Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

His challenge is to focus on one market, with a specific design, cost, and price. Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. For example, I have a friend with a Ph.D. in Physics who talks passionately about starting a business producing nuclear powered batteries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there. Any startup with no patents, trade secrets, or other secret sauce is very high risk today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2014

The same is true for filing patents, registering trademarks, and filing copyrights. 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. Work out of your home, and keep your own books.

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2015

Tyler Francois: urRadio is an all new, social media app, which allows you to host your own Internet radio station. You also have a vast number of people in the social world, the YouTubers, the Viners, the podcasters, who have all made a living and career, and enjoy being a personality on social media.

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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. Indeed, there are some success factors that are common to both environments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2014

All of these are competitors in terms of speed, price, or luxury. Here are some of the key ones: Patent protection in place as a barrier to entry. Successful entrepreneurs start early building their own brand through social media, industry forums, scheduled events, book publishing, and speaking engagements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

My view is that the purpose of every business is to make a profit, as fuel for growth, sustainability, and social impact. The same is true for solutions to some social problems, like feeding the hungry, who don’t have any money. Remember you can’t sustain a business or social cause with no revenue or profit.

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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. Indeed, there are some success factors that are common to both environments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Business model showing costs, pricing, and margins. Patents, trade secrets, and trademarks are very attractive to investors, since these are not easily overcome by competitors. This implies high odds of a scalable business, simply needing an investment to lead to success. Solo entrepreneurs have a hard time finding an investor.

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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. Indeed, there are some success factors that are common to both environments.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Their patented multi-purpose cleaning formula was recently approved by Boeing to replace toxic solvents. DigiSynd manages Disney’s brand presence in the social media space.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2022

Stepping into unknown territories takes real customer acquisition marketing and new costs through social media, public relations, and advertising campaigns. Customers suddenly become very price sensitive. Early customers, with high passion and few alternatives, are willing to pay your price premium.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. If we had stayed on the sidelines, waiting for less market uncertainty, we would have lost the opportunity to file the landmark medical robotic patents that eventually motivated Intuitive Surgical to purchase Computer Motion for approximately $150 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Thus, it needs an advantage to rise above the crowd, such as a patent and trademarks, unique market positioning or support from industry partners. Validated pricing and a sufficient revenue stream. Investors look for specifics on sales channels, marketing collateral, social media initiatives and customer incentives.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Create and manage your social media presence. Master social media marketing.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

If the user shares the add on social media, they earn an extra $.25. Price: $1.99 Quirktastic Media (Durham, NC). Tapping into a niche community is part of Quirktastic Media’s competitive advantage. What if you could earn money to watch ads instead of avoiding them? That’s the concept behind AdWallet.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. Ryan Born is the Founder of AudioMicro , which provides a collection of royalty free music and sound effects at affordable prices. Social Media.

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