Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Review of opportunity and segmentation.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Invest 151

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. The right time to start dilemma. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry.

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Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer Custom 101

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

That’s why all those so-called million dollar ideas I hear about as an investor don’t get me excited, and entrepreneurs find that working twenty hours a day often generates nothing more than sweat, instead of the desired sweat equity. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry.

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Satisfaction Startup Customer Custom 61

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2013

Porter proposed his Five Forces framework for analyzing the competitive environment which I think makes even more sense today. Every existing business, as well as every startup, needs to reassess their product or service in the context of these five forces: Intensity of competitive rivalry. Way back in 1979, Michael E.

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Startup Framework Competition Pricing 80

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2019

Ian Chen: In my previous life, I was working in private equity in LA. However, it's a very competitive market, and there are a lot of clubs and a lot of cities, and in every city we are in there are venues looking to drive more foot traffic through their doors. A couple of reasons why it is beneficial for them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. The right time to start dilemma. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup USC Entrepreneur Statistics 97

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

One of the key sections of any business plan is the analysis of the competition. Investors take that to mean either 1) there is no market for your product, or 2) you don’t understand the concept of business and competition. You are never the only alternative, hopefully just the best, in price, utility, and satisfaction.

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Startup Competition Pricing Framework 86

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Use this opportunity to validate their satisfaction and support for your company and your solution. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Review of opportunity and segmentation.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. The right time to start dilemma. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Statistics Equity Satisfaction 107

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. The right time to start dilemma. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 57

Entrepreneur USC Statistics Equity 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. The right time to start dilemma. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Equity 98

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. Most companies have a roadmap describing what they’re planning to build, deliver or market. We have had to take sub-market salaries.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

For IBM, the Personal Computer was a paradigm shift from their big business legacy, built with new technologies for totally new markets, and battleships turn very slowly. The burn rate was extremely high, with no one working for equity or deferred compensation. Measurements set on internal objectives, rather than market traction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

After reviewing her day-by-day recommendations to improve productivity in a single week, I have extrapolated her guidance to ten productivity tips specifically for entrepreneurs to regain that competitive edge: Focus on managing yourself rather than managing others. Savor the satisfaction of success, and watch the stress melt away.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Competing To Win Deals - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 7, 2010 The venture capital business is highly competitive. But I don’t think so.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175