Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

To legally facilitate startups who want to give top priority to socially conscious solutions, thirty-five states, starting with Maryland way back in 2010, have passed legislation allowing incorporation as a Benefit Corporation (B-Corp). Of course, investors still require a profitable business model, and the potential for high returns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. MySpace, for example, boomed after launch for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Los Angeles is the capital of on-demand apps, for just about anything you want. One of those areas that combines LA's passion for on-demand apps, and its active lifestyle, is Fitspot (www.fitspotapp.com), which brings athletic trainers to you or your local fitness center. What is Fitspot? How did you start the company? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

It also starts with a good summary of the intangibles, summarized as the five rules of relevancy, by Mark Zawacki: A startup needs to be relevant and stay relevant. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 8, 2021

It took $150 million and five iterations for TAE Technologies to get to Norman, its national laboratory scale fusion device. ” TAE Technologies Michl Binderbauer standing next to the company’s novel fusion reactor. Image Credit: TAE Technologies. Follow the sun.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

I can think of at least five ways that this benefits the business, as well as customers: Products in a purpose culture more readily sell at a premium price. Evidence is growing that consumers are willing to pay at least a small premium for sustainability, and have started to demand a discount for “un-sustainability.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. When a product is truly unique and demanded a retailer willingly promotes and sells it en masse in part because it does get margin on the good but also because it brings customers in the door who spend on other products. What is it, really? Get Physical!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Most entrepreneurs avoid setting up a board of directors for their new business unless or until they sign up an investor who demands a seat on the board. Of course, if the board is set up or used incorrectly, the impact can indeed be more negative than positive. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth. Size does matter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Of course, you need to listen for biases, but local angel group leaders can quickly tell you who the bad angels and good angels are, and what kind of terms they typically demand. The investment community in any geographic area is not that large, and most investors have relationships or knowledge of most of the others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2015

If you are like most entrepreneurs I know, there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get all your own work done, as well as run the many one-hour meetings each team member seems to demand for decisions and mentoring. Five-minute meetings cannot be five minutes of anyone talking.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 13, 2016

So when do we know which course to take? And if that new strategy is proved to be true, the five–hundred–pound gorilla in that niche just moved out of the way of many of its smaller competitors, leaving a market that will surely see a scramble of new competition in the near future. At least that is the conventional wisdom.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 26, 2019

The percentage of employees who are high at work has increased 60% over the past five years, moving up from just 9.7 The runner-up was “to help pass the time,” at 36 percent, and “to cope with the demands of the job,” at 28.7 One interesting fact revealed by the results? percent to an impressive 15.7

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socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

The agenda expanded to 70 panels and sessions over five days, 25 startups pitching at the Startup Showcase, as well as 10 parties, 7 beach games and even one pool party, all to increase networking opportunities. Silicon Beach Fest 2014 attracted more than 2,000 attendees, with more than 350 speakers, of which more than one third were women.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2015

I can think of at least five ways that this benefits the business, as well as customers: Products in a purpose culture more readily sell at a premium price. Evidence is growing that consumers are willing to pay at least a small premium for sustainability, and have started to demand a discount for “un-sustainability.”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2019

Those airport drone incursions shut down Gatwick over the course of three days, which caused major delays at Heathrow and Newark. Unlike the number of drones out there, there are really only about sixteen different protocols out there, and over 95 percent of the drones in use encapsulate about five of those protocols.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2019

It also starts with a good summary of the intangibles, summarized as the five rules of relevancy, by Mark Zawacki: A startup needs to be relevant and stay relevant. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Creators can take any course of interest on-demand by purchasing it through our website. How does it work? Take us through your features?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

With his wealth of business experience and expertise as a top economic development consultant, he confirms my own view that the top five myths in starting a new business commonly include the following: You have to be able to do every job in your business. You have to pay big salaries to get top-notch help.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 23, 2016

In other circumstances the five-day workshop, scheduled this fall at George Washington University in the nation’s capital, might go unnoticed among the sea of executive training programs offered every day. Participants will also be paired with coaches and will network for board seats after the course is over.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I can think of at least five ways that this benefits the business, as well as customers: Products in a purpose culture more readily sell at a premium price. Evidence is growing that consumers are willing to pay at least a small premium for sustainability, and have started to demand a discount for “un-sustainability.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

These are companies that not only have a familiar brand, but carry from five to 35 billion dollar valuations. Of course, in a world which spawns over a half million startups every month, these accomplishments are very rare, but they are happening like never before. Today, time is your scarcest resource in a new venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2014

I can think of at least five ways that this benefits the business, as well as customers: Products in a purpose culture more readily sell at a premium price. Evidence is growing that consumers are willing to pay at least a small premium for sustainability, and have started to demand a discount for “un-sustainability.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

Of course there’s no exact number of VCs you should meet?—?these People who believe the former believe that you should see the market demand before too many people know you’re “in market.” As a VC I of course want you to come see only me because that means I have no competition and have time to properly get to know you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s not clear that there was big customer demand for some of these products yet entrepreneurs were egged on by VCs to “take the money&# and try and push the market. Will (many more) millions help you get five years into one?&#. In the end, of course, our productivity actually suffered. This is total bullshit.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

We launched Docstore about four or five months ago with a number of premium partners, including LegalZoom, CareerPress, LegalAcreements.com, and others, and now we are opening up the marketplace so that virtually anyone can sell high quality, professional content. There is a huge demand from people, who have gone there to buy products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2015

Most entrepreneurs avoid setting up a board of directors for their new business unless or until they sign up an investor who demands a seat on the board. Of course, if the board is set up or used incorrectly, the impact can indeed be more negative than positive. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth. Size does matter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Of course, growth and development are really a continuum. Yet most investors will tend to categorize your progress into one of the following five stages: Idea stage. Typically, they must also change and tune their executive team, to keep up with the increasing demands of a growing company on process discipline and sustainable success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2013

It also starts with a good summary of the intangibles, summarized as the five rules of relevancy, by Mark Zawacki: A startup needs to be relevant and stay relevant. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2012

Montgomery, which does a great job of laying out specifics, but also starts with a good summary of the intangibles, summarized as the five rules of relevancy, by Mark Zawacki: A startup needs to be relevant and stay relevant. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The integration of massively open online courses (MOOCs) makes strategic sense, which is likely why LinkedIn acquired Lynda for $1.5 The average cost per webinar ranges from $39-59 with longer online courses (2-8 weeks) landing somewhere between $99-799. making connections, looking for jobs, staying up on news, etc.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2016

It also starts with a good summary of the intangibles, summarized as the five rules of relevancy, by Mark Zawacki: A startup needs to be relevant and stay relevant. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Strange course corrections. Demands on your time. If you raise an angel round consisting of five investors who put in $100K each, that’s five people you have to answer to. Five phone calls every time things change direction, or something bad/good happens. Don’t ever take dumb money, even if you are starving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2018

Of course, initially these founder’s shares were worth essentially nothing, but it doesn’t take much of an imagination to grasp the possibilities. Investors typically demand preferred stock to give them more control and first payouts, but these advantages can be at least partially offset (up to 20 percent) if you plan ahead.

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