Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2019

While people under 30 have historically jumped from job to job, another striking development has been a deep drop in the incidence of ‘lifetime’ jobs among men over age 50. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. 5%), but still remains higher than the native-born rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The top line is available storage (S), the middle line represents processing power (following Moore’s law) or (P) and the bottom line is the Network (N). In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We slowly realized that Microsoft’s value went far beyond his technical contributions, due to his connections with key software developers and relationships with hardware manufacturers who could make the PC revolution universal. For example, I grew up in IBM when Bill Gates was helping us deliver the first IBM PC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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venturedig.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The business models within the social media realm are much different than traditional businesses. In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. The two major forms of this are CPC (cost per click) and CPA (cost per action or acquisition).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It seems to me that there is abundant proof in the marketplace of the financial returns to both large and small businesses, the low cost of entry, and the ubiquity of social networks. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

The cost of entry has never been lower. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Now the price is closer to $100 if you are willing to do the work yourself. Start simple.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

From your team’s familiarity with the language, to development costs and available resources, there are many factors to consider when choosing a programming language. Let’s face it – you’re probably an excellent salesperson, a great networker and a capable businessman, but software development is a whole other story.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Instead, buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, their social network, or just plain word-of-mouth or customer reviews. It’s a myth that social networks and their technologies are creating new approaches to marketing. One is known as ‘Mr.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 21, 2012

Evolving Role of Social Networks for Startups In this talk, Tony traces the evolution of how startups have leveraged social networks and social media as part of their solutions over the past ten years. Development dollars have been spent and the system is not going to be able to be used for the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

The cost of entry has never been lower. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Crypto projects like BAYC have successfully created a new social network, transportable to any other social platform, yet exclusive with real-life benefits. Students cannot easily network with other students and we have all experienced how much fun these zoom sessions can be. That’s insane. Picture: nftculture.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

The cost of entry has never been lower. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. This costs nothing, and allows you to safely collect money from customers all around the world.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Cutting costs , revisiting forecasts , and stabilizing your business. In the supply chain management space, businesses are leveraging these data sources in app development for smart inventory management, logistics, and merchandising. 5G Network. These trends will develop in synergy, with 5G.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Convenience First and foremost, you must decided whether to work with individuals or development companies. Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2011

He later worked for eight years at the European Union commission helping to develop the cultural industry in Africa (cultural products being the main exports – and revenue – for poor African countries). Peer-To-Peer Referral Network. – to promote their campaigns. The African Boy Who Could.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

If only you could periodically pump your network or mobile device full of a virtual vaccine. Social networking and email — 16.8%. What about the cost to deal with these online threats? Online threats are at an all-time high according to a number of recent reports. That pretty much describes a digital booster shot, right?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2023

The cost of entry to the entrepreneur lifestyle is at an all-time low, but the challenge of winning and success is at an all-time high. Customers have come to expect disruptive change, so yet another social network is not the way to get traction. Develop a learn-fast mindset to seek the latest and the future.

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For some reason many people discuss the problem of estimating software development timeframes without properly understanding the issue. “Software development” is such a huge endeavor that it doesn’t even make sense to talk about estimates without an understanding of the kinds of problems software can solve.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 2, 2018

” It’s shorthand for the concept than businesses which are primarily bits (not atoms) have some very attractive characteristics: fixed development costs, economies of scale in deployment & servicing, and “winner take most” markets with pricing power.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. It can also be very inspiring, as you watch your dream morph into reality, or as you feel each little element of success: Watch your team develop new skills.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The world has changed a lot lately and just about every aspect of a technology company – and especially a web-based company – can be “moved out” to a web-based application provider at a lower cost than doing it yourself. Trello – Planning for business development, design, some strategy work. Your mileage may vary.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? Apple manufactures products, owns retail stores and also has an open platform for developers to build and sell apps that makes the products Apple sells even more desirable. Leveraging network effects. By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

While people under 30 have historically jumped from job to job, another striking development has been a deep drop in the incidence of ‘lifetime’ jobs among men over age 50. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. 5%), but still remains higher than the native-born rate.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2012

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Abraham Gin, an entrepreneur, business coach, and CEO of Gin Consulting Group , which provides unique leadership development and training platforms. By providing our employees with an encouraging and positive environment we are able to create tech-based solutions for the development of people. What problems does it solve?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2021

Almost anyone can handle this without professional help, and the cost is less than $100 in many states. Practice developing a business plan. Pick a startup business that you can do for minimal cost, like a services business with the skills you have. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 8, 2022

It has also grown a lot more economical since the costs of technology and editing tools have decreased as they have been more widely utilized. Do not become irritated at this moment because your video is still in the early stages of development. In the last decade, video marketing has become one of the most popular advertising methods.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Even if they did, what if the assumption – that we had developed a better approach to teaching entrepreneurship – was simply mistaken?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

More Visible Networking? Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. I run a lot.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 6, 2011

That’s right, I prefer writing code than writing words and yet it’s been two months now that I started outsourcing the development of TaskArmy to someone in Ukraine. I spent the first 8 months developing the website myself until I proved to myself that my idea was a viable business idea. Why I outsourced the development.

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