Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2023

As I work with aspiring entrepreneurs and business professionals, I often hear about stress and disappointment from a great idea or innovation that failed for reasons that you don’t understand. I will summarize her recommendations here, as well as adding my own insights: Pick a problem to solve rather than an idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Even big companies I know find it hard to keep their in-house programmers up to speed on the latest technologies, including mobile devices, the latest Web technologies, and multi-tenant applications in the Cloud. Staffing requirements come and go in every company, big or small. Software Development Professional. Staffing Professional.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

A big influx of orders may feel like success, but can kill your business if you don’t have the cash to produce, deliver and wait for payment. One of the main reasons that former corporate executives often fail as startup CEOs is that they expect a big office and an entourage of expensive professionals to do the real work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business sense. But how does any entrepreneur know which ideas to implement, and which ones are best left behind? Separate nice-to-have ideas from ones solving painful problems.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2021

Building Your Story And Making Your Big Ideas Irresistible written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She’s also the author of a new book called: Find Your Red Thread: Make Your Big Ideas Irresistible. Her book — Find Your Red Thread: Make Your Big Ideas Irresistible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Early-stage ideas fall in the same category. I have the greatest respect for inventors and idea people, who think outside the box to envision and even create solutions never before seen. Test your idea with experts, scientific journals, and trade publications. Early adopters are not a big market. Don’t get me wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. The idea is to build excellence in one area, and get the rest from the ecosystem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

Even big companies I know find it hard to keep their in-house programmers up to speed on the latest technologies, including mobile devices, the latest Web technologies, and multi-tenant applications in the Cloud. Staffing requirements come and go in every company, big or small. Software Development Professional. Staffing Professional.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2020

In my experience, consummate entrepreneurs tend come up with more startup ideas than they can ever implement, and some of the ideas may not even make business sense. But how does any entrepreneur know which ideas to implement, and which ones are best left behind? Separate nice-to-have ideas from ones solving painful problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Make sure you have a process in place to find your next big thing. The “big bang” theory of change, where innovations only come through huge and expensive new projects, with big rollouts, is a thing of the past. An agile business doesn’t wait for their current product line to fail, before planning some enhancements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2023

Project management requires that you see the big picture, understand who and what resources are required, have the ability the communicate and motivate people, and have the skills to track progress. Graduate from an idea person to one who delivers results. Ideas without results kill many businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2023

Too many entrepreneurs I know still believe that that their great idea will carry the startup, and they may even minimize their own value, especially if they have introvert tendencies. Yet most investors agree that the “idea” is worth nothing alone, and it’s the entrepreneur execution that counts. Your personal life is now public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Avoid the three big mistakes, of guessing but not testing the pain (on real customers), selecting a low customer pain (solution is only nice to have), or selecting a narrow customer pain (small number of customers willing or able to pay).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

For example, if your idea is so new and different that it implies real social or technological change is necessary before widespread acceptance, investors will define your market as nascent or unproven, and be very reluctant to fund you, no matter how convincing your projections may be. Market is recognized as real and growing by investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. In reality, I’m one of the majority of investors who believe that startup success is more about the execution than the idea.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

You’ve come up with a brilliant business idea, and you’re ready to get started as a brand-new entrepreneur. They aren’t operating on big bankrolls of venture capital (at least initially), and they don’t have trust funds to fall back on if the business fails. But do you have the grit to persevere? Are you a Necessity Entrepreneur?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Every aspiring entrepreneur I know is talking about the fact that there are over 2,000 billionaires in the world today, and how their innovative idea could make them one of the next ones. The big question is how you can beat these odds. It’s a big step, but you can do it. Get support from credible industry groups and partners.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As I wrote in the past, it’s ok, and even recommended to find a niche that might in time become big , but we need to see the potential of the startup to scale. Profitability potential is not the only filter VCs look at. VCs are looking for businesses that can become HUGE.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

How many customers will have any idea what this means to them? Don’t fall for the temptation to make big claims, empty promises, and mind-boggling jargon. Working the circuit of big groups of strangers is minimally productive. You need to clearly convey what makes your startup the only choice for your customers.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MARCH 11, 2013

Last week, Lightspeed Venture Partners and the Amazon Web Services team brought together top technologists, startups, students, former Lightspeed Summer Fellows and venture capitalists to discuss how big data trends are impacting companies today. Put another way, the core theme is a simple idea that “data beats math.”

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2024

Native to Hungary, just like our business, we identify with the lynx because it is a formidable predator in its own right—despite its relatively small size compared to other big cats. We came up with the idea that since both sports have 9 players in the lineup, how about something around that. Yaye translates to “Big Sister.”

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Andreessen Horowitz Consumer Team Opportunities for startups I’m a big fan of the content A16Z has been publishing on generative AI over time. Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2020

We still come up with new business ideas. Some ideas come from the new problems we are experiencing, some are long-standing good ideas, some would work now, and some would work only after the economy reopens and recovers. This post reviews the fundamentals related to dealing with new business ideas, crisis, or not.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This is, at least on paper, a big win for developers. And therein lies the chilling effect: Prospective innovators sitting on a compelling idea but finding it running headfirst into the buzzsaw of the “Apple Tax.” The Big Central Question. Software development is really expensive. Sign me up.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Big companies are looking at ways to make themselves more innovative. The goal was to incubate big ideas and come up with next big thing. The lab brings […] The post Freescale’s Discovery Lab Incubating Big Ideas appeared first on SiliconHills. Freescale, in Austin, has done just that.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Often times, the people will have you believe that accomplished entrepreneurs had their success purely by dint of the invincibility of their irresistible ideas. While big ideas are engines for change, often times it’s in fact the boring details that are the single biggest determinants of entrepreneurial success. The people.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2023

Entrepreneurs who have a great business idea and have started a company need to keep a keen watch over where they spend their money. Initially, you need to have the cash flow to keep the company up and running and start making profits before looking at big investments like commercial property. This includes variable costs (e.g.,

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Their team blends technological knowledge with innovative ideas. To provide solutions, their talented employees blend technical competence with creative ideas. Clairvoyant’s expertise in big data provides opportunities for informed decisions and a competitive edge. Their approach is driven by the Agile methodology.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

Now anyone can initiate a business with limited income but unique startup ideas. Here are seven new and unique business ideas for budding entrepreneurs. When a person owns a small office or a big commercial setup, many things need maintenance and cleaning. Another unique startup idea is to clean the mess created by pets.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2024

The product and business owner has the big picture vision, the Scrum Master helps make it a reality, and the development team is responsible for actually making those ideas a reality. In Scrum, the project is broken down into manageable “sprints,” or iterations, that run for a few weeks and help keep the momentum going.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2019

How To Reliably Generate Big Ideas for Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. His new book, Idea Magnets , helps dynamic leaders to cultivate big ideas and create innovative success. How do you build a team that has all of the attributes to generate great ideas?

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

This is where the lesson lies for early starters and founding teams: with the right approach, small losses can lead to big wins. Adaptability is the piece to hone in on as it relates to small losses and big wins. He had the crucial advantage of studying past attempts that hadn’t worked. The Gift Of A Loss.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 9, 2015

Lots of Forward Partners portfolio companies have used lean development practices to great effect (many of them with our assistance) and all of them are pursuing big and ambitious projects (defined as targeting £100m-1bn+ exits). They are just the most efficient way of testing the idea.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 5, 2023

Josh was formerly Senior Vice President, Idea Development at Forrester, where he spent 20 years analyzing technology and business. ​​His most recent book Build a Better Business Book: How to Plan, Write, and Promote a Book That Matters, is a guide for authors who want to create impact in their business books.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Another perk of being an entrepreneur is that you get to be creative and innovative with your ideas. If you want to be successful, you must stand behind your ideas and trust that you will find people who resonate with what you’re offering to the world. But from those failures come new ideas that ultimately set you apart from the rest.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It’s a big idea. You can get a good sense of what a Story might be like (if you were a cool band gambling on tortoise racing in Chinatown!) from the 25 second mark here: Evan and Bobby and the team have been working on this for over a year. It makes sense. And I think it will be just as successful as Snapchat. snapchat'

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Before you get into a deal with someone, especially if they’re in a lead position and writing a big check, suggest to them that they retain the kind of counsel who knows what the market is and what’s standard and what isn’t. Role When I was a lowly Analyst at Union Square Ventures, I had so many ideas for the founders we worked with.

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