Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

It allows all members of your team, including marketing, support, and sales, to size and build the business plan processes they need to find customers, deliver, and maintain grow the business. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2021

As an example of a good resource, I enjoyed the classic book, “ Idea To Invention ,” by Patricia Nolan-Brown, that does a great job on the key steps. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks. Investors learned this a long time ago, so most will tell you that they invest in people, not ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Investors invest in the jockey, more than the horse. Business plans the size of a small book are a big turnoff to investors, and will only serve to make your business seem more complex and more risky.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

Overall I like the principles in the classic book “ Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival ,” by Robert F. Creating intellectual property, including patents, is the key to long-term value and a sustainable competitive advantage. Business risks are not just development risks. Value creation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

Here are five good reasons for setting the strategy early, as summarized by Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy in their recent book “ Now, Build a Great Business! Although their book is written for businesses of all sizes, I believe the principles apply especially to startups as follows: Increase return on equity invested.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. What equity is the company willing to give in return for the investment? Opportunity sizing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Let me be quick to say that a plan doesn’t have be a book, and probably should start as a “pitch deck” of maybe a dozen slides which cover all the right bases. For example, “I just patented a new cell-phone technology that will double battery life for half the cost. Marketing, sales, and customer experience.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

With the appearance of do-it-yourself services on the Internet, entrepreneur curriculums at every university, and a wealth of new books on the subject, the need for expensive consultants and business advisors has also been mitigated. The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 1, 2012

Despite the book’s shortcomings, it contains a number of insightful lessons for budding entrepreneurs. Of the 100 business “lessons” articulated in the book, I highlight a few below that I feel are the most relevant and impactful for entrepreneurs. Some of the examples are patently obvious (e.g., (i) Book Verdict.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Here are five good reasons for setting the strategy early, as summarized by Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy in their new book “ Now, Build a Great Business! Although their book is written for businesses of all sizes, I believe the principles apply especially to startups as follows: To increase return on equity invested.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. Describe your technology patents and “secret sauce”. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe marketing strategy, sales plan, licensing, and partnership plans. What equity is the company willing to give in return for the investment? Opportunity sizing.

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Slides Competition Sample Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2014

It allows all members of your team, including marketing, support, and sales, to size and build the business plan processes they need to find customers, deliver, and maintain grow the business. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. Marty Zwilling.

Product 101

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

Thus I was pleased and a bit surprised to see a new book, “ The Purpose Is Profit ,” by Ed “Skip” McLaughlin, an entrepreneur who has both succeeded and failed in starting multiple businesses. The best differentiation is a patent or other intellectual property that also provides a barrier to entry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2015

As an example of a good resource, I enjoyed a recent book, “ Idea To Invention ,” by Patricia Nolan-Brown, that does a great job on the key steps. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks. Investors learned this a long time ago, so most will tell you that they invest in people, not ideas.

Ideas 104

Ideas Mentor Resource Entrepreneur 104

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Investors invest in the jockey, more than the horse. Business plans the size of a small book are a big turnoff to investors, and will only serve to make your business seem more complex and more risky.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Statistics 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Investors invest in the jockey, more than the horse. Business plans the size of a small book are a big turnoff to investors, and will only serve to make your business seem more complex and more risky.

Entrepreneur 119

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2014

As an example of a good resource, I enjoyed a recent book, “ Idea To Invention ,” by Patricia Nolan-Brown, that does a great job on the key steps. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks. Investors learned this a long time ago, so most will tell you that they invest in people, not ideas.

Ideas 107

Ideas Mentor Entrepreneur Resource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

It allows all members of your team, including marketing, support, and sales, to size and build the business plan processes they need to find customers, deliver, and maintain grow the business. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks. Marty Zwilling.

Product 55

Product Startup Summary Entrepreneur 55

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

As an example of a good resource, I enjoyed a classic book, “ Idea To Invention ,” by Patricia Nolan-Brown, that does a great job on the key steps. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks. Investors learned this a long time ago, so most will tell you that they invest in people, not ideas.

Ideas 56

Ideas Mentor Resource Product 56

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Investors invest in the jockey, more than the horse. Business plans the size of a small book are a big turnoff to investors, and will only serve to make your business seem more complex and more risky.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Late last year, we had the chance to talk with Velocity Interactive's Ross Levinsohn about their investment in Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com). Most tools in the market are focused on the operations side, and post sales--what happens downstream, so publishers can provide proper revenue recognition and billing numbers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

Yet after a seed round of $2 million many are still doing Quickbooks entries, booking hotels & airplane tickets, negotiating offices leases and digging through employment benefits, legal contracts and such. Who is leading your patent filing program? I’ve written extensively on how to get the most out of your board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

People with money to invest have choices. Venture investing is often mentioned as the most sexy form of wealth creation, but it’s also recognized as one of riskiest. Here are the top five, as outlined by Rice in his book, which match my own experience: Management team. But patents and other intellectual property only go so far.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! We invested the first $1 million to develop version 1.0 So, I tried to do everything “by the book.&# ► October (1) New Video!

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