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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
Young entrepreneurs and startups, in particular, often remain naively unfocused, despite their passion, of what it takes to provide the high-quality service expected. It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it. Yet the average perception of customer experience has not improved.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
Don’t bash the competition. Every investor knows how vulnerable a new startup is to competitors, so investors always ask about your sustainable competitive advantage in the marketplace. That says you are competitive today, have a real barrier to entry, and the potential to remain ahead of the competition for a long time.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 31, 2012
Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. If you haven’t read Adam Lashinsky’s awesome new book about Apple , you should. And that leads me to today’s post.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 25, 2014
This blog started from a series of conversations I found myself having over and over again with founders and eventually decided I should just start writing them.It Last week’s obsession was about obsession itself. But the film has my brain buzzing all week about obsessive and competitive people.
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 4, 2022
He lived the philosophy that companies must be paranoid in order to survive, and continually disrupt their own markets to prevent overrun by competition. How serious are you about really listening to customer feedback, your own teams, and participating in industry forums? Foster a collaboration culture, rather than competition.
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 31, 2021
The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 30, 2018
One of the hardest things about the fund-raising process for entrepreneurs is that you’re trying to raise money from people who have “asymmetric information.” I thought I’d write a post about how to talk about valuation at a startup and give you some sense of what might be on the mind of the person considering funding you.
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