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7 Success Factors When Your People Are The Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Capture your “secret sauce.” Start with a service you know and love.

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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Re-live that moment of inspiration that resulted in an innovative design and implementation for your product, and is now providing you with a sustainable competitive advantage. One approach, which is even more work, is to keep tasks in-house rather than outsourcing.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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We want to create something that serves a purpose, has a unique design, and is farily simple to use, and where people can understand what that app does. We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO.

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Technology Roles in Startups

SoCal CTO

see When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? see When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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SYNCFAB | Connecting Creative Community to Local Manufacturing Businesses

Tech Zulu Event

New and innovative designers are popping up everywhere, thanks to new technology like 3D printing. SYNCFAB , (Synchronized Fabrication) is a platform to bring hybrid 3D printing and connect inventors and designers with manufacturers and material specialists to bring back local manufacturing.

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Products vs Services – Critical Success Factors

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.

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Scaling a Business by Cloning Yourself is Tough

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented.