Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. The customer experience is more than the service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. The customer experience is more than the service.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, you must first create the playbook by which an independent sales rep can readily sell your product, including: identifying objections and developing strategies to overcome them, creating reference accounts and establishing meaningful customer adoption. 5) Allow Partners To Write Your Agreements. 3) Attempt To License An Idea.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. Thus, you have negotiating leverage as long as a legitimate, competitive threat exists. Your commitments to investors must be significant enough to compel them to write you a check. Grant Exclusivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price. The customer experience is more than the service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Competition analysis. Here is where you pick a few of these, characterize what they do, and position your own product to show your competitive advantage. Market research and competition. Market research. Development and rollout.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Competition analysis. Here is where you pick a few of these, characterize what they do, and position your own product to show your competitive advantage. Market research and competition. Market research. Development and rollout.

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Product Entrepreneur Outsource Development Competition 93

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Customer service and support. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Develop your business plan. Product development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Customer service and support. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Customer service and support. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Develop your business plan. Product development process.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. Customer service and support. Funding process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2010

My clients and customers use it, and I need to stay in sync. You need to be plugged in to be career competitive with hyper-networked peers, and keep ahead of competitors. Contractor, temp, or outsource worker off site. Hate to pick up the phone or find the person every time I needed something. To me, the answers are clear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Competition analysis. Here is where you pick a few of these, characterize what they do, and position your own product to show your competitive advantage. Market research and competition. Market research. Development and rollout.

Product 48

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 48

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. The right way to position against competition - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , August 23, 2010 This is Part 4 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.?? There is no competition. What’s going to happen in the future?' Example: Netflix). We declined.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2018

It’s like the entire industry wants to outsource its brain to the smartest person they know and then follow that person. Sometimes this means laying off staff, doing consulting on the side, taking prepayments from customers, raising a small amount of debt, doing a convertible note?—?whatever. Wait, make that $1 million. Happy raising.

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Frank Addante

APRIL 16, 2007

Outsourcing ▼ April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? What if there was another competitive cash register on the market? Sure, theres a wave of new technology solutions that have come into the market that are competitive with DoubleClick, but, they are unproven. After writing this, I think I smell something.

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Google Advertising Startup Venture Capital 40

Frank Addante

JULY 30, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? We didn’t wait for planning meetings, we didn’t discuss strategy, didn’t discuss architecture, didn’t talk to customers, didn’t look at similar or competitive products , didn’t write specs or requirements.

Startup 40

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU. ► March (2) 4.

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