Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2018

According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. That’s why investors look for entrepreneurs who have true grit, dogged persistence, and a disdain for the status quo. Failure is an option.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

A company had trademarked our brand name under our product category with United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). One way to protect yourself cheaply and easily is filing for a doing business as (DBA) with your state. Although the products were entirely different they had us pinned. The key is to not give up.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

A few caveats, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice, and it deals with law in the United States. Each patent filing will cost your company $10-30k and take 1-4 years. social network start up – trademark and copyright are more likely. Outside the U.S. And it has to identify all prior art.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

19 percent of startups fail because of too much competition, and another 18 percent fail because of pricing or cost issues. The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. Biotechnology. In fact, 6.02

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

With a humongous 75,000-square-foot space in SoHo, WeWork bills itself as “the physical social network,” a place where people can get connected and work live and in person. Creatives searching for a coworking spot in Phoenix can check out Co+Hoots, offering possibly the most cost-effective office space in downtown Phoenix.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 31, 2014

billion users, spending 700 billion minutes on the network every month. In the United States, 58% of the population use at least one social network, and that number leaps to 98% for those aged 18 to 24 years old. Develop compelling content: Content is king on social media. Facebook is even bigger, with 1.4

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2013

After all, the small business economy in the United States has extensive purchasing power. Prior to Skire, Steve was the Vice President of Marketing at Yammer (acquired by Microsoft in 2012), a pioneer and leader in enterprise social networking solutions. . By Steve Apfelberg, Vice President of TriNet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2013

According to a recent MIT study , only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. That’s why investors look for entrepreneurs who have true grit, dogged persistence, and a disdain for the status quo. Find enough venturesome capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Where are the young social media users going? By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%. Marty Zwilling.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2018

19 percent of startups fail because of too much competition, and another 18 percent fail because of pricing or cost issues. The United States provides a phenomenal environment for promoting startup ecosystems, ranking 1st out of 138 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index. Biotechnology. In fact, 6.02

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

According to an MIT study a while back, only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. That’s why investors look for entrepreneurs who have true grit, dogged persistence, and a disdain for the status quo. Failure is an option.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. This begs the question: how much time do users spend in Snapchat today compared to other social networks, and how will that number change over time? Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2012

According to a recent MIT study , only about 10% of patents granted in the United States have any meaningful commercial importance and less than one percent are of seminal importance. That’s why investors look for entrepreneurs who have true grit, dogged persistence, and a disdain for the status quo. Find enough venturesome capital.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

As small business owners look back over the past few years,they share that the biggest challenges of owning/running their business have been: · Taxes, insurance and/or benefit costs (65-percent), · Declines in sales/poor economic conditions (61-percent), and. Personal stress/being accountable for everything/everyone (60-percent).

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The 10 companies span multiple industries and countries of origin, and will undergo three months of intensive hands-on mentorship, networking and coaching, culminating in a Demo Day taking place March 4, 2020, where the class will showcase to the public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Additionally, Kauffman research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39 - with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

Tell happy customers to go ahead and be social about their great experiences and encourage unhappy customers to come to you via social media so that you can make it right and improve your overall service. Companies that embrace this behavior can improve their service and save on costs. They love it. They love it.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Cobalt helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

Additionally, Kauffman research has revealed that the average age of the founders of technology companies in the United States is a surprisingly high 39 - with twice as many over age 50 as under age 25. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2020

Consumers in the United States are estimated to receive an average of one million such ads per year. Because in the end … This type of marketing is widely practiced on social networks, especially on Facebook , where the capacity for dissemination and viralization of recommendations is brutal. One million!

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Last year, only 50% of all small business in the United States had a website. Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot. Do all small businesses need to have a website? Create Your Website.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Sales reps are also likely to be familiar with Salesforce because it’s the most widely used CRM, reducing onboarding costs for companies that use it. For example, in the United States, freight railroads have a deep moat. An aspiring entrant would need to build a network of railways to compete independently.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Last year, only 50% of all small business in the United States had a website. Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot. Do all small businesses need to have a website? Create Your Website.

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ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2020

And yet, Pinterest is the third-most popular social network, with over 322 million monthly active users, nearly 50% of whom are in the United States. When thinking about organic or paid traffic, Google and Facebook often come to mind. Pinterest, for most, does not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

In my presentation this morning, I emphasized three key areas: reducing the personal cost of failure for entrepreneurs, innovation-friendly legal reforms, and access to the digital means of production (slides from my White House presentation are available at the end of this post). I think the benefits are a no-brainer.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 16, 2011

Yet ten years later, in the United States they are little more than punchlines to mall cop jokes. Before sharing the $50k price point with a sales lead, he floated the service and cost by his close business network and received positive feedback, leading him to believe that the price would be equally accepted by the market at large.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 16, 2011

Yet ten years later, in the United States they are little more than punchlines to mall cop jokes. Before sharing the $50k price point with a sales lead, he floated the service and cost by his close business network and received positive feedback, leading him to believe that the price would be equally accepted by the market at large.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

Social Media Performance Analysis. Campaign Cost Analysis. I want to know what Social Network people are coming from. Do notice the clever use of the filter (Social Source Referral Exact Yes) above. It was deeply frustrating to keep track of social networks (they come and go every day!).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. but: Something is Still Missing.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital. Lighter Capital, a Revenue Based Investing VC, offers a Cost of Capital Calculator.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. For example, angel funding is more prevalent in the United States than in Europe.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Then there’s Nobu and the institution he has built through all of his restaurants in many different cities in the United States and maybe abroad. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. You take a more tacit approach. Why is that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). Their revenue from advertising may approach one billion dollars this year, with most consumed by bandwidth and associated costs, YouTube isn’t even profitable yet.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

I’m so tired of the nature of the legal system in the United States where bullying, intimidation and mobster-like shake-downs are becoming prevalent. People settle out of attrition when they realize how long and painful our legal system is and how much money it costs. *. Lawsuits.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2011

Already, there are over 2 billion daily views in YouTube alone, while online movie service Netflix accounts for over 30-percent of total Internet bandwidth in the United States during peak hours. One of the trends in Internet use today is the creation and consumption of video content.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

This essentially forces you to forgo 3PL’s due to the high cost of the logistics, and the technology behind recommendation engines aren’t reliable enough to automate the process. This means that we are their representative in the United States to help educate and obtain what they are looking for in an easy, dynamic and joyful way.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

Even if you remove legal barriers between people and allow them to interact, they are still separated by distances caused by geography, lack of trust, inefficient social networks and differences in culture and language. The answer is that micro-level programs can have macro-level effects.

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