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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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10 Action Items to Keep Angel Investors Hovering

Startup Professionals Musings

File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Having a defensible competitive advantage or “barrier to entry” is another critical step to funding, and another common stumbling block during all phases of the funding process. Build a prototype product. Define some intellectual property. Free trials don’t count.

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10 Preparation Steps to Win an Angel Investment

Startup Professionals Musings

File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Having a defensible competitive advantage or “barrier to entry” is another critical step to funding, and another common stumbling block during all phases of the funding process. Build a prototype product. Define some intellectual property. Free trials don’t count.

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Top Ten Action Items For Angel Funding Success

Startup Professionals Musings

File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Having a defensible competitive advantage or “barrier to entry” is another critical step to funding, and another common stumbling block during all phases of the funding process. Build a prototype product. Define some intellectual property. Free trials don’t count.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Tear Down Your Firewalls

Frank Addante

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. They are afraid of their competition finding out about the idea, a bigger company trying to steal it or some other entrepreneur doing it first.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. If you look at Google in the way they operate, you have two products, one is called AdWords, one is called AdSense, okay?