Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Accountability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Accountability.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2014

The life cycle of a product is associated with marketing and management decisions within businesses, and all products go through five primary stages: development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. Development. The product development stage is often referred to as “the valley of death.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2010

New product development process. Longer-term, enhanced product value begets superior company valuation through your organization’s intellectual property (IP) portfolio. From time to time, include customers and sales members in ideation sessions. Without risk, there can be no innovation. Accountability.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In the earliest stages, these skills relate to what any good founding team should bring to the table — an acumen for business strategy and product development coupled with great engineering. Eventually the company should graduate to hiring senior expertise across these functions. There are ~25 high education institutions in the area.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Product Development. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with just your pre-seed, FFF capital. Intellectual Property. If your business can secure any intellectual property rights now would be the time to do it.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

A fair amount of your FFF funding will likely go towards product development. Depending on the complexity of your product you may or may not be able to complete a working prototype or beta version with your FFF capital. If not, at the bare minimum you will need an interactable wireframe mockup that demonstrates the product.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Execution by Vertical Market As the class progressed, students asked how the activities/functions of a startup; (Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Product Development, etc.) For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Sales – What Channel to reach the customer? Liquidity – How?

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

billion in total industry sales. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is a great resource to help you learn more about intellectual property. Just remember, when you’re pricing your product: Your starting price defines you. If you have multiple products, your price may even affect sales. Patent Search.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Sales (12). Pyramid Power. The larger the firm, the larger the pyramid.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Angel investors are not impressed by projections of 30-40-50% or more profits on sales. Angel investors hate projections of sales based on some small percentage of a huge market, as in “if we get just one quarter of a percent of this $20-billion market.”. See Also: Intellectual Property: How Do You Protect Your Creations?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

Develop a strong backbone. The backbone of your technology company revolves around a well-organized, up-to-date, specific and documented vision, brand-key, business plan, intellectual property rights, contracts, financial administration, NDAs and bylaws it can rely on.

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murkygrey.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Failing to protect Intellectual Property Coders handle one of your company’s most valuable assets: the code. Placing marketing functions away from the target market This mistake is common among foreign companies that start out with a development center in a low-cost locale and develop a product for the US market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Similarly, government purchasing is a frustrating series of hoops, even compared to enterprise sales.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. If you need to learn how to push your product to market and find people that can help you do it, this is the meetup for you.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. If you offer a product for free you get more users and more feedback on your product. if you’re just offering a product for sale? 94 AX on 09.29.10

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. Great for visualizing work of product development. SaaS Sales Team Compensation â?? Intellectual Property Law For Startups Blog. s most comprehensive collection of business and intellectual property information. Startups For Sale.

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