Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. The first step toward a business with any idea is to write it down, and build a business plan around it. As startups pass through each stage, they need to use support resources wisely to minimize costs, wasted time, and maintain credibility to support movement to the next stage.

Resource 94

Resource Startup Organization Incubator 94

Berkonomics

MARCH 5, 2020

This risk can be mitigated by finding a customer willing to purchase as soon as a proven model is completed, and willing to state this in writing. Any new enterprise is at risk if there are not enough resources to get the company to breakeven, which is a proxy for stability. Fourth: Financial risk. .

Outsource Development 156

Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 156

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

All Raise chief executive officer Pam Kostka, who joined the business earlier this year, says demand for an All Raise presence in local geographies continues to increase: “Women are hungry for the support and guidance we provide,” Kostka tells TechCrunch. “I I think the movement is just gathering momentum. “We

Venture Capital 184

Venture Capital Ideas Los Angeles Tool 184

socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

We caught up with Julie Schoenfeld , the firm's CEO, to hear about how the firm's offerings have evolved, an interesting comparison of the firm's software to what Demand Media is doing, and what this new funding will go towards. It's some of the kinds of things Demand Media does, except, for the newsroom. Congrats on funding.

Marketing 232

Marketing Funding Content Writing 232

Berkonomics

MARCH 14, 2019

This risk can be mitigated by finding a customer willing to purchase as soon as a proven model is completed, and willing to state this in writing. Any new enterprise is at risk if there are not enough resources to get the company to breakeven, which is a proxy for stability. Fourth: Financial risk. .

Outsource Development 120

Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

In fact, they are probably in such a hurry to give you money that they don’t want you to waste time writing anything down and passing it along to new investors. Writing it down promotes both understanding and commitment. Overall, I sense that not writing a business plan is more often an excuse rather than a time saver.

Technical Review 126

Technical Review Writing Entrepreneur Slides 126

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2020

Startups have limited resources, so the founders have to enjoy trying things, and learning from their mistakes. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification. But if you are looking for investors, team members, and demanding customers, it helps to understand what their biases might be in committing to and helping the ideal partner.

Startup 171

Startup Entrepreneur Activity Ideas 171

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2023

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Key factors gating your success will always be your level of competency in your chosen field, level of demand for that skill, and how easily you can be replaced. Be a great resource for others. Find those arenas where your needs are met.

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Ideas Writing 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2023

Startups have limited resources, so the founders have to enjoy trying things, and learning from their mistakes. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification. But if you are looking for investors, team members, and demanding customers, it helps to understand what their biases might be in committing to and helping the ideal partner.

Entrepreneur 70

Entrepreneur Startup Activity Ideas 70

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available?

Startup 94

Startup Resource Training Ideas 94

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Most entrepreneurs avoid setting up a board of directors for their new business unless or until they sign up an investor who demands a seat on the board. High-performing startups today are the ones that use every resource at their disposal. Board rules and governance policies should be articulated in writing and voted upon.

Startup 145

Startup Entrepreneur Mentor Writing 145

Berkonomics

MARCH 15, 2012

This risk can be mitigated by finding a customer willing to purchase as soon as a proven model is completed, and willing to state this in writing. Fourth: Financial risk. Any new enterprise is at risk if there are not enough resources to get the company to breakeven, which is a proxy for stability.

Outsource Development 200

Outsource Development Ideas Resource Patents 200

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2020

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Key factors gating your success will always be your level of competency in your chosen field, level of demand for that skill, and how easily you can be replaced. Be a great resource for others. Find those arenas where your needs are met.

Social Media 126

Social Media Media Ideas Writing 126

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2018

My scarcest resource was time and it was important to put my time against the most productive activities. Also if you do need to compromise to accommodate somebody you think is acting inappropriately it’s very tempting to fold your cards but then swipe back by saying or writing things you’ll regret.

Startup 199

Startup Writing Demand Equity 199

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. The first step toward a business with any idea is to write it down, and build a business plan around it. As startups pass through each stage, they need to use support resources wisely to minimize costs, wasted time, and maintain credibility to support movement to the next stage.

Funding 94

Funding Startup Organization Incubator 94

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are lots of resources available for the challenge of that activity, including the Internet and mentors like me. I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there.

Ideas 94

Ideas Slides Technical Review Patents 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2015

Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available?

Startup 109

Startup Resource Training Ideas 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Startups have limited resources, so the founders have to enjoy trying things, and learning from their mistakes. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification. But if you are looking for investors, team members, and demanding customers, it helps to understand what their biases might be in committing to and helping the ideal partner.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Startup Activity Ideas 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. The first step toward a business with any idea is to write it down, and build a business plan around it. As startups pass through each stage, they need to use support resources wisely to minimize costs, wasted time, and maintain credibility to support movement to the next stage.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Funding Incubator Startup 102

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available?

Startup 57

Startup Resource Training Ideas 57

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. The first step toward a business with any idea is to write it down, and build a business plan around it. As startups pass through each stage, they need to use support resources wisely to minimize costs, wasted time, and maintain credibility to support movement to the next stage.

Organization 93

Organization Startup Incubator Ideas 93

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2011

Big companies make seductive promises, including access to large markets, significant financial resources and vital public validation (see Pulp Facts for tips on how to maximize such validation). Thus, if your adVenture must expend resources in conjunction with a Pilot, insist on being compensated for the use of such resources.

Outsource Development 244

Outsource Development Entrepreneur Resource Press 244

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available?

Entrepreneur 97

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Training 97

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2010

As a startup entrepreneur you’ll have many demands for your time. The problem is that the scarcest resource in any entrepreneur’s life is your time. “Thank you for writing to me – it’s nice to hear from you (or meet you) via email. Everyone will want you to speak at conferences.

Startup 305

Startup Venture Capital Writing Conference 305

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available?

Entrepreneur 106

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Training 106

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

When building a new application, the fundamental rule is that you should choose any services that allows you the greatest combination of flexibility and resources to meet your application’s needs. For example, IaaS providers will give you raw infrastructure like compute and storage resources.

SaaS 90

SaaS Framework Resource Google 90

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

You can’t please everyone all the time, so don’t kill yourself trying to satisfy a bad boss or an overly demanding customer. Real entrepreneurs are quick to make the tough decisions, with proper respect, to minimize frustration, resource drain, and reputation loss. Write down some target objectives and milestones.

Startup 98

Startup Outsource Development Competition Social Media 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Startups have limited resources, so the founders have to enjoy trying things and learning from their mistakes. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification. But if you are looking for investors, team members and demanding customers, it helps to understand what their biases might be in committing to and helping the ideal partner.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Startup Activity Ideas 110

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2011

Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Assess customer demand. Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available?

Startup 94

Startup Resource Training Ideas 94

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2015

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Key factors gating your success will always be your level of competency in your chosen field, level of demand for that skill, and how easily you can be replaced. Be a great resource for others. Find those arenas where your needs are met.

Social Media 104

Social Media Ideas Media Writing 104

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. We put together the screenwriting resources ideas and collaboration platform, and the two combined to become Scripped. What's Scripped? Sunil Rajaraman: That's a good question.

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Startups have limited resources, so the founders have to enjoy trying things, and learning from their mistakes. Don’t demand or expect immediate gratification. But if you are looking for investors, team members, and demanding customers, it helps to understand what their biases might be in committing to and helping the ideal partner.

Entrepreneur 63

Entrepreneur Product Startup Activity 63

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

To grow faster businesses need resources in today to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year. They hired a biz dev team to work on deals where their product could be embedded in other people’s products as a way to increase customer demand. (They actually lost about $175 million in cash in that quarter, FWIW.

Startup 227

Startup Venture Capital Sales Course 227

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Most relevant to startups is the push to fund initiatives and technologies that can help prevent or protect against extreme wildfires; rising sea levels and hurricanes; new agriculture resource management; and “climate-smart” technologies.

Startup 229

Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2015

Most entrepreneurs avoid setting up a board of directors for their new business unless or until they sign up an investor who demands a seat on the board. High-performing startups today are the ones that use every resource at their disposal. Board rules and governance policies should be articulated in writing and voted upon.

Startup 103

Startup Entrepreneur Mentor Writing 103

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2013

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Key factors gating your success will always be your level of competency in your chosen field, level of demand for that skill, and how easily you can be replaced. Be a great resource for others. Find those arenas where your needs are met.

Social Media 92

Social Media Ideas Media Writing 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Key factors gating your success will always be your level of competency in your chosen field, level of demand for that skill, and how easily you can be replaced. Be a great resource for others. Find those arenas where your needs are met.

Social Media 63

Social Media Ideas Media Writing 63