add Value.” Net out the problem and your solution in the first 30 seconds. Pitch your company, not your product. Executive summary glossy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? They can travel the world, take classes in interesting subjects, spend time with loved ones or start new hobbies.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2011

WebEx’s management was understandably hesitant to modify their pricing because the company’s shares were publically traded at the time we launched GoToMeeting (the company was subsequently purchased by Cisco). They were effectively hooked on the bad profits which were seductive when they initially launched their service. Graph The Effect.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

In addition, Bank Robbers love the seemingly unlimited possibilities of each heist, as they can never be sure how much money each job will net them. The outcome might be jail time (i.e., A Bank Robber will ask questions that are focused on your products, customers, and the potential size of your adVenture’s overall opportunity.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

Talk about auspicious timing. Last week, the mobile app market research firm Sensor Tower estimated that Pokémon Go has generated over $200 million in worldwide net revenue for its creators since July 6, when the free mobile game was launched.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! BuzzVoice makes your favorite news & blogs TALK - So you can listen to the stories you wish you had time to read - while you get things done! It's the hot item on the Internet for that moment in time. In Minutes. Big and Small.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Along the way many things came together: being able to find the right people, getting great customers, having lots of luck, being in the right place at the right time. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. I realized I had to move on, my wife and I looked at the bank account, and gave ourselves a time budget.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The next time you are part of a large gathering of people, think of how many ways you could monetize the situation. This enterprise netted the entrepreneurial student a nice fistful of bills before each test. This will give you more time to build your parachute in mid-air (see “The MBA Education And Other Oxymorons” ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

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?” This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? My solution: cast a wider net.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

Some first-time entrepreneurs mistakenly believe that they are not entrepreneurs because they have never invented anything nor have they come up with a novel idea upon which a company could be built. . Hold several jobs in college, finish college early, and/or earn multiple degrees in less time than most people earn a single degree.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

In other words, find a lawyer who will take the time to understand the issues underlying your business and advise you how to best accomplish your objectives while minimizing your legal exposure. Ideally, you will be fortunate enough to find a pseudo-professor who is willing to take the time to explain the issues at hand. Money Is Time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Other ways I drive creativity are time pressure, showers & occasionally wine. So I thought I would.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I believe the next 20 years will be an excited time of regeneration for Cincinnati and many more progressive communities across the country. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

We live in interesting times where working at a startup is glamorized to the point that many founders even refer to their team members as “rock stars,” which to my ears is cringe worthy. We first met five years ago through serendipity as I described in this 2009 blog post and elaborated on again in more detail 2010.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

If you look at Google in the way they operate, you have two products, one is called AdWords, one is called AdSense, okay? before which is second-time entrepreneurs. Dropped Calls, Students Protest AT&T Network Coverage Facebook Patents News Feed, Social Net Confusion Ensues Trying to Work from Home More Efficiently?

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► October (1) New Video! Zondigo, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

Even when I’m not the one being sued I find myself being dragged into deposition after deposition and my blog (along with all my emails) are being served as evidence. They were then sued for trademark infringement by a foreign company who had no product, no customers and no employees in the US. It was a pure shake down.

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Frank Addante

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► October (1) New Video! Zondigo, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. We were family.

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