Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. Don’t outsource your core competency. Product or services. Technology level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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Southern California Edison Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

With more employees and network-intensive activities, businesses must stay ahead of their bandwidth needs or risk bottlenecking their employees and reducing staff productivity. . Businesses that don’t outsource network maintenance tasks put the onus on their internal teams, which can quickly max out their bandwidth. Ethernet Services

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

A few people have asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Whenever I meet a team that had a consulting firm (even a great one) build their product it’s an immediate “pass&# from me. I don’t believe that one exists.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. I have been outsourcing to India since before it became popular.

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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. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2015

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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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. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. One method to negotiate a lower rate or no cost to have a developerwork with you > Pre sell your product. This will prove your product is worth building to you and to the developer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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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. Low cost and low margin products can be winners, if the volume is high enough.

Services 61

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. I understand the desire for hiring someone who is going to product product. Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum. Who will do that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2015

We caught up with Satish to learn more about the company and its products. I have been working on the business side of the product at Motorola, and worked there for over ten years. We were a little early in that market, doing outsourcing, offshore, and managed crowdsourcing. What is Clorder?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2014

But motion without momentum may be even less productive. Cashflow is the element of momentum that allows you to hand over jobs to other people and do more of your core passion jobs, like creating content or designing new products. Founders or employees in constant motion, but with no momentum, will never get off the ground.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process. Billing and revenue collection.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2012

But motion without momentum is even less productive than no motion at all. Cashflow is the element of momentum that allows you to hand over jobs to other people and do more of your core passion jobs, like creating content or designing new products. It is true that motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2009

The company was incorporated in January of 2004, and we provide outsource e-commerce services to organizations, such as brands and retailers. One, is we build and design websites. The second, is we provide fulfillment services, such as product shipments. Lots of them are in the apparel space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process. Billing and revenue collection.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2011

But motion without momentum is even less productive than no motion at all. Cashflow is the element of momentum that allows you to hand over jobs to other people and do more of your core passion jobs, like creating content or designing new products. It is true that motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2010

But motion without momentum is even less productive than no motion at all. Cashflow is the element of momentum that allows you to hand over jobs to other people and do more of your core passion jobs, like creating content or designing new products. It is true that motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. So, you need to develop a product? Outsourcing 1. A BIG THANK YOU.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Innovation is the key to long-term business success, both in startups as well as established organizations. He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. This idea helps to distill down the most important things to make or sell in a product.

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Frank Addante

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ▼ December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Over-engineering will slow down product releases. A BIG THANK YOU.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. File the Articles of Organization and an Operating Agreement with the Secretary of State’s Office. Design a logo ( 99designs ). Determine a pricing system for your product(s). Recommended. Creating a corporation?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Unattributed – There is no such thing as organic customers. No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. It does not happen.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 12, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. A BIG THANK YOU. ▼ March (2) 4. Build a SWAT team 3.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Jake Wood serves as President of Team Rubicon , the organization he co-founded following the massive earthquake in Haiti. Lisa and her team create media projects designed to move the social progress agenda forward. He is a founder of Strengths Doctors, a consulting firm which helps leaders design energizing work environments.

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Frank Addante

MARCH 26, 2007

Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Innovation is the key to long-term business success, both in startups as well as established organizations. He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. This idea helps to distill down the most important things to make or sell in a product.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 28, 2011

1 CEO who doubles as head of product management. strong product focus on CEO. I never invest in: - business people who outsource tech dev to 3rd parties (“to speed up time to market”)” If you like that feel free to go vote it up on Quora - it fell back a bit in the rankings. 5 engineers. Nothing else.

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