Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. With most businesses you rarely hear about the months and years of hard work behind the scenes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. With most businesses you rarely hear about the months and years of hard work behind the scenes.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2017

Those ads are tempting for small business owners—it’s hard to resist the ten largest banks because they control over $10.1 trillion in assets and have the marketing budget to prove it. After seeing the ads for weeks on TV, you apply for a small business loan. You know their jingle. Make sure your financial house is in order.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

It’s interesting that the question is pitch deck’s being obsolete versus business plans being obsolete. So very few investors want Business Plans any more. We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. With most businesses you rarely hear about the months and years of hard work behind the scenes.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Thinking about starting a business from your home? Plenty of well-known businesses have started with simple home-based roots. For example, in 1994 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Washington, and Harley-Davidson started out of a home—and a shed—in Wisconsin. entrepreneurs start their business at home.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2010

In Bezos' words, "There was no business plan. At the time of Bezos' investment, there were a large number of very well-funded and far more successful search engines already on the market. Remember this was 1998 not 1994. So was it luck? Or foresight? They had a vision. It was a customer-focused point of view." Alta Vista.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

In Bezos' words, “…There was no business plan…They had a vision. At the time of Bezo’s investment, there were a large number of very well-funded and far more successful search engines already on the market. Remember this was 1998 not 1994. So was it luck? Or foresight? It was a customer-focused point of view.” Alta Vista.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2023

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. Well, here is one of those, and it deals with market research first and foremost. But wait for the mic drop… [Email readers, continue here…] Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2013

Steve Blank , a Silicon Valley mentor and serial-entrepreneur, recognized for developing the customer development methodology, says it best: No plan survives first contact with customers. Sure, he was talking about business models and business plans, but it applies to websites as well. Might not be your target market.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

Only 45 percent, however, think that starting a business is feasible, while 67 percent do not possess the basic skills (including preparing a business plan, incorporating a business, and meeting state requirements) needed to start a business. The findings by CT Corporation aren’t exactly novel.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2017

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. Well, here is one of those, and it deals with market research first and foremost. Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment. So, I lost over a million for lack of market research. Back to 1996.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. I have stated previously that I love absolutes – statements with no wiggle room for gray-area responses. For most brilliant new ideas and business plans, the competition is merely to do nothing. Back to 1996. There is no competition.”

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

BHAGs were established by management guru Jim Collins in his 1994 book “ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great) “ , co-authored with Stanford professor Jerry Porras. I realized we were really taking off once we opened operations in the New York City and Long Island markets. What’s a BHAG?

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