Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2021

Here are five of the most common examples: Failure to document a Founder agreement at the beginning. This oversight can lead to the so-called “forgotten Founder” problem. Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

But when it comes to core technical skills, more and more entrepreneurs are opting to partner with technical co-founders rather than hiring someone for an in-house position. You Need To Know Tech Basics I really believe that what’s most important for a founder is the ability to have a vision for the company, make sales and hire well.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

by Simone Semprini, CEO & Co-Founder, TourScanner. The measures to prevent the spreading of the virus induced a global reduction of the travel demand. The measures to prevent the spreading of the virus induced a global reduction of the travel demand. Effect of the lockdown in the travel industry.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Today, it takes an average of 72 days to sell a home and costs the average seller $15,000. We believe the home transaction market is ripe for next-generation innovations as modern home owners increasingly demand superior user experience and efficiencies, just like in other aspects of their daily lives. homeowners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In my experience as an advisor to entrepreneurs, business startup founders most often point to a shortage of funds as the primary cause of their startup failure. In fact, this problem is so common among business startups, that is has been tagged with the name “ founder’s syndrome ” or “ founderitis.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

Google Blog Generative AI in search, first image released by Google Shopping is another area where Google started implementing generative AI powered search ([link] The race to intimacy in search, an AI powered experience There are a number of factors driving the adoption of generative AI in search.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

by Chen Amit, co-founder and CEO of Tipalti. In fact, suppliers already prefer electronic invoicing formats that drastically reduce operational costs. On average, invoices cost AP departments about $30 each to send , while e-invoicing costs only an average of $3.50. Increasing complex cross-border payments.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

by Andriy Skoropad, co-founder & CEO at Perfectial. FinTech businesses can be startups that offer traditional financial operations at a cheaper cost or in a more convenient manner, established financial firms keen to apply innovations or just tech companies that provide their own payment tools. and European markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” If possible, quantify these in non-technical business terms, such as dollars saved or replacement costs over time. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Description of the business entity you plan to form.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. How profitable is my product or service?

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 7, 2015

Either way, he’s cost me thousands of dollars alerting me to notebook and backpack/gearbag projects on Kickstarter that deserve support (he’s also into pens, but that I just don’t get). Zach Sims: We started working together in January of 2011 after my cofounder Ryan and I saw the huge gap between education and employment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Later, as you scale the business, is the time to add products or service offerings that customers demand to make the business more robust. Plan to and assemble the right team, including co-founders. Calculate your projected costs, and double the amount. Building and running a business is not a solo operation.

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techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. It seems learning to code has become a theme in 2012, and the demand is being met by Code Year and others. guest author. Thursday, February 23rd, 2012. That’s why everyone says execution is everything, not the idea itself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Thus entrepreneurs were able to build prototypes and design new products without the traditional huge prototyping cost. Here are some key positives from an entrepreneur perspective: Shorten the time and cost from idea to prototype. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” With PPC, impressions cost nothing. And he’s right. Old School But Effective. Email marketing is another effective marketing technique.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While it seemed like a good idea and had the Navy’s backing, the founders got turned down for funding by companies, investment bankers and everyone, until they talked to John Parker. During World War II the demands of war industries caused millions more Americans to move to where most defense plants located. Costing $250,000 ($3.2

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. What is a founder to do? Tougher times might be coming ahead. CVCs have participated in 25.6%

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

Small and medium-sized businesses frequently face difficulties in meeting the high costs associated with hiring agencies or creating content on their own. This difficulty is something that Jatin Mehta, one of the co-founders of SpeedyBrand, is aware of. Q: How does SpeedyBrand benefit SMBs in online marketing?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

HW: You were co-founder and longtime co-host of Planet Money, one of the most successful podcasts out there. Highly-produced shows cost a fortune: tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per episode. So, right now, the demand for quality podcast production is far, far greater than the supply of podcast production talent.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

by Monica Eaton-Cardone, Co-Founder and COO of Chargebacks911. This is a jarring realization, as our natural, human inclination is to maintain control wherever we can, no matter the cost. It’s a demanding responsibility, and it can be a time-consuming one as well. The world is in a state of uncertainty.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Turns out, there was aboslutely no demand whatsoever for that particular product.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 17, 2023

“The unanticipated demand to create AI software has outstripped the cloud service capacities of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Oracle” The Information The big challenge in generative AI is GPU shortage and costs. In comparison, Google spends about $100 billion a year on infrastructure costs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Of course, the latter is a better failure mode than the former, but both are sub-optimal, and the solution is predictability. At scale, it becomes required.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 16, 2023

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (also borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals. Modern Corporation Marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Every entrepreneur needs to understand the following basics, to be addressed at company formation, as they engage a qualified attorney to draw up the paperwork: Allocate founder’s stock commensurate with commitment. Key founder vesting should have no cliff. Facilitate an upgrade of founder’s common to founder’s preferred.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. He wrote: When startups die, the official cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. The sheer inefficiency cost the company an exorbitant amount of money. All startups find themselves struggle with hiring to meet growing demand, leaving most startups scrambling to onboard hires. Series B: Hiring and Developing Managers. At Women 2.0

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

by Saqib Ayaz, co-founder of Hire an Assistant. Virtual Assistants are in demand these days because of the variety of tasks they can perform. However, in any case, they cost an employer less than a full time employee. Modern technological devices and apps, like computer, telephone, internet, Skype etc. Sales companies.

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Up and Running

JULY 8, 2016

If you’ve ever tried to start a software company or build a mobile app, you’ve probably come across these options for getting it out there: Find a technical cofounder. The type of person you’ll need to partner with is in extremely high demand, so even if you do find someone, it’s going to be difficult to convince them to join your team.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 19, 2019

I decided that I needed to know more and so attended a program at Singularity University, which Ray co-founded. This has to do with misalignment between KPIs and strategy, the misconception that all innovations must be aligned with legacy IT and processes, and investors’ and shareholders’ demands for too short returns on investment.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2021

by Andy Prakash, founder of Privacy Ninja. The increasing pervasiveness of online activities have led to a greater demand for interconnectivity. The average cost of a cybersecurity attack in Singapore, according to McAfee findings, stands at approximately S$1.7 million per breach.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. To tackle this, B-Free researched and patented another product based on market demand. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some. Attracting Overseas Customers.

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