Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. Use future cash for payments where possible.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

The Atlas Group London system is a suite of unique software tools on a single platform that is without precedent in today’s healthcare sector. The digital platform ICAS®, Integrated Construction & Architecture Software, completely digitizes the design, procurement and logistics process of building healthcare facilities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. Use future cash for payments where possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I will cover this in my post. Colony’s presentation is intriguing (and worth a watch if you have a few minutes) because I love to see when informed people make arguments that are different than you ordinarily hear (and different from my own views). I have some educated guesses. This blog post lays out my case.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

A few years ago Nithya started to fixate on a problem which affects millions of people, mostly children, worldwide: Spoiled vaccines. And 75% of vaccines in the developing world show signs of freezing, with an estimated one-fourth to one-third of all vaccines which are administered being ineffective. Work is love made visible.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

think about the entrepreneurs that started in the early days of the Internet, mobile, crypto, VR and yes… now Metaverse. Given the ‘fuzzy’ period we’re in, where we still struggle with a definition of the Metaverse, it’s easy to dismiss it all as a fad. Another interesting project is ‘realisty.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

No one wants their hard work to do go down in the name of a shoddy investment. For example, it is estimated that a $15 Trillion market opportunity will rapidly unfold in the coming decade for Artificial Intelligence alone. Thanks to Noufal Bava, Epixel MLM Software ! #5- 5- Software, app, and web development.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. But a good developer could make it quicker.”.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2020

As I write this, during the worst pandemic in 100 years, in the grips of a severe economic slowdown — let’s all hope it’s just recession, not depression — people still want to start new businesses. . Starting a new business is risky, and no matter how much data you get, no matter how well you plan, you still have risk.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

That is, keeping the positive characteristics of a tiny organization, avoiding the common problems of a larger organization, by preserving their existing values and processes, just doing it with more people, and figuring it out as we go along, exactly as we always have. Why do they never succeed? Almost anything you do, counts.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The housing market was extremely competitive in 2021 and the lucky new homeowners are now ready to start making improvements to their newly purchased homes. As a result, it is a wonderful moment to develop a unique solution in this field. Fifth, software systems can now develop ad campaigns for new listings automatically.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

When I publicly Tweeted that all companies should be gross margin positive many people pointed out that Amazon wasn’t profitable for many years. In general I find that raising large amounts of money when you haven’t figured it out ends up papering over problems more then helping solve fundamental issues in the business. End of story.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2017

As a full-time editor and academic mentor at an academic writing service, I have read hundreds of business plans over the years. To help students and startups, I have compiled a list of reasons business plans are rejected or given a low grade. Of course, there are obvious reasons that business plans fail. Bad business ideas.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observe in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the growth and therefore the ultimate financial outcomes. As an early-stage VC I love this phase. How profitable is my product or service?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Someone remind me to do a future post on why I think the Ramen Profitable approach has actually hurt some businesses.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Is it the first product to do so? Do you have a strong management team in place? . And one question that many startups overlook at the early stages of formulating their business plans: do you have a well-reasoned, effective, and budget-savvy marketing plan? That’s where search engine optimization (SEO) comes in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. Use future cash for payments where possible.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

I recently helped a friend broker the sale of his small, bootstrapped company. As you’d suspect, I was similarly ignorant of such things while watching the sale of ITWatchDogs (where I was a co-founder), and still harbored misconceptions as I went into the sale of Smart Bear.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. A quick note, while I primarily talk about co-founders, the same principals should also be applied to interacting with all early employees as you really are partners on the mission to build a great product. Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Not only did the winning prediction engine fail to scale economically, it also addressed an outdated problem: The shift from mail to streaming during that same two-year window gave Netflix all the data it needed to develop newer, better algorithms. What do you need to get started with predictive analytics? Image source ).

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Ever since I began my career with Cable Compare, we have had a website that generates a lot of traffic. It seems as though more and more people are doing away with cable. With the power of AI, we can present our customers with precise estimations of how much a home can rent. 2- The way we serve our clients.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

That is, once you’re no longer a small company and you have some success, how do you execute and continue to grow through innovation? We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. It wasn’t always this way. So what was going on?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 23, 2020

In past print and current online versions, they match the appearance, perception, and function of the media outlet where they’re hosted, so they don’t really look like ads. In this article, we take a deep dive into advertorials—what they can and can’t do, and how to get it right. What to do before you write your advertorial.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures. What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Yet I can’t help thinking there are many predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Rob Walling generously allowed me to reprint this excerpt from his new book, "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup" available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon and in PDF and ePub from StartupBook.net. Case Study: How I Launched One Month Earlier Using Outsourcing. Introduction. The Shearing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you prefer the super short version – I’ve summarized the post in the final section. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

But how they do it is very different: Multichannel marketing is a channel-by-channel strategy where marketers use each channel as a standalone way to amplify the message and reach more customers. Do they have a consistent experience? retail consumers or companies of one), or do they buy in teams?

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. something I’ve expected since I first bought a Rocket ebook reader about 10 years. And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

You can have all traction in the world—acquire, activate, and retain users, but until your startup earns money, you are doing charity work, not running a business. Today I am going to share everything we’ve learned to help you make your choice. Initially, I think this was a good idea. Choose wisely.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

.” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. I hear it right after people have decided to come by for a few days to “check out what all the fuss is about.” They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 LA By The Numbers. billion dollars of regional GDP.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

I have often been asked about Startup Funding by entrepreneurs. Gone are the days where you can get funded based on an idea. For example, you have already started a business and successfully implemented your idea, and it’s running well. Do not get funding because it is cool, or it’s fashionable. Sources of Funding.

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Diego Basch

JANUARY 28, 2012

Some people believe that carrying out a large software project is like building a bridge. You look at your past projects and use the data to estimate the time and resources needed. In reality, most projects worth doing are not repetitions of previous things. A new software project is more like this: – You are an inventor.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Marcel Petitpas. Questions I ask Marcel Petitpas: [1:49] What should we be measuring if we want to optimize for profitability? [4:14] 6:40] Where can people find your agency profitability toolkit and checklist? [6:40] Marketing Podcast with Marcel Petitpas.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Clare Price. Key Takeaway: How do you turn a $1 million company into a $10 million one? Questions I ask Clare Price: [1:26] What is your backstory and entrepreneurial journey? [3:43] 10:20] How do you differentiate between execution and planning? [12:00]

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. Tim started to change our processes. He published our first wiki where the whole list of potential features were outlined.

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