Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

First, a quick summary of the major U.S. Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC) , that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. Gronbach is well-known for his generational research and keen forecasting of societal trends.

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Demand Startup Course Summary 103

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As a summary, crowdfunding today can mean any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model. Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned. Donation good-cause model.

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Funding Startup Outsource Development Satisfaction 141

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

In summary, the best product or service is a full-featured one (deep) that shows you understand customer needs (intelligent), comes with support (complete), makes customers better (empowering), and is easy to use (elegant). Of course, great startup solutions need great teams to implement them.

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Ideas Startup Summary Examples 155

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Design together, the course that introduced the idea for brightblu, they were concurrently taking three other classes: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Marketing and Art of the CEO. These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. Fall quarter of Sr.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

Of course, if you want to be in that number, or you want that number to go up, you have to know how to locate potential investors who fit your profile, requirements, and expectations. That leaves only about fifteen percent that actually get their funding from investors, through crowdfunding, banks, angels, and venture capitalists.

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Statistics Entrepreneur Funding Social Media 98

SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. Correct your course quickly. What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. What's going to go wrong?

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CTO Coach Metrics Framework Software Development 219

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2023

Here is my summary of her insights, with my thoughts added: Strive to make things better by serving others. Of course, the end goal of leadership by influence is to get others to willingly engage and follow due to your knowledge, honesty, and heart, rather than because of your title.

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Satisfaction IBM IBM Summary 130

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

Of course, it’s always good to speak with conviction, but marketing terms such as “improved productivity” or “lower cost” won’t make your offering memorable. For investors, an executive summary of your plan is appropriate. Save the story for a later meeting, after the context and value have been driven home.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2021

Of course, if you don’t yet understand all the elements, it’s time to learn. No executive I know writes all his own contracts, but every smart one owns every one that is written for him, and understands every element. An entrepreneur who can’t manage a plan, probably won’t be able to manage the new business.

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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. Of course, relevancy doesn’t work if you don’t have a winning business model. Montgomery, which does a great job of laying out specifics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Bloom is a widely known expert on managing business growth, and he starts by summarizing the three key weapons of current customers, which include an instant summary of choices, prices, and features. Of course, both you and they will make mistakes, which are the best learning experiences. Capitalize on the multiplier moment.

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Customer Custom Startup Course 124

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Of course, if you want to be in that number, or you want that number to go up, you have to know how to locate potential investors who fit your profile, requirements, and expectations. That leaves only about fifteen percent that actually get their funding from investors, through crowdfunding, banks, angels, and venture capitalists.

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Funding Tips Startup Statistics 173

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. Link has a summary of his argument plus a great video). Of course once submitted you could send out links to your friends and ask them to upvote your content and that would help. Of course reciprocity matters so they would all leap into action.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Of course, too many or obnoxious advertisements are especially harmful to a site’s credibility. In summary, a startup with no website, or a website with no credibility will kill your business. Add a modest advertising presence. Join relevant business associations.

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Web Search Engine Optimization eBook Advertising 117

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2021

The specifics of these shortcomings are hard to nail down, but I was impressed with the good summary provided in a new book, “ Make It, Don’t Fake It ,” by Sabrina Horn. Of course, we can all agree that the customer isn’t always right, but it does your brand no good to debate the issue.

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Examples Customer Custom Social Media 170

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

Of course there are people who are great at getting things done, but haven’t had an original idea in their life. Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both.

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Activity Startup Ideas Technical Review 133

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Over the course of the first few months I saw a few people out on the street taking Birds and then a steady uptick in riders. Capital of course drives scale advantages and when you have “winner take most” markets it also has a way of scaring away some investors from investing in the 3–5th “me too” competitors. Are the scooters safe?

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2023

I found a good summary of the bad habits that can cause failures to finish in a recent book, “ How to Finish Everything You Start ,” by Jan Yager. She is an award-winning author who has taught courses on sociology and victimology for many years. She explains the primary reasons and excuses from people who often fail to finish tasks.

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Social Media Training Startup Email 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Of course, they can be renamed and moved, but that may negate the cost and time advantages originally sought. In summary, a reverse merger, or going public through the “normal” IPO process should never be seen as just a way to fund your startup. Reverse mergers may not get your startup on the Nasdaq.

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Funding Summary Entrepreneur Acquisition 104

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Of course, this path involves some risk, but you never get anywhere unless you take a chance. Here is a summary of each: Complementary strengths allows extended market penetration. Startup founders are known for their passion for their startup idea, and for their passion to kill every competitor.

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Startup Outsource Development Examples Customer 173

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

In the beginning, the entrepreneur has to cover all talents, which is made more possible these days by the wealth of information available on the Internet, as well as books and online courses. In summary, whether you are running a startup, a family business, or a famous brand like IBM, you are all part of the jungle.

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Startup News Framework Outsource 112

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

The more you are regularly checking in the more room for course correction or at a minimum the more bought in board members are because they participated in the process. Of course there are times where you do need consent and a vote to be made and these ought to be only the most strategic, existential questions of the company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2022

Here is a summary of key strategies and conversations that both of us agree will help your organization evolve into the adaptive social system your business needs to survive and thrive today: Energize the team around a shared purpose. Resolution comes from reconciling trade-offs and aligning toward competitive advantage.

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Competition Resource Startup Organization 136

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Many of us learned about substitute products in undergrad economics courses. Of course branding is many things and this post doesn’t attempt a master class. We of course all instinctively know when we see a brand that is well established what it stands for?—?Warby Summary It’s hard to build a successful product company?—?even

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Product Course Customer Custom 296

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Not always, of course. One of the questions I used to ask in any recruiting meeting for a senior hire or even a junior sales rep is as follows: “When you run sales campaigns do you prefer to . Call high, and get passed down or; B. But more than junior people.

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Sales Technical Review Organization Case Study 375

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Here is a sample of the reading list for the course that gives you a flavor for just how modern and practical this course is. Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. In Summary.

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Startup Sales Course Competition 319

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Great leaders are able to empower their team members to make autonomous decisions and great leaders know when to empower them versus when to step in and course correct. If they REALLY say something wrong then of course you can politely correct them. Summary : Teams matter. Chances are they do a better job than you think.

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Venture Capital Slides Course Summary 377

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Of course, these new customer-facing strategies shouldn’t preclude you from focusing behind the scenes on reducing costs and broadening your product line to supersede competitors. What you say in your mission statement means nothing unless customers see you and your team living it every day.

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Customer Custom Satisfaction Examples 133

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

” Of course I agree with this. Of course by the next quarter if I felt ripped off I could advocate for 7% or maybe ops requirements needed to be upped to 20% for one quarter. Of course we fancy ourselves as the best sales people in the company. And of course the VP of Sales had the ultimate call.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

First, a quick summary of the major U.S. Everyone is predicting a rise in massive open online courses (MOOC), that will drive the need for new course content, architecture, and delivery approaches. Gronbach is well-known for his generational research and keen forecasting of societal trends.

Demand 83

Demand Startup Course Summary 83

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

But of course great teams build great companies and great startup leaders know that they must always be recruiting. It consumes time and energy and the payoff doesn’t come for a long time. Finally, if possible get your investors involved if it’s a reasonably senior position. Set up calls for VCs to welcome her to the team.

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Press Startup Email Sales 341

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Of course, they can be renamed and moved, but that may negate the cost and time advantages originally sought. In summary, a reverse merger, or going public through the “normal” IPO process should never be seen as just a way to fund your startup. Reverse mergers may not get your startup on the Nasdaq.

Summary 121

Summary Startup Entrepreneur Funding 121

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2014

This is the best way to avoid surprises at your board meeting and the golden rule of board meetings is, of course, no surprises. The day after your board meeting I would recommend you send out an email with a summary of your understanding of the key decisions reached so that it is memorialized. Make sure there are no disputes.

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Startup Summary Email Ideas 325

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Of course not. Of course you need to be open. Of course you shouldn’t f **g buy a house. Our VCs are pretty supportive of us so I feel good about the future but of course you know I could never say for sure that they’ll fund us going forward. Of course I could go on and on. CEO transparency.

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Startup Course Venture Capital Writing 417

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

And of course there are always the ineffective boards that have too many members, too many +1’s that speak up, too many customers on the board making it hard to discuss difficult issues. Summary: Making Your Board More Effective Chose the right members.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Even if you follow this game plan meticulously your board meeting can be taken off course by well-intentioned board members who lead you down a rate hole. Of course there are some sensible introductions that are valuable. Here’s how it happens … 1. Topic Creep. I resist this whenever possible.

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Startup Course Summary Product 312

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

We look at stage, geography and of course sector. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives. And I believe this process is very healthy even when it doesn’t feel good. Periodically we do portfolio reviews to evaluate whether we have enough diversified risk across the fund.

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Funding Technical Review Ideas Startup 362