Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.

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deal architect

DECEMBER 8, 2021

If you know Paul, you know he is a big-hearted, generous storyteller – his books. In the 60th episode of Burning Platform, we (again) host Paul Greenberg of The 56 Group and co-host of the popular CRM Playaz video show.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

I found these challenges and opportunities outlined well in a new book, “ Out-Innovate ,” by Alexandre Lazarow. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. Distributed. The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2022

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. They didn’t do this by selling better books or electronics, they did it by building a logistics & warehouse powerhouse.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The required reading for this class was Chris Brose’s book The Kill Chain. We thought the students would find having the author discuss the thinking behind the book enlightening. AI, machine learning, autonomous systems, distributed networking, advanced manufacturing, commercial space, etc. War Made New. Disruptive Technology.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneur can earn plenty of revenue – from subscription plans and publishing targeted advertisements, commission from courier delivery personnel, booking cancellation charges, and transaction processing fees from an Uber for courier app solution. Why would courier service apps always be in high demand?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. The book is 132 chapters broken into 11 sections. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In his classic book “ The 3rd American Dream ,” thought leader Suresh Sharma summarizes the large corporate accomplishments of the 19 th and 20 th centuries, and then lays out the potential of a new entrepreneurial business ecosystem for the 21 st century. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

The country has also been a strong supporter of distributed ledger technology and recently announced that their blockchain payments project, Project Ubin , is ready for mainstream commercial deployment. Shaun is also a Regional Partner at Kenetic Capital, an institutional platform for blockchain advisory, technology and investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. When you have limited distribution, the costs of distributing media are so prohibitive that only the largest of media producers (and distributors) are relevant.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 3, 2020

I have no idea how much was modified to suit the actual reality, but given the time frame for publishing most books, my guess is “not that much.” In contrast, many books do not. We are still early on in the Covid-19 pandemic – probably 25% of the way through Wright’s book.

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deal architect

JANUARY 1, 2013

While my book had a section which shows the distribution of those checks is uneven, and this NY Times article. Apple says it has written $ 6.5 billion in royalty checks to iOS apps developers in the last few years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. Distributed. The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.”

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Newspaper advertisements, billboards, phone books, radio—they always found a way to advertise even in an age where “digital” didn’t exist. Design, print and distribute. It’s now the name given to eye-catching and simple advertisements that can be distributed across social media, and not just in your city.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

The hype cycle for “Remote Work” and “Distributed Companies” has reached a fever pitch, and everyone has an opinion about it. Let’s take your standard Enterprise Client Partner, who manages a $3M book of business with 20 Accounts. In a distributed environment, work is often solitary. Because for them- it’s business as usual.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 21, 2020

In fact, he started his own consultancy, Entiende Bitcoin , to help Bitcoin companies develop and distribute products in emerging markets. Max is far more than a smart guy with a lot of books. He’s super passionate about many aspects of tech, from solar to crypto/blockchain and machine learning. He loves basketball.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 31, 2010

Many years ago (almost five years ago in fact) I wrote an article about what the music industry might look like in a digital distributed world. My premise was that thanks to networked portable devices and the Long Tail , bands would survive because distribution networks would allow them to reach their fans much easier. Yaro Starak.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. So they’ll have to look for other competitive advantages for distribution. Simply write a great book?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

She’s also the author of a book called Paws to Comfort: An Everyday Guide to Learning How You Can Help Mend Our Disconnected World. Questions I ask Jen Marr: One of the core beliefs in your book is that we can learn a lot about comfort for dogs — tell me more about the science behind your work.

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Board Effect

JULY 27, 2023

This is where technology comes into play, offering a streamlined solution to efficiently record, organize and distribute board meeting minutes. Top considerations are security and simplicity for directors in preparing and distributing meeting minutes. However, manual minute-taking can be time-consuming and prone to errors.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

How To Close The Books on Your Startup. Yet to embark on the next project, you’ll want to properly close the books on your previous company. In most states, an LLC or Corporation must settle its debts before any distributions can be made to members. Again, no assets can be distributed until all debts have been settled.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2019

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Lehman disguised a real estate hedge fund as an investment bank to process distribution of home loans. No one wants a governing body storming their offices to review the books. You want to know if there are financial improprieties in your books and trust they won’t be front and center. Lehman Brothers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

The problem, according to Tiffani Bova in her new book, “ Growth IQ ,” is that it’s never just one thing. For example, you may have a product, but not a strong distribution channel. An alliance with a distribution organization enhances the value to existing and new customers of both your solutions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Is this framework going to be a book? Is this framework going to be a book? Can you give us some examples to illustrate what passion points are? Have you found that your framework approach works equally as well as a sales page as say a webinar? More About Lisa Manyan: Learn more about Write On Creative. Like this show? Like this show?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2018

This is why customers used to go to bigger travel agencies with online payment gateways to book their trips. However, these solutions don’t offer features to help streamline the entire booking process in addition to the payment process and charge high fees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

I recently finished a new book by thought leader Suresh Sharma, “The 3rd American Dream ,” which summarizes the business accomplishments of the 19 th and 20 th centuries, and then lays out the potential of a new entrepreneurial business ecosystem for the 21 st century. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In his classic book “ The 3rd American Dream ,” thought leader Suresh Sharma summarizes the large corporate accomplishments of the 19 th and 20 th centuries, and then lays out the potential of a new entrepreneurial business ecosystem for the 21 st century. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 3, 2021

Erica is also the author of the book – Rituals Roadmap: The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines into Workplace Magic. Erica is also the author of the book – Rituals Roadmap: The Human Way to Transform Everyday Routines into Workplace Magic. Erica is an expert in the business of working human.

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