Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2015

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (now over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Ownership.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Coach Metrics 101

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Ideas have to be implemented well to change a market, or the world. Grab the next-mover advantage.

Startup 103

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Competition 103

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 exist ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Idea management.

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Coach Metrics Competition 64

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Patents Startup Ideas 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2016

The most common proposals I hear are for yet another social networking site ( over 200 active ), or another dating site (over 2500 in the US alone). It starts with a vision, but benefits quickly from a structured process of idea generation, evaluation, prototyping, customer feedback, and success metrics. Idea management.

Coach 64

Coach Metrics Competition Ideas 64

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible.

Startup 100

Startup Patents Competition Social Network 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2013

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Ideas have to be implemented well to change a market, or the world. Grab the next-mover advantage.

Startup 105

Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Competition 105

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. The Holy Grail of.

Startup 248

Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies.

Startup 102

Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM Social Network 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2012

Every entrepreneur has an idea for transforming a market with innovative new technology, or transforming society with a new process. But unfortunately, most of these ideas fail at the execution level, or are not truly innovative. Ideas have to be implemented well to change a market, or the world. Grab the next-mover advantage.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Ideas Competition 94

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Truly satisfied customers are a joy to every business person. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible.

Startup 88

Startup Patents Competition Social Network 88

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Search Engine Optimization SEM 94

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Because GoTo.com was his idea. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. But bill is a BIG idea guy. I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. Overture sold for $1.6 billion to Yahoo! But I made it for a reason.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue.

Funding 112

Funding Entrepreneur Startup CTO Hire 112

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. In business, “most important” means time to market, customer service, low cost, and beating your competitors. Create intellectual property. Manage your time.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Social Network Startup Patents 98

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The idea was pioneered by renowned and award winning high impact serial entrepreneurs, Robert Sussman and Lance Fanaroff. What inspired you to come up with the idea? We actually enable banks to attract new customers as well as securely port their services to existing users, using our patent pending social fraud algorithms.

Software Review 92

Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Remember to aim the content of both of these at investors, not customers. Close at least one initial customer.

Angel 104

Angel Screening Summary Startup 104

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. In business, “most important” means time to market, customer service, low cost, and beating your competitors. Create intellectual property. Manage your time.

Tips 102

Tips Help Startup Blogging 102

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue.

Startup 104

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 104

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. In business, “most important” means time to market, customer service, low cost, and beating your competitors. Create intellectual property. Manage your time.

Mentor 100

Mentor Startup Social Network Patents 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Remember to aim the content of both of these at investors, not customers. Close at least one initial customer.

Invest 99

Invest Angel Technical Review Summary 99

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

So, we were toying around with ideas, when the idea behind Bccthis came up. So what's the idea behind Bccthis? What's the idea behind the Twitter support? We thought about where else we could apply it to, and thought about the various social networking services, and specifically, Twitter.

Email 185

Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue.

Startup 101

Startup CTO Hire Press Customer 101

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Establishing the legal structure for your business, registering trademarks, filing copyrights and patents, and drafting partnership agreements used to require extensive attorney fees and ongoing consultation. Use the Internet and social networking instead of public relations companies and advertising agencies.

Startup 50

Startup High Tech Search Engine Optimization SEM 50

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2010

Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. The patent process is far from perfect, but it’s a huge step ahead of no proprietary content. In business, “most important” means time to market, customer service, low cost, and beating your competitors. Create intellectual property. Manage your time.

Guide 92

Guide Startup Social Network Patents 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. Remember to aim the content of both of these at investors, not customers. Close at least one initial customer.

Angel 89

Angel Funding Technical Review Startup 89

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

I hear a lot of entrepreneurs contemplating their great “idea” for several years with little discernable progress, and looking for money to start. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue.

Tips 88

Tips Startup CTO Hire Press 88

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. What's the idea behind Quub? Right after that, I established connections with lots of artists--who were customer and friends--and started publishing books for them.

Startup 100

Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie? You could create a business process design Genie, and announce it through public relations or social networking efforts, and direct them to a login page. We have patents filed on this process. a month for two Genies, and unlimited users or customers.

Geni 100

Geni Web Guide Platform 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2016

Aspiring entrepreneurs often approach me as an angel investor, touting their innovative idea for yet another online dating site. Thus, I encourage you to consider these challenges as reality checks for your own business idea -- dating or otherwise -- before spending all your time and someone else’s money in vain.

Sites 51

Sites Ideas Statistics Google 51

Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

Ideation & Protecting Ideas. If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Vet your idea with the idea checklist. Protect your ideas when sharing them with others by using an NDA. Create and manage your social media presence. Recommended.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Startup Google Mentor 40

SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional network and reputation of a globally recognized technology and innovation leader.

Technical Review 170

Technical Review Technical Advisors CTO Coach Startup 170

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Idea Mensch. We are about to head on a four-month, 48-state road trip to help people across America bring their ideas to life and shine the light on some of the amazing entrepreneurs and communities. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78