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. The most elegant products have the highest price tags, thus limiting market size.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and a technologist, I’m happy to report that the tide may be turning, and we are experiencing a new era of opportunity for entrepreneurs, and a new appreciation of the power of the digital world. Apple gets great marks for consumer productivity, Walmart for brand data, and Fidelity for finance data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. This early stage is often called basic research , well before any specific commercially viable products might be envisioned. Commercial product prototypes. Product verification and clinical trials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. This early stage is often called basic research , well before any specific commercially viable products might be envisioned. Commercial product prototypes. Product verification and clinical trials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and a technologist, I’m happy to report that the tide may be turning, and we are experiencing a new era of opportunity for entrepreneurs, and a new appreciation of the power of the digital world. Apple gets great marks for consumer productivity, Walmart for brand data, and Fidelity for finance data.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

I’d like to do a few posts on what life looks like on the way up and perhaps how to keep your head on straight and avoid drinking your own Kool Aid because as I often advise entrepreneurs on irrational exuberance, “ In a strong wind even turkeys can fly.” ROI studies were published.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2011

Many of the entrepreneurial lessons I learned from this adjunct Wharton study group, you too can share with your children. You may develop a winning product that customers are willing to buy, but all is for naught if you do not have the cash to execute your plan and deliver upon your product’s value proposition. Poker Face . “It

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2013

Now you wanted to merge with a broader-based business and sell all products. We didn’t do so well in that category in the past. I don’t think we can fund in that category, Jody. I didn’t so much want to see a baby products company make money as I wanted to see you succeed. You came back. Go away, I say!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2018

As an advisor to new business owners, and an occasional angel investor, I see new business proposals daily, many seeking investors to fund early research and development (R&D) of a new product idea. Funding new product research and development is just too risky, with a large time delay before any return is likely.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

I’ve been loving the product even if it sucks up some of my time. I wrote the following answer: “I have always believed that UGC (user generated content) website users fall into three categories that follow the 1/9/90 rule. But perhaps the lurker category is smaller. Two days ago I wrote about Quora.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2014

In the US, many entrepreneurs see grants as “free money,” since they are not loans and don’t have to be repaid. A grant is not an equity investment, so the entrepreneur doesn’t have to give up a stake in the company either. An advanced search tool is provided to search for a grant by eligibility, by issuing agency, or category.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, I've learned a lot, and my partner Paul has through our companies, and as a result, a lot of mistakes you make as an entrepreneur, we're not going to make.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2016

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and a technologist, I’m happy to report that the tide may be turning, and we are experiencing a new era of opportunity for entrepreneurs, and a new appreciation of the power of the digital world. Apple gets great marks for consumer productivity, Walmart for brand data, and Fidelity for finance data.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Hautelook was able to help define--and conquer--the online flash sales category, in record time. Brett Markinson: The best place to start, is I'm a serial entrepreneur. I went to school at Babson, back East, and majored in finance and entrepreneurial studies. Tell us a little bit about your background?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2013

One of the big advantages of being an entrepreneur and starting your company from scratch is that you get to set the culture, which is much easier than changing the culture of an existing business. Traditional” marketing, sales, and product management organizations often lead to mediocrity. Get your team right and do it quickly.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2019

We were really passionate about this, and decided to go all-in, and create the next category of transportation company. That came from a really great mixture of VCs and entrepreneurs and investors from many different sectors. The fact that we are a bicycle, means we have a much broader user demographic using the product.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Seek out similar academic competitions and programs. Don’t take no for an answer. Find a hero.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Death By Competitive Analysis - Steve Blank , March 1, 2010 Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. The 10 Most Tempting Software Startup Categories - OnStartups , March 1, 2010 I’ve been in the software startup business for a long time. And it made me sad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In the US, many entrepreneurs see grants as “free money,” since they are not loans and don’t have to be repaid. A grant is not an equity investment, so the entrepreneur doesn’t have to give up a stake in the company either. An advanced search tool is provided to search for a grant by eligibility, by issuing agency, or category.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. That’s why productivity wasn’t tough for me as a CEO. I’m not. So I always performed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2012

One of the big advantages of being an entrepreneur and starting your company from scratch is that you get to set the culture, which is much easier than changing the culture of an existing business. Traditional” marketing, sales, and product management organizations often lead to mediocrity. Get your team right and do it quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2018

If you find yourself in this category, you need to focus on techniques to improve your productivity On software teams, for example, a detailed study published years ago shows differences as great as ten to one in productivity between comparable team members. Apply the “minimum viable product” (MVP) strategy to results.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2010

We're enabling people with access to the channel, to add energy monitoring to their products. The category of customers we're targeting are building consumer networking equipment, such as routers, gateways, and set-top boxes. We're in the category of energy monitoring tools. Kevin Strong: There are several things.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. Facebook is about to try to dominate display ads the way Google dominates text ads - Chris Dixon , May 15, 2010 It is customary to divide online advertising into two categories: direct response and brand advertising. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration).

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. the smartass entrepreneur replied, “It’s called business. Within days of releasing the personal version, the Founders began receiving inquiries regarding the price of a commercial version of their product. From Small to Tall.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I wish I were good in the email category. These are great products but if you have them open all day and see the pop ups telling you, “You’ve Got Tweets,&# then you’re sucked in. Not everybody is geared up to be an entrepreneur – Tim Ferriss is obviously a very talented individual. Yeah, right!

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 18, 2011

I enjoyed it there, but they eliminated the apparel category so I decided to worked for a family owned apparel company. Kyle: How did you get started in the entrepreneur world? Kyle: What’s been the most after sought category of items? Then moved out to San Francisco to work for walmart.com. That was half-true.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

No one wakes up and says to themselves, “I need to buy that product I have never heard of before.” As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Tactics which can increase your customers’ lifetime value are discussed in Pour and Stir – Part III.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2009

Really soon you'll see we'll be editorializing products and helping people to choose gifts in a category an dhow to pick the right gifts. So you'll pick something a pink iPod 80G, add that product to your card. We've been doing case studies, and we've found that people don't want to be stuck with money and nothing to give.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. raise money now to weather any storms). We took $2.3 Sound familiar?

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