Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2022

Market change happens too frequently these days, and organizations need to quickly change course just to survive. Thorough analysis with appropriate models and instruments is needed to really understand what is not possible for the organization and the environment in which it is active. An effective and inspiring process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Every entrepreneur and startup loves you, but too many forget that every potential customer is not like you. Unfortunately many of their suggestions may actually increase the solution complexity for the larger segment of mainstream customers who come later and you really need for success. Usability is often an afterthought.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

I like the summary of the competitive reality in a new book, “ Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age ,” by Ram Charan, who relates a wealth of current experience from global clients: Customers expect a personalized experience. Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry.

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Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

Berkonomics

MAY 8, 2014

The company has created a product that can be delivered as a service to medical clinicians anywhere in the world, enhancing their ability to understand their patents’ problems and needs in less time, using the expertise built into an expert system created by the best minds in many medical specialties. How refreshing!

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 22, 2019

Blueland’s cleaners — a bathroom cleaner, glass cleaner, and multi-purpose cleaner — are sold as tablets that customers add to the cleaning containers the company provides. With Naqzi on board, the company began filing patents for its unique process and the products it’s bringing to market, says Paiji.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Provide specifics on the customer business model. and trademarks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

Here are some of the key entrepreneur characteristics most often overlooked by inventors: Driven by customer-centric view of needs, rather than technology. Understanding what drives customers to buy, in different market segments and cultures, is usually just as challenging as creating and combining technology to deliver function.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Most universities have a file of patents from project work that they are willing to license to any entrepreneur for business commercialization, with little or no cost up front. They have connections to industry associations and entrepreneur organizations that can kick-start your networking efforts, both locally and globally.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

LoveIt is a site for individuals and groups to discover, collect, organize and share images they love in public or private collections. The feedback primarily fell into three categories: better ways to discover new content, better organization tools and the option to have private collections. What is LoveIt and why the name?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive car providers, without transactional agreements. Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg, while still in school, tested the viability of his “ FaceMash ” technology as a business by rolling it out to other students at Harvard as customers. He learned quickly that several pivots were required for business, legal, and customer acceptance reasons. Take advantage of free startup programs and mentors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

It’s easy for you to blame someone else in the organization, economic conditions outside, or even overly demanding customers, when things are not going well. Accountability is impossible to maintain in an environment of high people change, tension, and uncertainty about the organization or company mission.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Tech may be the tool, but hospitality – making life a little easier, more comfortable, and more enjoyable for your customer, is the winning focus. Unfortunately, too many of the technical entrepreneurs I mentor and advise are focused on their technology, and assume that the value will be self-evident to customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2021

Skill in making the organization steerable and agile. Evaluate who might use an invention, patent, or new law to create a bend in the road. These entrepreneurs stay connected to both external and internal realities to know when to accelerate and when to shift the short-term/long-term balance, with a sharp eye on cash flow and debt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In my experience, the key steps I look for always include the following: Testing the idea against customers who have money to spend. Any startup with no patents, trade secrets, or other secret sauce is very high risk today. Prepare your marketing story for customers and investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Market change happens too frequently these days, and organizations need to quickly change course just to survive. Thorough analysis with appropriate models and instruments is needed to really understand what is not possible for the organization and the environment in which it is active. An effective and inspiring process.

Organization 88

Organization Course Patents Entrepreneur 88

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Most universities have a file of patents from project work that they are willing to license to any entrepreneur for business commercialization, with little or no cost up front. They have connections to industry associations and entrepreneur organizations that can kick-start your networking efforts, both locally and globally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

Yet if that leaves you with no documented business plan or unclear strategy, most investors and even customers will walk away. As a result, he missed opportunities, and the whole organization suffered. There are complex processes, like filing a patent, and financial tools that may be new to you, including Excel and Quickbooks.

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Product Startup Tips Entrepreneur 123

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. If you don’t have a high level of commitment and passion, you customers won’t seek you out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

An excellent example is the initiative by Elon Musk and Tesla Motors a few years ago to give away their battery patents, to infrastructure and competitive car providers, without transactional agreements. Another partnering model example is the IBM Watson Group $1 billion investment to share cloud-based development and super-computing tools.

Startup 124

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Additionally, independent organizations, such as Pitchbook, compile annual lists of the number of VC-backed companies launched at US Universities. Ask: How many patents were filed by students and faculty during each of the past five years? What is the process required to create a custom degree?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. If you don’t have a high level of commitment and passion, you customers won’t seek you out.

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Services Startup Training Writing 105

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Our customers are some of the world's largest, most diverse organizations on the planet, such as IBM, HP and Dell. We have to have a multi-cultural, gender agnostic point of view in order to properly service such complex organizations.”. The Power of a Diverse Workforce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Market change happens too frequently these days, and organizations need to quickly change course just to survive. Thorough analysis with appropriate models and instruments is needed to really understand what is not possible for the organization and the environment in which it is active. An effective and inspiring process.

Organization 69

Organization Course Patents Entrepreneur 69

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. companies, universities, and organizations will be sharing their latest technologies, products, and services in this unique Southern California event. and international patent and trademark procurement - IP. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2016

You can’t make any money unless you bill your customers on a timely basis, and follow-up regularly on missed payment commitments. Make sure you file a copy of all trademark applications, copyright filings, patent filings and patents, licenses, and confidentiality or nondisclosure agreements. Invoicing and payments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

The critical success factors for a product business are well known, starting with selling every unit with a gross margin of 50 percent or more, building a patent and other intellectual property, and continuous product improvement. If you don’t have a high level of commitment and passion, you customers won’t seek you out.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2013

It can come from experience, or from training in a prior company, and it can even be self-taught from the Internet by smart entrepreneurs, just like they learned the skill of establishing a company, negotiating a contract, or filing a patent. Organize your work before you begin. That’s a big step from one product for one customer.

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Startup Entrepreneur Organization Training 109

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Market change happens too frequently these days, and organizations need to quickly change course just to survive. Thorough analysis with appropriate models and instruments is needed to really understand what is not possible for the organization and the environment in which it is active. An effective and inspiring process.

Organization 98

Organization Course Entrepreneur Patents 98

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge companies, universities, and organizations will be sharing their latest technologies, products, and services in this unique Southern California event. Startups Made Simple.

Advertising 113

Advertising Southern California IP VentureNet 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. We talked about patents. Overture was sold to Yahoo!

Competition 350

Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Bluemix Local is a new accelerated hybrid cloud that protects sensitive workloads seamlessly across public, private and on-premises environments utilizing a new patented technology called Relay. IBM has announced today a solution to this problem called Bluemix Local.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 30, 2012

This is the origin of the “solution looking for a problem” and “if we build it, they will come” syndromes, which result in surprise and frustration waiting for funding, and waiting for customers that don’t materialize. Business strategy allows you to change customer perceptions and responses to your product or service offerings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2013

We all want to have our vision realized sooner rather than later, but it can be a big mistake to bring in investors rather than patiently building your business at a slow, steady pace (organic growth). That’s not the same as instilling discipline in a larger organization, where most the challenge is people. You need a prototype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Most universities have a file of patents from project work that they are willing to license to any entrepreneur for business commercialization, with little or no cost up front. They have connections to industry associations and entrepreneur organizations that can kick-start your networking efforts, both locally and globally.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Capital Class Startup 55

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2012

It can come from experience, or from training in a prior company, and it can even be self-taught from the Internet by smart entrepreneurs, just like they learned the skill of establishing a company, negotiating a contract, or filing a patent. Organize your work before you begin. That’s a big step from one product for one customer.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Startup Organization Training 94