Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2020

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not include a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or a new size smart phone. Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Of course, entrepreneurs delivering services have existed for some time, including business consultant, independent contractor, and freelancer titles. Software Development Professional. Even the education system is starting to recognize this, with entrepreneurial courses and majors springing up in every university across the world.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 19, 2011

This series describes how entrepreneurs can craft company-changing agreements with BDCs, while avoiding Kiss of Death contract provisions. A more complicated negotiating point involves IP that is created in the course of the parties’ collaboration. Get The Cheese With Your Neck Intact. Do Not Execute an Ambiguous Statement of Work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Work out of your home, and keep your own books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. A three-dimensional prototype is always better than just a documented specification when negotiating contracts for manufacturing, support, and marketing. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

Of course, entrepreneurs delivering services have existed for some time, including business consultant, independent contractor, and freelancer titles. Software Development Professional. Even the education system is starting to recognize this, with entrepreneurial courses and majors springing up in every university across the world.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

Of course, we are speaking of increased valuation of your company when we speak of “wealth.” Any new enterprise is at risk if there are not enough resources to get the company to breakeven, which is a proxy for stability. So, let’s examine them and mitigate them. Make you wealthy someday. The carrot and the stick.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. You will make mistakes.

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Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media Equity 124

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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2015

Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. A three-dimensional prototype is always better than just a documented specification when negotiating contracts for manufacturing, support, and marketing. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control. What did he know?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancelled it’s contract to allow DataSift to resell Twitter data to 3rd parties. But of course customers will have to do some technical work to migrate products and will lose DataSift functionality that Twitter / Gnip does not possess directly. You might ask yourself why?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. ” Climate resiliency .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. HR & Legal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2014

Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. A three-dimensional prototype is always better than just a documented specification when negotiating contracts for manufacturing, support, and marketing. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Don’t spend your whole development budget, before finding that you need another iteration. A three-dimensional prototype is always better than just a documented specification when negotiating contracts for manufacturing, support, and marketing. You should never outsource the management of your core technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 108

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2013

Generally speaking, cost accounting describes a wide variety of systems and processes for collecting financial data which is then analyzed, summarized, and used to create alternative courses of action. Marketing is key in helping you to develop long-term, strategic plans that can stop your cash drain. Set Your Budgeting Goals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2016

For example, at any given moment in your business, you may be limited by development, marketing, or sales. Evaluate outsourcing as a quick solution to break the constraint. Of course, they all prefer cash, but some may work for future revenue or startup equity. Investigate strategic alliance alternatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

Of course, entrepreneurs delivering services have existed for some time, including business consultant, independent contractor, and freelancer titles. Software Development Professional. Even the education system is starting to recognize this, with entrepreneurial courses and majors springing up in every university across the world.

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Entrepreneur Startup Mentor Social Media 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Work out of your home, and keep your own books.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Commerce 104

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Buffer your projected resource requirements. Be a miser with contract services and facilities. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory. You will make mistakes.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 105

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In a new startup, there is tremendous competitive value in registering intellectual property early, but you don’t need to contract these tasks to expensive experts any longer. Skip the costs of payroll, office equipment and employee benefits by using remote contract services and low-cost freelancers available online.

Startup 108

Startup Search Engine Optimization Social Media Outsource Development 108

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

Of course, entrepreneurs delivering services have existed for some time, including business consultant, independent contractor, and freelancer titles. Software Development Professional. Even the education system is starting to recognize this, with entrepreneurial courses and majors springing up in every university across the world.

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Services Startup Social Media 56

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

And of course the most successful technology companies: Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com [duh], Oracle, Microsoft all have loads of sales people. Why would you have your most important success factor (successful implementations) outsourced to a third-party where you don’t control quality and who is strictly mercenary (i.e.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. And of course in my 700 are people like Bill Gates and Barack Obama, neither of whom follows me just yet Asymmetric works both ways.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. Do it yourself and barter for services. It’s too easy, and it bites you in the end.

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Startup Outsource Development Development Team Review Equity 92

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. These are very different.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2010

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not require a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or even the Apple iPad. Other countries can provide e-commerce with different business models, outsource manufacturing at low cost, and a huge market for new products.

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Startup Outsource Development Outsource Course 82

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. Do it yourself and barter for services. It’s too easy, and it bites you in the end.

Startup 92

Startup Outsource Development Development Team Review Equity 92

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 5, 2016

Selling new products, opening new markets outsourcing business functions and every other decision affects the bottom line. It is essential to establish control over the process to be certain that it follows the model’s designed course. The success or failure of every business is determined by its management’s decisions.

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Software Review Technical Review .Net Outsource Development 40

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. And of course Foundry Group is the original masters of this with perfectly organized ambassador trips to Boulder. It creates a feeder system of local businesses that get their first biz dev deals or sales contracts.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At both companies, I was the head of Finance, Human Resources, and I managed all of our legal needs (as described in Roping In The Legal Eagles ). In addition to these utility roles, I also lead revenue generation: managing direct sales, business development and online sales. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2015

Almost the instant the concept of the sharing economy was introduced, it has skyrocketed into hundreds of successful and established brands by offering everyone a chance to be their own boss, and others the ability to outsource needs saving time by providing convenience.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. of course there are MUCH more sophisticated financial tools than either of these, but PEG is a short-hand many people use]. million contract over two years. Investors value growth.

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