Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2023

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2020

Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

Why is it that most of the business plans I see are really product plans? I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. A business plan is a detailed description of your business, with a bit of product description thrown in near the front.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2011

Why is it that most of the business plans I see are really product plans? I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. A business plan is a detailed description of your business, with a bit of product description thrown in near the front.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 123

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? 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. I have been outsourcing to India since before it became popular.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2010

Why is it that most of the business plans I see are really product plans? I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. A business plan is a detailed description of your business, with a bit of product description thrown in near the front.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2015

Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 105

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup Outsource 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Production. Competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Products and services for a business need to be attuned to customer requirements, cost and quality tradeoffs, with milestones for pricing and completion. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. No mention usually means no plan and not competitive.

Ideas 62

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Thus, I will recruit independent distributors and they will sell my new and innovative products on my behalf. Once you prove that a substantial, addressible market segment is willing to pay a price for your solution that exceeds your costs, you can consider a licensing strategy. 2) Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 57

Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Production. Competition.

Sales 98

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I believe that the resourcefulness to turn constraints into competitive differentiators and new opportunities is a trait that separates the great entrepreneurs from the “wannabes.” They look for creative solutions to problems that are inhibiting progress, rather than the conventional solution of outsourcing or hiring people.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 1, 2013

is one product more profitable than others) and make business decisions based on your findings. Before going through the expensive process of sourcing, recruiting, and hiring an employee, look into outsourcing, especially for non-core functions such as HR, accounting, and legal. Undercharging for your product/service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. Outsourcing your core competency does not work. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. The industry veteran. The financial suit.

Technical Advisors 98

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

Agree to Bundling Without a Minimum Price. A detailed NRE budget will help you avoid becoming the BDC’s adjunct, outsourced engineering team. If you do not assign a price tag to your engineers’ time, an aggressive BDC could quickly consume all of your technical resources, precluding you from executing other technical initiatives.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Anybody who is able to create a customer relationship online can have some degree of success with Hydra, given that their product is desirable. It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency. So, it's all over the map.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Anybody who is able to create a customer relationship online can have some degree of success with Hydra, given that their product is desirable. It really doesn't suit a publisher well to have exclusive representation, except in some instances--for example, if a site has an outsourced sales agency. So, it's all over the map.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Music – enable a dead simple player on band and profile pages that lets users upload their songs and have them purchased for any price they set. Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review. Movies – no website has more Hollywood DNA.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? 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. We were successful because our product had, by far, the highest S:C ratio.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. How it happens.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? 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. If so, buy them (at a reasonable price, of course). A BIG THANK YOU.

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