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. Here you will likely need to train others to help you, so more detail may be required in this process.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001. Well, it had to happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. All of these processes should be documented, and should explicitly include the customer buying process and perceptions as the base. Include planned measurements and metrics. Their perception is your reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. All of these processes should be documented, and should explicitly include the customer buying process and perceptions as the base. Include planned measurements and metrics. Their perception is your reality.

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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. Here you will likely need to train others to help you, so more detail may be required in this process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2012

She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. All of these processes should be documented, and should explicitly include the customer buying process and perceptions as the base. Include planned measurements and metrics. Their perception is your reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

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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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. Manage human resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2011

She recommends phone interviews by you, by appointment, with structured questions, and you document results. All of these processes should be documented, and should explicitly include the customer buying process and perceptions as the base. Include planned measurements and metrics. Their perception is your reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth. That way, you can go back and review the progress you’ve made.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

For example, early social media startup Friendster was so enamored with their early acceptance that they turned down a $30 million offer from Google, then quickly ran into money woes and tough competition. As the business grows, it pays to learn how to use automated financial tools, and review the key financial metrics daily.

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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. Manage human resources.

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