Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and there are some good ones I will outline here. 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. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and there are some good ones I will outline here. 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. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2021

In fact, it’s all about understanding the differences between early adopters and mainstream customers, and managing your own marketing and development efforts to cross this deadly chasm. They will request and be more vocal about technically tricky and elegant features. Balance your focus on engineering elegance.

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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. More importantly, it allows us to spend much less time creating those dashboards and more time on in-depth analysis.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

That blurb, and the following examples, were all generated from GPT in only a few seconds, at a cost of less than one penny. Giving this feedback to GPT gives us a revised prompt - once again, in just a few seconds: Hello! Happy customers mean happy CEOs and founders - and that’s what makes us happy.

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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. Source: Pixabay. Short answer: No one just yet ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and there are some good ones I will outline here. 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. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more. Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

That’s because remote work is more than just concerns about health and social distancing. 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.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2024

When can you come back and show us a prototype?” This can be the beginning of a profitable customer relationship or a disappointing sinkhole of wasted time, money, resources, and a demoralized engineering team. They were ecstatic about the time the product could save them and started pulling others into our demos.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In my two previous installments, I talked about the changing dynamics in many tech-centric cities. Real estate costs in tech hubs have skyrocketed. Huge leaps in technology have made seamless communication with remote teams efficient and cost-effective. What to Look for when Vetting Remote Engineers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Think about the competitive edge they’d have by today in business or as a nation. In other words, a machine-learning algorithm can adjust its own settings, given feedback on its previous performance in making predictions about a collection of data (images, text, etc.). Power Recommendation Engines. They’d steamroll everyone.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

We have an acquisition arm and Congress is probably going to give us acquisition authority this year. However, using AI for new warfighting capability that’s much, much more complicated. That’s the stuff that Rebellion and Anduril and a number of other companies are helping us with. I thought about the job like a startup.

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Rembrandt Communications

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

However, PR can provide many benefits that can actually catapult sales and give you a competitive edge cost-effectively. When your customers see a story about your business in a reputable publication, you gain credibility. It discusses information about the unique benefits you offer without any kind of mention of the competition.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

COVID-19 has taught us all that the internet is used now more than ever. If you consider how many people are online right now, you should think about how digital marketing could be transformative for your business. The advantages of traditional marketing are vast, and some of them include: Low Cost. Easy To Measure.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is excitement about the possibilities of real change and an infectious “naive optimism” about how everything is possible. Many of us who have launched our own startups have our fondest memories of these salad days of startup life. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

While employees are often inspired by success stories and case studies of triumphant innovation tales of large companies, the cost of not innovating is often overlooked. Don’t get us wrong, Nokia was one of the first innovators in the cellular world, being the first to create a cellular network. Let’s dive into these stories.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Likewise, when the Airline Industry had low cost airlines arrive. A new business model emerged, but because it was utilising existing technology: planes, airports and booking engines, legacy players could plug in low cost sub-brands. It may even redirect us away from advertising and the prevailing surveillance capitalism model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and there are some good ones I will outline here. 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. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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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. Tip: Think about what needs to happen for your business to succeed. Image Source: SEO Linkbuilding. Define Conversions Properly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2024

In this episode, I talk with Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba about how to identify your own unfair advantages and apply them to any project in your life. We talk about how to look at yourself and find the ingredients you didn’t realize you already had, to succeed in the cut-throat world of business.

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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. I thought Id share a little bit about his story. Whats wrong with this picture?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

In fact, it’s all about understanding the differences between early adopters and mainstream customers, and managing your own marketing and development efforts to cross this deadly chasm. They will request and be more vocal about technically tricky and elegant features. Balance your focus on engineering elegance.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The creation of the Space Force is an indication of everything we’ve been talking about in this class – about the changes in technology and threats, the speed at which those are happening simultaneously and the new organizational models needed to counter them. A lot of people talk about space deterrence.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I hear it right after people have decided to come by for a few days to “check out what all the fuss is about.” Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Both the vehicle’s designers and regulators will eventually catch up, but in the meantime we’re on the steep part of a learning curve – part of a million-person beta test – about what’s the right driver-to-vehicle interface. Here’s how we got here, what it’s going to cost us, and where we’ll end up. began to decline.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 3, 2023

Now, we use this technology to make informed decisions about the future. Cloud computing has revolutionized the way we do business, allowing us to store and access data from anywhere in the world, collaborate with team members in real time, and scale our operations quickly and efficiently. Thanks to Liwen Neesom, Soft Geeker !

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

Jeff is a data-driven search engine marketing executive with 20+ years of experience in the search industry. He is focused on helping content marketers, search engine marketers, agencies, and e-commerce managers build topical authority, improve content quality and turn semantic research into actionable insights. [07:44]

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Customers would often ask me about business credit but I knew nothing about it and couldn’t find anything about it online. Being raised to not complain about a problem unless I’m willing to supply a solution, I made the decision to learn all I could about business credit and teach in real-time what I learned to others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. As a hardware engineer, you already know the value, importance, and layout of a spec to keep you focused, but you may not be so familiar with the key elements of a business plan, and the way to use it to support and add credibility to your hardware solution.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Product and Engineering. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Ian Langworth started his career as an O’Reilly author and software engineer at Google. Some people think it’s about confidence. The Review.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 11, 2022

Original problem statement : Chinese investment in US startups with critical technologies poses a threat to US military capabilities, but the lack of transparency in venture capital makes it challenging to track them. Original Problem Statement: Drones can be used as a surprise element in an amphibious assault to overwhelm defenses.

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