Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Beyond these believers, you need to match your credentials and interests with the multitude of public, academic and government organizations that proclaim to foster research and early development, to satisfy the long-term needs of the people or organizations they support. They believe in you above all else. Technology pilots.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

I just returned from a weeklong trip to India, having spent a few days each in Delhi and Bangalore to meet with local entrepreneurs and investors. Many of the most talented entrepreneurs and engineers left India to study and then work in the US and Canada. Reverse brain drain” “Reverse brain drain” is a real thing in India.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Beyond these believers, you need to match your credentials and interests with the multitude of public, academic and government organizations that proclaim to foster research and early development, to satisfy the long-term needs of the people or organizations they support. They believe in you above all else. Technology pilots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Beyond these believers, you need to match your credentials and interests with the multitude of public, academic and government organizations that proclaim to foster research and early development, to satisfy the long-term needs of the people or organizations they support. They believe in you above all else. Technology pilots.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. In reality, the financing valley of death tests the commitment, determination, and problem solving ability of every entrepreneur.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

I’m continually amazed at the number of entrepreneurs who go for months into a new business without really keeping a formal record of money spent or assets acquired. Product development process. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2018

As an advisor to new business owners, and an occasional angel investor, I see new business proposals daily, many seeking investors to fund early research and development (R&D) of a new product idea. Look to academia and the government for basic research.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

Creating financial forecasts and budgets are not typically how many entrepreneurs envision spending their time, but these tools are incredibly necessary. Communication (telephone, internet). Things like product development, materials and packaging, performance-based bonuses, and more. Variable expenses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. The Embrace infant warmer was developed - by getting out of the country -- and how Rob Emrich learned and scaled his non-profit, Road of Life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

I’m continually amazed at the number of entrepreneurs who go for months into a new business without really keeping a formal record of money spent or assets acquired. Product development process. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. It was absolutely worth it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

I’m continually amazed at the number of entrepreneurs who go for months into a new business without really keeping a formal record of money spent or assets acquired. Product development process. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. It’s part of what makes him so likable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. They often get blurred by entrepreneurs! Use some customer development to find out. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Healthcare, transportation and mobile-based internet companies (purchase-based) are the most affected sectors, with players like Uber, Grab, Didi Chuxing, Practo, Coupang and Zomato on the scene. While Uber has had several problems with both, governments and passenger based complaints, Grab decided to improve on both fronts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Ive never seen such a mixed crowd of entrepreneurs, vendors, and policy makers all in one place. g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. Federal government should do nothing. link] Amen!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. He gave me the opportunity to answer questions about our proposal, and share the stories of immigrant entrepreneurs who are creating job all over America, including the Senators home state of Indiana. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

We decided to find out, and talked with around 130 founders, entrepreneurs, investors and analysts. The dominant channel by which we reach customers is the Internet, whether you''re a small local restaurant on Yelp or a global maker of tissue paper. The reality, though, is that every company today is a tech company.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

As an entrepreneur, it is theoretically possible to find an opportunity that is extremely valuable, but is still unrecognized by serious players. The change creates entrepreneurial opportunity; the bad competition gives the entrepreneur the best chance to realize it. Successful companies can easily become a victim of their own success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

But this cinematic view of entrepreneurs is flawed in many ways. It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. But this cinematic view of entrepreneurs is flawed in many ways. Let’s start with the most basic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world. This doesn’t make sense.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Rebekah Radice is an accomplished entrepreneur with a marketing experience of over 20 years. She had over 15 years doing product management and corporate management before she became an entrepreneur. Kendall SummerHawk may as well be considered a revolutionary for women entrepreneurs from all over the world. Holly Ransom.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2012

You’re going to probably spend a year or two trying to build something where every single hour can be quantified against product development or getting users or doing press interviews or whatever it is; things which hopefully produce concrete results for the product. And they’re not here. MJ: I see that a lot.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. But it was a bit incongruous to hear her get wound up and rail against our government and the very people we were all working for.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? If you’re a young entrepreneur, than congrats!

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

The government doesnt assign each clothing brand its own level of benefit. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs. Bring your questions.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? 5 Comments 30 Answers Tristan Kromer , I help entrepreneurs find co-founders. Would that take away my right to talk about successful entrepreneurs and top managers?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21 st century. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21st century. In the 1950’s and ‘60’s U.S.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. I’m an entrepreneur and an implementation guy. I take a very practical approach to this.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

To imagine that this person does so only to get attention, or only to harass others, or only to harass you are to play into the hands of this geek autocracy on the Internet that just isn't viable anymore. By participating, you've helped the next generation of entrepreneurs avoid the mistakes we made at IMVU. Thank you so much.

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