Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience. Current and new customers care a lot more about product or service quality, and the value of your item. Knowledge is power.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

On Friday, January 25, the entrepreneurial community at Chicago Booth looks forward to hosting their annual conference, SeedCon. This year, The Startup Magazine is proud to sponsor the entrepreneurship and venture capital conference, SeedCon, run by the Chicago Booth business school. Investors and Entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. 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.

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www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Product development. Queuing theory and product development. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? Customer Equity. To further this vector, many companies have business development report to the CTO. The Year of the Black Swan.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

An accelerator usually offers a small amount of capital, office space, and mentorship in exchange for a small amount of equity, usually less than 10 percent. In contrast, an incubator program doesn’t have a predetermined end, so there is no demo day like an accelerator, and they may or may not take equity or offer capital. Incubators.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. If not, brand equity is your strongest asset.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2010

million in an equity deal to an undisclosed investor. According to TechCrunch , it may very well be Paypal, who has been collaborating with Magento on product development since 2008. Similar to Wordpress, Magento has an active open source community, developing extensions and plugins for free.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2014

Let’s break this down, typically, a startup’s accelerator will provide entrepreneurs with mentoring, guidance and a small amount of funding in return for a small equity stake in the company. Often, accelerators will provide a space entrepreneurs can use as their office while getting established.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Become a Key Member of the Tech Community The Hope: You’ll form friendships with potential technical co-founders and work on small projects together. You have good community building skills and quickly become other people’s friends. There’s no guarantee your future technical co-founder will be there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested. Let me know. Keep doing what you are doing.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

By establishing a company dedicated to inventive and speedy product development, I am able to use cutting-edge technologies and consistently innovate faster than competitors. I recognized a way to help my community and the globe as a whole, which inspired me to start advising on divorce-related issues. Photo Credit: Omer Reiner.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

It’s bad for their reputation, it’s bad for their brand, and they’re also going to make mistakes if they don’t have the right people at the table being listened to when they make marketing decisions, product development decisions. In the LGBTQ community, you are deeply in the closet.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 23, 2013

I love Techstars Demo Days for many reasons, not the least of which is the amazing community that gathers to hear the brief, well-rehearsed pitches from the various start-ups who have spent months planning for this big event. Outsiders to the Particular Community. Today is Demo Day for Techstars Boston.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 11, 2016

In a study held by the communications and public relations firm of Cohn & Wolfe, consumers consider a brand to be authentic when the company delivers on what it promises, protects consumer data, respects privacy, and interacts with their customers with transparency and integrity.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

We allow our community to truly involve themselves, first hand, in an immersive philanthropic experience alongside like-minded journeyers, while exploring some of the most beautiful corners of the earth. To date, our community has built 40 new homes in Nicaragua for families living in slum conditions. Ellison page. Why Crowdfunding?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

One of the criticisms of the technology industry and entrepreneurial community is that it lacks diversity and inclusion?—?by by focusing on products and platforms, it has forgotten about people. ICT must be intentionally designed, developed and fabricated at the outset of project development.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. The scene is the siren song of the innovation community. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

In brief, startups succeed because there is strong alignment of interests among all parties, especially with the people who are actually building the product. Development shops who work for $100+/hour and take no equity are poor partners in a startup. 5 Points: You have a development shop that will work for equity.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

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? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If someone had been there and just told me “join a great founding team, focus on the product, and forget everything else,” I would have saved a lot of time and heartache. However, my two initial co-founders were not technical and couldn’t contribute significantly during the initial year plus of development. Don’t wait.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Look beyond the +1s, Followers and Likes, and leverage social channels to build out a community of like-type and like-sized :) people around you, a community that converses, shares, amplifies and, over the long term delivers economic value to the company. Why would it work in an ADD environment like social media?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. In later posts I’ll get more specific on how to figure out if the folks you’re meeting are the right people to work with, and also how to deal with issues like splitting equity and paying yourselves before raising funding.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Ning Communities. On-line Communities. Great for visualizing work of product development. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Google Groups. Forms/Surveys. Google Forms. Survey Monkey. Personal storage.

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