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10 Strategies To Cover New Product Development Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

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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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Nobody cared about our valuations any more. We had nascent revenues, ridiculous cost structures and unrealistic valuations. Until we weren’t.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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8 Strategies To Capitalize On Untapped Global Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

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. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Marty Zwilling

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Top 5 Trends for Productive Human Resource Management

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While you may jump to providing better equipment or introducing time management systems, one area that is often overlooked is your human resources department. It can be difficult to know where to start in reviewing and introducing effective resource management to your business. Why invest in effective human resource management?

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10 Keys To Surviving Startup Cash Flow Requirements

Startup Professionals Musings

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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5 Effective Ways for Startups to Lower Customer Acquisition Costs

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But being able to monetize customers and acquire those customers at a low enough cost is quite another. Especially in the early stages of growth, standing up to competition means that your business also needs to minimize the cost of acquiring new customers. This kind of retargeting is highly cost-effective.