InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

We all have hunches, but if we do not diligently document them, we risk losing them. His talk was especially intriguing, as he attended UCSB, but dropped out to start a clothing design company. Chaos By Design . Seth is a design-oriented entrepreneur, with little desire to document details.

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Ideas Startup Technical Review Santa Barbara 69

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

That is, businesses are using APIs like crazy to stay competitive and communicate with both partners and customers more effectively. Citrusbyte is a full stack, design and development firm that specializes in helping companies get the APIs they need to run more efficiently.

Software 77

Software Netflix Competition Design 77

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2021

For example, in a conflict over the right branding logo , it may help to understand who and how the ultimate decision will be made, including key elements driving the decision, such as targeted customers and competition. Don’t let it be just a conflict over graphic design. Evaluate conflict win-lose versus win-win potential.

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Activity Organization Examples Satisfaction 145

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. Show investors that you are committed, and past the idea stage.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

A simple differentiation is that a product plan is designed for internal use, to get the product out. A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. Competition analysis. Market research and competition. Don’t get me wrong.

Product 92

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process. Funding process.

Startup 107

Startup Outsource Development Training Outsource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

A simple differentiation is that a product plan is designed for internal use, to get the product out. A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. Competition analysis. Market research and competition. Don’t get me wrong.

Product 93

Product Entrepreneur Outsource Development Competition 93

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

Patents held by startups generally have a limited ability to reduce competition. Another factor that impacts a patent’s value is its type, of which there are essentially two: utility patents and design patents. Utility patents generally offer more protection than design patents and are thus usually more valuable.

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IP Patents Company Companies 256

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Organization Custom Customer Tips 280

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, some with high markups and some with low, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. Competitive positioning. In heavily competitive environments, the price has to be competitive, no matter what the cost or volume. Razor blade model.

Pricing 112

Pricing Competition Custom Customer 112

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. But having no process does not make you more competitive. Product development process. Funding process.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. They don’t love documentation. Examples: - every time you release new features you need to update your technical documentation. - you also need to update your marketing documents including your website. They’re sometimes moody. But barely.

CTO Hire 400

CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2015

The free app gives drivers the opportunity to document the scene and contest the ticket. Fixed is not without competition, LA-based Cited launched last year and charges 20% of the cost of the ticket. Fixed claims that 50% of tickets are dismissed when challenged. Fixed has a team of lawyers on standby ready fight for you.

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Los Angeles Angel Software Review Seed Funding 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. Show investors that you are committed, and past the idea stage.

Ideas 107

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Tool 107

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. It can be a very competitive approach, but the product must be designed and built to provide good utility at many levels. Tiered or volume pricing.

Startup 114

Startup Pricing Custom Customer 114

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, some with high markups and some with low, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. Competitive positioning. In heavily competitive environments, the price has to be competitive, no matter what the cost or volume. Razor blade model.

Pricing 98

Pricing Product Startup Competition 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Product development process.

Startup 102

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. Show investors that you are committed, and past the idea stage.

Outsource Development 105

Outsource Development Startup Ideas Tool 105

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

See the Internet and now the mobile ecosystems are one, big competitive playground where globally some of the smartest minds are focused on how to make money by driving user growth better, faster and cheaper than others. I endorse the growth hacking culture on teams.

Technical Review 384

Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers. It can be a very competitive approach, but the product must be designed and built to provide good utility at many levels. Tiered or volume pricing.

Pricing 116

Pricing Product Custom Customer 116

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. It''s designed for business people. All of our documents were done for raising money, and it was a very simple transaction. That''s pretty efficient.

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. Time is money, and may be your primary competitive advantage. Show investors that you are committed, and past the idea stage.

Ideas 53

Ideas Outsource Development Tool Outsource 53

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

A simple differentiation is that a product plan is designed for internal use, to get the product out. A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. Competition analysis. Market research and competition. Don’t get me wrong.

Product 48

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 48

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Product development process.

Startup 95

Startup Outsource Development Writing Training 95

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take.

Statistics 415

Statistics Startup Report Research 415

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. By utilizing economies of scale, location, and common design, you may be able to provide a better solution faster for a lower cost.

Startup 98

Startup Custom Customer Entrepreneur 98

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It is a very competitive approach, but requires design and development effort for value at every level. Expect extra costs for development, testing, documentation, and support. This approach works if your product can be configured “bare-bones” for a low price, and additional features priced separately.

Pricing 66

Pricing Custom Customer Advertising 66

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If you want money, rather than just feedback, you need to actually design, develop, and prove that you have something worth people’s hard-earned funds before you launch your campaign. You need a polished, tested concept, not just an idea. Crowdfunding to gauge demand is not recommended, since failed campaigns don’t usually recover later.

Startup 53

Startup Equity Entrepreneur Demand 53

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

If the market is new and competition is minimal, then the time and costs of educating potential customers probably exceeds your survival time and budget. Building a business is much more complex than building a house, and I don’t see any houses winning awards that were built without a documented design and plan.

Startup 59

Startup Training Entrepreneur Custom 59

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The competition never stands still, and new opportunities are evolving, based on culture changes in your customers, new technologies, and new problems in the world which need to be solved. By utilizing economies of scale, location, and common design, you may be able to provide a better solution faster for a lower cost.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Custom Customer .Net 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Platform Startup Resource 150

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

There’s plenty of capital out there, but there’s also a lot of competition for startup funding. Designate a point person to handle the relationships. Y-Combinator’s SAFE (Simple Agreement For Equity) is a quick way to generate deal documentation, with very little downside for founders from Shayne’s perspective. Venture debt.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Equity Funding 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Even if you know your product/service suite down cold, understand the strengths/weaknesses of the competition, and have built pro forma financials that are sane. Focus on your designated market area instead. Always keep in mind that a business plan is a “living document.” What does that mean?

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Writing Summary Ideas Research 97

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments.

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Buzzfeed Media Content News 210