Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2022

Most investors and startup professionals expand this concept of focus to apply to key issues of every aspect of strategic and tactical planning in a startup. There is a big gap between people who love to try new technologies, and the rest of us, who tend to be much more “technophobic.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Startups with no exit planned will minimize investor returns. Most entrepreneurs like the startup role, but not the big-company role. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2020

Entrepreneurs inherently understand that they have to be the initial leader of their startup, but often they don’t have the experience or the training to know where their leadership competencies lie, or how to build a leadership team. Mature Helpers are considerate and genuinely the most sensitive and caring of all the leadership types.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2022

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” Unfortunately this “quickly” may be too slowly to save initial startups in the space. Confronted by accomplished, irrefutable fact, the rest of us cave in, sign up, and brag about how modern we are. Forgetting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

Based on my own experiences in startups, and many years of advising new business owners, I’m convinced that there are a few common frustrations that we all need to anticipate and prepare for, rather than let them be a surprise and a painful dent in your enthusiasm and personal satisfaction from living your dream.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

To the Entrepreneur, the present-day world is modeled after a vision of a better way, one that will stand out with customers from all the rest in the past, and give the joy and satisfaction of success. As startups grow, they quickly realize that they need a third personality, called the Manager, to build systems and processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

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. Join a startup incubator. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Steve Case’s new book, The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream , is out. He created Rise of Rest and did the first of many bus tours in 2014. I’ve worked with Steve and his team on multiple initiatives, including Startup America and Up Global.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Whether you are contemplating an investment in your favorite startup, or a little-known stock on a public exchange, there is “big data” out there that can’t possibly be evaluated by you without predictive analytics. The rest of us would rather not be annoyed by the multiple contacts of the wrong type. Investment risk management.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

When you have a startup, time and money are always at a premium. This blog post will discuss some of the most effective methods of promoting your startup. It will also offer tips on how to make the most of your marketing budgeting and successfully promote your startup. Read on to get started. Develop a Strong Online Presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

Beyond the core team of two or three startup partners, every startup should seek to “outsource” the rest of their strategic requirements to external business partners. Thus you should do the same or more due diligence on educational background, previous work, and references.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

How you split founder startup equity can be even harder for a tech startup due to different roles and contributions from the founders. What is the equity structure of a startup? Additionally, workers who assist in the startup process often get a higher percentage of ownership than those who join the firm later.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If you’re new to marketing and amid a startup, all of it can seem overwhelming. Check out these critical tips for developing an effective marketing strategy for startups in boring industries. Choose your Market Audience. Of course, brands do use assets like logos, colors, fonts, voices, and names to accomplish this, in part.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Here is how remote startups are changing the game for everyone. In fact, according to Founders Forum’s survey of 400+ startup owners, 94% of the respondents were already working from home before the pandemic. To help them make the transition, a new breed of “remote startups” has emerged. Image Credit: pixaby.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one of the key incentives that made startups different from working in a large company. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

While certain aspects of setting up a startup can be exhilarating, especially in the early stages of the business, there are also plenty of bumps along the road, big and small. So, before you start your startup and invest your time and money in it, you have to ensure your startup does not fail. Image Source. Focus on marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2020

When it comes to equality, this software helps to put general unfairness and suspicion of discrimination at rest. The post 4 Benefits Of Using Payroll Management Software For Startups appeared first on Young Upstarts. Payroll software can improve transparency in your business by enforcing equality and motivating workers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

He was able to identify ten lessons from the common threads to survival in the winning explorer teams, which I believe apply equally well to the survival and success of business startup teams today: Never lose sight of long-term goals, but focus real energy on short-term objectives. Teamwork is the hallmark of high-performing startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Startups with no exit planned will minimize investor returns. Most entrepreneurs like the startup role, but not the big-company role. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 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. Join a startup incubator. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 22, 2021

If you want your startup to stand a chance of achieving brand visibility and attracting new customers, you need to have a website. However, just having a website isn’t enough to make your startup successful. However, just having a website isn’t enough to make your startup successful. The Downsides of Free Website Builders.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

The Proud Owners of a Startup. Today, as the proud owner of a startup, you’re probably much better at managing your money. It might take the experience of growing and exiting two or even three startups before you know how to do that. . Let’s take a deeper look at why your startup probably doesn’t need funding.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. What can companies learn from others’ failed efforts to integrate startups into large companies? The answer - there are two types of integration strategies, and they depend on where the startup is in its lifecycle. The Innovation Portfolio.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A few tech-savvy startup companies are taking advantage of the situation to gain new email newsletter readers, many of whom would never have otherwise signed up for mass mailings. Startup companies that plan to do this may even consider giving everyone in their organization a voice with their email newsletter.

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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. Squeaky wheels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors know that startups with too much money fail just as often as those with not enough. Build your business with minimum outside funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Thus investing in startups should always be approached as a low odds game.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?”. Here’s one reason why: Startups can do anything. Startups can do anything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Startups with no exit planned will minimize investor returns. Most entrepreneurs like the startup role, but not the big-company role. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2020

Launching a startup these days is not as hard as it was just a decade ago. Today, we are exploring various security options that can help you run a tight startup operation without worrying about external forces affecting your work. Even startups and small companies should be able to afford such software. Cloud Services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I’m often surprised when you as an aspiring entrepreneur, looking for investors, tell me your solution is so innovative that you don’t have to worry about differentiating it from competitors, and customers will flock to it without a real marketing campaign.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Starting a startup is definitely no easy endeavor. In fact, many experts say that around 90 percent of startups end in failure. However, there is hope for all you startup founders. With a bit of due diligence, how to develop a successful marketing plan for a startup and rules to ensure your endeavor grows and becomes successful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Thus investing in startups should always be approached as a low odds game.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

The Lean Startup.”. Principles such as security of data in transit and at rest and knowledge of the common vulnerabilities in the market today help bring awareness to developers, allowing security to be built into the development process. by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi. Fail Fast, Pivot.”. Agile Methodology.”.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Every startup entrepreneur wants to see their company grow. But none of that can happen if you have an impediment to growth – an invisible (or perhaps visible) force keeping your startup from creating the momentum it needs to keep growing. . These days, data is arguably the most important resource for growing startups. .

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