Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2023

Serious investors, on the other hand, look for a professional business plan or summary first, and hardly ever look at the product plan. Now let’s talk about the basic components of a business plan. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. Provide details on the business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

As a business consultant with experience in large companies as well as startups, I often hear about dysfunctional management hierarchies, as well as the value provided by exceptional ones. We have all heard about the successes of flattened management organizations in the last decade at Facebook, Valve, Zappos, and others.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Keeping up with the competition: You’re a market leader in a fast-growing field. An interesting side note: During our Q and As with dev teams, we often end up having conversations around issues that they haven’t even thought about. Detailed Findings: For each of the areas in the executive summary, we provide the details.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2013

The best advocates do this because they care about you as a person, not because of personal aspirations. The trailblazer is not overly competitive, but always is a few steps ahead and enjoys setting an example that you are inspired by, or motivated to follow. Workship - Trailblazer. Workships and friendships can’t be forced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2023

If you sold your last startup for $800 million, you probably already know how to build a business, and even conservative investors won’t worry about the quality of your next business plan.

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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. As such, the primary goal of your executive summary is to open the door to an in-person meeting. Entrepreneurs routinely seek my advice regarding their executive summaries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The best advocates do this because they care about you as a person, not because of personal aspirations. The trailblazer is not overly competitive, but always is a few steps ahead and enjoys setting an example that you are inspired by, or motivated to follow. Workship - Trailblazer. Workships and friendships can’t be forced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. As with real estate, it’s still about location, location, location. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Here is a summary of each: Complementary strengths allows extended market penetration. In many cases, the products from competitive companies are complementary, or many customers are natural candidates for both. Think about your core values and priorities, and look only at potential partners who have the same culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2023

Don’t immediately talk about your business problems or needs, but get acquainted first with common connections or even non-work topics or hobbies. I always suggest that you offer a summary of your business and personal background as a level-set for finding common ground in a relationship, and setting a basis for future sharing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

Serious investors, on the other hand, look for a professional business plan or summary first, and hardly ever look at the product plan. Now let’s talk about the basic components of a business plan. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. Provide details on the business model.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2015

But the bigger truth is the competition is important. More consumers and businesses will hear about our solutions and want to learn more. ” In summary: The competitors are the incumbents. Healthy competition keeps you on your toes. I still believe in competition. What mistakes do people make?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

And it’s not infrequent where somebody mentions a market I’m thinking about and I think, “didn’t I just see company x, y, z nine months ago who was playing in this space?” If it’s in a link in an email with an expired link you can certainly stop a VC from thinking about you again but I’m not sure how that furthers your agenda.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2011

I found a good summary of the relevant keys to business operational excellence in a new book by Faisal Hoque, called “ The Power of Convergence.” Continuous innovation to maintain your competitive advantage does not mean that you can ignore current architectures and standards. billion during the same period.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Rolf Winkler wrote a piece in the WSJ about A16Z’s returns in which he says they “lag behind Sequoia, Benchmark and Founders Fund.” What about those RETURNS the WSJ article spoke of? In the article it talks about Sequoia’s $19 billion sale of WhatsApp to Facebook that generated apparently $3 billion for Sequoia and its shareholders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Bloom is a widely known expert on managing business growth, and he starts by summarizing the three key weapons of current customers, which include an instant summary of choices, prices, and features. This new world is all about empowered customers. Bloom’s classic book, “ The New Experts: Win Today's Newly Empowered Customers.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

Describe technology and features, not competitiveness. Customers think about alternatives, and investors worry about competitors. For investors, an executive summary of your plan is appropriate. The best hook for snagging an investor is a succinct definition of a real problem, followed by your unique solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The best advocates do this because they care about you as a person, not because of personal aspirations. The trailblazer is not overly competitive, but always is a few steps ahead and enjoys setting an example that you are inspired by, or motivated to follow. Workship - Trailblazer. Workships and friendships can’t be forced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Change is about the only thing constant in the world of startups. The solution is to establish and maintain a culture and processes that don’t view change as a discrete event to be spotted and managed, but as an ongoing opportunity to improve competitiveness. In summary, change will happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

These will put your proposal in the circular file, and even future good opportunities from you may go to the bottom of my list: “Give me a call to hear about an opportunity that can’t fail.” Talking about competitors should be your opportunity to make positive statements about the advantages of your own product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2021

If you sold your last startup for $800 million, you probably already know how to build a business, and even conservative investors won’t worry about the quality of your next business plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Here are some observations I have from this exposure: If a company moves from strength-to-strength with predictable outcomes, easy financings, low staff turn-over, limited competitive threats then the composition of the board probably doesn’t matter as much. Summary: Making Your Board More Effective Chose the right members.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

It is the bane of every startups existence because it takes up so much time, it is so competitive to sign people and it feels like unproductive time because it’s not moving the ball forward on product, engineering, sales, marketing, biz dev, fund raising. Recruiting. Set up calls for VCs to welcome her to the team.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

He conveyed his message in various ways, but the most memorable was a piece of literature he had them read called The Mouse Driver Chronicles , a true story about two Wharton MBA roommates who passed on their big salary job offers and followed the dream to launch their own business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. It’s also one of the most accountable, with in-depth data provided by search engines about performance. Social-media advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Begin by asking more questions and being more curious about everyone you meet, their journey, experiences, and what they can teach you. In summary, perseverance is essential in the workplace because it allows you to continue working towards your goals even when things get tough, and they will get tough.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2011

Paige is a gifted communicator and my summary does not do him justice. He offers a number of worthwhile tips and tricks that I was not able to capture in the textual summary, so the 14-minute audio file is well worth your time. What follows is a summary which paraphrases Paige’s responses. Click here to listen to the Audio File.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2023

Here is a summary of their key observations, with our joint specifics on what to expect, and how to overcome these obstacles: Customers don’t buy what they don’t know and understand. Every customer has a sense of what a solution should cost, based on competition, and the cost of doing nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Here is a summary of their key observations, with our joint specifics on what to expect, and how to overcome these obstacles: Customers don’t buy what they don’t know and understand. Every customer has a sense of what a solution should cost, based on competition, and the cost of doing nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

I was impressed with his summary of the top ten outsourcing mistakes made by entrepreneurs, followed by real guidance on how they can and should be avoided. As with real estate, it’s still about location, location, location. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should. He’s thoughtful about markets, investors, products and is always very well reasoned in his arguments. He and I once took different sides of an debate about whether “VC signaling&# in early-stage deals is a serious problem or not.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Internally at Upfront Ventures we talk about “high consensus” vs. controversial deals with “high conviction.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2019

If you are a business professional or owner today, success is more and more about relationships. Here is a summary of the barriers we both still see all too often in the business world, with some thoughts on how to overcome them: Many fear human limits in number of relationships. Make the investment today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

These will put your proposal in the circular file, and even future good opportunities from you may go to the bottom of my list: “Give me a call to hear about an opportunity that can’t fail.” Talking about competitors should be your opportunity to make positive statements about the advantages of your own product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. It’s also one of the most accountable, with in-depth data provided by search engines about performance. Social-media advertising.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about “ growth hacking ” and why I thought it was wrong that people were hating on the term unnecessarily. Link has a summary of his argument plus a great video). I was talking with a colleague once about how videos go viral. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple.

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