Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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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. You are the ultimate critical success factor for your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

For example, I’m not sure the world needs one more social media niche site, or another dating site, or yet another flavored drink alternative. I do recommend non-disclosures and patents, but more can be gained than lost by talking to outside experts. Two heads are better than one. Communicate and market your solution to the max.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2023

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. Make it ready to play in all media. Are you uniquely qualified to deliver the solution?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

There are lots of resources available for the challenge of that activity, including the Internet and mentors like me. 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.

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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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Competition Software Review Social Media Customer 142

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

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. Make it ready to play in all media. Are you uniquely qualified to deliver the solution?

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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

MARCH 2, 2020

Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. Finally, implementation requires a commitment of real money and other resources that can’t be written off so easily as an idea ahead of it’s time. Yes, there are a lot of bridges to cross.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

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. They provide the targeted expertise that you may need, with the flexibility to increase or decrease resources as you learn what has to be done to scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

And we all know Facebook didn’t invent social media. Certainly I’m not recommending just one more Facebook, with a couple of features from Twitter, since social media has an unlimited potential for innovation. The advantage of imitation, with innovation, is that it gives you a solid base for building experience.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

Startup 108

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2014

They simply don’t have the resources to keep ahead of large competitors who see initial traction and go after it. Here are some of the key ones: Patent protection in place as a barrier to entry. First to market, for example, is not normally a sustainable advantage for startups. A narrow scope doesn’t help your case either.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

They expect to see at least a prototype solution, funded from your own resources, or friends and family or a grant. If your solution and brand are really new and innovative, you need to protect them with a patent, trademark or trade secret. Highlight existing presence on the Internet and social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Buffer your projected resource requirements. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. The best entrepreneurs manage cashflow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. Cashflow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development Social Media 105

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. You are the ultimate critical success factor for your business.

Services 72

Services Startup Training Writing 72

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2014

Certainly, I’m not recommending just one more Facebook, with a couple of features from Twitter, since social media has an unlimited potential for innovation. In addition, we all know that patent disclosure rules often facilitate legal reverse engineering, and innovation at this point is now much cheaper.

Technology 103

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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. You are the ultimate critical success factor for your business.

Services 105

Services Startup Training Writing 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2016

Certainly I’m not recommending just one more Facebook, with a couple of features from Twitter, since social media has an unlimited potential for innovation. In addition, we all know that patent disclosure rules often facilitate legal reverse engineering, and innovation at this point is now much cheaper.

Technology 57

Technology Startup Study Research 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2018

Patents, trade secrets, and trademarks are very attractive to investors, since these are not easily overcome by competitors. First to market” is not sustainable with normal startup resources. Intellectual property and sustainable competitive advantage. Customized marketing strategy and realistic sales plans. “If

Product 58

Product Slides Entrepreneur Invest 58

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. You are the ultimate critical success factor for your business.

Services 61

Services Startup Training Writing 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2017

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. Make it ready to play in all media. Are you uniquely qualified to deliver the solution?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Marketing is free or cheap because of social media. Fortunately, this reality results in valuable resources being applied to a fewer number of viable opportunities. Top talent is not the only resource you can economically acquire in a downturn. People are free or cheap because of the recession. Measure Thrice, Cut Once.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups - Steve Blank , May 27, 2010 Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do - Steve Blank , May 13, 2010 Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources.

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Jason Nazar

MAY 2, 2016

I created this resource to have the single most comprehensive guide anywhere on all the different items involved in starting a business. If you are inventing or creating a product, understand patents and register for one at the USPTO. Create and manage your social media presence. Human Resources. Recommended.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Assemble the resources needed for the business. Elon Musk mitigated this by making his battery patents free to all. A legendary pivot example in social media was the transformation of Odeo into Twitter. As an investor, I want to hear about you, what you have done, and why this is important to you.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Standalone URI shorteners work fine when you want to shorten mostly foreign URIs, but that’s a crappy approach when you want to submit your own stuff to social media. Because you throw away the ability to totally control your traffic from social media, and search engine traffic generated by social media as well.

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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. Her patented product, Swiggies (wrist water bottles), have been a NASDAQ product of the year semi-finalist and are currently sold in 24 countries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

As a startup founder, you won’t have the marketing resources or brand recognition to appeal to all consumers. Thus, it needs an advantage to rise above the crowd, such as a patent and trademarks, unique market positioning or support from industry partners. A focus on a specific market segment. Sustainable competitive advantage.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

see When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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