Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. Manage customer service. Personnel Manager. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Member of the Advisory Board. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

The human resources department is critical to your company’s performance, and there are two ways to manage the HR function in your firm. Any operation that involves an employee, like recruitment, payroll management, or even offboarding, can be included in these HR functions or duties. . 2 Managing Performance.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Bigfoot Capital.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

What had previously been a strength – their great management processes – now holds back their ability to respond to new challenges. HR processes, legal processes, financial processes, acquisition and contracting processes, security processes, product development and management processes, and types of organizational forms etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2011

If you develop something novel that catches a spark you’ll have the world gunning for you over night. This will be the team who hires the most talented people, channels them in the most productive configuration and gets the most output from their unique capabilities. Only hire A players. They hired him when he was an MBA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

You need a stable customer base with an automatically renewing revenue stream, such as the subscription model. Minimize permanent hiring and customized operational facilities. Minimize permanent hiring and customized operational facilities. Develop a product line and add alternate channels.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. So, who benefits the most from work from home jobs and diversity hiring programs?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 11, 2020

However, if not well managed, debts can ruin your venture. This move will help you set realistic goals, improve how you handle finances, and develop a debt management plan for your business. Consider reducing staffing costs by hiring contractors or freelancers to limit insurance and full-time office costs.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. Even as their teams grow, entrepreneurs often feel that they must tend to every aspect of the business, including low-level tasks that distract from revenue-generating activity. The result?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cash flow personally every day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. Manage customer service. Personnel Manager. Software and hardware development architects and designers. Member of the Advisory Board. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. As a new entrepreneur or business owner, the most important thing you will do is hire talent. Hiring = Sales. Robert Metcalfe, co-founder and CEO of 3Com, says you need to think about it as “recruiting, not hiring”. What does the right hire look like?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2019

New entrepreneurs tend to focus only on getting the product right, and assume that the right culture and ethics will come later simply by hiring good people. In fact, they need an early focus on developing their moral compass, as well as setting the right ethical tone. Ethics can’t be managed. The reality is different.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

He just hired Meg Whitman. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2019

If you lack leadership skills or poorly manage your company’s time and resources, it is likely your business will be left behind. Organizational and leadership management (Enhance your management capabilities). Data Management and Analytics (Utilize data to make evidence-based decisions). Future Uncertainty.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This blog aims to guide you through the process, from the initial steps of conducting market research to operational management, hiring staff, and more. Developing a Business Plan The findings from your market research should form the backbone of your comprehensive business plan.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

by Colin Simpson, project manager at BlueKite Apps. Before moving ahead, it is worth to watch important stats on the global app revenue. As a startup, especially with a non-technical background, you might have a plethora of questions, especially if you are planning to dive right into the mobile app development.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users). Revenue Architecture.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. Back to Podcast. Transcript. Find out at gusto.com/tape.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. As a mentor to many entrepreneurs and startups, here are my best recommendations for keeping the burn rate low, planning ahead and maintaining credibility with investors: Manage cashflow personally every day.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

Digital products, like business management software, cloud-based data storage systems, and communication apps, are also in demand. Being able to offer such products, along with using remote hosted desktops , can provide enormous revenue during this pandemic crisis. Digital Products.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users). Revenue Architecture.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Similarly, customers are more knowledgeable, aware, and conscious to choose from the variety out there, which slows down the company’s revenue and growth. Capturing and analyzing data enables companies to get insights that benefit their companies in cost-saving, relevant marketing, product development, etc.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

A useful tool for new owners acting as a roadmap for your new online venture and evidence that you are creating a legitimate business, a well-written plan can guide you through your development and future stages of business growth. Not to mention managing a business online comes with incredible flexibility. Executive summary.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

Today I want to write briefly about a strategy we have used to very good effect when hiring new workers: outsource. When we hear that word, we typically envision massive call centers or bucket shops filled with developers writing code half-way across the world. This does not just apply in the world of creative services.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

by Ryan Moore, Director of Client Management, Peak Sales Recruiting. When it’s time to hire a VP of Sales, there are a few common attributes you’re probably quick to look for. But how much are you considering factors like a new hire’s existing network? Gain an Untapped Network.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2013

Many smaller companies that provide creative services struggle every day to manage their capacity and their overhead. Other months, when business is slow, managers are left trying to keep their employees occupied and struggle to make the books balance. For just this reason many companies maintain a rolodex (remember those?)

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Early in your startup’s development, you’ll likely be low on capital. In many cases, digital marketing offers a return on investment (ROI) of many times your initial capital, meaning $1,000 per month in spending could turn into $3,000 per month in revenue. Only hire new people when you truly need them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

One of the greatest ways to do so is hiring a CMO or Chief Marketing Officer, an experienced, result-driven executive responsible for all your marketing efforts. But if we focus on strategy and implementation, the choices you’ll come across are hiring a marketing agency, a marketing coach, a marketing consultant, or a fractional CMO.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Once your startup begins to grow, you might want to hire a professional with more experience in finances to focus on this part of your business. Being familiar with the basics of project planning , and therefore managing and completing projects successfully, are essential entrepreneurship skills to have when building a company.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

” How does Netflix manage to find the right show for the right user so quickly? You need to do the work and take the time to develop a process that works for your company. It is about focusing your marketing efforts on a few select companies that could represent huge revenue streams. Victory surely can’t be copy-pasted.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2023

3- Manage debts proactively. Debts can be deadly to manage when costs and expenditures are already high. Protect your business from going under by managing debts proactively to stay mobile during the recession. This will keep them sustainable should revenues take a dive. Thanks to Eva Tian, Mynd ! #3-

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2019

To mitigate these risks you’ll need to hire extra security, put up cameras and a metal detector, and enlist an armored car service to transport your funds if you do have a place to store it. Some companies such as Zodaka have been developing networks dedicated to placing merchants with compliant cannabis banks, with growing success.

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Board Effect

JUNE 1, 2021

Managing a budget for a nonprofit organization is much like planning a household budget, except that there are generally more sources of income and more categories of expenses. There are two parts to the budget — expenses and revenue. Revenue may not stream in as expected and large, unexpected expenses can creep up.

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