Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 312

YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2018

The cost can run into thousands or even millions of dollars to get the company up and running again. You need to define your needs and then talk with your IT staff to ensure that the data recovery and protection strategies match those needs. If you take the right steps you can save yourself a lot of costs and headaches down the road.

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Cost Security Cofounder Matching 118

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Use content advertising to fight rising costs. Here’s Proquo’s lead generation landing page: By doing this, they’re able to progress prospects through the funnel more quickly, reducing cost per acquisition. These two platforms are then matched up in real time.”. Grab attention. Build trust. Offer value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The cost of entry has never been lower. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Be sure it matches your business, and get a hosting agreement from one of the popular providers like GoDaddy. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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Cost Startup Hosting Bootstrapping 220

ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2020

This post, based on our experiences, covers: What misalignment looks like—and what it costs; What alignment looks like—and what you get; Four steps to go from wherever you are now to greater alignment. What misalignment looks like—and what it costs. So how do you get aligned? Close the deal.

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Sales Cost Marketing Audience 90

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2020

In my role as an advisor to entrepreneurs, I often see struggling businesses trying to be too many things for too many people, resulting in customer confusion, initiatives executed poorly, and high costs, few customers, and slow growth all around. Lowest-cost solution with minimal customization. It’s a recipe for disaster.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, the frame, typically made of durable composites or light metals, provides the foundation that all other elements mount onto, so measurements must match perfectly. Carefully constructed components greatly extend overall lifespan by standing up to constant use without failing prematurely.

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Technical Review Security Reputation Portland 139

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2017

That lack of control mixed with an environment focused on meeting goals at all costs leads to an incredibly volatile cocktail of paralysis and fear. This setup allows both parties to get a feel for whether it’s a match made in heaven (or a bad breakup waiting to happen). Get a second opinion. Still not sure about a potential hire?

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Finance Cost Hiring Reputation 136

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 436

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. Let’s cut costs by outsourcing all from this point forward.”

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Entrepreneur Philippines Bandwidth Cofounder 303

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2023

Some team members may get results, but at the high cost of damaging team morale and destroying the goodwill you and your team have accrued with others. The leadership challenge is to find the training or mentoring to fill the skill gap, or to find a new role that is a better match for the skills they do have. Steamrollers.

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Employee Leadership Cofounder Matching 267

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Things will cost more than you expect. Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. Buffer your projected resource requirements.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Management Salary 258

VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost. Artificial Intelligence – Scaling global intelligence and redefining work: AI training costs should continue to fall 75% per year.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

At the time of receipt, they may be attractive and match the market. Life with the use of loans has long become the norm for modern society. But the terms, interest and other conditions are different. However, conditions tend to change over time. Loan rates are getting higher and people are overpaying significantly.

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Software Review Matching Technical Review Internet 264

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

Here are a few specifics on how to be part of the solution, without the costs, rather than part of the problem: Put a personal face and address on your site; don’t hide behind an “info” email address. But that is just the beginning of the opportunity to provide or take advantage of the new power and tools on the Internet.

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Technical Review Customer Social Network Software Review 342

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2019

The challenge is to recognize and recruit that ideal partner match early with minimal cost and risk. If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term.

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Cofounder Software Review CTO Hire Founder 221

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

A great courier will have a reputation to match, provide high-quality services at reasonable prices, and take extra steps to make sure every parcel is delivered safely to its destination. Cost Transparency and Prices A reliable and trustworthy courier will be upfront and honest about its costs.

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Reputation Atlanta Social Media Matching 132

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

If you find more than a dozen solutions that loosely match your idea, it may be time to skip that one and try another. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 267

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Trying to save costs by seeking resumes on the Internet will result in poor quality candidates, more time required for screening and interviews, and high turnover. Every company and team develops a unique culture of work flexibility, personality, and communication that must be matched to every new hire, independent of job qualifications.

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Hiring Matching Cost Internet 339

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Many entrepreneurs I have mentored make big mistakes in this area, by hiring low-cost friends and family, with minimal skills or training, and expecting them to have the same work ethic , passion, and business knowledge as the founder. In addition, you can reduce to soft costs of mentoring, relationship building, and socializing.

Technical Review 308

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Employee 308

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This reduces the cost of customer acquisition, allows easy upgrades for service and new features, and improves customer loyalty in the face of new competitors in the market. Take advantage of low-cost modern tools and automation. But for those of you who are a real match for the entrepreneur lifestyle, that’s what makes it fun.

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Merger Acquisition Software Review Social Media 386

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2022

In fact, his analysis of current statistics and many case studies leads both of us to recommend a focus on a set of key hiring principles that shouldn’t come as a surprise, but don’t seem to get followed very often these days by new companies, or even the more mature ones: Look for a cultural fit before a skill match.

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Hiring Technical Cofounder Cofounder Retention 337

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

You may feel good when that first burst of customers arrives, but don’t assume that “ word of mouth ” and those early adopters will grow your business to match your dreams of success. In this context, connecting with other complementary brands will help you share costs, as well as audiences across your industry. They won’t find you.

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Technical Review Social Media Channel Flash 355

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

By removing physical boundaries, the care delivery modality provides an obvious advantage to more efficiently match geographically unbalanced provider supply with patient demand. . Patient-facing cost is a key driver of healthcare accessibility. Affordability . Logistical Friction. Scalable Go-To-Market .

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Vertical Software Review Portfolio Demand 156

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2020

If you find more than a dozen solutions that loosely match your idea, it may be time to skip that one and try another. New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords.

Technical Review 434

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Internet 434

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2023

The cost-of-living crisis, fuelled by a range of economic headwinds, has seen businesses and their employees alike suffer from a severe loss of spending power, with the impact being felt throughout global HR departments. and ‘does this match your expectations?’

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Cost Employee Management United Kingdom 129

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Entrepreneurs set the price of their solution based on their costs, and their perception of value. Through social media and customer interaction, you must convince customers that your culture matches theirs. Then every startup has to learn to pivot, because their first understanding of the real problem is usually not quite right.

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Sales Startup Bootstrapping Technical Review 348

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2020

Some team members may get results, but at the high cost of damaging team morale and destroying the goodwill you and your team have accrued with others. The leadership challenge is to find the training or mentoring to fill the skill gap, or to find a new role that is a better match for the skills they do have. Steamrollers.

Leadership 317

Leadership Entrepreneur Cofounder Matching 317

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Advertising and Startup Costs. The process of reconciling is easy; just make sure the transactions on your statements match the transactions on your program. If they don’t match, you may be underreporting or overreporting your expenses. Health Insurance Premiums. Business Meals and Travel. Business Loan/Credit Card Interest.

Software Review 143

Software Review Due Diligence Matching Security 143

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Things will cost more than you expect. Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. Buffer your projected resource requirements.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Salary Angel Investor 310

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

For example, when delivery costs and delays were still a major online sales hurdle, Amazon Prime membership was invented to offer free next day shipping. Their pricing algorithm crawls the Web daily, and adjusts prices to always match the lowest price found anywhere, offline or online. The cost of being late is hard to recover.

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Global Marketing Technical Review Agile 308

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

In this view the product features, cost, and support are the key to success. The Entrepreneurial Perspective starts with a picture of a well-defined future, and then comes back to the present with the intention of changing it to match the vision. The Technician’s Perspective asks: “What work has to be done?”

Technical Review 341

Technical Review Social Media Startup Internet 341

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Assigning tasks based on technicians’ expertise Field techs have raised the issue of the technician’s expertise level needing to match the task’s criteria. Faster invoicing Invoicing in field service companies is the most crucial aspect of the business and also a very unpleasant aspect.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Startup 151

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Make sure they match before you commit. Ask yourself, “If I were an investor, would I support this effort, given the costs and promised returns?” The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel. How do I measure success? How do I avoid scope creep?

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Metrics Technical Review Leadership Framework 387

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Cost Savings. Whether you’re working for a large corporation or a small startup, operational costs will always exist. Since the transition out of the office we have seen significant cost savings in multiple areas. The second major area where we saw cost savings was around talent.

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Technical Review Cofounder Leadership Employee 272

Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2017

So, your Monthly Match team ( Fred Wilson , Joanne Wilson , Amy Batchelor , Susan Danziger , Albert Wenger and me) is launching this month’s match for Planned Parenthood. Here is how the monthly match works. Go to our match offer page and click the big Donate button.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

What will it cost to start that business? Many people underestimate startup costs and start their business in a haphazard, unplanned way. Estimating realistic startup costs is one of the key elements of your financial plan. What are startup costs? It’s always a guess—but you can make it a good educated guess.

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