Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

Pitch your company, not your product. Disciplining yourself to write down the plan is actually the best way to make sure you actually understand it yourself. Even including repeat entrepreneurs, statistics continue to show that the overall failure rate for startups within the first five years is greater than 50 percent.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". So naturally, we started getting all this product awareness, right?

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". So naturally, we started getting all this product awareness, right?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2015

People cite sources like this BusinessWeek story a while back “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ,” or even my own article on this subject, “ 10 Reasons Not To Write A Business Plan First.” Pitch your company, not your product. Written business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event. Both need to be clear and direct.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2014

People cite sources like this BusinessWeek story last year “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ,” or even my own article a while back, “ 10 Reasons Not To Write A Business Plan First.” Pitch your company, not your product. Written business plan.

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Entrepreneur Startup Writing Slides 108

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. In my bones I’m convinced that entrepreneurs are more nature than nurture although I know both are involved.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

Even more disappointing are other statistics that show most websites that do exist have a very low “conversion rate,” or ratio of visitors to the site versus ones who meet your goal of buying a product or signing up for a newsletter. Usability problems kill conversions. Keep sentences short. Skip the hyperbole.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Admittedly, that last part is an exaggeration but they were bad enough that I am writing this essay in the hopes that you will read it and not make these mistakes. Tip: After writing you answer, re-read the question and ask yourself, “Is there anything in what I wrote that is not actually answering that question?”. The #EpicNovelFail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

Pitch your company, not your product. Disciplining yourself to write down the plan is actually the best way to make sure you actually understand it yourself. Even including repeat entrepreneurs, statistics continue to show that the overall failure rate for startups within the first five years is greater than 50 percent.

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Startup Entrepreneur Slides Content 65

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is higher than 50 percent. The discipline of writing down a plan is the best way to make sure you actually understand how to transform your idea into a business. If your product is free, or you lose money on every one, it’s hard to make it up in volume.

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Startup Ideas Entrepreneur Resource 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event. Both need to be clear and direct.

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Media Social Media Startup Training 55

InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

One of the most repeated statistics trumpeted by the popular press is that “Four out of five businesses fail”. When sole proprietorships are removed from the statistics, the success rate of startups improves even further. Keep your write-ups to a single page. Product Name. You might want to read: Lousy Product Names.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is as high as 50 percent. The discipline of writing down a plan is the best way to make sure you actually understand how to transform your idea into a business. If your product is free, or you lose money on every one, it’s hard to make it up in volume.

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Entrepreneur Ideas Resource Statistics 109

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event. Both need to be clear and direct.

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Press Social Media Startup Training 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2014

Resumes won’t give you the positive conclusion, but they can highlight negatives, like job gaps, bad writing, and minimal experience. “He All the statistical research shows that there is very little correlation between a good personality and any specific job. “I didn’t have time to read the resume, but he has great answers.”

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Startup Statistics Summary Entrepreneur 96

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

“The object is to exploit the convergence of people, information, products, services and places with today’s smartphones and tablets, which drive online orders in addition to purchases from brick-and-mortar stores.”. Statistics from 2008 show that digital couponing has rapidly grown but has yet to outpace paper coupons.

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Mobile Software Review Statistics Technical Review 85

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event. Both need to be clear and direct.

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Training Media Entrepreneur Social Media 93

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Members can also enhance their expert status by writing informative articles and position themselves as a contact person for other professionals to get information from. A main goal is to meet other people through the content they publish and find products and services you are looking for. Competition? Challenges? Future plans?

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Networking Help Social Media Platform 71

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2013

Resumes won’t give you the positive conclusion, but they can highlight negatives, like job gaps, bad writing, and minimal experience. “He All the statistical research shows that there is very little correlation between a good personality and any specific job. “I didn’t have time to read the resume, but he has great answers.”

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Entrepreneur Startup Statistics Resource 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2012

Resumes won’t give you the positive conclusion, but they can highlight negatives, like job gaps, bad writing, and minimal experience. “He All the statistical research shows that there is very little correlation between a good personality and any specific job. “I didn’t have time to read the resume, but he has great answers.”

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Company Companies Startup Statistics 94

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. Chip Kelly believes in the statistics of players: ages, sizes, speeds – and everybody is clear what the “Chip Kelly system” was.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. Okay, so maybe you never took statistics, microeconomics or macroeconomics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Resumes won’t give you the positive conclusion, but they can highlight negatives, like job gaps, bad writing, and minimal experience. “He All the statistical research shows that there is very little correlation between a good personality and any specific job. “I didn’t have time to read the resume, but he has great answers.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The professor plotted data and showed us statistically that most people buy stocks when they are booming (e.g. The pricing problem – So an investor put $5 million at a $10 million pre-money valuation in a company with a great beta product but no real customers. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class.

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Venture Capital Startup Funding Invest 263

socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. We track certain statistics, including checklist items and usage. But, it didn't seem scalable. Essentially, the foundation of the Genie learning process is that human beings learn by doing.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

” I’m not a morning person; in fact, it’s 2pm as I’m writing this and I’m still in sweat pants, but for this, I’ll gladly be there. Jim rattles off a hilarious statistic: 10% of people watching primetime television are drunk or asleep. But he had to start at the right place.

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Advertising Startup Marketing Mobile 97

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I believe it is what drives my huge bursts of creativity and productivity that what Stephen Covey called “The Urgency Addiction.” I have checked Twitter at least 10 times during the writing of this post so far and Facebook 3 times. I can’t write a blog post and then wait 3 days to publish. Email twice.

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Startup Writing Class Orange County 150

Berkonomics

AUGUST 30, 2018

They keep me at the leading edge of new development as it is productized, even before mass production. They allow me to preview new devices and technologies before release so that I might write about and speak about them in my “Tech Trends” keynotes. We were a great success with a great, ground-breaking product.

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Artificial Inteligence Pricing Design Product 120

Berkonomics

AUGUST 18, 2011

They keep me at the leading edge of new development as it is productized, even before mass production. They allow me to preview new devices and technologies before release so that I might write about and speak about them in my “Tech Trends” keynotes. These early dives into new technologies serve a purpose for me.

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