Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2019

After working in business at all levels, and consulting to entrepreneurs for years, I’m still surprised to see so many situations where things that should be easy are painful to customers, and lead to customers hating your business. Get out and meet your customers to learn what turns them on these days.

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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. You’d imagine that companies selling tons of shelfware would quickly meet their deserved fate in the market, yet the spin around a category of software can fool buyers into thinking they “must have this product to compete.”

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2013

You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. If you meet someone through Internet networking, or if someone with no visible professional standing contacts you with interest in your plan, an NDA is the least you should do to protect yourself. Strategic partner. Who is right?

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Ideas Demand Patents Entrepreneur 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

When the plan is all in your head, and elements are undefined, it’s important to monitor every step of the progress, in order to make quick corrections. Now you have real customers who can quickly turn off hundreds of potential customers if you ignore their feedback. Trust your gut, and ignore naysayers.

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Social Network Startup Demand Entrepreneur 59

Southern California Edison Blog

JANUARY 2, 2019

Customers are demanding denser coverage and higher speeds in expanding areas. To keep pace, carriers are making strategic infrastructure investments to expand and improve coverage. T-Mobile and Sprint, for example, invested billions of dollars in 2017 to bring 5G service to customers in the US by 2019.¹.

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Networking Demand Southern California .Net 45

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For every layer if I mention companies please don’t assume that I’m suggesting there aren’t other players in that category. I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. I was dead set against it.

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Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343