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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

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. For example, if you have no technical background, you probably can’t create or sell an enterprise software product for a low price, even today.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

I originally conceived it as the Top 11 things that I believe “all entrepreneurs need to succeed.&# If it stuck to this theme then I would stand by my top 11. It isn’t a “must&# for me but it’s certainly a huge positive when entrepreneurs have it. Another example. That’s OK.

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

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. For example, if you have no technical background, you probably can’t create or sell an enterprise software product for a low price, even today. Martin Zwilling.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

We're the official mobile app for whatever our customer is. For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. The platform approach we took allows teams and companies and venues to access the best functionality, at a subcription price, rather than a custom development price.

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LeanLA Presents: Beware of False Prophets

Tech Zulu Event

The venue was lined with vibrant and inviting decor, a spacious loft style presentation room, and plenty of mini-workstations for the motivated and social entrepreneur; a great setting for the presentation at hand. He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. c-level entrepreneur funding startup titles' Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel).

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