Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2015

For example, hydrogen-fueled engines were invented over a century ago, with a continuing promise of breathing air and exhaling pure water vapor and having over 200 companies active in the hydrogen sector today. Develop written business plans as detailed as product plans.

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Technical Review Product Curation Technology 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Developing the ideal product the first time around is unlikely, high risk, and very expensive in today’s chaotic market. 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

JANUARY 29, 2022

If your product is highly innovative, and speed to market is critical, you won’t get it right the first time anyway, no matter how cautiously you plan. These are the environments where you really need extended planning to ensure proper positioning before launching the product. But Lonnie L.

Marketing 302

Marketing Technical Review Cost Product Development 302

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.

Internet 294

Internet Web Affiliate Advertising 294

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 261

Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator Bootstrapping 261

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

New York City 246

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 246

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Finance 320

Finance Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 320

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. It decreases your odds of being bought. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state.

Las Vegas 309

Las Vegas Silicon Valley Arizona Montana 309

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Overall, managing cash flow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product. Social media is not rocket science.

Burn Rate 223

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 223

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

The good news is that early adopters are never reluctant to sign up as beta customers and will provide you early feedback on product quality. Balance your focus on engineering elegance. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias. I call it failing by early adopters.

Technical Review 240

Technical Review Restful Engineer Technology 240

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

New York City 315

New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping 315

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Turn existing connections into productive relationships. By helping others, and participating in online debates and industry events, you will find that productive relationships emerge naturally with peers. Asking someone to be your mentor is not a sign of weakness, and most mentors love to help.

Entrepreneur 261

Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Angel Investor Incubator 261

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.

Affiliate 221

Affiliate Advertising Technical Review Social Network 221

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2019

If your product is highly innovative, and speed to market is critical, you won’t get it right the first time anyway, no matter how cautiously you plan. These are the environments where you really need extended planning to ensure proper positioning before launching the product. But Lonnie L.

Technical Review 233

Technical Review Startup Cost Product Development 233

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 219

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Overall, managing cashflow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product. Social media is not rocket science.

Burn Rate 262

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

Business Plan 423

Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile. Show some traction before funding.

Agile 263

Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers 263

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

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Search engine marketing is simply buying advertising for your business from Google or another search engine company.

Search 225

Search Engineer SEM Widget 225

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

The good news is that early adopters are never reluctant to sign up as beta customers and will provide you early feedback on product quality. Balance your focus on engineering elegance. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias. I call it failing by early adopters.

Technical Review 259

Technical Review Entrepreneur Restful Engineer 259

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile. Show some traction before funding.

Agile 253

Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers 253

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Tech companies see engineers move frequently, integrate their products tightly, and often find themselves acquiring or merging with counterparts. It decreases your odds of being bought. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital. Wessel measures a 39% acquisition advantage to being in-state.

Las Vegas 243

Las Vegas Silicon Valley Arizona Montana 243

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. For new product startups, search engine marketing (SEM) is still one of the most cost-effective and scalable lead-generation approaches. Trade shows.

Lead Generation 285

Lead Generation SEM Viral Marketing 285

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better.

Engineer 219

Engineer Entrepreneur Offshore Merger 219

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Wikipedia started this, but it is also used for technical support, software, and product reviews.

Internet 239

Internet SEM Wiki Viral 239

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2019

For example, as a software executive, I once had a talented engineer working for me who was always helping others, to the extent that he consistently missed his own project deadlines, and was ruining his health through lack of sleep. Taking on other people’s work won’t increase your job satisfaction or your productivity. Don’t do it.

Software Review 235

Software Review Conversion Engineer Software 235

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Overall, managing cash flow and burn rate is more critical to your business success than having the right idea and the right product. Social media is not rocket science.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

In their passion and excitement about a new product or service, entrepreneurs tend to continually narrow the scope of potential competitors, and often claim to have no direct competitors. Competition for your new hydrogen fuel auto engine is not limited to other hydrogen auto engine offerings, or even other autos.

Intellectual Property 417

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Dilution Differentiation 417

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2021

That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. For insight, I recommend the details provided in the classic book “ The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, ” by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. That’s extraordinary productivity.

Framework 384

Framework Leadership Social Media Technology 384

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2016

That’s productivity. That is a huge hit on productivity. For insight, I recommend the details provided in a recent book “ The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity, ” by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, and Leena Rinne. Practice productivity planning with your key team members. That’s extraordinary productivity.

Product 120

Product Entrepreneur Framework Leadership 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business If you have a unique product or service, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start. Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name.

Startup 252

Startup eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping 252

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.

Startup 263

Startup Affiliate Advertising Technical Review 263

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2016

The good news is that early adopters are never reluctant to sign up as beta customers and will provide you early feedback on product quality. Balance your focus on engineering elegance. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias. I call it failing by early adopters.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Customer Restful Technology 120