Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Customers today quickly get beyond these, and put a competitive priority on the experience of others, reflected in reviews and social media, and their own total experience with your sales process, delivery, returns, and support on their schedule. These have the vision and the resources to fund long-term digital success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2023

A smaller market sizing may make a good family business, if you have the funding. Highly saturated domains (more than 10 existing players), such as niche social media sites, are highly risky. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2022

With today’s worldwide Internet and social media, your brand impact is not set by what you say, but by numbers of followers, influencers, and satisfied customers. As a potential investor, I always look for startups that have filed at least a provisional patent, or can make the case that their solution cannot be easily duplicated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

It costs very little to file a provisional patent to begin your protection. When Facebook first started looking for investors, there was so social-media market. In any case, it pays to listen to investor feedback, update your plan and make the rounds of additional funding sources after each new milestone has been achieved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Buffer your projected resource requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Registered patents and other intellectual property. Contrary to popular belief, most investors are not looking for entrepreneurs who are desperate for funding. In this context, investors are attracted to thought-leaders visible on social media, and people with strong technical credentials.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Now, given our current economic crisis and VC ‘challenges’, the barriers to funding have gone up significantly as well. Fantastic post by Christian Gammill - Startup Delta Force… From a competitive perspective (e.g. all the other folks out there that will try to enter the same market) the barriers have been dropping over the last few years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

A smaller market sizing may make a good family business, if you have the funding. Highly saturated domains (more than 10 existing players), such as niche social media sites, are highly risky. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2020

For example, you may feel you are saving money by doing all your own administrative work and monitoring social media feedback. There are complex processes, like filing a patent, and financial tools that may be new to you, including Excel and Quickbooks. Prioritize your tasks ahead of helping others with theirs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2017

New business founders need to remember that investors fund business implementations, not ideas. With interactive social media and blogging, you have every opportunity to test and tune your idea before spending any real money. Sell your solution before you build it (that’s what crowd funding is all about).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Buffer your projected resource requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” “I don’t have a business plan, but the technology is disruptive.” Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Create a business plan online, but don’t wait for funding. Trademarks, copyrights and even patents can be completed online by anyone through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office site for a few hundred dollars. Take advantage of social media and free websites for marketing. Both are wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. These days, even with the pervasive Internet and social media, it still takes time and money for your marketing and customer communication efforts to have an impact. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

If you consider yourself a technologist, you probably believe and may be propagating one of the following myths: The first priority for funding should be to develop the technology. In today’s world of information overload, everyone relies on marketing and social media to find solutions to match their needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

As an active angel investor myself, I understand how the process works, and I see the disappointment in the eyes of entrepreneurs who approach angel groups for funding and often get turned away for not being timely or prepared in the minds of potential investors. Contrary to a popular myth, angels don’t fund dreams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Buffer your projected resource requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

They only want a quick overview of the product, not detailed features and patent secrets. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” “I don’t have a business plan, but the technology is disruptive.” Investors are buying part of the business, not the product or service.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Posting tweet. SEO Mofo ! )

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

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. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Registered patents and other intellectual property. Contrary to popular belief, most investors are not looking for entrepreneurs who are desperate for funding. In this context, investors are attracted to thought-leaders visible on social media, and people with strong technical credentials.

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Entrepreneur Angel Social Media Patents 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Unfortunately, customers look for value in solving their problem, and new technologies alone scare them, so these solutions don’t get bought by customers, or funded. Patents, trade secrets, and trademarks are very attractive to investors, since these are not easily overcome by competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2014

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. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

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Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2016

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. Be a visible and available expert in your domain.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for funding. Social media accounts. Here are the key elements: Company name. Copyrights.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. There is a much better technique. It is to out friend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In fact, ideas are a commodity and by themselves won’t generate any funding interest, outside the context of a leader who can execute. Entrepreneurs who have no patents, trade secrets or trademarks are usually deemed non-fundable and non-competitive. Instead, entrepreneurs need to focus first on execution disciplines and timing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

A smaller market sizing may make a good family business, if you have the funding. Highly saturated domains (more than 10 existing players), such as niche social media sites, are highly risky. Don’t try to explain your technical implementation, your patent algorithm, or your unfair competitive advantage here.

Startup 58

Startup Education Ideas Customer 58

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for funding. Social media accounts. Patent attorney fees start at around $5K.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. Marginal ventures that might be funded in a vigorous economic environment will not attract sophisticated investors’ time, attention or money in a downturn. As Guy Kawasaki pointed out in our recent conversation , “…it is cheaper than ever to start a company.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

million dollars from some of the biggest funds (First Round Capital, NEA and GRP), is precisely because they solved such a huge problem. They have built proprietary ad serving, video serving and image recognition technology, complete with patents, and invented in-image advertising. Tanz believes that the reason they have raised $10.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for funding. Social media accounts. Here are the key elements: Company name. Copyrights.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 11, 2012

At the point of payment or point of purchase, people should be able to connect to any payment instrument that allows them to call their preferred funding source and make a payment on any device, anywhere in the world, and choose to share that experience with the people they care and trust the most. So we bring business to banks.

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Software Review Social Network Platform Technical Review 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Call out your top competitors, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantage, including patents, trade secrets. Target income and expense by year, including funding. and trademarks.

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Product Summary Startup Examples 169

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for funding. Social media accounts. Here are the key elements: Company name. Copyrights.

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Startup Patents IP Social Media 69

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. In reality, patents are only one of at least eight items that should be in your IP portfolio. You need all these before you start looking for funding. Social media accounts. Patent attorney fees start at around $5K.

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