Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In the book, and in his popular lecture series, he says you can do it yourself, and outlines five steps to success, which I have adapted a bit for startups as follows: Analyze existing media, social media, and your demographics. Get to know the five W’s of these and others – who, what, where, when, and why. Pick your fit.

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Social Media Media Startup Blogging 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap.

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Marketing Startup Social Media Technical Review 141

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2010

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. Obviously, it must be grounded by the characteristics of the market and customers you choose to serve, the pricing model of existing competitors, and a strategy you believe is consistent with your future products and direction. Cost-based model.

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Pricing Product Startup Competition 98

Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

But while competition remains fierce, the advancement and accessibility of smart solutions are making it easy than ever for startups to find their feet. Read our guide to the best VoIP desk phones to check out its competition. It does have a five-project limit, however. From its 4.3-inch From its 4.3-inch

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Tool Startup Software Review Technical Review 128

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2022

So, unless you are satisfied doing research on a shoestring, I encourage you to focus highly on achieving business success, as well as on creating an innovative solution. One of the best ways to assess development risk is to build and test a prototype, or minimum viable product (MVP). Write down your business model and five-year plan.

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Ideas Startup Case Study Writing 145

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The first electric bulb was actually invented by Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, who demonstrated the concept, but gave up trying to develop a practical product after only three attempts. Research has found that people with low resilience are four times more likely to experience burnout, or even premature death.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2023

I offer here a synopsis of his five key tactics in making any business decision, with my own insights added, that I would recommend to every business professional aspiring to make the jump to leadership: First get all the input you can from your team. In addition, I find that most big decisions require research.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

We can’t undo the last five years… but we can make smart, massive investments in the climate infrastructure of the future,” wrote Donnel Baird, the chief executive and founder of BlocPower. That includes a ten-year extension and phase down of direct-pay investment tax credits and production tax credits.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

A number of teams have recently been looking to turn that vision into reality, as a result of the Qualcomm Tricorder Prize , a $10M competition being run by the X Prize Foundation to create a real life Tricorder. That''s essentially how the Tricoder competition was formed--it''s time for this to happen. It was announced in the 90''s.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

We've initially focused on university-based research groups, and as we've gotten up and running, we've found that there's no need to limit it to just universities. If an existing company is not interested in licensing, and a researcher is not an entrepreneurial spirit, those projects go no where. Where is this talent coming from?

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Crowdfunding, on the other hand, opens the investment door online to almost anyone who is willing to bet on a new product or service with an investment, typically for a chance to be first in line for the offering, and willing to forgo any equity or management position in the company. Business-to-business products need professional investors.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

The last fundraising we did was use to prove out our technology, and weve now had head-to-head competition with our competitors and others in the space to prove out our technology, our unique capabilities, and our unique approach to solving this problem. Were also scaling up our product for our current technology.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

BlackTech Week was created in 2014, and in four short years, they’ve gained over 2700 participants, 150 speakers, and 3 pitch competitions. Founded in 2013, digitalundivided leads high potential Black and Latino women founders through the startup pipeline with a focus on knowledge, research and community.

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2019

These things are clearly good for morale, but its not so clear that they translate into a competitive advantage. These authors present 20+ years of research, including case studies and metrics, showing how culture really makes or breaks your business. Measuring and tuning culture is an iterative process, integrating business results.

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Competition Coach Case Study Statistics 76

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2012

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. Obviously, it must be grounded by the characteristics of the market and customers you choose to serve, the pricing model of existing competitors, and a strategy you believe is consistent with your future products and direction. Cost-based model.

Pricing 112

Pricing Competition Customer Custom 112

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap.

Marketing 97

Marketing Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review 97

socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

If you look at the numbers from Comscore, we are doing about half the number of uniques that Maker is doing, but we''re doing it with only five channels, versus their 50 thousands channels. Is there a lot of competition for the rights to all of that content? Is there a lot of competition for the rights to all of that content?

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Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 29, 2019

Once general tools used to manage daily operations, they’re now major sources of competitive advantage. Today, the right network connection can increase productivity, mitigate risk, and improve security. but they all contain five key characteristics: ¹. Use Dedicated Internet Access to Improve Productivity and Facilitate Growth.

Networking 54

Networking Demand Competition Organization 54

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

One of the toughest decisions for a startup is how to price their product or service. Obviously, it must be grounded by the characteristics of the market and customers you choose to serve, the pricing model of existing competitors, and a strategy you believe is consistent with your future products and direction. Product line pricing.

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Startup Pricing Customer Custom 114

Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2023

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. Well, here is one of those, and it deals with market research first and foremost. But wait for the mic drop… [Email readers, continue here…] Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment.

Competition 156

Competition Research Summary Pricing 156

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2015

According to Urban Dictionary , hype is “a clever marketing strategy where a product is advertised as the thing everyone must have, to the point where people begin to feel they need to consume it.” Here are the five key phases: Innovation trigger. Plateau of productivity. Where is your solution in the hype cycle?

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Startup Marketing Entrepreneur Social Network 97

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Competition and sustainable advantage. Solution and benefits.

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Competition Metrics Startup Invest 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

That happens in just a five minute process. It took a while to do market research, but we ended up starting an app for law. Once we got our MVP up and running, we started doing research on this and went and raised around $150,000 to $180,000, for a total of under a quarter million from various people.

Help 240

Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Our owned and operated product has 60 million monthly unique visitors in the U.S. How big is YP? Louis and Atlanta.

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Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 223

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Starting an entrepreneurial business, or maintaining the competitiveness of a mature business, requires innovation. Many product innovations come from quality improvement focuses, like the Japanese Kaizen initiative. The focus must be on five discovery skills of associating, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting.

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Organization Ideas Technical Review Research 53

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Our owned and operated product had 60 million unique visitors in the U.S. How big is YP.com? Louis and Atlanta.

Technical Review 211

Technical Review Glendale Advertising Google 211

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2017

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap.

Tips 75

Tips Marketing Technical Review Startup 75

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Every plan must start with the problem you are solving, not a description of your company and product. This is not the place for a detailed product specification, but an explanation of how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Competition and sustainable advantage. Solution and benefits.

Competition 116

Competition Metrics Startup Sales 116

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2014

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Tips Marketing Entrepreneur 103

socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2014

There''s also the rising cost of manufacturing overseas in China and elsewhere, and a desire to keep iterating products locally. That makes local manufacturing relevant, particularly for smaller production runs. is leading the way in advancing manufacturing technology, with more automation, and more productivity. Also, the U.S.

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Los Angeles Startup USC Angel 216

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

With public interest in artificial intelligence technologies on the rise, five of the world’s largest corporations—vying against each other in so many spheres—are banding together to support research on the ethical and societal issues raised by machines with increasingly human-like capabilities.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Technical Advisors Research 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. Like any sale you first need to plan your “prospects” and qualify whether or not they’d be a good fit for your product?—?an Same with VC.

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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. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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.Net Metrics Competition Template 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2013

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Learn to speak a new customer-specific dialect based on current research and homework. Don’t fall into the marketing-speak trap.

Startup 103

Startup Marketing Social Media Technical Review 103

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

Al Eisaian: We spent all of 2009 doing research with moms, having moms come into our Pasadena office and researching what things they wanted in the app. Al Eisaian: This time, I didn't build the product and then go test it. Instead, I actually go the users I wanted engaged right off the bat, in the product development stage.

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Mobile .Net Pasadena Software Review 168

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Even if you know your product/service suite down cold, understand the strengths/weaknesses of the competition, and have built pro forma financials that are sane. According to XYZ Research, 30,000 people expressed a desire for Widget. The latest market research is crucial – but choose carefully. What does that mean?

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