Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Adding partners, with their own tools and specialists. You can’t manage partners in the same fashion as you manage your own internal teams and processes, so scaling the business through partners adds additional complexity. Moving information platforms to the Internet cloud. That’s a huge scaling challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag. Chief Legal Officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. Scale it once you figure out what works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2020

For example, “While Product X has worked well in the server market, my product also provides Cloud support, to drastically reduce IT costs and maintenance.” In addition, thinking positively about competitors is what your customers will do, and what every smart investor or potential business partner does.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. Scale it once you figure out what works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

For example, “While product X has worked well in the server market, my product also provides cloud support to drastically reduce IT costs and maintenance.” In addition, thinking positively about competitors is what your customers will do, and what every smart investor or potential business partner does.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2015

If your space is crowded, define three groups, and name a specific in each group, such as “Company X is the best of the cloud solutions.” Highlight opportunities for 'coopetition' and strategic partners. Most large competitors no longer do new products internally and are looking to partner and invest if you don’t declare war.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2016

The need for a new category, such as software in the Cloud by Salesforce.com, needs to be proselytized and analyzed before assuming that your new product will drive the category. You can sell vision before you have a product, and the vision will make you the category king, and keep you there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2016

For example, “While Product X has worked well in the server market, my product also provides Cloud support, to drastically reduce IT costs and maintenance.” In addition, thinking positively about competitors is what your customers will do, and what every smart investor or potential business partner does.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

The cloud makes software easily accessible, without waiting for CD shipments to arrive and installed. For a startup, find an international partner, or hire a new team member who has done it before. By Ernst Gemassmer, Chairman, Startup Professionals With the pervasiveness of the Internet, the world is smaller.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

Whether your new software is ‘in the cloud,’ an online download, or distributed on a CD through various direct and indirect distribution channels, the process of localization is still a time consuming, manually intensive, and expensive effort. For a startup, find an international partner, or hire a new team member who has don it before.

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