Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2015

Most business managers preach that the key to success is holding employees accountable for actions, but I have found that successful entrepreneurs are all about holding themselves accountable. Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Wait and hope for a miracle.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Keep a close eye on your competitors but also on your peer entrepreneurs in your town; they provide the context relevant to you. Does the rest of your team measure progress the way you are? Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation. Are the logistics manageable?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

In addition to entrepreneurship, she has a background in chemical engineering, supply chain management, biomedical engineering research, microbiology research, and new product development for U.S. This will require new partners, new skill sets, and new business model innovation. and Indian companies.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Entrepreneurs are always thinking about the future. Successful entrepreneurs do actually predict the future — they know what customers are going to want and when they’re going to want it. Successful entrepreneurs do actually predict the future — they know what customers are going to want and when they’re going to want it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

And he is going to carry the torch the rest of the way. And then I think in a lot of ways it’s become air for every sort of channel and element and, even as you suggest in your last book, a business model in itself. Joe Pulizzi: And it’s wonder, you know, looking at it from the small business side for just a moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 9, 2009 10 years of entrepreneurship I recently passed my ten-year anniversary of becoming an entrepreneur. If Id bought just a handful of the "best of the rest" domain names that were available at the time (for a whopping $70 each), I probably could have just retired right then. And Google?

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

For some entrepreneurs this idea that the founder is not necessarily the CEO, is a surprise. Its goal is to take the original idea and search for a repeatable and scalable business model - first by finding product/market fit, then by testing all the parts of the business model (pricing, channel, acquisition/activation, partners, costs, etc.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 17, 2009

For entrepreneurs who have been on the path, it may be straight forward to get started. What about the rest of us? Identify a profitable business model faster and cheaper than your competitors. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. The opportunity was just mind-bogglingly huge.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

For those of you who don’t know, business plan competitions are held by universities who get their students to enter and compete to see who has the best business idea. In exchange, these VCs/companies get early looks at new deal flow and offer aspiring entrepreneurs feedback and advice on their business plan.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Business books are a founder’s learning tool. The Gladwell Effect Every entrepreneur has read at least one book in the “ Gladwell / Godin &# genre. As a serial entrepreneur these books should be right up my alley. Also a student of reading.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Initially, IMVU sought to quickly build a product that would prove out the soundness of their ideas and test the validity of their business model. The rest of the post, which you can read here , discusses the application of these principles to other contexts. I recommend you take a look.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. You have to know your business model. The rest can believe what they want.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? If you’re a young entrepreneur, than congrats!

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. The strategy was brilliant: get loads of people using your product and eventually turn them into paying customers. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. Unless that person is … you?

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. It’s all about the product. The only thing that matters is how good your product is. All the rest is noise.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Her passion is helping entrepreneurs create and run businesses that honor their priorities and values. Lara’s best-selling book, “Moms Mean Business: A Guide to Creating a Successful Company and Happy Life as a Mom Entrepreneur,” offers inspiration, advice, and plenty of how-to’s for aspiring entrepreneurs.

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adam.heroku.com

MAY 18, 2012

Everyone has to be a generalist and able to work on any kind of problem - specialists will be (at best) somewhat bored and (at worst) highly distracting because they want to steer product development into whatever realm they specialize in. Stage 2: The first hires. Focus at this stage is key.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. The founders. Finally the board would fire the VP of sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Because, unless you are working in an extremely static environment, your product development team is learning and getting better all the time. Instead of waiting for that to happen, make sure there is a mechanism for sharing refactoring lessons with the rest of the team. Why dont they just learn to do it right the first time?

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