Startup Professionals Musings

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5 Keys To A Viable Spending Rate And Cash Management

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent or looking for the next refueling from investors. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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7 Worst Entrepreneurial Perceptions From Engineers

Startup Professionals Musings

Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. Clearly, engineers should think twice before assuming they have an advantage over the rest of us toward being an entrepreneur.

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It’s a Big Step from Engineer to an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. Clearly, engineers should think twice before assuming they have an advantage over the rest of us toward being an entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneurs Need Time Management Accelerators

Startup Professionals Musings

Every person, no matter what their passion, needs to revisit the principles of time management from time to time. Effective time management skills are often the best competitive edge. Programmers and engineers are famous for always needing more time to hone the product before it’s ready to ship. No products mean no business.

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Entrepreneurs Are Needed To Make Web Searches Smarter

Startup Professionals Musings

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.

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6 Tactics To Propel Innovation Before The Next Crisis

Startup Professionals Musings

They overtly set out to create the future as a mission distinctly separate from their performance engine of today. The future needs to be treated as today by a team and a process that is insulated from interference, but empowered to draw on necessary performance engine resources. Sponsor experiments and measure like new investments.

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5 Ways To Conserve Investor Cash And Ensure Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

Burn Rate 310