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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of any new product these days must include education and rollout marketing, perhaps equal or greater than the development costs. Solution may require new category development time. Target audience may be limited or new due to price. Even more important than solution marketing is building your brand. Incent these early.

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6 Unforeseen Obstacles Every New Venture Must Conquer

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As an advisor to many startups, I often spend hours with business owners helping them anticipate every possible obstacle to the adoption of their solution, and developing a rollout plan to include antidotes. The most elegant products have the highest price tags, thus limiting market size. Is your business properly customer-centric?

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6 Observations On Key Challenges Facing Every Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to many startups, I often spend hours with business owners helping them anticipate every possible obstacle to the adoption of their solution, and developing a rollout plan to include antidotes. The most elegant products have the highest price tags, thus limiting market size. Is your business properly customer-centric?

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6 Ways To Improve Your Odds Of New Business Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus I was pleased to see my own insights covered in a new book, “ Why Startups Fail ,” by Tom Eisenmann, a Harvard Business School professor, who has mentored many more entrepreneurs, and authored more than a hundred HBS case studies from real-world startups.

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How to Make Sure Professional Services Don’t Take Over Your Software Company

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This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc. You want to be sure that you get customer commitments before doing the work do agree a case study afterwards if the project is successful. Frankly, you’re going to need to drop price a bit anyways.

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10 Obstacles To Product Adoption That Kill Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to many startups, I often spend hours with business owners helping them anticipate every possible obstacle to the adoption of their solution, and developing a rollout plan to include antidotes. The most elegant products have the highest price tags, thus limiting market size. Is your business properly customer-centric?

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