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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 24, 2022
As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). While I realize that a high level of certainty in these numbers is an elusive goal, the value of doing the work, and benchmarking your business against competitors is well worth the effort.
InfoChachkie
JANUARY 16, 2018
Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.
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Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Disclosures of information. Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Disclosures of information. Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 5, 2011
They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Disclosures of information. Higher administrative expenses. Pressures to maintain growth pattern.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
We've been able to harvest lots of scientific advances from Kevin Knight (editor's note: founder and Chief Scientist, and a researcher at USC's Information Sciences Institute), which we've been able to include in our business. You mention your government business continues to expand? It's been in an interest bearing account.
SoCal Delicious
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! Now let’s move on to the first couple topics: Step 0: Pre-product. Instead, spend your time gathering qualitative data, interviewing users, understanding the problem-behind-the-problem you’re trying to solve, and prototyping concepts. Do this for a couple weeks!
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