Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 21, 2022

In this post I wanted to touch on the companies who are making the biggest impact in the AR space, both in terms of product development and the developer ecosystem tools they are releasing to power the next generation of AR experiences. The companies making the biggest impact on the future of AR.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Funding process.

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The Startup Toolkit

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

You have a profitable bootstrapped business with good, linear growth. The deal they’re talking about signing will add 50% to your yearly revenue just on its own, but all of that revenue (and more) will be eaten by additional support costs you don’t currently have. They’re also demanding exclusivity for a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Hobbies can be a lot of fun, but they usually cost money rather than make money.

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The Startup Toolkit

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

You have a profitable bootstrapped business with good, linear growth. The deal they’re talking about signing will add 50% to your yearly revenue just on its own, but all of that revenue (and more) will be eaten by additional support costs you don’t currently have. They’re also demanding exclusivity for a year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Product development process. Hobbies can be a lot of fun, but they usually cost money rather than make money.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 1, 2012

These days, our advertisers run the gamut — some of our advertisers make billions each year while others are bootstrapped individuals who don’t earn anything right now. This is what I’ve learned from our advertisers: 1) Don’t go for a sale right away. If you assume that you can get a direct sale on average 0.1%-1%

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 1, 2012

Why the obsession with raising money, what if you don’t want a huge company, what if you want to bootstrap, don’t you know raising money isn’t a measure of correctness or success, … I agree! For example, the average cost of customer acquisition diminishes. That’s shitty! Less time training customers.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value). As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

Very simply, your cost to acquire a customer needs to be lower than the value of that customer (lifetime value). As always, there are exceptions: if you build a viral consumer product (such as an Instagram) where people are just coming to your site / app in droves at no cost to you, then you’ve got a great business.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high. Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Entrepreneurs are often wearing ALL the hats in the business while they're bootstrapping through growth. Using a predictive dialer improves our outbound call volume, lessens agent downtime, and increasing our agents' productivity and profitability. this transformational new wave of video production, development, and broadcasting.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2017

Practically speaking, the burning need was to begin hiring employees so that I could spend more of my day on product development, partnerships and driving sales. Why take on the costs of space, salespeople, etc? HW: So far you’ve bootstrapped DSPTCH but we discussed how you periodically get approached by investors.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high. Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high. Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The software was sold based on installation cost running on local servers for enterprises—which was very, very expensive. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. So again, none of this is me trying to say what you should do for product development, in fact, or what you should write in code in fact. Edwin: I know. Jason: Exactly.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

What it costs if it does; 4. What it will cost? This cost and timing can easily be laid out in a matrix that may yield to testing easily. Timing relates to cost and I’d like a sense of the total cost of each of those 100 orders. This includes selling costs, marketing costs, and so forth.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

At a high level, business is simple! :) You bring revenue in and your costs send money out the door. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs. The reason I like deer-hunting businesses is that from my own experiences, I can see a clear path to bring in sales profitably. But the execution is hard.

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

At a high level, business is simple! :) You bring revenue in and your costs send money out the door. You want your revenue to be higher than your costs. The reason I like deer-hunting businesses is that from my own experiences, I can see a clear path to bring in sales profitably. But the execution is hard.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software. The Details It seems like it would be impossible to find someone to even partially fund development of an application.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. All what you said is so true.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. And they don’t buy sales-force automation software, they rent on Salesforce.com.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Developers have worn the crown for the last 30 or more years in the technology industry - rightly.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. tells you how much adwords cost. turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. Great for visualizing work of product development. hire low-cost international engineering talent. Get Satisfaction. Eventbrite.

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