Berkonomics

JANUARY 11, 2018

But sometimes there is a barrier, an impossibly high cost not considered, a social backlash never thought of, or competition already covering the idea that is unknown to the originator. Strategic thinking: Board members who ask: “What is the competitive landscape?” Which leads us to the second class of creative board thinking….

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

They helped create over 5 million new businesses in 2022, a forty percent increase over the previous year. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2021

In fact, the process of organizing and documenting these elements is the best way to make sure you understand the answers yourself. It only takes a little extra work to make it a professional document, with a cover page, table of contents, headings, and page numbers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. No amount of tracking when she read your deck is going to truly help you get inside her head so those benefits are oversold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2019

My experience is that the discipline of documenting a plan will improve your likelihood of addressing all the right issues , as well as finding the right partner or investor. It can pay big dividends as this stage to get help from an experienced business advisor. Prepare a business plan 20-page document.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Keeping up with the competition: You’re a market leader in a fast-growing field. A technical review can help your development team adopt new processes and strategies to maximize their speed and efficiency. A technical review can help you decide what team will work best both with you and for you. What’s keeping you up at night?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

If your mission is to change the world or help the disadvantaged, another dating site or online gambling may not be for you, no matter how financially lucrative. For example , when Yvon Chouinard founded Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, his real goal was building safe products to help the environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2023

Technologies are not solutions, but understanding a technology, in the context of a customer need, will result in more competitive and long-lasting solutions. The process of documenting what you think you know in a business plan, for the team and for investors, solidifies your own understanding of your new business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. The cost of social media done well is low. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

What used to be an “A” round in 2011 is now routinely called a Seed round and this has been so engrained that founders would rather take less money than to have to put the words “A round” in their legal documents. at this scale it’s easier for us to help fund a seed extension. You have seed rounds but you now have “pre-seed rounds.”

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 3, 2012

Seth is a design-oriented entrepreneur, with little desire to document details. To help guide the students’ evaluation of the feasibility and merit of each idea, I require them to complete a one-page form, as specified in Entrepreneurship Is A Compulsion. Competition – which competitors will prove to be the most formidable?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which offers up online services to help people create trusts, wills, and guardianships, has raised $6M in a new funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The company originally raised funding as part of the San Diego Tech Coast Angels, in a "Quick Pitch" competition three years ago.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2023

Write all goals in the future tense, be as specific as possible, and make an effort to raise each goal one level higher to set you above your competition. It’s time to get the help you need. The reality is that everyone wants to help – friends, investors, even customers, but you have to take the initiative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2023

Help your team generate team rituals and encourage networking. Use shared-document platforms, in-house message systems, and online whiteboards, to maximize sharing and minimize miscommunication. You can help them set goals, and you need to provide resources and access to training required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2022

It happens on the front end for startups to get traction, and then again later for every company as the economy, competition, and culture changes around them. Symbols of the new market coalition have to permeate every communication, formal process documentation, and the reward system for everyone. But the benefits are worth it.

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Berkonomics

MAY 29, 2014

Business plans are dynamic instruments used on a regular basis to help owners and executives to plan for future growth, and. Included in a business plan are financials, competitive landscape, marketing plans, and projected sales to name a few. Helps you to be more focused. But it’s a valuable document for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Here are six results that you can achieve by building a prototype, which are really the reasons that investors and partners will give you a whole new level of credibility as they evaluate your startup for potential funding: Something you can touch and feel helps validate opportunity.

Outsource Development 110

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 110

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

It takes a long immersion in the marketplace for someone to be a true insider, understand the subtleties of the competitive landscape, recognize the people who are true assets (independent of titles), and look through the propaganda of technical collateral and PR campaigns. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Consider getting the help of outside consultants and advisors to overcome obstacles. Find other situations that led to success, or explain why the environment, competition, or opportunity has changed to reduce the risk of failure. This argument is actually not attacking the idea, but shows a generalized resistance to change.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

Competition for the top position in the JSON-serialization test within the Peak environment has heated up so much that Round 10 sees a more than 100% increase in the top performance versus Round 9 (2.2M If you would like to contribute to the project, we''ve migrated documentation to ReadTheDocs. Round Frameworks Framework permutations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2020

Technologies are not solutions, but understanding a technology, in the context of a customer need, will result in more competitive and long-lasting solutions. The process of documenting what you think you know in a business plan, for the team and for investors, solidifies your own understanding of your new business.

Social Media 127

Social Media Startup Education Entrepreneur 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. and trademarks.

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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. Image Credit: Wikipedia .

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 8, 2018

We all have hunches, but if we do not diligently document them, we risk losing them. Seth is a design-oriented entrepreneur, with little desire to document details. This process also helps Seth avoid distracting himself from the core idea he is currently executing while still capturing the idea. Chaos By Design .

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Write all goals in the future tense, be as specific as possible, and make an effort to raise each goal one level higher to set you above your competition. It’s time to get the help you need. The reality is that everyone wants to help – friends, investors, even customers, but you have to take the initiative.

Ideas 121

Ideas Writing Startup Entrepreneur 121

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. Make sure the process is respectful of their needs as well as yours.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

This is smart because amazing board members can be transformative with important advice and access and can also help attract other great board members (and team members). I actually think having a formal board can really help you. This is the norm and unless you have a hugely competitive round it’s not worth fighting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2015

In fact, the process of organizing and documenting these elements is the best way to make sure you understand the answers yourself. It only takes a little extra work to make it a professional document, with a cover page, table of contents, headings, and page numbers.

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Startup Writing Mentor Sample 109

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Don’t over shop – If the deal you’re involved with involves raising venture capital or selling your company you naturally want some competition. This helps you get your deal done in the first place and it helps you get better terms. You know that every turn of the legal documents can add weeks. What can you do about it?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Technical Advisors 301

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Here are six results that you can achieve by building a prototype, which are really the reasons that investors and partners will give you a whole new level of credibility as they evaluate your startup for potential funding: Something you can touch and feel helps validate opportunity.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

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. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

It’s easier when you have traction and a competitive process for your funding is likely. There are some partners that after the first meeting ask for belt-and-braces document exchange. They want to see your cap table, your legal documents, your major contracts, your full financial model, etc. What did they say?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Custom Customer 316

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. Ask for help in eliminating useless tasks. Each of us can remember a time when we prepared a report that no one read, or filed physical documents never used, and no one seemed to care.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I believe these insights can and must be extended to you and your career, in line with the following guiding principles: Make your interest in learning your competitive advantage. Smart employers look for these as they contemplate your competitiveness for new roles. Define personalized learning goals with a timetable.

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Examples Social Media Competition Guide 85

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

. ” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. Well, you have to do that, too. I endorse the growth hacking culture on teams.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 7, 2013

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. Jackson added, “Their pricing and technology are hold-overs from the 1990s—it goes to show how they have been shielded from competition for too long.

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