Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Avoid whatever business jargon is currently hip, like strategic, mission-critical, world-class, synergistic, first-mover, or scalable. Try something like, “the product costs $X, and we sell it for $Y.” This model only works once you have exceeded about one million page-views per month, and spent maybe $50 million to get there.

Ideas 92

Ideas Startup Customer Custom 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Solution and benefits. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole.

Competition 113

Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product?

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Solution and benefits. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole.

Competition 116

Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Avoid whatever business jargon is currently hip, like strategic, mission-critical, world-class, synergistic, first-mover, or scalable. Try something like, “the product costs X dollars, and we sell it for Y dollars.” It’s the electronic version of a catalog and shopping cart, and today rarely involves any stock of product.

Startup 48

Startup Customer Custom Summary 48

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. Green Way Labs develops high-performance cleaning products that are 100% non-toxic. Their distribution footprint consists of: Over 400 million Page Likes on Facebook.

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. As part of your launch, we can integrate Google or Paypal payment options into the login page. Can you talk about the pricing and how the business model works?

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

They have more knowledge of what a student's life is about, which is much better than a one page resume. Class sizes are getting bigger, especially in lower grades, middle schools, and high school. This tool helps in all of those aspects, and reduces the amount of work, improves productivity, and helps teachers to do more.

Education 124

Education Startup Course Tool 124

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Solution and benefits. Skip the technical jargon and hyperbole.

Invest 74

Invest Tips Competition Metrics 74

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Using your service or owning your product isn’t why a person buys, it’s the experience your customer will have. Valu e and Exp erience versus Price and Product.

Customer 85

Customer Custom Marketing SEO 85

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Price: FREE. TCA is a not-for-profit organization. Want to Sponsor?

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, what Quigo would do is analyze a web page for Overture and tell them what they thought it was about.

Google 302

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 302

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011. Derek Wooden.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). While customers will be willing to try your product, they think two steps ahead. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Pricing information.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285