Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

If you are looking for funding and customers for your new business, you need to identify your “unique selling proposition” (USP) right up front, in 30 seconds or less, to differentiate yourself in today’s information overload. Investor and customer attention spans are short, and both will write you off quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

To refresh your memory, angel investors are typically high net worth individuals, accredited by the SEC and willing to invest their own money in a high-potential startup for a share of the ownership. For example, many of you remember the Pebble 'Smartwatch' , which raised over $20 million and made crowdfunding real.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Whether you are looking for partners, investors, or future customers, you need to show a level of professionalism and leadership very early that will draw people to your idea. Be sure to net out the opportunity and the solution in the first thirty seconds. For details and examples, check out these directions and suggestions.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story. Gross Profit (also called Gross Margin or sometimes “Net Revenue”). And assuming they both had the same net profit margins (profit / revenue) then the former company would be much better off at the end of the year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

entrepreneurs consistently claim to be happier , and have a higher net worth than employees. There are some key strategies I recommend in developing that mindset, whether you are currently and employee or an aspiring entrepreneur: Keep the business customer at the top of your pyramid. Focus your role on solving the customer problem.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With those two funding rounds all equity-based, to buy up property itself and provide $10,000 cash advances to all sellers, Sundae previously also raised a debt fund from high net worth individuals, and it has a “very large” debt facility from Goldman Sachs that it also non-dilutive, Stech said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2016

They can point to the many examples of innovative technologies that have failed in the marketplace. While struggling to net out what they are looking for, I found help in a new book, “ Wicked Strategies ,” by John C. Relate emphatically to the customer. Yet business success requires solutions which satisfy customer needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Competition. Production.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Competition. Production.

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Sales Custom Customer Outsource 98

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. A” round investors or late-stage seed investors will take a market risk (they want to see the product, vision and maybe even the first customers, and they bet on there being a big enough market). “B” Net neutrality (1:09:00).

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Thus, cast your research net beyond VC-backed companies to fully understand a school’s ability to foster viable businesses. Also, be sure to evaluate the veracity of the startup alumni network – look for examples in which alumni assisted startups as advisors, investors, etc. What is the process required to create a custom degree?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. He provides several examples of how he used this approach to advantage in his own career. New products or services to existing customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. He provides several examples of how he used this approach to advantage in his own career. New products or services to existing customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

As an employee of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets from 1999-2003 and of the Indianapolis Pacers from 2003-2008, I learned first-hand from the likes of Rod Thorn, Byron Scott, Jason Kidd and Larry Bird about the importance of leading by example and keys to assembling a championship-caliber team. We have 115 paying customers right now.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2009

Once you get to 300-500 customers, it blows up, because it was never intended to scale. For example, we support promotions for Sony movies, a combination of database and telecom work for interactive TV shows like the Price is Right, Deal or No Deal, the Game Show Network, and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

My clients and customers use it, and I need to stay in sync. You need to be plugged in to be career competitive with hyper-networked peers, and keep ahead of competitors. The net is that most companies do dare to put restrictions on social networks “at work.” Best online collaboration platform for project teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

Funding 98

Funding Startup Patents Outsource Development 98

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

That gives us the ability to monitor the result of campaigns, all the way to the creation of a customer. We've built our revenue and buying model such that we only charge advertisers when they get a customer--or whatever the equivalent of customer for them is, such as is filling out a form to get a sample.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

That gives us the ability to monitor the result of campaigns, all the way to the creation of a customer. We've built our revenue and buying model such that we only charge advertisers when they get a customer--or whatever the equivalent of customer for them is, such as is filling out a form to get a sample.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2011

The nature of the company’s business model requires it to fund certain costs before it is paid by its customers. As with most negotiations, competition is the only way you will obtain an optimal result. Mr. Mojo Rising – Real-world Example. Enter venture debt. Do we have a deal?” Forcing Your Investors’ Hands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Early customers and contracts in progress add value. Every customer contract and relationship needs to be monetized, even ones still in negotiation. NewCo doesn’t have any of these yet.

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Startup Patents Outsource Development Web 93

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Because its just not that hyper-competitive, Im-hiring-all-your-staff, because-Im-Google environment. Likely if you look at places like New York one would also be able to find examples of starts ups also doing well. Customer Service Workshop Fast Company joins the customer service revolution across the US. Register Now!

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

Some companies use lawsuits as an arrow in their competitive quiver. If you make it clear that you plan to force them to spend as much time as possible on your case, then they will be more likely to move onto a company that will pay them off early in the process and thus net them a better return on their time.

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