Startup Professionals Musings

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5 Startup Cost Realities Most Founders Underestimate

Startup Professionals Musings

Now, with powerful high-level tools and open source software, winning smartphone apps can be built by a good hacker for a few thousand dollars. For example, I come from a software background, and back in the early PC days, it could easily cost half a million dollars for a team of professionals to produce a commercial product.

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9 Keys To Overcoming The Fear Of Change In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. Information sharing and open source facilitates collaboration on a huge scale, and can bring in as many innovations as are sent out. Set your default to sharing rather than proprietary.

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9 Ways To Make Innovation Happen In This Time Of Need

Startup Professionals Musings

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. Information sharing and open source facilitates collaboration on a huge scale, and can bring in as many innovations as are sent out. Set your default to sharing rather than proprietary.

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The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever

Startup Professionals Musings

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Facilities and staff.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Founders now routinely use their home to operate their startup until they are well into the revenue phase. Here are a few examples: Setting up the business. Facilities and staff.

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9 Principles For Countering Innovation Assassination

Startup Professionals Musings

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. Information sharing and open source facilitates collaboration on a huge scale, and can bring in as many innovations as are sent out. Set your default to sharing rather than proprietary.

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New Early Stage Financing Options for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

For a startup founder, this stage is when the “big idea” has become a passion for him, but he hasn’t written anything down yet. Lean startups operate on minimal money, an open source environment, and assume multiple iterations, with customer feedback, to get it right. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone.