Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2020

In reality, a simple Excel spreadsheet model customized around your assumptions can save you hours and avoid a wasted expense in validating alternative vendor and marketing decisions. Vendor costs are subject to change, customers are fickle, competitors come out of the woodwork and the economy can take a downturn. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Between late appointments, pushy sales people and sticker shock, finding the perfect wedding dress can quickly turn into a frustrating nightmare for any blushing bride. Floravere , the first direct-to-consumer luxury bridal brand, is putting convenience back into the bride’s hands by delivering sample wedding gowns directly to their doorstep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2012

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Iterate and improve the fit until your test customers are delighted, not just tolerant.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2013

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Iterate and improve the fit until your test customers are delighted, not just tolerant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2011

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Iterate and improve the fit until your test customers are delighted, not just tolerant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

For too many small businesses, customer service is still seen as a “burden.” Entrepreneurs don’t realize that this burden is actually costing them over $200 billion in repeat sales, according to a recent study by the W. These days, relationships and online reviews are key drivers for over 80 percent of new customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2012

Here is how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Explain how you will make money and who pays you (real customer). Marketing, sales, and partners. Opportunity sizing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Start with a “sample” business model, available in generic form or customized for specific industries, from many sources on the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

In reality, a simple Excel spreadsheet model customized around your assumptions can save you hours and avoid a wasted expense in validating alternative vendor and marketing decisions. The way to start is with a sample financial model, freely available from many sources on the Internet, such as this one from Entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2010

Here is how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Explain how you will make money and who pays you (real customer). Marketing, sales, and partners. Opportunity sizing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2011

Here is how and why it works, including a customer-centric quantification of the benefits. Define the characteristics of the overall industry, market forces, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Explain how you will make money and who pays you (real customer). Marketing, sales, and partners. Opportunity sizing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2020

Here are ten sample questions that I believe will reveal positive indications of your potential as an entrepreneur, and also indicate that you will select good ideas: You see creating a business as a fun challenge. To build a startup, you have to enjoy the broad range of challenges, from technical to marketing to sales to personnel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2011

Start with a “sample” business model, available in generic form or customized for specific industries, from many sources on the Internet.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

How can you get a better handle of who your customers are, by using technology? Los Angeles-based DoorStat (www.doorstat.com)--which recently moved here from Chicago�tells us about how it is using vision recognition software to help businesses, such as entertainment venues, better understand who their customers are.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2012

We've got a really cool, social product development formula, which is a fancy way of saying we'll be sending sample formulas to our customers in the second month, send out two formulas to them, and have them come back and vote on which one they like better. It's all about if you can tell a good story, and build a good sales funnel.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I was interested in the opportunity, because although the firm had been around for some number of years, they had an interesting product, great customers, and the legal market is a massive market. It seemed like we had enough assets there to do something interesting with the company. It's all delivered over the web.

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socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2018

We're a little different from the sample size products out there. I was the co-founder and CEO of an e-commerce company in 2001, which did eco-friendly beauty and style and fashion products, although more in the flash sales model. That's really the key to what we do, and I think our customers and audience sees that.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

” Just like a traditional test, a chemically treated strip reacts with a urine sample, then the company’s application uses computer vision technology to assess the results. Sales from the Petnostics product helped bootstrap the company through its first few years of development and get its first product onto the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

Take a look at my website for the Sample Executive Summary , which shows what can be done in one page (both sides). Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one? Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. Business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Start with a “sample” business model, available in generic form or customized for specific industries, from many sources on the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Here are ten sample considerations that I believe will reveal positive indications of your potential as an entrepreneur, and also indicate that you will select good ideas: You see creating a business as a fun challenge. To build a startup, you have to enjoy the broad range of challenges, from technical to marketing to sales to personnel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Take a look at my website for the Sample Executive Summary , which shows what can be done in one page (both sides). Who is your customer, what is the price, and how much does it cost you to build one? Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. Business model.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2012

We'd make 500 samples, and about 150 would be picked up by consumers, who became huge evangelists for the brand. There's not a lot of true customer demand at any point in that process, to figure out what is on-trend and what is stylish. We're disrupting the inefficiencies in the apparel industry today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2013

Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Offer customized products or services. A large market means at least $500 million in potential sales if the company is asset-light, and $1 billion if it requires plenty of property, plants and equipment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2012

Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Offer customized products or services. A large market means at least $500 million in potential sales if the company is asset-light, and $1 billion if it requires plenty of property, plants and equipment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2010

Start with a “sample” business model, available in generic form or customized for specific industries, from many sources on the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Offer customized products or services. A large market means at least $500 million in potential sales if the company is asset-light, and $1 billion if it requires plenty of property, plants and equipment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Even in these cases, all other options should be explored first: Sales are strong – too strong. When you have invented a new technology, you need expensive models and testing, including samples for potential customers. If nothing else, these make good excuses for failure – no freedom, wrong guidance, etc. You need a prototype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Even in these cases, all other options should be explored first: Sales are strong – too strong. When you have invented a new technology, you need expensive models and testing, including samples for potential customers. If nothing else, these make good excuses for failure – no freedom, wrong guidance, etc. You need a prototype.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

That gives us the ability to monitor the result of campaigns, all the way to the creation of a customer. We've built our revenue and buying model such that we only charge advertisers when they get a customer--or whatever the equivalent of customer for them is, such as is filling out a form to get a sample.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2008

That gives us the ability to monitor the result of campaigns, all the way to the creation of a customer. We've built our revenue and buying model such that we only charge advertisers when they get a customer--or whatever the equivalent of customer for them is, such as is filling out a form to get a sample.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This means selling at least 5-10 customers in advance, before it is even built. Offer the customers a discount for buying in advance. Then when hiring a developer to build the project, show the developer you already have sales and offer them a percentage of passive income if they work at a lower or no charge rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Even in these cases, all other options should be explored first: Sales are strong – too strong. When you have invented a new technology, you need expensive models and testing, including samples for potential customers. If nothing else, these make good excuses for failure – no freedom, wrong guidance, etc. You need a prototype.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Every business owner and entrepreneur like you I work with wishes they could better predict product demand and sales, for managing inventory and long-term business planning. Gather feedback regularly from your team and customers to check for market and perception changes. Assess your measurements for trustworthiness.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Marketing is considered an art by many individuals because it requires keen insight in how to approach a product, service, or brand, and how to effectively deliver those things to customers. Consumers and businesses want to be engaged to how the good, service, or product relates to the customer or how the product will benefit them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2010

In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. For example, one CEO I know gave away his software product to the first ten customers. Iterate and improve the fit until your test customers are delighted, not just tolerant.

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