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Balance Your Focus Between Passion And Perspiration

Startup Professionals Musings

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Feel the inspiration from peers asking for your secret, or peers trying to model their efforts after yours.

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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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Maintain Your Startup Motivation While Working Harder

Startup Professionals Musings

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Feel the inspiration from peers asking for your secret, or peers trying to model their efforts after yours.

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5 Ways To Get Beyond Early Adopters For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

For technical designers building innovative features, how to use them is obvious, and it’s very hard to see things as a first-time not-so-technical customer. The solution is to actively engage people outside your perspective to design usability in from the beginning. All customer interfaces must be designed by Marketing.

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How To Enjoy Your Business Dream As Well As The Work

Startup Professionals Musings

New business models that provide an ongoing revenue stream, or a secondary stream from advertising, raise your margins and can give you some additional satisfaction. Watch that patent provide a real barrier to competitive entry. Feel the inspiration from peers asking for your secret, or peers trying to model their efforts after yours.

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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. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented. Create and maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction.

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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. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented. Create and maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction.