Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Apply for contests and business grants.

Develop 70

Develop Development Product Startup 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2022

This is a software distribution and pricing model in which new applications are hosted by a service provider and made available to customers over a network, rather than requiring customer hardware. It allows startups to rent virtualized servers and associated services needed to develop, test, and run applications.

Technology 133

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 133

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Apply for contests and business grants.

Startup 136

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 136

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Whenever I heard why we didn’t feel a sales process at an important customer was going well (or if we lost) I would get involved myself. They like a solid product, well defined pricing, good references to sell against, a clear quota and well defined competitors. Customers buy solutions to solve their problems.

Sales 316

Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2015

In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. These help to increase the intrinsic level of understanding, stimulate creativity, and develop ideas. This could be the utilization rate of a plant, the price premium of the brand, or the service offered or products sold.

Customer 102

Customer Custom Organization Course 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2023

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. Explore municipal development resources. Conduct your own customized market research.

Statistics 120

Statistics Research Report Newsletter 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2022

In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. These help to increase the intrinsic level of understanding, stimulate creativity, and develop ideas. This could be the utilization rate of a plant, the price premium of the brand, or the service offered or products sold.

Organization 118

Organization Course Patents Entrepreneur 118

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Apply for contests and business grants.

Tips 104

Tips Startup Technical Review Equity 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

This might mean helping customers buy traffic, arb’ing deals, helping with RTB pricing or trading, etc. Minimize Any Custom Work That Will Not Feed Back Into Your R&D. While I’d like to say that you should never do custom work that changes the scope of your product that’s not wholly realistic.

Software Review 321

Software Review Software Services Company 321

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2020

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. Explore municipal development resources. Conduct your own customized market research.

Marketing 157

Marketing Statistics Research Report 157

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

Customer 164

Customer Custom Advertising SEM 164

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Apply for contests and business grants.

Startup 128

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 128

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Status of the solution.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

In my experience with technical entrepreneurs, they work hard on creating an innovative and elegant solution, and assume that customers will flock to them (“if we build it, they will come”). The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and the perfect customer segment.

Product 55

Product Pricing Startup Customer 55

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

If a consumer will pay a fixed price for a product or service then the battle over who gets the margin in any sale is between the person who merchandises a product and the person who manufactures it. Ariel understood her customer?—?the This is an age-old marketplace tension where leverage often determines the value captured.

Product 296

Product Course Customer Custom 296

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Eric espouses designing products with the smallest set of features to please a customer base, and moving products into the marketplace quickly to test reaction, then iterating. In the reverse situation, sometimes a single feature is insufficient to support a customer set. Customer segment pivot. Customer need pivot.

Course 109

Course Startup Platform Entrepreneur 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This is a software distribution and pricing model in which new applications are hosted by a service provider and made available to customers over a network, rather than requiring customer hardware. It allows startups to rent virtualized servers and associated services needed to develop, test, and run applications.

Technology 86

Technology Cloud Computing Social Media Networking 86

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Its target customers are millennials traveling in groups or families swayed by the size and scope of the accommodation — typically five times bigger than the average hotel room — as well as the price, which is on average 25% cheaper than a hotel room. He referred to Homewood as “a soulless hotel chain.”

Equity 136

Equity Startup Los Angeles Capital 136

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We're really focused on the consumer getting the right car at the right price. There are lots of transaction costs which occur both on acquisition of customers and on returns, and those costs are real, and must be considered in how we price the products. Brad Stewart: There was a lot of business development on this partnership.

Startup 124

Startup Pricing Platform Study 124

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

So that we’re speaking the same language I would define “exclusive” as a period in which your company is prohibited from doing business with certain customers or business partners, which is why many incorrectly assume this is necessarily bad. Why Exclusivity Matters to Your Customers or Business Development Partners.

Outsource Development 150

Outsource Development Startup Customer Custom 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

You fill out the short questionnaire, lawyers submit their price quotes, and they get hired. You put your project up, and shortly thereafter, you get price quotes from lawyers. One day, I was talking with a friend who was trying to develop and app for a school event, and had created his own app creation company.

Help 240

Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Eric espouses designing products with the smallest set of features to please a customer base, and moving products into the marketplace quickly to test reaction, then iterating. In the reverse situation, sometimes a single feature is insufficient to support a customer set. Customer segment pivot. Customer need pivot.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Platform Customer 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2013

Ask everyone to update their resume, and personally call probable references, so there are no surprises. Contact key vendors and existing customers. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. If the product is in customer hands, expect some customers to be interviewed.

Technical Review 97

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Summary 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Apply for contests and business grants.

Startup 87

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 87

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2019

In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. These help to increase the intrinsic level of understanding, stimulate creativity, and develop ideas. This could be the utilization rate of a plant, the price premium of the brand, or the service offered or products sold.

Organization 88

Organization Course Patents Entrepreneur 88

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2012

Ask everyone to update their resume, and personally call probable references, so there are no surprises. Contact key vendors and existing customers. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. If the product is in customer hands, expect some customers to be interviewed.

Technical Review 98

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Training 98

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch.

Help 133

Help IP Content Google 133

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2015

This is a software distribution and pricing model in which new applications are hosted by a service provider and made available to customers over a network, rather than requiring customer hardware. It allows startups to rent virtualized servers and associated services needed to develop, test, and run applications.

Startup 107

Startup Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur 107

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

If ten percent of these numbers, multiplied by your average product price, will get you the revenue you need to scale your business, you will get the love you need from angel and venture capital investors. Explore municipal development resources. Conduct your own customized market research.

Research 87

Research Marketing Statistics Report 87

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2017

This is a software distribution and pricing model in which new applications are hosted by a service provider and made available to customers over a network, rather than requiring customer hardware. It allows startups to rent virtualized servers and associated services needed to develop, test, and run applications.

Cloud Computing 61

Cloud Computing Startup Social Media Networking 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Apply for contests and business grants.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Equity 105

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Ask everyone to update their resume, and personally call probable references, so there are no surprises. Contact key vendors and existing customers. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. If the product is in customer hands, expect some customers to be interviewed.

Technical Review 91

Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Summary 91

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Apply for contests and business grants.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Funding Startup Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

This is a software distribution and pricing model in which new applications are hosted by a service provider and made available to customers over a network, rather than requiring customer hardware. It allows startups to rent virtualized servers and associated services needed to develop, test, and run applications.

Cloud Computing 99

Cloud Computing Social Media Entrepreneur Networking 99

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

In fact, in this new world of pervasive interactivity, it’s time to rethink even how to develop a strategy. These help to increase the intrinsic level of understanding, stimulate creativity, and develop ideas. This could be the utilization rate of a plant, the price premium of the brand, or the service offered or products sold.

Organization 69

Organization Course Patents Entrepreneur 69

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Apply for contests and business grants.

Startup 123

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 123

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. Apply for contests and business grants.

Startup 53

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 53