Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Studying an online business analytics masters is one way you can up your numbers game; whether this is the finance, marketing, or product development aspects of your company, the course can supply you with the tools, means, and knowledge to streamline your company operations. Working with Social Media.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To prevent hackers from gaining access to your business's checking account, use low-cost software and dual controls to strengthen your payment processes. The Paycheck Protection Program which was formed last year under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, received additional financing. 3- Multimedia spending.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Alternative Capital. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Turns out people want their laptops to do basic things like run games, Photoshop, or work software. pound paperweight,” said the New York Times’ David Pogue in a technology review. Customized market research platforms, like YouEye , are out there to ensure companies have all the information they need for successful product launches.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The reason for its success is due to not holding ‘compromises’ as an option. Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. From music to finance, airlines and now offering flights to the public into space. Thanks to Christina Giaquinto, Modular Closets ! 9- Basecamp.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Besides the general focus on customer and product development, an entrepreneur should foresee the next moves that will serve to guide him on the right path. It will be a one-stop shop for finding out about moving services, getting quotes and reviews, and booking appointments. 10- As one of the foundational software solutions.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

First, understand your finances. Objectively reviewing your finances is important, and this is a prerequisite to creating a forecast. Equipment and licensing (computers, servers, software, and so on). Things like product development, materials and packaging, performance-based bonuses, and more.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

6- Datafication Photo Credit: Edward Mellett Datafication, in my perspective, is the transformation of everything in our lives into data-powered devices or software. 10- Adoption of flexible work models Photo Credit: Steve Rose The flexible work model is growing in popularity due to its many advantages. Thanks to Jaden Oh, TRAFFV ! #6-

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

The Federal R&D credit amounts to roughly 5% of the wages, materials, and outside contractor expenses in research activities related to product and software development, including: Product conceptualization and development. Prototype development, materials expenses, and testing. Manufacturing products.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Getting Customers Involved in Product Priorities – Around the time that Salesforce.com acquired my company we also acquired a company called CrispyNews. They had decided to take a Digg style approach to product development. I remember in the early days of Mint when I first played around with the product.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Rob Walling generously allowed me to reprint this excerpt from his new book, "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup" available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon and in PDF and ePub from StartupBook.net. Most of us have worked in corporate environments where you're never allowed to go back and refactor code.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 28, 2011

He procrastinated for a few weeks because he was deep in product development, but surfaced a few days ago when he realized they had an investor meeting coming up and really should have at least a basic financial model ready in case the investor asked about it. Building a set of projected financial statements is more complicated.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). This second kind of seed financing can be a double-edged sword for the entrepreneur and company if not very carefully managed.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With all these new tasks, there’s no way you can also manage the projects and client relationships and internal product development, so you’ll need a project manager or a sales person or an office manager or some kind of help, and all of those come out of your profits. None of these new tasks are fun or creative.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Very few people turn up with a strong sense of “what we should be doing” or ready to lean into a productive conversation The financials were prepared by the VP of Finance / CFO. This can include: Fund raising, product development choices, sales, marketing effectiveness, competition, business development, M&A … whatever.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2015

I have to admit, I’ve seen some judges of graduate-level business plan competitions care about IRR, but never an actual angel investor during actual due diligence. Professional services such as attorneys, accountants, consultants, and design or product development companies are classic body shop businesses that can’t scale.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Thanks to Alex Contes, Review Grower ! #3- 3- Finance Club Photo Credit: Jonathan Tian I am enrolled with the Finance Club on LinkedIn to enhance my business operation beyond boundaries. In this LinkedIn group, I can meet like-minded people interested in finance, loan, banking, accounting, and insurance.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). SlideShare.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This doesn’t necessarily mean that the people involved aren’t hard-working; they may in fact be quite diligent in turning the crank on an existing process. This may be due to industry-specific technological change. But other times it is due to the indirect effects of broader change.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2012

Let’s start out with the basic functions of a tech company: 1) Engineering 2) Marketing 3) Sales 4) Business development 5) PR 6) Design 7) Product Management 8) HR 9) Operations 10) Finance Ok, that's just overwhelming. In a way, you can think of BD as “sales when you don’t know what the product is yet.”

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. So What is Customer Development? Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 18, 2015

And I built a software company because I believed the product was needed. Over and over, during the decade and a half that I was a sole proprietor consulting on business planning with clients, I ended up late at night, tired, stuck with finishing up a presentation due the next day. We needed to keep our website up to date.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. They looked for reviews, social interactions, and recommendations. I could have proven the concept and quickly gathered feedback and reviews through the free, manually managed version, as I was building a scalable product.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Active software engineers probably get two offers a month or more. I was able to hire phenomenal software engineers and grow a strong team culture. Learn to write code yourself. Then go to hacker events and developer meetups. I was lucky enough to have worked for Yahoo! YHOO ) in its second act.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was surprised by this, as I thought Seth was going to discuss another option I’ve seen used with great success: customer financing. That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc. Some entrepreneurs think it’s a luxury to have accounting, finance, or other support functions, but it’s important not to be afraid of spending resources early on for administrative efficiency. startupcto'

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Getting features and fixes into hands of users was the greatest priority - a test environment would just get in the way and slow down the validation coming from having code running in production. When a new engineer started at IMVU, I had a simple rule: they had to ship code to production on their first day.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. Self-Awareness will conclude this list for today.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2021

Thanks to Rameez Usmani, Code Signing Store ! #13- Especially during this pandemic when they are most vulnerable, both to getting sick or exacerbating the symptoms of their condition due to the virus, burnout, isolation, and loneliness. It's all too simple to merely fit into the system in the workplace. 13- Independence!

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Many software and healthcare businesses fit this description. And putting out there the “story” behind the numbers - the talent, work ethic, and integrity of our people, the suredness of our IP, the thoughtfulness of our product development roadmap, the sustainable competitive advantage of our operational cost structure, and the like.

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