Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors love to have smart and experienced people in the boat.

Intellectual Property 281

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors love to have smart and experienced people in the boat.

Intellectual Property 260

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors love to have smart and experienced people in the boat.

Intellectual Property 253

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors love to have smart and experienced people in the boat.

Intellectual Property 222

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

How does your business model make money? Good causes such as feeding the world’s hungry may help your marketing but may not sustain a business. The business model has to clearly define who is your customer, market penetration expected, how much customers pay versus total costs and the investment required to sustain cash flow.

Sweat Equity 120

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Convince investors that your team is experienced in starting a new business, and have great expertise in the selected business domain.

Business Plan 283

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Convince investors that your team is experienced in starting a new business, and have great expertise in the selected business domain.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290