Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2021

So a better question than asking about the quality of an idea, is asking about the quality of your plan to implement the idea. Find out if something very similar is already selling, and who your competition would be if you proceed. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2023

Now let’s talk about the basic components of a business plan. The customer pain point must be defined before the solution is presented, so it doesn’t look like you have a solution looking for a problem. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. Provide details on the business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

Everybody knows about these, but few people seem to deliver a good one. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. About 150-225 words. Your pitch should be about 30-60 seconds (average elevator ride).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

Now let’s talk about the basic components of a business plan. The customer pain point must be defined before the solution is presented, so it doesn’t look like you have a solution looking for a problem. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. Provide details on the business model.

Entrepreneur 124

Entrepreneur Startup Summary Product 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Every startup needs both a business plan and an investor presentation, completed before you formally approach any investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

Passionate entrepreneurs tend to talk on and on about their disruptive technology, their intent to change the world and free services, but if a business can’t provide quantifiable value to real customers, the dream will likely turn into a nightmare. Investors worry about competitors more than customer features.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

Entrepreneurs who are looking to attract investors need to develop and pitch a plan -- preferably written -- that answers every potential investor question about your startup before it is asked. Investors want to hear about customers with money who have a painful problem that you can solve now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

As a member of the local Angel group selection committee, I’ve seen a lot of startup presentations to investors, and I’ve never seen one that was too short - maybe short on content, but not short on pages! Every startup needs both a business plan and an investor presentation, completed before you formally approach any investors.

Slides 93

Slides Competition Sample Sales 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Everybody knows about these, but few people seem to deliver a good one. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. About 150-225 words - Your pitch should be about 30 seconds (average elevator ride).

Startup 93

Startup Competition Summary Patents 93

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Most sophisticated investors ignore them, focusing their attention on an entrepreneur's pitch and presentation materials, financial forecast and executive summary. Patents and Trademarks. Competition. I promise I will never tweet you a crazy personal opinion or tell you about that killer burrito I just ate.

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Venture Capital Summary Technical Review Template 211

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We caught up with Kanaan to learn more about uCast Global. Thats what uCast is all about. He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. Kanaan Jemili.

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Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2010

Every entrepreneur should spend plenty of time thinking about competitors, and how they relate to your business, but you need to be very careful what you say out loud about them to your team, your investors, and your customers. You won’t get any credibility for refusing to admit that airplanes are competition for trains.

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Startup Competition Patents Entrepreneur 89

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2015

So a better question than asking about the quality of an idea, is asking about the quality of your plan to cash in on the idea. Find out if something very similar is already selling, and who your competition would be if you proceed. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks.

Ideas 104

Ideas Mentor Resource Entrepreneur 104

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

We spoke with Jonathan about the advantages of SwoopThat over existing sites. That results in huge savings--up to 75 percent--in price, and you can also do it all in about ten minutes, because we've integrated directly with your course schedule, and filtered through the entire web simultaneously. What's SwoopThat?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2014

So a better question than asking about the quality of an idea, is asking about the quality of your plan to cash in on the idea. Find out if something very similar is already selling, and who your competition would be if you proceed. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks.

Ideas 107

Ideas Mentor Entrepreneur Resource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

So a better question than asking about the quality of an idea, is asking about the quality of your plan to implement the idea. Find out if something very similar is already selling, and who your competition would be if you proceed. File at least a provisional patent and one or more trademarks.

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Ideas Mentor Resource Product 56

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2011

At any rate, here is my summary of the top ten from my experience with hundreds of elevator pitches, business plans, and executive presentations: “Our product is truly disruptive technology.” It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath.

Entrepreneur 108

Entrepreneur Funding Innocal Competition 108

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Yet according to the latest data from Gust (formerly AngelSoft), only about 3 out of 100 companies who initiate the formal request process actually get funded. Over half of the survivors remaining are eliminated during live presentations, and another 6.5% File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2014

Now let’s talk about the basic components of a business plan. The customer pain point must be defined before the solution is presented, so it doesn’t look like you have a solution looking for a problem. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. Provide details on the business model.

Product 101

Product Entrepreneur Summary Activity 101

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2016

We talked with Eli Aizenstat , the founder and CEO of Beatshare�and still a student--as well as President and longtime technology vet Barry Lieberman about the startup. Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. What is Beatshare? All are separate.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Tell me about Bitvore - what''s your technology used for? Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords. It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords.

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2010

At any rate, here is my summary of the top ten from my experience with hundreds of elevator pitches, business plans, and executive presentations: “ Our product is truly disruptive technology. ” It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath.

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Innocal Entrepreneur Competition IBM 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2016

Now let’s talk about the basic components of a business plan. The customer pain point must be defined before the solution is presented, so it doesn’t look like you have a solution looking for a problem. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. Provide details on the business model.

Product 55

Product Startup Summary Entrepreneur 55

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. It's a great talk. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. Funny story, after Bill presented at TED (back when Amazon was still a small company) Jeff Bezos was in the audience. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Overture (Goto.com).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Yet according to the latest data from AngelSoft , only about 3 out of 100 companies who initiate the formal request process actually get funded. Over half of the survivors remaining are eliminated during live presentations, and another 6.5% File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property.

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Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

Patents 106

Patents Offshore Startup Demand 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2010

Have you patented it? How will the inevitable changes in markets, consumer behaviors, and competitive offerings affect outcomes? Don't worry about structuring things into a business plan yet. Exactly what are you introducing into the marketplace that takes advantage of the opportunity you've identified? Now, start brainstorming.

Startup 91

Startup Oracle Entrepreneur Ideas 91

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

Marketing 94

Marketing Patents Offshore Startup 94

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. For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” and trademarks.

Product 169

Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

Patents 106

Patents Startup Offshore Demand 106

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

Marketing 54

Marketing Patents Offshore Startup 54

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Patents Startup Offshore 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2019

Much has been written recently about the requirement to focus today on the total customer experience, as a competitive edge or even for survival. Many, like me, would prefer that someone else do the shopping for them, and present them with the best choices currently available.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. Selectively protect your intellectual property worldwide.

Marketing 104

Marketing Startup Patents Offshore 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2012

Then you have to worry about politics, government regulations, and infrastructure. Is it competitive to the current alternatives? File a provisional patent as a place holder, a full patent, trademark, copyright, or all of the above. Patents may slow down competition, but they are not a real barrier to entry.

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