Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Beyond these believers, you need to match your credentials and interests with the multitude of public, academic and government organizations that proclaim to foster research and early development, to satisfy the long-term needs of the people or organizations they support. Expanding the product line. Business commercialization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Things will cost more than you expect. Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Cash flow out equates to burn rate, and the runway depends on your reserves.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product marketing is responsible for tasks like: Developing and executing go-to-market (GTM) strategies; Researching and understanding target segments; Analyzing competitor activities; Developing product value propositions ; Defining messaging strategies ; Ensuring customer success teams and salespeople understand the product features.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Beyond these believers, you need to match your credentials and interests with the multitude of public, academic and government organizations that proclaim to foster research and early development, to satisfy the long-term needs of the people or organizations they support. Expanding the product line. Business commercialization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In fact, an entrepreneur friend of mine, who made millions on her marketing expertise, asserted recently that most inventors fail in business because they refuse to believe that any business expertise or experience is worth more than 5 percent in partner equity. Most founders bootstrap product development.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

The name needs to match the business. You want your company to show up first in the search results whenever someone is looking for a product you sell. Keyword rich domain names get a considerable boost in search rankings; an exact match is even better. Just purchasing an Exact Match Domain name is not enough.”.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

You can conduct group interviews, get your candidate “liquored up” (not a recommendation), and even have a trial period on the job to see if there’s a good match. They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Though most founders would agree culture is important in an organization’s success, it often takes a back seat to product development and generating a profit in the early stages of an organization’s life. As a startup grows, the equity position offered to new employees goes down as the number of employees goes up.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. Another idea would be to say matching up. the sort of pain solution match-up process can work. How do you split equity? It’s bundled in different groups.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This will cost you some real cash- at least $5K for your first version. It won’t cost you real money other than your living expenses. I do believe the only reason the developers were willing to work for some equity is because they became friends with us at Hackers and Founders, so that part worked.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In later posts I’ll get more specific on how to figure out if the folks you’re meeting are the right people to work with, and also how to deal with issues like splitting equity and paying yourselves before raising funding. But at the end of the day, it is about a product being accepted. Same with Pets.com?

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