Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

Search, combined with ratings and reviews become key in separating the useful from the rambling. This process works well in today’s extremely flat and non-hierarchical startup organizations. Distributed. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Search, combined with ratings and reviews become key in separating the useful from the rambling. This process works well in today’s extremely flat and non-hierarchical startup organizations. Distributed. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs.

New York City 246

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 246

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

For decades large companies have gone shopping in Silicon Valley for startups. What can companies learn from others’ failed efforts to integrate startups into large companies? The answer - there are two types of integration strategies, and they depend on where the startup is in its lifecycle. The Innovation Portfolio.

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VC Cafe

MAY 16, 2023

Google Workspace (docs, spreadsheets, etc), Google photos (to enhance images with AI, detect images that were created by AI in image search), and perhaps most importantly, revamping the search experience and enriching the results from its classic 10 blue links to an AI-powered experience called AI-snapshots.

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Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Generative AI Open Source 178

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2016

Because of the explosion of social media and mobile as the primary, go-to consumer device for local information, Google is increasingly losing search share to local directories, social media sites and maps apps. is one of the most critical local search ranking factors in Google and Maps. Want to know where you stand now? Trevor Sumner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

A nonprofit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. The advantage is no time and effort is spent searching and preparing for the other alternatives, and no repayment terms or collateral are required.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 5, 2020

In order to compete within your industry, you will need to analyze, create, and distribute content that attracts the right people. You waste great content if you are unable to distribute it across all audience touch points, so make sure you include all relevant channels that your current marketing budget allows.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 27, 2024

Initial investment and startup costs To kickstart your self-storage business in Leesburg, FL, consider initial investments like property acquisition, facility construction, and security systems. Factor in startup expenses such as insurance, utilities, and marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore. The Wal-Mart home page is customized for each shopper based on location, local weather, and the customer search and purchase history. Algorithms and data are required to compete.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

These are people that didn’t make their money through a tech startup or startup investing. Some of these folks are founders and CEOs, but not at high-growth tech startups. On the other hand, they could be the opposite—much more focused on near-term cash distributions than long-term equity appreciation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

In fact, I recommend that you search for the problem first, rather than creating a solution looking for a problem. Even adding money won’t do it – you need to create a committed and engaged team and partners for marketing and sales, as well as production and distribution. Many startups I know fail by simply giving up too soon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2022

A nonprofit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. The advantage is no time and effort is spent searching and preparing for the other alternatives, and no repayment terms or collateral are required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. These range from basic search engine optimization (SEO) tracking, like Google Analytics , to a new generation of marketing platforms, like HubSpot. Don’t start from how you want to sell.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Fully remote distributed companies used to be a rarity. Companies Must Build a Process for Managing Distributed Engineering Teams. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A common pain of startups after an exhilarating first surge of early adopters is a long and frustrating plateau of slow growth, where it seems like nothing you do will get your business to profitability. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For example: TheGist , an Israeli startup launched this week with a $7M seed round , uses AI to summarise Slack channels and threads. Another landscape of the growing number of generative AI startups can be seen in the following map and research by Base10 Ventures. Base10 includes 300 startups in their generative AI landscape (source).

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2024

Calling Israeli startup founders in Interactive Entertainment, AI & Gaming! With the rapid advancement of generative AI, we’re seeing content creation, distribution and monetisation being disrupted faster than ever before. You may have noticed that the fundraising market for startups has slowed down. Not for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. The number of channels grew with cable & satellite TV but we still have limitations that makes distributing content high.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

The way in which small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) approach online marketing is being revolutionized by SpeedyBrand, a cutting-edge startup that is a pioneer in the field of search engine optimization (SEO) content creation. SpeedyBrand also faces competition from these other startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Search, combined with ratings and reviews become key in separating the useful from the rambling. This process works well in today’s extremely flat and non-hierarchical startup organizations. Distributed. When done well, an organization’s online community can become a competitive advantage.

Leadership 230

Leadership Software Review Social Network Social Media 230

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup. Lets see why.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Search, combined with ratings and reviews become key in separating the useful from the rambling. This process works well in today’s extremely flat and non-hierarchical startup organizations. Distributed. Tags: entrepreneur startup open leadership social media business. Open microphone: encouraging participation.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2021

For family lawyer marketing efforts to be effective, learn the basics of search engine optimization (SEO) and content marketing. Optimization helps improve the search rankings of your family law firm, which, in turn, allows you to expand your reach. Nowadays, a buyer’s journey starts with an online search.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs.

New York City 120

New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

This may work for big companies who have specialized staffs, but it doesn’t work for startups and small businesses who are already understaffed and overloaded. Startups need outside experts who can do the work, as well as provide training on what needs to be done. Treat a startup as a customer, not a client.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2023

For startups and small businesses, establishing a strong online presence and effectively utilizing digital marketing strategies are paramount to achieving sustainable growth in today’s highly competitive and dynamic business landscape. This is true for all businesses, regardless of their location, industry, and size.

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Small Business PPC Social Media Marketing 131

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2019

Hiring a unicorn like that may involve pushing your search outside your region like hiring Ukrainian developers. The second important decision is choosing between a co-located remote software development team and fully distributed development team. Co-located remote teams vs. distributed team.

Technical Review 76

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2015

For context, the reason a startup would look for an official office runs the gamut, from expanding headcount to serving enterprise clients and thus needing a decent space to wearing out your welcome at a shared spot and more. You should start actively searching for space 3-4 months out.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

This is not about running a startup badly, it’s about not doing the things that are not core to your business. Twitter – Share new blogposts and exciting news quickly, search who else is talking about us and respond to interested users. by Ian Smith of Captricity. Unbounce – A/B testing of landing pages. Backend Support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs.

New York City 202

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 202

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This post is an update of what we learned about life science distribution channels. Life Science/Health Care distribution channels differ by Category. This weeks topic was distribution channels ; how your product gets from your company to your potential customer segments. Diagnostics. Week 3 Todd Morrill Instructor .

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Distribution Channel Lean Intellectual Property 231

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

The Lean LaunchPad class uses the three “ Lean Startup ” principles: Alexander Osterwalders “ business model canvas ” to frame hypotheses. Value Propositions and Customer Segments are covered in weeks 1 and 2, emphasizing the search for problem/solution and then product/market fit. So why change something that worked so well? (You

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. The advantage is no time and effort is spent searching and preparing for the other alternatives, and no repayment terms or collateral are required.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor Equity Technical Review Exit Strategy 120

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Many companies need venture capital funding, including startups. It is a type of financing that investors can provide to startups and small businesses which are believed to have the potential for success in the long term. You will need to have an impressive management team to support your search for venture capital.

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