Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. Makerspaces and hackerspaces have sites and events, including education and training, where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

Your concept has to be understood by customers and investors in 30 seconds or less, and everyone needs to immediately see how awesome it would be, or that they would be nuts not to have it. I’m looking for the “hook” right up front, or I lose interest quickly, just like every customer and investor these days.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2017

ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2017. ICPC World Finals 2017, held in Rapid City. In 2017, it was in Rapid City, South Dakota. It was always sort of shocking to people, even on a national level, when they would hear [that Rapid City was hosting ICPC 2017],” Jensen said. “The

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If you're a large, enterprise company, in recent years, cloud computing has become an increasingly large--and expensive--piece of your information technology (IT) mix. Tim O'Neal: Kazhm was founded in 2017. With all the complexity of the IT environment, how do you convince customers to add one more piece into this puzzle?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2017

Subtle differences don’t usually attract investors or customers. Many customers will not want to pay for all, or will be confused by the additional options. Revolutionary ideas that require customer paradigm shifts require extra time for adoption, and larger budgets for education. Now is the time to float your own.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2017

This is an emerging theme in the past decade as investors learn that customers assign more value and loyalty to business owners who display this attribute. The result is a win-win-win situation for investors, entrepreneurs, and customers alike. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/22/2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2017

Unfortunately, often the result is potential customers who are confused, the limited resources of your business are spread too thin, and customers and investors look elsewhere for a better fit. Customers want a solution from you, not many. Your team, customers, and investors will all be confused with your lack of focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In my role as an angel investor in startups, almost every pitch I see highlights some real innovation in technology, business model, or market opportunity. Innovation is necessary to get you into the game, but even a disruptive technology won’t assure you business success. Lock in customers with loyalty and high cost of change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2017

According to Small Business Trends , over half of the existing small businesses in the US already have international customers. Technological innovations disrupt stable markets. This kind of disruption used to happen only a few times per century, but now it is commonplace Customer and employee power trumps stakeholders.

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