Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2022

As an angel investor, I expected startups to have a passion for their solution, but also to have done the market research and customer validation to size the real opportunity. You all remember the seemingly limitless growth of social media and dating sites, so for many adding another one seemed like a sure-fire success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Customers skip over your ads, and easily find the real best deals through “best value” sites on the Internet. Also, research from Hawk Incentives found that 40 percent of the surveyed consumers say it makes them "feel smarter" when they can find better deals. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 2/10/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

You may dream of developing a new silicon chip technology, but a bit of research should tell you that most disruptive solutions take billions in investment, and more time than you can afford for acceptance. More important than a business plan may be early networking, a web site and blog, and building relationships with key industry experts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2022

Scientific research in overdrive. Data has long been the cornerstone of scientific discovery, and with ‘big data’ -- and the big computing power necessary to process it -- research can move at an exponentially faster clip. The Human Genome Project, which took 13 years, could now be completed in hours. Data is the new weapon of defense.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

If you research the backgrounds on some of the most successful entrepreneurs, you will find some, like Mark Cuban , espouse the “go for it” risk everything approach to give you the motivation to keep going, while others recommend a more measured approach. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 8/24/2022.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

Scientific research in overdrive. Data has long been the cornerstone of scientific discovery, and with ‘big data’ -- and the big computing power necessary to process it -- research can move at an exponentially faster clip. The Human Genome Project, which took 13 years, could now be completed in hours. Data is the new weapon of defense.

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