Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

As a popular strategist in the areas of customer experience design and innovation, Webb knows. Employees must learn to develop relationships with real customers, and engage these customers to understand what each customer expects, and how to get customers to engage other customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2020

If you want to join the ranks of entrepreneurs and businesses who have a reputation for being ahead of the pack, for being an initiator rather than a follower, such as Apple and Nike , here are five key strategies and skills to develop that I recommend and practice: Develop a mindset of constant change required to thrive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The best story I remember related the family impact of devastation wrought by Alzheimer’s disease, leading to the development of a mitigation process, and I am now fully committed to this effort. If could be a disease you are designing medicine to combat, missing data that your solution provides, or a safety risk in a common process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2022

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. A classic survey of design professionals shows strong agreement, but 92 percent expressed some lack of confidence in their organization’s design vision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Software and hardware development architects and designers. On the other hand, there are some roles in a startup where Boomers are probably not the best candidates: Constantly-on-the-road sales territory management roles. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers. Labor-intensive roles, including warehousing and construction.

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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. Moore, “ Crossing the Chasm ,” but most entrepreneurs don’t realize how much it relates to them. Usability features are as important as function.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling. Brings complementary skills and experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Much has been written about product design, but designing the total experience from the front rarely happens yet. In the classic book, “ X: The Experience When Business Meets Design ,” Brian Solis details how to design the whole experience, rather than just the product. Make user-centered design processes iterative.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Much has been written about product design, but designing the total experience from the front rarely happens yet. In a new book, “ X: The Experience When Business Meets Design ,” Brian Solis details how to design the whole experience, rather than just the product. Keep users engaged throughout design and development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2013

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Speed up both the new design and the supply chain. Most companies take too long designing new products and services. They keep their manufacturing facilities close to the market instead of locating them in distant Asian countries, so new designs reach stores within a week. Develop higher quality than just good enough.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. His view is that word-of-mouth is an unsolicited consumer action, positive or negative, which usually fades quickly, like a good or bad restaurant review.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

When most people think of training , the first thing that comes to mind is a mandatory meeting in a stuffy conference room with a boring instructor walking through poorly designed slides. Fulfilling the third need of self-determination theory, "competence," requires empowering employees to actually develop the skills taught in training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2012

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. His view is that word-of-mouth is an unsolicited consumer action, positive or negative, which usually fades quickly, like a good or bad restaurant review.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling. Complementary skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Efforts to discourage scope creep are not designed to punish creativity. If the features are interesting but not necessary for initial release, they can be scheduled for further development on later releases of the project, whether it be new software, a car, or any other sort of device.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2011

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. Maybe he was the only guy around who could design the product you envisioned, but delivering a scalable, quality product is another story. Besides, he is now more interested in designing the next product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Even Facebook started simple, and then developed more and more robust iterations as user interest caught on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As a business advisor, I strongly believe that continuous innovation and design thinking are the keys to long-term viability and success. A recent survey of design professionals shows strong agreement, but 92 percent expressed some lack of confidence in their organization’s design vision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

As a popular strategist in the areas of customer experience design and innovation, Webb knows. Employees must learn to develop relationships with real customers, and engage these customers to understand what each customer expects, and how to get customers to engage other customers.

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Customer Social Media Media Employee 252

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2019

They skimp on the design of their website, procrastinate on the rollout to make sure the product is perfect, and get so excited about technology features that they forget about creating value for customers. Be passionate about what you do, but develop a really strong plan, and a strong plan B too. Don’t put all your faith in passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2012

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada.

Intellectual Property 222

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 222

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

Viral marketing is a deliberate marketing action, designed to grow attention at a compound rate, without further stimulus, by word-of-mouth. Develop viral content. His view is that word-of-mouth is an unsolicited consumer action, positive or negative, which usually fades quickly, like a good or bad restaurant review.

Viral 238

Viral Cost Marketing SEM 238

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2017

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling. Brings complementary skills and experience.

Partner 140

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Cofounder 140

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Thus entrepreneurs were able to build prototypes and design new products without the traditional huge prototyping cost. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. Low-cost design and fabrication tools are extremely valuable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling. Complementary skills.

Partner 258

Partner Software Review CTO Hire Equity 258

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. Moore, “ Crossing the Chasm ,” but most entrepreneurs don’t realize how much it relates to them. Usability features are as important as function.

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Technical Review Restful Engineer Technology 240

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Creativity and innovation are applied to increasing output and lowering costs rather than solution design and building a viable business model. This is also the time for business development focus, related social causes, and exploring common ground (coopetition initiatives) with competitors. With a startup, everything is an experiment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2019

For example, Facebook realized just before rollout that their new AI-based chatbots, Alice and Bob, had developed their own secret language and were talking to each other in a new shorthand, potentially misleading users. Alice and Bob were shut down immediately. Human employees and customers still need roles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

New technology markets and paradigm shifts have traditionally been bad bets when seeking investors, since these were known to take decades to develop, and cost lots of money. Too many founders still focus their product design and selling efforts only on direct paybacks to the customer. The leading edge was too often the bleeding edge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Personalize a simple web site. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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Hosting Bootstrapping .Net Social Network 248

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. In the USA, “near-shore” is a euphemism for connected countries, like Mexico and Canada.

Intellectual Property 225

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Vietnam 225

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

The author’s focus is the world of architecture and design, but I’m convinced that the principles and strategy outlined are equally important to every new business or entrepreneurial effort: Instill pride. The most effective teams, through sharing and common interests, develop leaders at all levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Any credible software developer should be willing to tackle this kind of tool for a couple of thousand dollars. Personalize a simple web site. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

eCommerce 196

eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The best story I remember related the family impact of devastation wrought by Alzheimer’s disease, leading to the development of a mitigation process, and I am now fully committed to this effort. If could be a disease you are designing medicine to combat, missing data that your solution provides, or a safety risk in a common process.

Elevator Pitch 211

Elevator Pitch Technical Review Boston Sales 211