Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, many investors I know tell me they look for business plans that allocate the largest portion of a requested investment to marketing, but most often see the top “ use of funds ” to be further product or service development. Of course, you can’t possibly brand yourself if you don’t know who you really are.

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MAY 27, 2016

Of course I also have to the concept. I love businesses that aim to massively reduce the costs of products or services in a way that makes a product or service vastly more accessibility and in which incumbents would have a hard time competing. I like over communicators who err on the side of transparency and candor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Of course, it’s never quite that simple, but I really like the authors outline of the six key building blocks that have driven Amazon growth since their early days, to keep their current market value hovering around a trillion dollars. Incorporate AI-powered data and metrics systems. Jeff Bezos has kept his focus on customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Some objections are real and they end up becoming changes to your product, your service plan or your pricing / bundling. As a founder, when you’ve been dealing with these kinds of objections for a couple of years it becomes natural and you easily handle objections on price, product & competition without much thought.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Each of these can go astray as follows: Your product or service hits unexpected snags. Of course, there are no guarantees, but I still see otherwise smart entrepreneurs taking shortcuts in their hiring, or jumping into business relationships based on emotion or low cost. Keep your plan updated, and don’t be caught off guard.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Netflix as a service has always prided itself on movie recommendations that are tailored specifically to you plus user ratings on the quality of films. The big price increase : 5 out of 5 stars. Some customer segments value the DVD business and these may be more price sensitive. Of course the press is going to roast you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And then they said one thing that most marketers go their whole career never hearing, 'Listen Steve, price is irrelevant, it is speed that matters.' We had been pricing our graphics cards to be a low-cost provider. The first thing I did was raise our prices.". Marketing, number one, is a service function.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

They can help you with pricing. A great CFO will make sure you’re accurately measuring your CAC (along with a great marketer, of course) and your LTV. The full financial details and metrics were in the deck. Establishing Metrics & Monitoring Success (or Failures). Another thing entrepreneurs f**k up?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge. Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Managing business growth is more than metrics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

Of course, these should never be in a customer pitch, but investors expect an overall strategy with specific budgets, milestones and metrics. Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included. “If In my experience, the team's credentials are more important than the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

By profit, I simply mean offering a product or service to customers for a price that exceeds the total costs associated with the solution, thus providing some basis for recovering sunk costs and generating a return for stakeholders. Investors look for sales at full price, to people you don’t know, to validate demand, price, and margin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2013

Make sure the inspiration that launched your vision isn’t lost in the course of a pivot or market change. Of course, you may need to realign that vision to your team, your investors, and all the other players. Re-evaluate processes as they are today and set metrics to better represent the new sales, operational, and service needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2012

Make sure the inspiration that launched your vision isn’t lost in the course of a pivot or market change. Of course, you may need to realign that vision to your team, your investors, and all the other players. Re-evaluate processes as they are today and set metrics to better represent the new sales, operational, and service needs.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Tara Weingarten: We had no metrics when we started, and even now, we had a big week with 1900 uniques on one day. In whatever career you are in, just in the course of your business people see your work, and see if you're good or not at what you do. How did you manage that? We decided there is no need for that.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 2, 2010

There were no price guides, standardized rating systems or baseball card stores. In addition, rigid grading systems were established by professional grading services. The advent of investors and grading services drove up the demand for near-perfect cards while suppressing the value of all other cards. from the Wharton School.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

It’s usually a spreadsheet or PowerPoint (deck) of the upcoming changes to a product or service. We have customers from so many different industries like software, financial services, healthcare, and media. Semick: We’re a very metrics driven company, and we have been from the beginning. Of course there are risks.

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Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2018

Workers are seeking destinations that are large, tech-friendly, on the rise, and — of course — have a lower cost of living, even if not a particularly low one. percent of the service’s local users actively searching for a new residence elsewhere. their final destinations understandably tend to meet a more familiar template.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. But some events you dont get quality attendees and then its a drag to drive that far. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. It’s a pain that we’ve all experienced with “4-6 hour” delivery windows and prehistoric online, tracking, and customer service experiences. Mandarin Chinese will be launching soon. Look out for this company.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Of course, when you’re talking about enabling/emerging technologies, as Brock Pierce puts it, “Market timing is critical to success.” Even with Google, the creators might not even realize what the hidden potentials are for their products and services. What’s important here is that the data is being collected.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2014

To cap off our 6th year at SXSW and follow up on last year’s amazingly successful Trend Lounge , we knew this year had to be bigger, better, more engaging, and of course, even more fun. Erin Chase – Favado , combining price comparisons with grocery shopping. Setting the Stage : The Indiegogo/TechZulu Tech Cafe.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

For those patient enough to source great companies at reasonable prices and prepared to weather the next inevitable downturn, I believe firmly there will be economic rewards for discipline and patience. They compete on features, price and execution. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2013

It''s a line from an old movie "Field of Dreams" which is still leading to the demise of too many startups, led by entrepreneurs who really started their business to build an exciting new product or service. Of course, for a price, there are many marketing organizations and gurus willing to come to your aid.

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