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8 Priorities When Offering A New Product Or Service

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of any new product these days must include education and rollout marketing, perhaps equal or greater than the development costs. Make sure new solutions offered actually build your brand, rather than dilute it. Solution may require new category development time. Another approach is to expand your scope geographically.

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How To Prevent Gaps in An Innovative Startup Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

It takes focus to resist adding a long list of features that seem to make the opportunity larger, but dilute to focus of both you and potential customers. Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Lots of people still believe the major cost of a new product is development.

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Tech Focus: Pressure to Improve Drug Development Drives Innovation

The Startup Magazine

Discover the key factors shaping market dynamics and opening up growth opportunities in drug development. Successful navigation toward this new, collaborative process requires companies and researchers to reimagine processes of new drug development at each phase, with an understanding of value creation.

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6 New Venture Realities To Target Your Funding Effort

Startup Professionals Musings

Because unsuccessful startups tend to fail early, and big successful exits tend to take a long time to develop, graphing growth follows the classic J-curve. Thus every serious investor reserves a certain amount of his investment capital for follow-on rounds, which allows them to stay to course to success, even with dilution.

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Which Fundraising Round Should You Skip?

View from Seed

The reality is that if a founder raised every one of these rounds, and lead investors always got their “target” ownership, the level of dilution would be ridiculous. No good investor would want the founder/CEO of a company to have insufficient ownership by the series A, and every founder I know is sensitive to taking too much dilution.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

The beauty of these businesses that weren’t immediate momentum is that they didn’t raise as much capital (so neither we nor the founders had to take the extra dilution), they took the time to develop true IP that is hard to replicate, they often only attracted 1 or 2 strong competitors and we may deliver more value from this cohort than even our up-and-to-the-right (..)

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Why It Pays To Focus Your Business On A Narrow Niche

Startup Professionals Musings

It takes focus to resist adding a long list of features that seem to make the opportunity larger, but dilute to focus of both you and potential customers. Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Lots of people still believe the major cost of a new product is development.