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. With this agreement in place, there are a host of ways that both sides can win: Share common technology. Up-sell related products or cross endorsement.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Finance the dream yourself. Money buys resources, technology, and manpower — all critical elements in helping a new business succeed. Sub in new technology, a bigger store, a larger advertising budget, and on and on, for those two pennies and you get excuses made by struggling entrepreneurs everywhere. It takes courage.

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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. With this agreement in place, there are a host of ways that both sides can win: Share common technology. Up-sell related products or cross endorsement.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. Secondly, developers are more productive.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. During the 1990’s large corporations had bought different software applications to automate each part of their enterprise – finance, customer support, manufacturing, sales, etc.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The product is the star of the show.” On2 designed video codec technology which Google used to optimize its WebM video format. On2 Technologies. On2 Technologies. On2 designed video codec technology which Google used to optimize its WebM video format. Google bought web 2.0 Google bought web 2.0 Great piece.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2010

For instance, most equipment manufacturers use common components to reduce costs, yet compete vigorously on the end product. Best of both creates a new market. Your competitor has strengths (maybe sales), and you have a different strength (maybe technology), appealing to overlapping segments. Integrate for new or critical mass.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

You know a lot about marketing or finance or… whatever. Helping teams to better communicate with each other and helping companies to better communicate with the market. Computer/technology consulting. Perceived value is the amount that a customer thinks a service (or product) is worth. Find the right help.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2016

It’s not often that I pull a dusty old marketing book off my bookshelf to talk about a more current marketing topic, but almost 20 years ago I stumbled upon Jay Abraham’s book, Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got , and I think what he shared in 2000 is still relevant today. Do you know?

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