Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Always start with a formal proposal, limited in scope to a specific common objective or technology, for a limited amount of time, bounded by a two-way non-disclosure statement. Every startup has a core competency which should not be shared. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 9, 2022

Improve Your Products and Services. Any number of things could be improved, such as upgrading from shortening to butter in bakery items to make them taste more luxurious or switching to better heavy duty steel rollers to make mining more productive – it’s really going to depend on what you do in your company as to how you improve things.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Always start with a formal proposal, limited in scope to a specific common objective or technology, for a limited amount of time, bounded by a two-way non-disclosure statement. Every startup has a core competency which should not be shared. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The World Bank has once placed Puerto Rico as one of the most competitive markets in Latin America with high economic growth. Mainland companies who would like to set up a business will find it easy to invade the market primarily because people are looking for competitive products and services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

Hockey Stick 120

Hockey Stick Intellectual Property Non-Compete Business Model 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2015

Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. A software product is a classic example of a scalable solution, since it costs real money to build the first copy, but unlimited additional copies can be quickly cloned for almost no incremental cost.

Hockey Stick 120

Hockey Stick Intellectual Property Non-Compete Business Model 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2010

For “coopetition” (also called a strategic alliance) to work, companies need to very clearly define where they are working together, and where they are competing. Here is the right place to start with a good joint non-disclosure and non-compete agreement. Best of both creates a new market. Cross endorsement.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

They’re also two triggers that direct marketers and copywriters have been well aware of for years. Fear and greed have their place in financial bubbles as well, where, as changingminds.org put it , “prices go up sharply as people compete to buy a relatively scarce resource.” When Fear Drives Conversions.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

Either way, user feedback is not about asking your customers how to solve problems. Use mini-stories describing your product/service instead of (empty) umbrella terms that everyone else uses. Three techniques to write better copy: Surveys – learn customers’ challenges and questions via surveys. That’s your job.

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