Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Equally important, marketing and sales people should be able to identify benefits and marketing strategies, set prices, and validate a business model. Competition analysis. Market research and competition.

Product 92

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 92

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I wanted to do business projects and I got in touch with a guy from the strategy consulting practice in the telecoms & high-tech practice in London. You’re a tech guy. Initially I thought it was too long of a name for a blog.When I looked at the competition it as AVC.com and Feld.com. I had had enough.

Technical Advisors 386

Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 386

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

“Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapmen’s tongues” . Patents held by startups generally have a limited ability to reduce competition. Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2022

You are still providing conventional digital wristwatches while Apple and others are delivering high-tech new versions that sync with your smartphone. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged.

eBook 111

eBook Metrics Examples Startup 111

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2015

You are still providing conventional digital wristwatches while Apple and others are delivering high-tech new versions that sync with your smartphone. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged.

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur eBook Metrics Startup 106

InfoChachkie

MARCH 24, 2016

For instance, in the High Tech Sales class, we discussed the necessity of tracking ad performance. Since we have released our product, and are now looking to acquire new users, this has proven to be extremely valuable for getting a high return from our advertising expenditures.

Startup 124

Startup Sites Research Santa Barbara 124

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

You are still providing conventional digital wristwatches while a crowd-sourced new company is offering a high-tech new version that syncs with your smartphone. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged.

eBook 95

eBook Metrics Startup Examples 95

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

You are still providing conventional digital wristwatches while Apple and others are delivering high-tech new versions that sync with your smartphone. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged.

Entrepreneur 93

Entrepreneur eBook Metrics Examples 93

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

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. The sales professional. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 57

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Equally important, marketing and sales people should be able to identify benefits and marketing strategies, set prices, and validate a business model. Competition analysis. Market research and competition.

Product 48

Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 48

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

billion in December 2014, it counted on blockbuster sales of Cubist’s skin-infection antibiotic daptomycin (Cubicin) for years. The only remaining daptomycin patent will expire in June, clearing the way for generic competition years earlier than expected. . —When Merck (NYSE: MRK ) bought Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $9.5

San Diego 62

San Diego Patents Acquisition News 62

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2017

You are still providing conventional digital wristwatches while Apple and others are delivering high-tech new versions that sync with your smartphone. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged.

eBook 52

eBook Metrics Examples Startup 52