Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. In business as in other relationships, people on the team that have to be above reproach, committed, and working on the same page.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. What makes their story more remarkable, in the age of 20-something billionaires, is that both of the company’s founders are in their 50’s.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Many soon find that what you do in a personal context doesn’t necessarily translate to your business, and measuring business value is quite different from measuring personal satisfaction. Companies have to communicate, rather than just pontificate. Get to know the five W’s of these – who, what, where, when, and why.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

Jackson, CapLinked CEO, “CapLinked’s rapid innovation gives companies and funds a much-needed option to using a virtual data room.”. But a lack of competition has also lead to a lack of innovation, resulting in low customer satisfaction and frequent complaints of difficult-to-use products. According to Eric M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2015

For example, hydrogen-fueled engines were invented over a century ago, with a continuing promise of breathing air and exhaling pure water vapor and having over 200 companies active in the hydrogen sector today. Develop written business plans as detailed as product plans.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2017

Statistics show that the failure rate for new businesses within the first four years is fifty percent or greater, even with companies that have a large startup budget. In my experience, there are still only a small number of key principles and strategies that contribute large amounts to long-term sustainability and satisfaction.

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Eric Greenspan

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Even better, we resolved all of them to full satisfaction and refunded all monies requested. Real quickly, most companies that offer credit card processing are a middle-man (most banks are middle-man). In most cases these viewings are done by potential customers who are checking on your company’s rating.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. I’m used to that refrain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. You get the personal satisfaction of making something out of almost nothing. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free.

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