Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

Few investors these days have the time or patience to read a full business plan, so a better way to catch their eye is with a tightly written and well formatted two-page executive summary. Professional investors look for the right people more than the right product. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/17/2015.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

It's was really about herding cats and getting everyone on the same page, and making sure you could get the financials out on time. We took it to the market in January of 2015. However, he said�we can't just give you money, you've got to find a co-founder, and have a product, and get some customers on board first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

To make this work, you need heavy traffic on your site -- probably at least a million page views per month -- which most sites never achieve in their lifetimes. The goal is for your visitor to be redirected to the site or product being advertised. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/1/2015.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

million Series D round in early 2015, re-upped in the latest round, which included all existing investors and some debt, Tealium CEO Jeff Lunsford said last week. Tags are a creature of Web analytics, generating data that enable marketing teams to determine if users viewed a Web page or e-mail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

First of all, I will admit that there is some risk involved with talking to any potential investors, even with an agreement, just as there is risk in all the elements of your plan, product and market opportunity. Product details in the public domain can never be patented. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/16/2015.

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APRIL 18, 2016

Fifty-six percent of retailers surveyed in a 2015 Shop.org/Forrester Research repor t say apps aren’t a key component of their mobile marketing strategy, even as 58 percent placed mobile at the top of their priority lists. RetailNext data shows that sales over the 2015 Thanksgiving weekend were down by 4.7 98 percent for mobile sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

Many people don’t post about their experiences, but still routinely check first to see what others are saying about the brand and the product online. One example of this is Nike’s shoe size page. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/19/2015. The best sites engage customers more deeply and add more value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2015

A great example was when Eric Schmidt, with years of experience at Sun Microsystems and Novell, joined forces with Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Google. It’s very difficult to maintain a productive relationship when one person prefers texting, and the other only communicates face to face. High integrity and commitment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2015

Every new baby gets a name before it is introduced to the world, and yet some entrepreneurs continue to send me business plans with TBD (to be determined) in place of a business name on the front page. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/26/2015. Don’t limit future expansion possibilities.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

Standard of Living Since the Civil War (Princeton, 2015). The mission of The Rise and Fall of American Growth —an unlikely New York Times bestseller, at a dense 779 pages—is to reveal the full depth of the standard-of-living improvements that characterized what Gordon calls the “special century” beginning in 1870.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 1/9/2015. Status of the solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Develop written business plans as detailed as product plans. Good technologists produce written product specifications, to help them personally be confident that all the technical requirements are covered. Yet their business plans rarely get more than a page or two written.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

billion in 2015. Continuous improvement applies to the business model as well as the product. In operationally excellent businesses, productivity and results are measured at every step in the value chain, not just at the end. But Google is not unique. Set business goals and milestones, and use metrics to track performance.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

If one entered between 2009-2015 he or she is no doubt in the “hazard” phase where one need to be careful about thinking he know more about the industry than perhaps he do. And if you’re lucky and hit product/market fit straight out of the gate – awesome. I see it in many young pups. Same as I felt.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 4, 2016

Whatever type of content you run – and be it a music, video or print platform – Native Ads uses well-made and resourced content to advertise products in a way that makes advertising a positive addition, rather than a negative affect. In June 2015, the platform managed to raise some $20 million in Venture Capital (VC) funding.

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JULY 19, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. I felt this myself as we went from a few founders huddled into a tiny room to the front page of the Financial Times, an influx of VC interest, magazine covers, invitations to high-profile events and the pressures of trying to live up to this perception and the economic opportunities everybody expected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2012

Some entrepreneurs seem to think that their product pitch is also their investor pitch. I outlined what investors expect to see in another article “ Limit an Investor Pitch to 10 Pages and 10 Minutes.” According to Gartner, the opportunity is 100 million by 2015, with 12% compounded growth.” Don’t forget to ask for the order.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” But the company insists it will stay the course with its lead product, a T cell-based cancer immunotherapy called CTL019 that Novartis could present for regulatory approval if current trials go well. The firm raised $450 million in January 2015. A spokeswoman told Xconomy it was part of an “internal re-alignment.”

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Additionally, with the cloud becoming the de facto choice for product development and deployment, newer and more challenging security threats continue to emerge. It’s also important to clarify the division of responsibilities between a company and its … Next Page » Reprints | Share:

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2016

2015 saw the introduction of the iPhone 6s, a minor makeover of the previous year’s iPhone 6. Already on that plateau are products like the commercial jet airliner, which hasn’t changed much since Boeing introduced the 747 in 1970. Redesigned iPhones typically come out in even-numbered years. Or rather, her future offspring.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

The news was a relief for Redwood City, CA-based Heron, which has been waiting for word on the status of its drug since September 2015. . —Heron Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HRTX ) won FDA approval of granisetron (Sustol) , a drug it developed for the nausea and vomiting associated with certain chemotherapy regimens.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? 5) It is 2015. Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? It’s contagious!”.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million). A few years ago Jonah acquired Ze Frank’s video production company and the two of them have really built an enormous video production & distribution business. He thinks the very nature of video is changing.

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