Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2023

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions.

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Product Summary Activity Entrepreneur 112

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2022

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. I look for evidence of the nine major elements of the model canvas, as paraphrased here from the author’s key points and how they apply to teams: Customer segments.

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Funding Activity Customer Custom 133

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The logic in this is simple: once a company has market share, other issues can be sorted out to monetize the market, make the company profitable, scoop up wavering competitors, or even sell the company to a larger firm looking for a large customer base. And it’s a contemporary problem. Angel investors are more tolerant of this than VCs.

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Venture Capital Social Media Invest Marketing 156

Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

One way to mitigate this is by using early money to create a prototype, to perform market research, to complete the first generation of the product, or to deliver the service to a satisfied customer. Here we expand the definitions a bit to encompass businesses that are still early stage, but perhaps beyond startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Of course, every lifestyle entrepreneur wants their business to be “successful,” but I find that the definition of success and the expectations along the way differs from that usually associated with what I call “growth startups.” If your passion is customers, you definitely will be happier as a lifestyle entrepreneur.

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Statistics Equity Satisfaction Entrepreneur 124

Tech.Co

APRIL 11, 2022

And, in addition to the sellers themselves suspending sales, the strikers are urging Etsy customers to boycott this week as well, by avoiding any purchases through the platform. Getting rid of this mandatory program is another demand that the strikers are holding out for, in addition to dropping the transaction fee increase.

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Platform Startup Sales Pricing 136

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2020

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions.

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Entrepreneur Startup Summary Product 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

Assess customer demand. Do customers really need what you want to do, or might they see it as “nice to have?” The crash landings can be tough, and definitely won’t feel good as a long-term strategy. Look critically at yourself and your existing organization for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT).

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Startup Resource Training Ideas 115

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

GrubMarket has built itself as a profitable but quiet giant that underpins the fuel that helps companies in all of these categories by becoming one of the critical companies building bridges between food producers and those that interact with customers. Its opportunity comes in the form of disruption and a gap in the market.

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Technical Review Startup Marketing San Diego 343

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

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Sales Metrics Guide Startup 147

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2021

Where body language is part of the message, it definitely is not. An example would be sitting down to meet with a key vendor, rather than standing to deliver demands. But most business processes, like negotiating a contract, closing a sale, customer support, or managing employees, are much more complicated than just words.

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Layoffs Email Tool Study 164

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

That means that starting soon, our doctors, hospitals, eldercare, hospice and even death care systems are going to face unprecedented demand. Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. Women professionals are definitely increasing their ranks. Technology won’t solve this one. Shipping and delivery: Strained to the limits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2019

They don’t realize that they are missing out on a great opportunity for “free” promotion, as well as taking a great risk by not listening to what customers are saying, and not monitoring or responding to undeserved challenges to their reputation. Demand professional business skills and customer advocacy.

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Social Media Media Tool Startup 99

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Demand continuous innovation to keep up with change.

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Startup Demand Training Customer 88

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

When you start your company the very first question you need to ask yourself is which kind of customers do you want to serve. Many start-ups (and even growth firms) lack this discipline and they therefore serve customers off all sizes. These are really massive customers. We knew how to land huge corporate customers.

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Startup Customer Custom Resource 389

Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2013

The definition of a bottleneck in your business is one that constricts the flow of work from one area to another in the flow of product or service through your organization. The bottleneck itself strains to keep up with demand, often to the point of reducing its own efficiency in the process of attempting to keep up with demand.

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Organization Demand Satisfaction Training 222

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2019

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. I look for evidence of the nine major elements of the model canvas, as paraphrased here from the author’s key points and how they apply to teams: Customer segments.

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Activity Customer Custom Resource 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

I’ve never had a definitive list of recommendations to overcome these qualms, so I was pleased to see the insights in a new book, “ Arrive and Thrive ,” by Susan MacKenty Brady, Janet Foutty, and Lynn Perry Wooten. This is a tough challenge for every coach and mentor.

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Berkonomics

MAY 21, 2015

The logic in this is simple: once a company has market share, other issues can be sorted out to monetize the market, make the company profitable, scoop up wavering competitors, or even sell the company to a larger firm looking for a large customer base. Scaling a business is an art as well as a science.

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Venture Capital Social Media Invest Marketing 120

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Thus, startups must quickly determine which prospects are most likely to purchase in the near term and focus their energy on delivering these prospective customers an incredible experience. Recast Pilots as the first phase of a multi-phased, definitive agreement. product, geography, customer segment, etc.).

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Sales Outsource Development Metrics Resource 215

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 22, 2016

Less than a month ago, Snapchat opened custom on-demand geofilters to everyone. Industry news was excited, but for how amazing of a product they are, custom Snapchat geofilters have remained stunningly under the radar. Well, Snapchat has made it so that anyone can create and upload a custom filter to any area they want.

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Customer Custom Snapchat Design 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2019

I like the more appropriate definition of courage, and how to use it in business, in a new book, “ Return On Courage ,” by Ryan Berman, whose leadership consultancy has trained many brands how to do it right. You need to make believers out of your board, employees, prospects, as well as customers.

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Ideas Training Examples Organization 89

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

I saw that, if you build a good product that customers love, that people love to use, how you need to market it, how you need to run that project, and so forth. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. That definitely applied here, and that's the way it usually works.

Startup 124

Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Assess customer demand. Do customers really need what you want to do, or might they see it as “nice to have?” The crash landings can be tough, and definitely won’t feel good as a long-term strategy. Look critically at yourself and your existing organization for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT).

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Startup Resource Training Ideas 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A theme I often hear from the entrepreneurs and startups I advise is that once they see that first surge of traction from customers, they can relax and enjoy life for a change. In today’s world of growing competition and customer evolution , holding your own, and growing to the next level is a constant challenge that can never be ignored.

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Ideas Customer Custom Competition 77

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Today, customers and future managers put a higher value on relationships, and expect to know you from industry conferences, social media, or recommendations from peers. As a business, you should always be looking for your next customer, as well as satisfying your current one. Walk away from a bad role or customer.

Startup 98

Startup Outsource Development Competition Social Media 98

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. People attending marquee conferences with rock bands, prominent speakers, Gartner Group prognosticators and lots of other happy customers. Poorly implemented this category was the definition of shelfware.

Marketing 354

Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Tech.Co

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Claude is definitely one of the most impressive chatbots to be launched in the last 12 months. As part of the latter deal, Amazon employees and cloud customers will get early access to the technology. GPT-4, which is only available to ChatGPT Plus customers, has a context window of more than 32,000. What is Claude AI?

ChatGPT 142

ChatGPT Artificial Inteligence Training Startup 142

InfoChachkie

APRIL 28, 2016

Demand Customer Centricity. Bob successfully managed his constituents by never forgetting that his ultimate “customers” were the students he was serving. Startup CEOs can likewise diffuse internal dissention by refocusing their team’s attention on their customers, rather than their colleagues. Be Of Service.

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Santa Barbara Mentor Education Demand 100

InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2014

The gowns are then dry cleaned and readied for the next customer, in the spirit of the emerging sharing economy in which goods are communally used multiple times. Quality is definitely key for us.". We keep our eye on a handful of metrics, but we’re focused on customer satisfaction.

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Design Customer Custom Satisfaction 208

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. Second-stage growth usually requires a formal sales model, an experienced and disciplined sales team, and a well-defined process to meet your new goals and demands.

Startup 97

Startup Sales Metrics Guide 97

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

I’m definitely a proponent of the multitasked approach, since every new venture is inherently risky, and startups usually take longer to ramp up than you imagine. It pays to be able to fall back into a familiar mental role to recover, when the pressures of fund raising, new product development, and satisfying initial customers wears you down.

Startup 153

Startup Entrepreneur Ideas Statistics 153

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2014

Most technical entrepreneurs I know demand the discipline of a product specification or plan, and then assume that their great product will drive a great business. These requirements must be based on market analysis, expert input, and existing customer feedback. Technology, architecture, and feature descriptions.

Product 101

Product Entrepreneur Summary Activity 101

Steve Reich

JUNE 5, 2016

This week, I met a prospective customer who was interested in our Apps, but had a real problem. “What happens to me when you get acquired?” ” he demanded angrily. Customers buy innovation from young companies, but worry that that innovation may evaporate post exit. It was a fair question.

Startup 40

Startup Customer Custom Demand 40

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer?

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Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2017

The canvas is a visual chart with elements describing your value proposition, structure, finances, and customers, to help companies identify and align business activities. I look for evidence of the nine major elements of the model canvas, as paraphrased here from the author’s key points and how they apply to teams: Customer segments.

Funding 57

Funding Startup Activity Customer 57