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10 Common Startup Mistakes That Are Rarely Admitted

Startup Professionals Musings

Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. 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. Marketing should start before product development.

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10 Popular Business Strategies That Most Often Fail

Startup Professionals Musings

Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. 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. Marketing should start before product development.

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10 Shortcuts To Startup Success I Don’t Recommend

Startup Professionals Musings

Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. 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. Marketing should start before product development.

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10 Paths Which Often Lead To Early Business Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. 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. Marketing should start before product development.

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Track the Ten Elements of Value for Your Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Execution by Vertical Market As the class progressed, students asked how the activities/functions of a startup; (Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Product Development, etc.) How does product development differ in communications hardware versus enterprise software, etc. would look in each of the verticals.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it. You will still need to do an online search to make sure you’re not infringing on someone else’s idea.