Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. Clearly, engineers should think twice before assuming they have an advantage over the rest of us toward being an entrepreneur.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In fact, some of the biggest company expenses start off as cost-cutting measures. Cutting costs vs. cutting corners. It can also be a result of second-rate cost-reduction tactics. Are you cutting costs or merely cutting corners? Are you cutting costs or merely cutting corners? Have you been making the same mistake?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2014

Airline engineering issues arise due to lack of oversight; methods used for risk management and the use of temporary employees and outsourced specialists. We offer videoconferencing services that can bring airline engineers together online to resolve issues and discuss the industry. Connecting Engineers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. Clearly, engineers should think twice before assuming they have an advantage over the rest of us toward being an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. CAC is often measured incorrectly and doesn’t often doesn’t capture the true costs of acquisition. The first input is CAC.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2019

And Mike shook off the losses as a necessary cost of doing business. His operational leaders turned blind eyes to cost overruns. You wouldn’t need to be a member of Mensa to calculate the cost to his company of Mediocre Mike’s leadership failure. Meanwhile, he brushed up on his shuffling skills. Likely higher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. This is NOT the same as or better than Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI). Cost per click (CPC).

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

However, inherent in this pursuit is the pragmatic challenge of effectively managing and curbing startup costs, a pivotal factor in ensuring the longevity and competitiveness of any emerging business. This shift not only fosters cost savings but also aligns with the ethos of collaborative innovation that defines the open-source community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. That includes estimating the money required to get to the revenue stage, and saving money to cover costs before you jump off the cliff.

Intellectual Property 341

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Use content advertising to fight rising costs. Except it does it without relying on organic search engine optimization to make an impact. Here’s Proquo’s lead generation landing page: By doing this, they’re able to progress prospects through the funnel more quickly, reducing cost per acquisition. Grab attention. Build trust.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here are their breakdowns of the costs and time investments to create 10 of the world’s hottest startups. This means — assuming you already have a laptop — the cost is almost nothing to build the next Twitter. Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The cost of doing business gets more expensive nowadays. Many companies experience the dilemma of trying to increase revenue while facing engineering costs. One solution is to outsource your engineering services. Engineers are an important part of the success of your business. A Motivated Engineering Team.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Two conditions that do matter to your startup’s out-year viability are the cost and length of its product development cycle. During development itself, utilize engineering simulation software to reduce prototyping costs and shorten trial-and-error timelines.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2023

This is a trap of the past to be avoided at all costs. They overtly set out to create the future as a mission distinctly separate from their performance engine of today. The future needs to be treated as today by a team and a process that is insulated from interference, but empowered to draw on necessary performance engine resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

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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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Things will cost more than you expect. If your runway is less than a year, it’s time to either begin looking for a new cash infusion or defining and implementing a Plan B to assure survival.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. That includes estimating the money required to get to the revenue stage, and saving money to cover costs before you jump off the cliff. Join a startup incubator.

Intellectual Property 261

Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator Bootstrapping 261

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. The cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low. They have proven themselves unable to innovate, and they have lost more jobs than they create. Next wave of economic expansion. Marty Zwilling.

Artificial Inteligence 315

Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2019

Their primary motivation has been the fact that manufacturing costs in Chinese factories are lower than those in the US or Europe. But in the past few years, a number of news articles and blogs have speculated whether China remains a low-cost destination for manufacturers. These gaps lead to an increase in costs.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost. Artificial Intelligence – Scaling global intelligence and redefining work: AI training costs should continue to fall 75% per year.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a trap of the past to be avoided at all costs. They overtly set out to create the future as a mission distinctly separate from their performance engine of today. The future needs to be treated as today by a team and a process that is insulated from interference, but empowered to draw on necessary performance engine resources.

Framework 402

Framework Engineer Leadership Revenue 402

The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

“It kinda sucks to be engineer #1.”. That’s what a couple of my friends – engineers at Google and Bloomberg who have been following the rise of startup culture with intrigue – told me recently. They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Engineer #1?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.

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Internet Web Affiliate Advertising 294

VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search.

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Generative AI Search ChatGPT Technical Review 174

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. It’s hard to find good engineering talent right now, and if you’ve found somebody who knows what they’re doing they probably know others.

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Engineer Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 138

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Balance your focus on engineering elegance. At some point, this becomes compulsive engineering, and the tradeoffs in time to market, cost, and user friendliness move the product out of the intended market. They are your early opinion leaders, so they are required to build the image that the rest will follow.

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Technical Review Product Customer Restful 294

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. That includes estimating the money required to get to the revenue stage, and saving money to cover costs before you jump off the cliff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2022

Here are the key parameters that can swing the pendulum: Engineers have an uncontrollable ability to add more features. Cost of a planning cycle is greater than cost of an execution iteration. Many good ideas never get off the ground, simply because the product or service is never “finished.”

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Marketing Technical Review Cost Product Development 302

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 14, 2018

5 Steps to Small Business Search Engine Optimization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. That’s how you think strategically about search engine optimization. For local businesses, Google My Business has become one of your most important search engine optimization assets.

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Search Engineer Small Business SEO 68

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

In a recent blog post , he argues that it’s not just costs that are at historic lows. So, too, is the level of competence required to engineer a product. In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. Engineers, however, were relatively cheap. Now storage is cheap, costing $0.05 No Problem!

Engineer 60

Engineer Database Open Source Acquisition 60

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you’re moving slowly or have yet to implement search engine optimization (SEO) strategies as part of your overall marketing efforts, you’re falling behind your competitors. If your revenue model is the sale of a service or product, your goal could be to get your cost per conversion below a certain amount after 90 days.

SEO 48

SEO Search Engineer Small Business 48

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Real estate costs in tech hubs have skyrocketed. Huge leaps in technology have made seamless communication with remote teams efficient and cost-effective. Global internet bandwidth has exponentially increased while costs have become radically lower. What to Look for when Vetting Remote Engineers.

Technical Review 184

Technical Review Silicon Valley Nigeria Distribution 184

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2024

The productivity that these tools unlock for us is remarkable, especially to people used to more heavily homegrown data engineering environments,” said Shin. Wood added, “There was a huge opportunity cost associated with losing out on the highest-value work that we could be doing just to keep the system going.

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SQL CTO Database Cloud 121

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

SEO – Search Engine Optimization for Online Marketing Concept. Next, they optimize the content with keywords to rank highly in the Google search engine results page (SERP). These search engine optimization (SEO) skills are absolutely essential for digital marketers. With PPC, impressions cost nothing.

Technical Review 146

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 146

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

From my perspective, as someone that runs a company specializing in hiring high-quality remote engineers, matching people with opportunities, and managing remote teams, there are three key drivers. Companies Must Build a Process for Managing Distributed Engineering Teams. Many people are more productive working from home.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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