Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price.

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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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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. I've been in product, product development, marketing, and management.

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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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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

JULY 27, 2014

You can now skip the mandatory office space rental, with secretary and bookkeeping staff, or outsourcing. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. For startups, social media and color printers have essentially replaced the need for external public relations and marketing services.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2014

While not investing in certain areas may seem like a good idea in the short-term, not spending enough on key elements could shortchange your business, leading not only to headaches but requiring expensive fixes down the road. Here are some areas where it pays to make the necessary investments to get it right the first time: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

This new model (now only legal in the UK) will allow large numbers of “regular” people to invest small amounts each online to get an ownership position in early startups. Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. People can invest (donate) money to a project which has good moral/ethical value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

There are no “overrides” – for example, businesses don’t thrive just because they offer the latest technology, or because everyone wants to be “green, or because their goal is to reduce world hunger. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Target market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Nascent startup markets are like fine wine, they take time to develop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

This new model will allow large numbers of “regular” people to invest small amounts each online to fund early startups. As a current Angel investor, I can attest that any investments in startups are more risky than the commodity markets, and you shouldn’t expect to see any return for five years. Proceed at your own peril.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Back in 2003 and 2004, we were focused on the international market, and started outsourcing to India and the Philippines for call center services. In addition, the investors decided they were just tired of their investment, and wanted to move on. A good example of that was VantageILM. That's step one and step two.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

At the time, when we were an agency, it was quite a crowded market. We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. That part of the market is primarily driven by companies in what is referred to as lead generation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

There are no “overrides” – for example, businesses don’t thrive just because they offer the latest technology, or because everyone wants to be “green, or because their goal is to reduce world hunger. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Target market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price.

Services 72

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, the Facebook business model of offering a product free to customers while gaining revenue from advertising was born out of the need to survive as a business while offering a fun service. For example, many founders now use makerspaces such as TechShop to build prototypes without the costs and long lead times of manufacturers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price.

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socalTECH

APRIL 21, 2017

Georg Richter: For the five years before I started the company in January of 2016, I was at Guthy Renker, which is one of the largest and biggest direct marketing companies in the world. At the end, it's all about systems, the knowledge behind the databases, and making smart investment decisions. How did you get into this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

On the product side, once you have a proven product and business model, all you need is money to build inventory, and a sales and marketing operation to drive the business. For example, both need to provide exemplary customer service, build customer loyalty, and provide real value for a competitive price.

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Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. An obvious reason is limited funds, but a more important reason is the need to know and intimately understand what is really going on in the business and the market. These executives won’t survive long in a startup environment. Keep the vision clear, but make it real.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2012

Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. An obvious reason is limited funds, but a more important reason is the need to know and intimately understand what is really going on in the business and the market. These executives won’t survive long in a startup environment. Keep the vision clear, but make it real.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

They outsource the critical negotiations and “trust their advisors to handle the details.&# Let me start with an example. I started with a personal example because I’d like you to have that mindset as we discuss the business people in your lives. You can’t outsource this to a recruiter. It happens.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

This entry focuses on how you can minimize your cost per customer acquired by systematically establishing the infrastructure necessary to track the results obtained from a variety of online and offline marketing vehicles. Ultimately, your overall customer acquisition costs should calculated as an average of a variety of marketing channels.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We checked all of those boxes, and then went back out to market in Spring of 2017, last year. That was an insider round, where ssetnailly, Upfront led and angel Brian Spaly, the former co-founder of Bonobos and the CEO of Trunk Club ended up investing. An example is Outerknown, which is Kelly Slater's apparel brand.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Your chores can be outsourced through Porter. That’s the only thing that is outsourced. Which I have shown to do, but anybody who invests in tech, invests in team. We are totally bootstrapped, so I don’t have a lot of marketing dollars to spend. Build a minimum viable product and test it out in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice. Outsource services back to the customer. Force original intent thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In reality, based on my experience as a startup advisor and investor, these constraints lead the best entrepreneurs to the most innovative solutions and new markets otherwise overlooked by their peers and competitors. Foster experiments that don’t require major investments, rather than “big bang” solutions.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 4, 2012

Perform China Syndrome Market Analysis. In order to reasonably assess the size of your addressable market, you must perform a bottoms-up analysis which is based on a number of elemental assumptions. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. Fallacy: Such abstract extrapolations are meaningless.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Financial institutions, for example, count on pure capital plays without innovation that can disappear quickly. Single-node factories may be home-based with a global market. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 16, 2011

Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend a small fortune to protect it before I perform any market validation. Once you prove that a substantial, addressible market segment is willing to pay a price for your solution that exceeds your costs, you can consider a licensing strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice. Outsource services back to the customer. Force original intent thinking.

Startup 105

Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Ideas 105

Frank Addante

JUNE 19, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Examples: B2C Example (for an eBay user): 1. Startup 3.0:

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? Build your own Startup Death Clock - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , November 1, 2010 A few months ago I created a fun device at WPEngine to focus everyone's attention the most important thing. Maybe you could get v1.0

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

Frank Addante

DECEMBER 22, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Ill take a simple example and "jargon it up" to illustrate my point.

Startup 40

Startup Competition Venture Capital Advertising 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm. Financial institutions, for example, count on pure capital plays without innovation that can disappear quickly. Single-node factories may be home-based with a global market. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Offshore Technical Review Outsource 87

Frank Addante

JANUARY 23, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Outsourcing 1. ► October (1) New Video! A BIG THANK YOU.

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Develop Development Product 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2016

He provides dozens of ideas and examples to illustrate how this discipline can work, and the power it brings to any organization. An example is the evolution of computer control to screen touches and gestures, versus keys and mice. Outsource services back to the customer. Force original intent thinking.

Startup 57

Startup Outsource Development Entrepreneur Ideas 57