Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later. Focus on collecting customer references.

Technical Review 220

Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review Business Model 220

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later. Focus on collecting customer references.

Technical Review 399

Technical Review Product Advisory Board Business Model 399

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later. Focus on collecting customer references.

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Business Model Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2013

Here is where your Advisory Board can help you in finding real people with deep experience in your product domain, and gather some unbiased feedback. This is tricky, since you have to do realistic marketing to see realistic results, but don’t roll out the big viral campaign yet. Get a reference customer.

Business Model 235

Business Model Product Advisory Board Angel Investor 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2018

An advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels. Save your viral campaign and major inventory buildup for later. Make every pilot customer commit to be a reference.

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Product Advisory Board Business Model Cofounder 137

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2012

Here is where your Advisory Board can help you in finding real people with deep experience in your product domain, and gather some unbiased feedback. This is tricky, since you have to do realistic marketing to see realistic results, but don’t roll out the big viral campaign yet. Get a reference customer.

Business Model 248

Business Model Advisory Board Entrepreneur Angel Investor 248

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2011

Here is where your Advisory Board can help you in finding real people with deep experience in your product domain, and gather some unbiased feedback. This is tricky, since you have to do realistic marketing to see realistic results, but don’t roll out the big viral campaign yet. Get a reference customer.

Business Model 234

Business Model Advisory Board Startup Angel Investor 234