Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. Products so innovative that they define a new category. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Summary notes, as always, provide below. He invented the category of sponsored search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. But also when you’re developing so is your competitor.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Short summary of my posts: 1. Many firms do it in a way that can be more detrimental to entrepreneurs. We’ll probably end up paying more than we’d want to because we want to take the investment off the market and the entrepreneur will likely feel they should get a higher price if they shopped it broadly on the open market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2014

Many entrepreneurs still don’t understand that building a business culture today of doing good, like helping people (society) and planet (sustainability), is also a key to maximizing profit. Every company needs this focus to attract the best minds and loyalty in both categories. Marty Zwilling.

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JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Surprisinly, this strategy works well with many entrepreneurs. I doubt this will end well for those VCs or for the entrepreneurs they backed. Or at least venture-style returns.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I shifted my thinking a few years ago after I read Tim Ferris’s book The Four Hour Workweek (link is to a short summary I wrote). I do what I wish all entrepreneurs would do. I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. It was a young, first-time entrepreneur who wanted to meet.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I would mostly lump me in that category. I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. That notes only told part of the story. I’m sure there are many more.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. The Startup Act outlines a five-prong approach to job creation based on the proven track record of entrepreneurs: Reducing regulatory burdens. Take the U.S. Attracting business investment. Accelerating the commercialization of university research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The Venture Value Scorecard is a one-page summary of your company’s achievements and assets: the factors that contribute to the value of your organization. This section of your Venture Value Scorecard should summarize the important advances you have made recently in research and product development. His website is [link].

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

” I mention journalists here because they perpetuate the myth that focusing on profits is ALWAYS the right answer and then I hear many entrepreneurs (and certainly many “normals”) repeating the same mantra. Exec Summary: Most companies (98+%) in the world (even tech startups) should be very profit focused.

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