Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

Influencers are recognized experts and pseudo celebrities who can pick favorite products or start new trends. These days, a popular approach is to create a “pop-up” store or “flash mob” event in the midst of another gathering, like a Super Bowl, to get attention and scaling for your brand. Make it a memorable experience for all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Studies have shown that work productivity is related to a happier work culture , and customer satisfaction and loyalty are also dependent on the culture. Use marketing, blogging, and industry conferences to get the message out. Newer collaboration platforms, such as Zoom and the Cloud, are a step up from your legacy internal platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2020

This is the confirmation that your product or service fills a real need in the marketplace. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

Satisfaction 174

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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. Start with a service you know and love. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

What's the secret to creating a profitable, successful, physical subscription based business--and to do that at the scale of large, consumer product goods (CPGs) companies? xWe spoke with a few companies in the recurring revenue area space, ahead of the Recurring Revenue Conference ([link] which we are helping to sponsor next week.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

This year, we're again sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. listen to them to iterate our product, and that's how we get buy-in from our customers. Lots of startups talk about trying to outsource all their customer support.

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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. Start with a service you know and love. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Better safe than sorry.

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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. Start with a service you know and love. Capture your “secret sauce.”

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. You’re a small fish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2014

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Better safe than sorry.

Startup 107

Startup Venture Capital Slides Outsource 107

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology. A great technical LinkedIn profile is a good start, but not enough to assure success in your environment. A business startup is not an academic environment, or a big company research organization.

Technology 87

Technology High Tech Startup Social Media 87

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2016

This is the confirmation that your product or service fills a real need in the marketplace. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

Satisfaction 61

Satisfaction Startup Customer Custom 61

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This movement, coupled with free websites and apps, makes it possible for almost any technical person to start a business. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. Countless startup teams have already been spawned from these.

Ideas 61

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2014

Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology. A great technical LinkedIn profile is a good start, but not enough to assure success in your environment. A business startup is not an academic environment, or a big company research organization.

High Tech 103

High Tech Entrepreneur Startup Social Media 103

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2019

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Better safe than sorry.

Slides 85

Slides Outsource Summary Conference 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2015

This is the confirmation that your product or service fills a real need in the marketplace. Similarly, it will be very satisfying to see the productivity increases from your leadership and mentoring. Even with the perfect product, your customers won’t even know you exist without marketing. Increasing customer focus and loyalty.

Satisfaction 101

Satisfaction Entrepreneur Customer Custom 101

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2016

Startups succeed most often when the founding partners know how to build and run a business, rather than how to build and run technology. A great technical LinkedIn profile is a good start, but not enough to assure success in your environment. A business startup is not an academic environment, or a big company research organization.

High Tech 58

High Tech Startup Social Media Entrepreneur 58

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

These kind of companies were seldom startups. I’ve spoken to many of these “outbound dialers&# and in almost all cases they said it was “a necessary evil&# to get into the trade rather than a “worthwhile experience&# in which they learned a great deal about entrepreneurship, startups or any given industry.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Email Equity 294

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2017

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Better safe than sorry.

Funding 60

Funding Slides Outsource Summary 60

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Better safe than sorry.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Slides Outsource Summary 94

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Better safe than sorry.

Slides 95

Slides Outsource Summary Conference 95

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2010

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Don’t insist on a product demo – he is buying the business, not the product. Better safe than sorry.

Entrepreneur 86

Entrepreneur Slides Outsource Summary 86

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. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

Frank Addante

AUGUST 2, 2006

► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ► June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ► May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital Web 2.0 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ▼ June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ► May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Startup 40

Startup Technical Review Software Review Advertising 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. Or more precisely the people espousing the benefits of distributed startups teams are often distributed and therefore self rationalizing it. Been there.

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Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335