Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 30, 2019

Now, he designs those systems for the real world through his company Oblong Industries , which has labored to create a full stack of collaborative tools for business users that are every bit as high-tech as the one’s Underkoffler dreamt for the silver screen. The latest to get the Rumpus treatment is Cisco Webex.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

If your forte is a service, like consulting or web site design, it’s harder to find guidance on what will get you funded, and how you can scale your business. With services, scaling the business often implies cloning yourself, since you are the intellectual property and the competitive advantage. Capture your “secret sauce.”

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Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. Scaling services means cloning yourself. Make sure your service is innovative.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 26, 2020

These include ensuring the continued health of the organization, setting the moral compass for your stakeholders, providing for succession by training and documenting, leading the effort in compliance of regulations and safety needs, and … elimination of all possible bottlenecks that impede the efficiency of your organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2012

If you're like the typical device user today, you've got a smartphone, laptop, desktop, not to mention a dozen cloud accounts where you're storing your documents, music, video, and other files. Erik Caso: Younity creates a personal cloud for all of your files, built from your devices, and over time, your online services.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? I love Notion, the self-service database tool that allows you to build, collect and organize all the structured things in your life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 29, 2022

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. A three-dimensional prototype is always better than just a documented specification when negotiating contracts for manufacturing, support, and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

A business is an entity which exchanges goods and services with people outside the business (customers) for money, social good, or something of equal value. The development stage normally begins with designing and prototyping a product or service, and creating the company legal entity. Startup and development stage.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Irvine-based Solarflare Communications , the developer of 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters, said today that it has released a new app acceleration middleware product targeted at financial services, geosciences, biosciences, weather and other high-performance computing (HPC) applications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Lock down the sign-off authority.

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Berkonomics

MAY 2, 2013

These include ensuring the continued health of the organization, setting the moral compass for your stakeholders, providing for succession by training and documenting, leading the effort in compliance of regulations and safety needs, and … elimination of all possible bottlenecks that impede the efficiency of your organization.

Organization 222

Organization Demand Satisfaction Training 222

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Lock down the sign-off authority.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 110

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In reality, the process of designing, building, and validating a prototype does dramatically reduce the risk, and allows everyone to hone in on the real costs of going into production. A three-dimensional prototype is always better than just a documented specification when negotiating contracts for manufacturing, support, and marketing.

Outsource Development 124

Outsource Development Ideas Tool Outsource 124

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

This week, David Steakley returns for another bite at the corporate apple, with just the right amount of tart comments that will keep this document legal for now. I am assuming that you have an awesome product or service which cleverly solves some tough problem and promises to deliver solid ROI for the buyer. By David Steakley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. The distinction between product companies and services companies is easy to see. Scaling services means cloning yourself. Make sure your service is innovative.

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Satisfaction Patents Outsource Development Services 91

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). I didn’t have first-hand experience in document management systems other than as a user and nobody had SaaS experience – the market was too new. I’ll always point out when I am.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2020

A business is an entity which exchanges goods and services with people outside the business (customers) for money, social good, or something of equal value. The development stage normally begins with designing and prototyping a product or service, and creating the company legal entity. Startup and development stage.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Satisfaction Summary 127

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Customer service and support. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?” Funding process.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Citrusbyte is a full stack, design and development firm that specializes in helping companies get the APIs they need to run more efficiently. Developers using Mission Control will essentially get a one stop location for all API management, key management, and documentation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2011

This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Lock down the sign-off authority.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

This term refers to the penchant to add just one more feature to the product or service before first delivery, just because you can. The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Lock down the sign-off authority.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 75

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Several companies, including Mastercard, Coca-Cola, and Doritos have let customers build commercials and design contests, with big rewards for the customer and for the company. Products are the new services. Digital channels enable you to turn products into on-demand services that help customers reach their goals, and add value.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

The new information, gleaned from recently unsealed court documents , provides new insight into the company’s past activities and what that might mean for its upcoming IPO. VW also has a partnership with AV startup Aurora to integrate self-driving systems in custom-designed electric shuttles for VW’s new Moia brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

We then made groupings of the common features of each piece of logic so we could figure out what “shared services&# we could build so that we could have reusable code. I next moved into system design where I designed computer systems to deal with large industrial natural gas customers and telecommunication companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2015

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

It gives music companies a direct pipeline to market their products and services to music fans. Additionally, the site allows lawyers to market their legal services by sharing expert advice and engaging in discussion. Loudie allows you to communicate about your favorite artists and concerts on your phone regardless of your location.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2012

I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. A simple differentiation is that a product plan is designed for internal use, to get the product out. A simple differentiation is that a product plan is designed for internal use, to get the product out.

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Product Outsource Development Competition High Tech 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. Customer service and support. The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?” Funding process.

Outsource Development 92

Outsource Development Training Outsource Metrics 92

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists.

Tips 111

Tips Startup Outsource Ideas 111

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. Explain to me how your service works? and the E.U.,

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Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

We thought it would be interesting to hear from Dinesh Ravishankar , CEO of CallFire, to learn more about where the company fits into the world of telephony APIs and services. We go the extra mile with YouTube videos, support documentation, telephone support, and email support during business hours. What is CallFire?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

Most other new vehicle designers have suffered a similar fate. Choose where you must be exceptional in service and focus. Define and document the portfolio of initiatives to deliver on your strategic objectives and fulfill your production and skill requirements. Assess: Forecast required skillsets and needed mindset shifts.

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