Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. Social media is not rocket science.

Burn Rate 258

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Management Salary 258

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. On the other hand, everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. His focus is on entrepreneurs in America, but what he says applies to every other country as well. Next wave of economic expansion.

Artificial Inteligence 315

Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2023

Every entrepreneur and business executive knows that continuous innovation is required to survive, but most struggle with this more than any other challenge they face. They overtly set out to create the future as a mission distinctly separate from their performance engine of today. Sponsor experiments and measure like new investments.

Framework 240

Framework Engineer Leadership Revenue 240

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Every technical entrepreneur is an early adopter of technology, so naturally they build things with people like themselves in mind. Moore, “ Crossing the Chasm ,” but most entrepreneurs don’t realize how much it relates to them. Balance your focus on engineering elegance. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias.

Technical Review 259

Technical Review Entrepreneur Restful Engineer 259

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

From my consulting with entrepreneurs in Europe and other countries, I’m convinced that we all could benefit from adapting to meet their environments. Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push.

Global 345

Global Silicon Valley Marketing Indonesia 345

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. On the other hand, everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs growing companies create more value and more jobs. Outsourcing and manufacturing “offshore” have become the norm.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Offshore Merger Technical Review 263

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Every entrepreneur and business executive knows that continuous innovation is required to survive, but most struggle with this more than any other challenge they face. They overtly set out to create the future as a mission distinctly separate from their performance engine of today. Sponsor experiments and measure like new investments.

Framework 402

Framework Engineer Leadership Revenue 402

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2014

Many entrepreneurs fantasize about days longer than 24 hours, convinced that their new venture could change the world, if they just had more time. However, this topic is particularly critical to entrepreneurs, who struggle with challenges and crises every day that they didn’t anticipate. Get products out the door and shipped.

Management 263

Management Entrepreneur Technical Review Social Media 263

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Many of the investors and entrepreneurs I know still don’t realize that they need to use and understand the Internet, even if their business is not e-commerce. Believe me, the business implications are already critical to your success or failure as an entrepreneur: Blog. Search engine marketing (SEM). Marty Zwilling.

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Internet SEM Wiki Entrepreneur 224

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Solo entrepreneurs rarely find an investor. Investors talk to each other and they love warm introductions to up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

Sweat Equity 152

Sweat Equity Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Software Review 152

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Intellectual Property 341

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 341

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. Social media is not rocket science.

Burn Rate 310

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Salary Angel Investor 310

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

According to the 2017 Kauffman Startup Activity Index , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity reached 86 percent, more than 12 percentage points higher than in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and team members) are getting rich.

Entrepreneur 166

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts.

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Las Vegas Silicon Valley Arizona Montana 309

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. percent to 23.4

IPO 273

IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Every technical entrepreneur is an early adopter of technology, so naturally they build things with people like themselves in mind. Moore, “ Crossing the Chasm ,” but most entrepreneurs don’t realize how much it relates to them. Balance your focus on engineering elegance. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias.

Technical Review 294

Technical Review Product Customer Restful 294

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2013

He and many other experts believe that the Semantic Web will act more like a personal assistant than a search engine. On the basic search engine front, WolframAlpha is an amazing computational engine often used by Siri, which creates intelligent results, graphs, and reports from any natural language question.

Semantic 245

Semantic Web Software Review Entrepreneur 245

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2021

The best part of being an entrepreneur is having the independence to make your own decisions, the flexibility for a better work/life balance, and personal satisfaction from driving change. The road to business success is filled with challenges and frustrations that most aspiring entrepreneurs never even imagined.

Entrepreneur 436

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Operations Social Media 436

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. One way of identifying the right characteristics and approaches is to take a hard look at entrepreneurs who have done it.

Technology 328

Technology Entrepreneur Social Network Networking 328

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you are a business professional in a big company, or an entrepreneur with a startup, innovation is a key strategy. Tesla has found that sharing many of their battery patents has expanded the market for all electric vehicle providers, as well as attracted the very best engineers to join Tesla’s team.

Artificial Inteligence 286

Artificial Inteligence Technology Leadership Business Model 286

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

In fact, I often have to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that their inventions have zero value, at least not until they are put in the context of a business plan, with qualified people committed to executing the plan. Every inventor seems to think their invention is worth a million dollars, but I haven’t seen anyone pay that much for one yet.

Technical Review 391

Technical Review Intellectual Property Early Stage Global 391

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 246

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2016

I’m a practical guy, so I recognize that expecting the real world to be fair is a dream that every entrepreneur needs to put aside as they reach the age of majority. It takes more than a single entrepreneur with an innovative idea to build a business. The entrepreneur lifestyle has always been a fun and satisfying experience.

Las Vegas 120

Las Vegas Entrepreneur Technical Review Government 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

One of the attributes that I often recommend to the business professionals and entrepreneurs I mentor is to always be totally accountable for your actions and ideas. In this context, accountability for a successful engine will never happen. Lack of accountability can permeate an entire organization.

Philadelphia 274

Philadelphia Technical Review Engineer Metrics 274

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2022

I know entrepreneurs who have suffered from premature execution often associated with the ready-fire-aim quick-to-market approach. Here are the key parameters that can swing the pendulum: Engineers have an uncontrollable ability to add more features. Entrepreneur confuses sense of urgency with sense of emergency.

Marketing 302

Marketing Technical Review Cost Product Development 302

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

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. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Intellectual Property 261

Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator Bootstrapping 261

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

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. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I know entrepreneurs who have suffered from the dreaded premature execution syndrome often associated with the ready-fire-aim approach. Here are the key parameters that can swing the pendulum: Engineers have an uncontrolled ability to add more features. Entrepreneur confuses sense of urgency with sense of emergency.

Entrepreneur 257

Entrepreneur Technical Review Cost Product Development 257

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2022

As a long-time mentor and advisor to new business owners, I can attest to both the need for mentoring, and the satisfaction that comes from watching an aspiring but tentative entrepreneur grow into someone capable of changing the world. It’s a win-win situation for everyone in this new age of the entrepreneur. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 385

Entrepreneur Retention America Leadership 385

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

From my consulting with entrepreneurs in Europe and other countries, I’m convinced that we all could benefit from adapting to meet their environments. Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push.

Silicon Valley 312

Silicon Valley Indonesia Venture Capital Global 312

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

According to current Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity now exceeds 86%, more than 12 percentage points higher than ten years ago at the height of the last recession. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

North America 320

North America Incubator Initial Public Offering Exit Strategy 320

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.” These are both experienced entrepreneurs and angel investors. Lessons Learned , by Eric Ries.

Curation 230

Curation Technical Review Entrepreneur Cofounder 230

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2022

Most people I know in business begin by capitalizing on technical strength or passion for change , such as engineering, or focus on saving the environment. As another example, many entrepreneurs I know enhance their leadership skills by taking on roles mentoring college students and younger peers.

Leadership 285

Leadership Startup Networking Engineer 285

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

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. Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Finance 320

Finance Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 320

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. Social media is not rocket science.

Burn Rate 223

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

Costs are low these days to set up a credible website, do some search engine optimization, start blogging, and start mining the social networks for interest. Spend your time finding renewable sources of customers and iterate. Use social networking to start the wave.

Agile 230

Agile Entrepreneur Social Network Software Developers 230

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2023

As I work with aspiring entrepreneurs and business professionals, I often hear about stress and disappointment from a great idea or innovation that failed for reasons that you don’t understand. Evaluate alternatives that are now available. Most real problems have workarounds, or solutions that you may not be aware of.

Technical Review 300

Technical Review Stealth Social Media Search 300