Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2016

As a business advisor, I see entrepreneur passion often so focused on an innovation that is certain to change the world yet ignores the potential impact of one of the many business inhibitors that kill too many startups. Necessary infrastructure is an inhibitor to many startup innovations and can take generations to fix.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

startup ecosystem for many decades. Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. with their startups growing by 81.2 Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

Coworking spaces are a really cool option for a lot of workers that, for whatever reason, don’t really fit in to a traditional office space like startups, telecommuters, small businesses, and especially creatives in search of collaboration. The Hatchery in San Francisco is a great place for startups to take root. Citizen Space.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2019

While areas such as Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New York bring in the most tourists a year, know that high-mileage areas are already saturated with hotels and come with a more expensive up-front cost. Check out these resources: Bplans’ Hotel and Bed and Breakfast Industry Startup Guide. Startup resources for hotels.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Georgiades (Zumper): I started working on Zumper seriously in the summer between my first and second years at HBS (2011), supported by generous HBS startup grants. Startups are all about just going out there and doing it. We raised $400K seed round at the end of October of my second year.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

They gathered almost $30,000 in two months and were invited to a training session for a startup incubator, where they received training and $20,000 in cash. It cost him $4.8B He pivoted his startup to a new strategy. As soon as Smith's funds dwindled down to $5,000, he decided to gamble with it in Las Vegas.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Calling itself ‘a marketplace for office sharing’, PivotDesk knows how hard it can be to find office space, whether due to cost, space requirements or lease lengths. Feature Story innovation Patrick Smith startups technology technology disruption' Patrick Smith handles marketing for Housesimple – the UK’s No.1

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 23, 2020

Here’s more from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview series. We interviewed Michel Ruiz, CEO and co-founder of KaviAR Tech , an augmented reality software startup headquartered in Paris. KaviAR Tech is giving clients the tools to “dip their toes” in the water of AR in an efficient, cost-effective and beneficial way.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. The ingredients are all here.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

You are relentlessly unattached to anything and will change your mind at a moment’s notice as new information comes into the picture, no matter the cost of time or investment. Additionally, Colton serves as a mentor for Nevada-based startup incubator, StartupNV.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. And on and on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. Most simulcasts are free, although some charge a small fee to cover their costs. Boston, Pearson Education, 501 Boylston St.

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Software By Rob

JUNE 16, 2011

This post is my post-mortem for MicroConf 2011 , which took place last week in Las Vegas, NV. The fact that Andrew Warner , Hiten Shah , Ramit Sethi , Sean Ellis , Noah Kagan and Patrick McKenzie were in the same room sharing their deepest startup secrets blows my mind. Las Vegas. I was iffy about Vegas.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There was ZERO cost for attendees because the costs were covered by sponsors (Thank you sponsors!). In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. To get invited, you had to fill out a short questionnaire and then get selected to attend.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

In Las Vegas, a partnership between the city’s regional traffic center and Waycare resulted in a 17 percent reduction in primary crashes on a portion of the Interstate 15 corridor. What has the startup experience taught you about life? If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2010

I was intrigued to find a well-established website for a city like Las Vegas up for a logo re-design on crowdSPRING so I emailed Sue Heilbronner, the CMO of Swiftrank Global and President of Swiftrank North America, the buyer for the project. I can hear the slot machines calling my name… Okay, back to reality, sorry!

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Or are they just folks who don’t happen to live in Las Vegas, and thus are getting their adrenaline fix from economic vagaries instead of cards? Balancing the risk, and cost, of being wrong with the value created by being right is the game. Do they have an idea that can change the world? guess) what customers will want.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. Ya know, something that looks like this: Why does Vegas look this way?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Business was solid, albeit with tepid growth, With the Fed, stock market, and economic data in the first half of the year indicated early signs of a recession on the horizon in 2020, many business owners including myself initiated steps to control and reduce costs in the event of an economic downturn leading to lower revenue and profitability.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

DECEMBER 9, 2010

There was ZERO cost for attendees because the costs were covered by sponsors (Thank you sponsors!). In the bayarea, TEDx Bay Area Women organized an event hosted at SAP in Palo Alto, California. To get invited, you had to fill out a short questionnaire and then get selected to attend.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

In other words, the cost of a college education has gone up, but so too has its value. Another outcome of the recession has been employers attempting to lower costs by hiring temporary workers—a practice known as “contingent,” “flexible,” or “alternative” staffing.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 18, 2016

-Salary Concerns in LA Dear Salary Concerns: Hmm…lots of thoughts here… 1) Your MBA doesn’t matter here Sorry. Your MBA is good for negotiating a salary amongst large companies or even possibly for jobs other people’s startups but not with yourself and the company you own.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Startups are lucky that they can’t afford research, so they test in market and land upon on ideas that would never fly based on what we think or what focus groups would respond with. And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

So now I'm home-based in Austin, Texas and I'm spending a lot of time with a lot of startups and a lot of CEOs that are trying to scale their companies. And I'm usually the rah-rah business transformation, startups guy, so even I feel like I've been infected by the sense that we're in a really dark place. And it's just beautiful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” I think that’s where many startups and even VC funds go wrong. Why Buy Anything ?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The one thing that you might be able to do is outsource the development costs of it. But even if it’s national, our trips cost about $1000 per trip. Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. I don’t know what your investment potential is. Interviewee: Right.

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

House of Representatives overwhelming passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act , a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. So let me explain what I see as the importance and sustainability of Twitter as well as why I believe it’s still a great platform for startup companies and investors. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Now, in my 30’s, I’m building an incredible startup that is transforming the beauty industry while helping men and women find confidence, and am happily married to my partner with a gorgeous son. 11-The Cost of Quality Time & What I Lost. Yes, for me choosing quality time came at a high cost. Thanks to Ajay Yadav, Roomi !

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

Our server costs, we're on track to be 200%, 300%. So, in some ways, for sure our costs have gone up, and we're trying to fast forward all these programs to support people even more. Sal Khan : how do we keep up with the costs of things? My first job was a Product Manager at Oracle, then I worked at a tech startup called meVC.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Will they relocate staff to Stockton, or maybe Las Vegas—or simply send the work overseas? Housing is cheap in the Central Valley, but the cost of living is even cheaper in India and Vietnam.

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