Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Creative or operational.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

Overall I like the principles in the classic book “ Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival ,” by Robert F. Savvy investors tell me that startup founders who claim to have never failed are either lying or have never tried anything innovative. No risk, no innovation. Failure is the best teacher.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2012

For example, most founders find that adding good customer discussions has a more satisfying payoff than just eliminating expensive marketing consultants. It’s easy in a new business to inject a fun rivalry and a competitive spirit into improving your marketing programs, or improving production cycles. Think addition, not subtraction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2011

For example, most founders find that adding good customer discussions has a more satisfying payoff than just eliminating expensive marketing consultants. It’s easy in a new business to inject a fun rivalry and a competitive spirit into improving your marketing programs, or improving production cycles. Think addition, not subtraction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. His goal is to teach us how to drive a culture of continuous innovation into every work environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Obviously, commercial e-commerce sites handling thousands of products and back-office functions are more expensive, and usually require professional help to do the custom programming and special site navigation features. All this may cost a few thousand dollars, but don’t get talked into an Amazon.com replacement just yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2015

For example, most founders find that adding good customer discussions has a more satisfying payoff than just eliminating expensive marketing consultants. It’s easy in a new business to inject a fun rivalry and a competitive spirit into improving your marketing programs, or improving production cycles. Think addition, not subtraction.

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Programming Entrepreneur Partner Design 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2015

The most-used workplace training programs are really about matters of the heart. Toxic relationships are emotional, often personal, disagreements which are counter-productive. Demand for coaching, counseling, and discipline training is high.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Here are 10 specific recommendations that I believe will help every founder put this into practice. There is no rule that marketing needs to report to the founder, or that every startup needs a chief operating officer. Mentoring and training programs need to be put in place early. If there is no consistency, there is no culture.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Entrepreneur Due Diligence Social Media 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Obviously, commercial e-commerce sites handling thousands of products and back-office functions are more expensive, and usually require professional help to do the custom programming and special site navigation features. All this may cost a few thousand dollars, but don’t get talked into an Amazon.com replacement just yet.

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Hosting Bootstrapping .Net Social Network 248

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs. Attend an investment conference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Obviously, commercial e-commerce sites handling thousands of products and back-office functions are more expensive, and usually require professional help to do the custom programming and special site navigation features. All this may cost a few thousand dollars, but don’t get talked into an Amazon.com replacement just yet.

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eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Founder insistence on non-dilute clauses, arms-length relationships, and quick closure without due diligence will short-circuit active interest. Marketing programs and distribution channels are required for even the best solutions, with an appropriate and viable rollout and growth strategy. Dysfunctional or non-functional team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Brands, who brings decades of experience implementing innovation as the founder of InnovationCoach®. This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. His goal is to teach us how to drive a culture of continuous innovation into every work environment.

Artificial Inteligence 413

Artificial Inteligence Open Source Lean Leadership 413

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2020

Overall I like the principles in the classic book “ Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival ,” by Robert F. Savvy investors tell me that startup founders who claim to have never failed are either lying or have never tried anything innovative. No risk, no innovation. Failure is the best teacher.

Intellectual Property 360

Intellectual Property Social Network Metrics .Net 360

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. The typical software startup these days is a one or two person operation, founder and co-founder, who do the work themselves on the first product with no salary. Creative or operational.

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Software Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete 129

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

By default, the Founder is the chief disciple who displays the qualities to build the required social contracts. Luck and timing are inevitably less certain than product build schedules or marketing programs. Create and leverage a chief disciple. Every startup needs a visible chief disciple today. Embrace illogical leaps.

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Customer Social Media Affiliate Viral 210

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay.

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Media Social Media Startup Social Network 296

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Obviously, commercial e-commerce sites handling thousands of products and back-office functions are more expensive, and usually require professional help to do the custom programming and special site navigation features. All this may cost a few thousand dollars, but don’t get talked into an Amazon.com replacement just yet.

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Cost Startup Hosting Bootstrapping 220

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints. Overall, I believe the utility for outsourcing is going up, rather than going away.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Software Review Technical Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Thus founders seeking funding for a good cause or a new technology often seize on grants from universities, government agencies and philanthropic organizations as free money to solve their problems. In the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

By default, the Founder is the chief disciple who displays the qualities to build the required social contracts. Luck and timing are inevitably less certain than product build schedules or marketing programs. Create and leverage a chief disciple. Every startup needs a visible chief disciple today. Embrace illogical leaps.

Social Media 201

Social Media Affiliate Viral Technical Review 201

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Founder insistence on non-dilute clauses, arms-length relationships, and quick closure without due diligence will short-circuit active interest. Marketing programs and distribution channels are required for even the best solutions, with an appropriate and viable rollout and growth strategy. Dysfunctional or non-functional team members.

Due Diligence 308

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Seed Stage 308

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs. Attend an investment conference.

Networking 227

Networking Accredited Investor Elevator Pitch Entrepreneur 227

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay.

Entrepreneur 240

Entrepreneur Social Media Media Social Network 240

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2013

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs. Attend an investment conference.

Networking 250

Networking Entrepreneur Accredited Investor Elevator Pitch 250

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2012

After working with dozens of startup founders, I’m still amazed that some seem to be able to do the job easily and effectively, always in control, while others always seem to be struggling, out-of-control, and fighting the latest crisis. In that context, startup founders should carefully review the points made by Denny F.

Leadership 248

Leadership Entrepreneur Founder Employee 248

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

Overall I like the principles in the classic book “ Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival ,” by Robert F. Savvy investors tell me that startup founders who claim to have never failed are either lying or have never tried anything innovative. No risk, no innovation. Failure is the best teacher.

Intellectual Property 160

Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Metrics .Net 160

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Ming is the former chief of staff and strategy advisor to co-founder Jack Ma for over a decade, and outlines five key steps for automating decisions today as follows: Log and use consumer behavior and product transaction data. Get data flowing, and machines talking to each other.

Artificial Inteligence 210

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm API China 210

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

TechStars has several excellent mentors on staff, led by founder and CEO David Cohen. However, many research and technology parks also house incubation programs. Look for the best mentors, and the toughest regimen for program survival. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Founders need to realize their behavior is in a “fishbowl” and thereby highly visible for the team to see and imitate. What the founder says and does in stressful situations sends a signal to imitate that behavior, even when they are not under stress. Some founders go too far to become consensus builders.

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Founder Leadership Entrepreneur Employee 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. While an accelerator offers a specific program to startups for a fixed period of time, usually 90 days to four months, incubators tend to be more open-ended. A micro venture capital firm. Startup incubator seed funding.

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Seed Stage Finance Early Stage Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2012

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs. Attend an investment conference.

Networking 242

Networking Accredited Investor Elevator Pitch Entrepreneur 242

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

TechStars has several excellent mentors on staff, led by founder and CEO David Cohen. However, many research and technology parks also house incubation programs. Look for the best mentors, and the toughest regimen for program survival. Marty Zwilling.

Incubator 234

Incubator New York City Silicon Valley Startup 234

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. All universities love and need to get help from people in the “real world” for coaching and judging activities in their Entrepreneurship and MBA programs. Attend an investment conference.

Networking 242

Networking Accredited Investor Elevator Pitch SEC 242

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. At Y Combinator, maybe 80 out of 1000 applications are accepted per cycle, and more than half of these fail to complete the program.

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Incubator Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital 366

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I find that most good founders proceed faster on their own, with less drain on their time from peers and programs, and no equity dilution. An incubator may get you over initial hesitations, by connecting you with peers, advisors, and guiding you through the process of setting up a business.

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