Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This is the current dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who invented the (first) World Wide Web. He calls his dream ‘Web 3.0’ or the ‘Semantic Web,’ meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Web 3.0 As you search the Web, the browser records your interests in your local storage.

Web 230

Web Semantic Artificial Inteligence Startup 230

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0 It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service.

Dilution 224

Dilution Merger Flash Global 224

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year. Be humble and offer to clean all the offices, if you can use one for free.

Burn Rate 232

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 232

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Get your Internet domain name and website. Prepare an investment-grade business plan.

Intellectual Property 249

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Technical Review Elevator Pitch 249

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Personalize a simple web site. The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of e-commerce today.

eCommerce 196

eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping .Net 196

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2012

Otherwise, I suggest that founders be up-front with their employers, with an honest commitment that the “side” work on the potential startup will not jeopardize committed results. In a part-time effort, a co-founder is essential to keeping you on-track and working. Pick a day and time per week where you always work together.

Entrepreneur 239

Entrepreneur Cofounder Angel Investor Partner 239

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year. Be humble and offer to clean all the offices, if you can use one for free.

Burn Rate 231

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 231

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Optimize your web history and presence. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market.

Stealth 263

Stealth Marketing Startup Early Stage 263

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,000 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage.

Incubator 231

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 231

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

Campaign 167

Campaign Cost Viral Marketing 167

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Dharmesh is the founder and CTO of HubSpot, as well as a blogger and speaker on the topic of startups and Internet marketing. TechCrunch , founder Michael Arrington. Business Insider, Silicon Alley Insider , founder Henry Blodget. Huffington Post, Small Biz Blog , co-founder Arianna Huffington.

Curation 230

Curation Technical Review Entrepreneur Cofounder 230

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Personalize a simple web site. The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of website applications today. Or, fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe.

Startup 252

Startup eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping 252

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2020

It’s still popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Optimize your web history and presence. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market.

Stealth 436

Stealth Early Stage Social Media Web 436

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage.

Incubator 398

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Startup 398

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

Viral 249

Viral Marketing Entrepreneur SEM 249

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Get your Internet domain name and website. Prepare an investment-grade business plan.

Angel Investor 224

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Technical Review Elevator Pitch 224

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0 It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service.

Dilution 134

Dilution Merger Flash Global 134

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

It means you’ve anticipated what your customers will need as they move up the power curve, For example, Google is a one-stop source for your online needs, ranging from simple search to managing your e-mail, to analyzing your Web site. The selection is incredibly deep. Intelligence.

Startup 387

Startup Search Web Business Plan 387

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Personalize a simple web site. The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of e-commerce today.

Hosting 248

Hosting Bootstrapping .Net Social Network 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

Viral 238

Viral Cost Marketing SEM 238

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly. It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more.

Cost 405

Cost Entrepreneur Burn Rate Social Media 405

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Yet I am amazed to see from recent data that nearly 36 percent of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

Viral 191

Viral Web Naming Internet 191

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0 It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service.

Dilution 187

Dilution Merger Flash Global 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Personalize a simple web site. The net is that if I see a website business plan today with a projected development cost greater than $200K, I suspect the founder must be including some fancy perks, or they don’t understand the market dynamics of e-commerce today.

Cost 220

Cost Startup Hosting Bootstrapping 220

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2015

Here are four new strategies that every entrepreneur must now include in their marketing platforms to survive and thrive in this digital and highly mobile age, ranked by effort and cost on your part: Frequent new content on the web, social media and via mobile.

Customer 120

Customer Marketing Social Media Technical Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the Web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

Viral 225

Viral Marketing SEM Startup 225

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

For example, a web-based startup should be able to operate for a year if they raise $500,000 from the founders or angels. This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year. Be humble and offer to clean all the offices, if you can use one for free.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

A particularly critical moment is when the founders hand over the leadership to a more managerial regime. You need the global outlook, even though digitalization and Web 2.0 It’s a volatile period for every company, where most struggle with getting commercial and technological traction, usually based on a single product or service.

Matching 120

Matching Marketing Dilution Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage.

Incubator 218

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 218

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2013

In fact, you need to have at least a prototype web site published several weeks before you expect anyone to find yours, since it takes that amount of time for the web search engine “spiders” to find you and index your content. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site.

Internet 247

Internet Viral Naming Web 247

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It also means making the content appear omnipresent on the web and in the marketplace, including dedicated video sites and blogs.

Viral 141

Viral Cost Marketing SEM 141

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Yet I am amazed to see from a recent survey that nearly half of small businesses today still have no web presence at all. There are many practical reasons for going to work early on your web site. Two months later they still didn’t have a web site, and didn’t have a customer. Viral marketing needs a website.

Viral 120

Viral Internet Web Naming 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

This time I’ll use a hypothetical health-care web site company named NewCo as an example to illustrate the points. Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. Social mobile web. Responsive web technology that re-sizes text and images to fit any screen is the norm with new websites.

Entrepreneur 274

Entrepreneur Accredited Investor Silicon Valley Angel Investor 274

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Get your Internet domain name and website. Prepare an investment-grade business plan.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 260

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s popular these days for startup founders to operate in stealth mode, meaning no details about the idea or progress are shared with anyone until the big reveal and rollout. Optimize your web history and presence. The common reason given is that this prevents any competitor from stealing their idea and beating them to market.

Stealth 252

Stealth Startup Early Stage Social Media 252