Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Many writers have outlined the critical success factors for product companies, like sell every unit at a profit, patent the design, and continuous product improvement. You can’t measure, scale, or patent a service process that is not clearly documented. Create and maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2014

In addition, we all know that patent disclosure rules often facilitate legal reverse engineering, and innovation at this point is now much cheaper. The world is now a small place, but startups usually don’t have the resources to saturate all the related markets at once. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2016

It’s time for the executive team and advisory board to commit the necessary funds and people resources to complete the plan. Patents and other intellectual property must be secured at this point. Effective progress requires a detailed project plan, milestones, resource assignments, metrics, and status meetings on a regular schedule.

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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. If you deliver a great service, but no one knows it, your business will suffer. Are you ready to make it happen?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Despite some recent advances, there are still some cultures which have less regard for patents and other intellectual property. You cant isolate your customers from language idiosyncrasies and empowerment issues, per reduced customer satisfaction highlighted a while back by the Wall Street Journal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2016

In addition, we all know that patent disclosure rules often facilitate legal reverse engineering, and innovation at this point is now much cheaper. The world is now a small place, but startups usually don’t have the resources to saturate all the related markets at once. Capitalize on the lessons from early adopters and competitors.

Technology 57

Technology Startup Study Research 57

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. If you deliver a great service, but no one knows it, your business will suffer. Are you ready to make it happen?

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Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2014

Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel). If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet. They should get their satisfaction from building their business, rather than building their title. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Security Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Despite some recent advances, there are still some cultures which have less regard for patents and other intellectual property. You can’t isolate your customers from language idiosyncrasies and empowerment issues, per reduced customer satisfaction highlighted a while back by the Wall Street Journal.

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Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Technical Review 53

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel). If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet. They should get their satisfaction from building their business, rather than building their title. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Security Officer.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It may sound counterintuitive, but the greater constraint investors place on their financial resources during a downturn, the better your chances of success, given (of course) that your adVenture is able to either secure funding or generate adequate revenue from customers, as described below in reason #7 – Customer Dollars Taste Great.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel). If your business is managing contracts and patents, it makes sense, but the CLO for most startups is LegalZoom on the Internet. They should get their satisfaction from building their business, rather than building their title. Chief Legal Officer. Chief Security Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Over time, I have collected a list of new business attributes that go beyond the initial idea or solution, which often are more critical to long-term success and satisfaction. Assemble the resources needed for the business. Elon Musk mitigated this by making his battery patents free to all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2022

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

The key here is to gather the relevant facts, risks, and resources, make a decision, and move forward. The best way to start is to enable employee decision making on customer satisfaction issues. Real entrepreneurs start experiments. Today the key is building momentum, customization, and continuous innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2020

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

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Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Custom 125

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2015

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2018

If your product is really new and disruptive, make sure you have supply to meet the demand at rollout, and a patent to prevent others from jumping in quickly. I always recommend that a startup create an advisory board of two or three outside experts, who have connections to even more resources. Rely on a verbal agreement in business.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Startup Custom 63