Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

It won’t happen right away but I’ve seen some innovative companies doing exactly this in places like Australia where they are taking a more liberal approach to allowing drone deliveries. Customers were happy and restaurants focused on their in-store business. they just put up with the food delivery company fees.

SaaS 242

SaaS Customer Custom Technical Review 242

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Entrepreneurs and startups are big believers in innovation, but sometimes they forget that innovation must be continual to assure long-term success, rather than the one big-bang idea that initiated their journey. Get the right players on board and enable them to do great things. Recognize that customers care about the whole experience.

Metrics 102

Metrics Startup Organization Demand 102

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Doing business is a human process.

Organization 128

Organization Startup Pricing Customer 128

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage? Assess customer demand.

Startup 115

Startup Resource Training Ideas 115

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2020

Entrepreneurs and startups are big believers in innovation, but sometimes they forget that innovation must be continual to assure long-term success, rather than the one big-bang idea that initiated their journey. Get the right players on board and enable them to do great things. Recognize that customers care about the whole experience.

Startup 138

Startup Organization Demand Customer 138

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Balance of passion with reality and customer feedback. A strong vision and deep insight may get your business off the ground, but long-term success requires constant data analysis, metrics, and attention to your customer feedback. If you do it right, you have a huge opportunity for long-term success. Pay attention to all.

Mentor 133

Mentor Startup Customer Custom 133

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As a startup advisor, I see many aspiring entrepreneurs whose primary motivation seems to be to work part time, or get rich quick, or avoid anyone else telling them what to do. So what are the right motivations, and how do you candidly assess your own? People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Organization Customer Custom 110

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. If you don’t believe in your bones that you’re amazing then it’s no wonder you don’t want to sell them on making the investment.”

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Funding Startup Sales 332

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2022

If you enjoy your role today, I believe it makes more sense just to keep it that way. No one else can do the solution delivery like you can. You may be able to train others to do the work you do, but they may not have your passion or unique quality. Keeping your business small is the right answer for you.

Satisfaction 92

Satisfaction Training Customer Custom 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

The power of strengths is the positive impact on everything you say and do, the increase in your well-being, and lasting resilience. Embrace the real you as your competitive advantage. Cultivate the courage to do honest introspection. Inspiring vision means taking note of what needs to change, and what you yourself believe in.

Entrepreneur 90

Entrepreneur Satisfaction Coach Mentor 90

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Based on my experience, creating a new business is at least as difficult as creating an innovative solution, and it takes a knowledge of finance, operations, customers and the marketplace. If there is no competition, there is likely not a market. Focus on doing one thing well rather than many things.

Startup 99

Startup Competition Examples Ideas 99

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2022

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. I don’t believe these two objectives have to be mutually exclusive. Escalate all problems upward to senior management.

Ideas 111

Ideas Framework Summary Organization 111

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. If you can’t out-Amazon Amazon, then move on and do something else. Ariel understood her customer?—?the

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Conventional wisdom in most companies is that “the competition is the enemy&# – it’s the rallying cry to dig deeper, get more features out the door, issue press releases citing differences and attack the competition’s weaknesses in sales presentations. A healthy respect for your competition will serve you well.

Cloud Computing 320

Cloud Computing Competition Press Startup 320

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

I do believe that we are in structural change where technology will increasingly play a bigger role in all facets of life so the long run up for tech is promising through all of these cycles. It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. ROI studies were published.

Marketing 354

Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2015

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Doing business is a human process.

Entrepreneur 117

Entrepreneur Organization Startup Pricing 117

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. In fact, the incumbent is usually very dismissive of this new competition as our the large buyers of the incumbent’s products. So the startups tend to focus on totally new customers.

Startup 376

Startup Framework Marketing Customer 376

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage? Assess customer demand.

Startup 94

Startup Resource Training Ideas 94

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition.

CTO Coach 359

CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2020

As a startup advisor, I see many aspiring entrepreneurs whose primary motivation seems to be to work part time, or get rich quick, or avoid anyone else telling them what to do. So what are the right motivations, and how do you candidly assess your own? People see you as great for demanding customers and team bonding.

Entrepreneur 126

Entrepreneur Organization Customer Custom 126

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation. Internally in a career, you need to do the same thing to solidify your position among peers, and prepare for either promotion or freelancing. It’s time to learn how to do marketing, and apply it to yourself.

Startup 98

Startup Outsource Development Competition Social Media 98

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Doing business is a human process.

Startup 59

Startup Organization Pricing Customer 59

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I believe this option will spread quickly to other companies, states and countries. Even without B-Corp status, entrepreneurs are speaking out more on the positives to support business models that benefit not just shareholders, but customers, workforce, the environment, and the greater community. Doing business is a human process.

Startup 101

Startup Organization Entrepreneur Customer 101

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. That cools the refrigerant going through the ice block, and provides cooling of the buildling, instead of air conditioning doing that job.

Southern California 100

Southern California Technical Review Demand Outsource Development 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2014

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Employees and customers alike are looking for meaning, not simply employment and commodity prices. Doing business is a human process.

Startup 91

Startup Organization Pricing Customer 91

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

So how should you decide what to do? There is a natural tension between wanting to have cash in the bank now versus believing that our businesses will be more valuable in the future and therefore wanting to wait. I’m a very big believer in the “Lean Startup&# principles as espoused by Steve Blank and Eric Ries.

Help 303

Help Startup Competition Framework 303

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

There are a million ways to either research your industries market size and you’re likely to have to do some basic estimations to figure out much of that is addressable to you. And how much do others providers make? But not doing basic research makes no sense. MakeSpace provides physical storage. Market Structure.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I believe this option will spread quickly to other companies, states and countries. Even without B-Corp status, entrepreneurs are speaking out more on the positives to support business models that benefit not just shareholders, but customers, workforce, the environment, and the greater community. Doing business is a human process.

Startup 100

Startup Organization Customer Custom 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

While this reaction to such a valuation is understandable, to anybody who has seen the meteoric rise in consumer demand and actual revenue the valuation is much less surprising and may turn out to be quite conservative. You can expect some strong competition, but it’s unlikely that there will be 5 great scooter companies.

Santa Monica 256

Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. I don’t believe these two objectives have to be mutually exclusive. Escalate all problems upward to senior management.

Ideas 94

Ideas Framework Summary Organization 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2015

Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage? Assess customer demand.

Startup 109

Startup Resource Training Ideas 109

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The facts, as well as what motivates your peers, customers, and business leaders are changing daily. Only those of us who learn to practice continuous learning will survive and flourish as we move forward into an unknown business world where more and more intelligent machines and software will do most of the work we know in business today.

Examples 85

Examples Social Media Competition Guide 85

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage? Assess customer demand.

Startup 57

Startup Resource Training Ideas 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2016

Entrepreneurs and startups are big believers in innovation, but sometimes they forget that innovation must be continual to assure long-term success, rather than the one big-bang idea that initiated their journey. Get the right players on board and enable them to do great things. Recognize that customers care about the whole experience.

Startup 58

Startup Organization Demand Customer 58

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

It helps you figure out what you can do in a business, what roles are available, what might be my future here. Instead, what I wanted to do was build a career test to allow everyone to find the right job, and starting from the employee talent, the reverse side of the equation. What were you doing before Fuel50?

Help 100

Help Southern California Startup Technical Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? Do you believe that you have an idea for a company that you can implement better than anyone, and maintain a competitive advantage? Assess customer demand.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Training 97