Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors. This is the youngest demographic, people born after 1995, who are sought-after by all new businesses. Super-angels. Osmosis marketing.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

This required a repeatable and scalable sales process, which required a professional sales staff and a product stable enough that customers wouldn’t return it. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public. Board Control.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. 20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model. I started my business with my fiancé because of our combined skills and experiences. At the time, I was a doing sales and marketing for a media company. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC !

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. The woman in charge of sales was so tenacious that I used to feelsorry for potential customers on the phone with her. Watch them.

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