Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2017

I can’t change who your board members are so let me offer some thoughts on how to make your interactions with your board more productive. Of course it’s not required and many don’t do it. Most investors want to enquire about a few operating metics and this type of discussion is less productive in a group setting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Entrepreneurs have no trouble focusing on how to build a product, and the good ones know how to find and nurture those first critical customers. Of course, everyone is happy when the numbers keep going up, but the data needs to be mined constantly for deeper meanings and trends. Operating productivity. Size of gross margin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2015

Image via Flickr by SideWages.com These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. Win with engaging contests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

To make this work, you need heavy traffic on your site -- probably at least a million page views per month -- which most sites never achieve in their lifetimes. While you are doing all this work, of course, you need deep pockets to fund all your efforts, content and growing website hosting fees.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 3, 2022

It's no secret that a lot of people in America (and worldwide) were forced into some pretty unfavorable conditions over the course of the pandemic, and that's not to mention the millions of people who were already in under-served communities. They're selling 3D printers, but not at the outrageous prices that they used to be known for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 29, 2010

That said, when a customer posts on Facebook that you should lower your prices by 50%, perhaps this is not something you should spend too much time on. However, if your customers don’t post anything at all, good or bad, perhaps your pricing is too high overall. I hunted for their Twitter handle and their Facebook page.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. Gilead Sciences has been a target of drug-price criticism for its hepatitis C treatments, but it dialed back the price of its new one.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

If you look at what you go through, starting high school, and maybe even middle or grade school, you go through your educational life managing courses, relationships with your teachers, and relationships with your parents. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2011

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. Of course, there is a plethora of “experts” emerging out there, who are anxious to lead you down that path, for a large price. But most entrepreneurs don’t know where to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Sure, there are examples of Founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule. In any case, an entrepreneur in one who likes to build new products or services, and works ON their company, while a public business executive works IN the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

Of course that’s true. I felt this myself as we went from a few founders huddled into a tiny room to the front page of the Financial Times, an influx of VC interest, magazine covers, invitations to high-profile events and the pressures of trying to live up to this perception and the economic opportunities everybody expected.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Sure, there are examples of founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule. In any case, an entrepreneur in one who likes to build new products or services, and works ON their company, while a public business executive works IN the company.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Let’s face it– between finalizing your product for launch and working with developers to get the site or app up (or maybe you are a developer yourself), a marketing strategy, big or small, can feel like a bad hangover the same morning you need to go into work. Go here for a free crash-course on design for non-designers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

Sure, there are examples of founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule. In any case, an entrepreneur in one who likes to build new products or services, and works ON their company, while a public business executive works IN the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

A poorly understood value proposition causes false starts, lost time, costly mid course corrections and general frustration for all stakeholders involved. Once we understand the target customer and value proposition, we need to know how many of these customers exist and how often they will buy the company’s products or services.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” But the company insists it will stay the course with its lead product, a T cell-based cancer immunotherapy called CTL019 that Novartis could present for regulatory approval if current trials go well. biodefense agency known as BARDA has contracted with … Next Page » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The FDA agreed this summer to reorganize the way it evaluates drugs, diagnostics, and other cancer-related products. But is there a danger of relying too heavily just on genomics to determine the course of a patient’s treatment? X : You don’t think that sequencing prices will come down enough?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. He went out and found a developer and built a product.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

landing pages, etc. It's a comprehensive program with national sales training, HTML emails, a very cool interactive Flash landing page about the 8 ways to save, brochure and presentation for the sales people, extending reach via social media, etc. Personally: I grew up all over the world because my Dad was in the U.S.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Celgene paid Acetylon $100 million in 2013 for an option to buy the company outright, but the deal recently expired without an acquisition, leaving Acetylon to chart a new course. . —Option-to-buy deals are by definition no guarantee, and an agreement between Boston-based Acetylon Pharmaceuticals and Celgene is the latest example.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

To learn more about all the companies, be sure to visit 500 Startups’ official demo day page. Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. Harnessing more energy from our grid by emphasizing efficiency, not increased factory and power production. Look out for this company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

Instead of following a proscribed course which may lead nowhere, entrepreneurial leaders such a Thiel are sparking a change in the way we think about success. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free. Thiel is providing his mentees with capital to make their startups a reality.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

That is, of course, as long as what you are selling is the absolute best in your market.) Typically entrepreneurs doubt themselves because they undervalue their offerings, but it isn’t about creating a product, setting a price and hoping people will buy. Valu e and Exp erience versus Price and Product.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. So what’s exciting about this new product? This product is literally too good to pass up. Of course, eventually, these filters will be ruined by marketers the same way everything else is.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

And of course, the fines are astronomical. Think of the advertisements that follow you around various sites for days and weeks after you visit the first site and look for a product.) Most of us create our data stores to identify trends both geographic and product-based, stripping individual contact data from the mix. (But

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business. Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. 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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The sign up page for the event is here & there is limited availability. It is intended for product & tech people – mostly people who want to build cool stuff on the Twitter platform and it will showcase some really cool stuff that has been built on Twitter. .” But of course not everybody has.

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