Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This new culture builds on hobbyist technologies, extends the open-source inventory of hardware and software, and bridges the gap into real business solutions with other advantages, as follows: Shortens the time and cost from idea to prototype. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Business funding can help entrepreneurs tackle some of the financial problems at an early stage. Defining Your Customers. Marketing strategies may be a complete waste if you don’t know who your customers are. How much budget to allocate for marketing strategies depends on the scale of the business.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database design, database administration, web development, etc. size of company (startup to very large), stage (early stage to established firms) vary widely. or focused on industry or type of company.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. is one of the early and most well-known Flexible VCs, based out of Salt Lake City, Utah. They have open-sourced their investment structure , now on version 3.0, IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 1, 2011

Not Everyone Is The Right Customer – [link]. The long term value of customers for small businesses & startups – [link]. The long term value of customers for small businesses & startups – [link]. Not Everyone Is The Right Customer – [link]. How to Hire a Graphic Designer – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

The good news is over the past few years a better way has emerged to raise seed stage capital. Traction is evidence of customer demand proven with growth data. The hard part is getting customers to love it and spread the word despite a vast array of choices. It’s called traction. Traction: The new way of raising seed funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

For entrepreneurs who really try to be the CEO of multiple early-stage startups concurrently, the hot term for this practice is “multi-table” entrepreneurs. As your customer list grows in one, you own it for the second. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In the early stages of every technology, the market is usually dominated by products built for early adopters who are typically tech savvy – this mainly consists of developers who like to have full control over a product and its features. The key to win those new customers was simplicity and intuitiveness.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. And most startup code and features end up on the floor as customers never really wanted them.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. How did you find your first customers and hit important, early milestones?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

This resulted in tons of collaboration with large enterprises ranging from product feedback to pilots and customer relationships. The talent base is improving, the customers are here, and the west coast VCs are paying attention. — BOLDstart Ventures (@Boldstartvc) June 16, 2017.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. Fast forward to today. We can adapt these startup tools for use inside the corporation.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . However, only recently have early-stage companies started to use this model at any scale. . So what is Revenue Based Investing? Also see Why I Invested in SparkToro.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. Identify things that customers are complaining about or areas in which they want some assistance. Your hosting company should also offer 24/7 customer support since a website is open for business 24 hours per day.

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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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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. These typically have a larger support ecosystem and greater assurance of long-term stability than the custom vendors.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Creating Customers for Life: 50 Resources on Loyalty, Churn, and Customer Retention | Help Scout – crowdspring.co/1lD094d. Creating Customers for Life: 50 Resources on Loyalty, Churn, and Customer Retention | Help Scout – crowdspring.co/1lD094d. 5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Superheroes! 1k9Xd1W.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

For entrepreneurs who really try to be the CEO of multiple early-stage startups concurrently, the hot new term for this practice is “multi-table” entrepreneurs. As your customer list grows in one, you own it for the second. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Once again, we led each of these rounds at slide deck stage and helped land the first handful of customers to accelerate path to product market fit and their Series A rounds. This means more collaboration with the Fortune 500 and more go-to-market experience as our portfolio companies navigate their path to first customers.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Go for open source tools. At the beginning stage, you need to cut down the cost to as low as possible. One of the ways of doing that is by using the open source tools for the job. Most of the open source tools are available for free and have a good community support. Kickstarter.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. in place before you expand.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. This is exactly what we have done with [link]. Shoot us some feedback.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. SXSW Panel: Return on Inclusion: Investing in Diverse Startups Arlan ????

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

It requires time, hard work, and consistency to build trust with prospective customers, rank higher in Google searches, and gain a following for your brand. Even in the early stages of business ownership, reconsider trying to tackle every aspect of starting and running the company yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2017

For entrepreneurs who really try to be the CEO of multiple early-stage startups concurrently, the hot new term for this practice is “multi-table” entrepreneurs. As your customer list grows in one, you own it for the second. With open-source tools and public APIs, every product is no longer owned by a given company.

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