Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. Can demonstrate domain expertise and experience. Building a business is harder than it looks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2022

Intentionally step outside your comfort zone often enough until the fear and discomfort goes away, and you develop a new mindset of enjoying the act of attracting others to follow your lead in new directions. Actively broaden your business network to new domains. Set achievement goals outside your current strengths.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Deep Domain Expertise at the Helm Sincera Founders Mike O’Sullivan and Ian Meyers bring to the table a rich expertise and domain knowledge in the ad tech space. That fact is further corroborated by participating leading angel investors in adtech, including Jonah Goodhart , Ari Paparo , Auren Hoffman , and Dave Yaffe.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We just completed the seventh week of our new national security class at Stanford – Technology, Innovation and Great Power Competition. Space as a Warfighting Domain: Issues for Congress ” Congressional Research Service. Space as a Domain. Thompson, “ Space as a War-Fighting Domain ” Air & Space Power Journal, Summer 2018.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Most new business owners I know feel the challenges of not enough time, money, and resources, and see these as problems rather than a competitive advantage. This requires reframing problems to motivate creative thinking and finding new approaches. In my experience, too much money or time is a source of downfall of many new businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Nevertheless, we can all benefit by understanding a collective view from investors on the high-risk elements that every new business has faced historically based on the team, as well as in the marketplace. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain. If you want U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2023

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Your chances of success are much greater if you target an under-served niche, or bring a new quantum leap in value over existing competitors. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Convinced that many existing players means room for ‘me-too.’

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We just held our twelfth session of our new national security class Technology, Innovation and Modern War. Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Their trend toward entrepreneurship in that group is sometimes called seniorpreneurship , where people over 50 take the helm of a new leading-edge high-opportunity venture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2024

The key takeaway is clear: businesses must proactively implement these crucial changes to safeguard their domain reputation and ensure successful email marketing campaigns. 06:11] What do businesses have to watch out for when using a Gmail also on a domain? [07:42] 04:09] Will your emails bounce if you fail the authentication test? [05:21]

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2020

Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. Can demonstrate domain expertise and experience. Building a business is harder than it looks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

In case you hadn’t noticed, the key elements of a competitive advantage for your business have changed as businesses move online, and your domain is instantly global. Select new hires with attention to values. The real challenge is to win massive consumer preference repeatedly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Nevertheless, we can all benefit by understanding a collective view from investors on the high-risk elements that every new business has faced historically based on the team, as well as in the marketplace. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain. If you want U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

Winters, both with a wealth of experience in this domain. To spice things up, they start creating new ideas and direction, which gets everyone excited. Due to founder visibility, the team is so tuned in to the visionary and current direction that every turn to the right to pursue a new idea turns the whole team to the right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

Your chances of success are much greater if you target an under-served niche, or bring a new quantum leap in value over existing competitors. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Convinced that many existing players means room for ‘me-too.’

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), probably won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai. The list goes on and on.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

These applications were seen as the beginning of what most assumed would be domain-specific tools. By exposing ChatGPT to a wider range of input and feedback through an API , developers and users are almost guaranteed to uncover new capabilities or applications for the model that were not initially anticipated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. Strategic proficiency.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

The venture studio’s employees have already identified a product, market fit and early customers — meaning someone else has eliminated many of the early risks of a new venture. Venture studios are a good fit for entrepreneurs who don’t have an idea or team but would like to run and grow a startup. Do you want a studio with specific expertise?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Look for investor experience in your business domain, as well as evidence of integrity and trustworthiness. While I recognize that there continues to be a shortage of venture capital for new entrepreneurs, compared to the demand, don’t succumb to the temptation to take funds from investors that you are not totally comfortable with.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2020

The most valuable assets of a new startup are the people on the team, and the most challenging task of the entrepreneur and team leaders is to spend their leadership time and energy productively. Most new startup founders start out by assuming they need to spread their leadership efforts evenly across all team members.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2021

Every entrepreneur with a new technology tells me that his innovation will be industry-disrupting, meaning that it will render the existing technology obsolete, and create a new market. Usually these are low-growth for a reason – a new technology or price point could easily be the trigger to a large opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2023

I recommend that every entrepreneur and small business investigate and implement as many as possible of his seven new business force multipliers that I will paraphrase here: Information sharing through social media networks. What new force multipliers are you using in your startup today? Crowdsourcing for funding and ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In many business domains today, the market seems to change about every ninety days. In some environments product focus is not the most important element.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Great business leaders, including Bill Gates and Warren Buffett , are constantly asking questions and reading books about new technologies, new cultures, and new business opportunities. They mentor each other, and seek out experts in domains outside their current expertise and experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Product details in the public domain can never be patented. In today’s world of rapid innovation and new technologies, any individual or company should be hesitant to sign an agreement that limits their activities for 10 years or more. Sharing trade secrets. Select a reasonable agreement duration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

Ask domain experts to quantify value for you. These days, you can build a new e-commerce website to sell home-made wares for a few hundred dollars. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Even good social causes need to bring in revenue to continue their worthy efforts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

Winters, both with a wealth of experience in this domain. To spice things up, they start creating new ideas and direction, which gets everyone excited. Due to founder visibility, the team is so tuned in to the visionary and current direction that every turn to the right to pursue a new idea turns the whole team to the right.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2017

I remember back in 1994 when a friend asked if I’d like to buy a domain name. The domain (www.dog.com) is probably worth $2 million now. These days, the best keyword domains in.COM are sold out, and that’s why I believe that new TLDs (top-level domains) are going to be the digital real estate of the future.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2022

In my role as a mentor, I challenge every business leader to be more open-minded as they face the challenges of change and new competitors entering their space. Most are reluctant to tip that balance between hard-won experience versus new thinking that can take them to the next level. Quick decisions and biases can be very costly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In my experience as an angel investor for new startups, I’m always surprised by how many entrepreneurs are looking for funding without outside advisors. An experienced Board can give them credibility, as well as advice on the many pitfalls of starting a new company. Board members provide inexpensive expertise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

As a frequent advisor to new entrepreneurs and startups, I often hear your frustration with being treated differently from other startups by investors, on expectations for valuation , traction, and market size. This is normally the domain of technologists and idea people, often using the term “disruptive innovation.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In many business domains today, the market seems to change about every ninety days. In some environments product focus is not the most important element.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2022

The ready-aim-fire traditional approach works best in more mature markets, where your strategy is to add features and value to competitive products, or address an underserved new segment of the marketplace. Marketing is inherently a trial and error process in new and unknown environments. But Lonnie L.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2020

Ask domain experts to quantify value for you. These days, you can build a new e-commerce website to sell home-made wares for a few hundred dollars. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Even good social causes need to bring in revenue to continue their worthy efforts.

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