Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. There is no free lunch.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Social networking is so last year. Everyone loves a good consumer product but even amazing products fail because it’s so difficult to get people’s attention. This is a particularly effective method for consumer products as the chances are higher that some people out there may want a certain product. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Overconfidence.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Category leaders do very well, while the #2, 3, 4… players struggle to attract customers and financing. This trend is particularly true in markets that are highly susceptible to network effects, such as online auctions and social networks. However, now individual employees get the ball rolling by using a product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Aspiring entrepreneurs ask me why their great idea hasn’t sold; they talk about it endlessly, and they expect others to do the development, finance, and marketing work for them. Watching the orders come in, or the product moving off the shelf, is the feedback you have been looking for. Start even before the product is ready.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult. despite having lots of competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. get the attention of the market they choose.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Use your website, social media platforms and email communications to engage with your customers, let them know what you’re doing to move with the times and offer reassurance. Another benefit of paying more attention to health and wellbeing is adjusting your product range or the services you offer to cater to new trends. Cost-Saving.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. If your guesses are validated, what you’re building is might be a viable product.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

You no longer need to rely solely on traditional sources of finance like banks and venture capitalists. It encourages users to form social networks around shared values and offers tools for petitions, pledges, surveys to foster digital activism.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. The product would leverage GPS and laser-based technologies and could be used on existing mower or farm equipment or built into new units. Unlike Groupon which offers one product deal per day chosen based on the customer’s location.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. So if you’re casually reading and don’t really care about angel financing – abort now! Go research it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. There is no free lunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

I won’t even try to cover here the ones you didn’t find for your personal life, like managing personal finances and credit. The focus here would be on the actual nuts and bolts of how things get budgeted and financed in business. Maximizing Business Productivity. Productivity is much more than doing everything faster.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

evolved around trends that focused on the idea of user collaboration , sharing of user-generated content, and social networking, so too does the concept of collaborative governance. For example, users save time and increase productivity when they work with trusted data. Just as Web 2.0

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2020

I’ve damaged myself in the effort to be as productive and efficient as a healthy solopreneur who writes and draws for clients and for my own projects, acting as if I had no disabilities. A company had trademarked our brand name under our product category with United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Still, a product is nothing without scalability.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Finance and a host of other wonderful services brought to you by their sponsors. People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. The Founder & CEO of Ad.ly

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Georgiades (Zumper): I think business school is more about soul searching than spending 24 hours building a product. There is plenty of time post-HBS to crank on building product. Poort (Rescale): Since we were not able to raise money early on, we just started building a product that we ourselves as engineers would want to use.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

For angels and early-stage pre-seed and seed firms, most of those financings do not come with information rights. Most Series A financings are not big momentum rounds where everyone is competing — often it’s a personal connection forged after an angel or seed investor keeps telling a VC about a specific founder or company.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Professional expert networks allow you to efficiently convert your financial capital into relationship capital. Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. Or, you can go straight to the source. Who are they? Previously posted at Forbes.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

In the span of just 10 years, we’ve seen the cost of solar go from a fringe, do-gooder energy source to radically cheaper than “conventional” electricity production. O ther “virtual batteries” which offload excess energy for productive purposes like running data centers or mining bitcoin are also extremely effective here.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

I think that the number of players in this devloping class of what I’d call “Micro VCs” will continue to increase over the coming years: the model fits into an opportunity on the capital supply side, as well as more importantly becomes the right product for many entrepreneurs on the demand side.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. View more jobs » Len Williams Angels, super-angels, venture capitalists and micro-VCs - they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Small startups act the same way, simply cloning each other’s products.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Brenton Gieser , Be Social Change.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. You can target multiple mobile platforms at once with tools like BuildAnApp , or you can look into the geolocation angle with a tool such as Socialight or Shout’Em.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks. At a time when we are seeing content creators monetize content on social media at new levels, it is clear that Lightricks’ platform has the ability to create a one-stop shop that will be meaningful to its users.”. Startup Journey.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the. 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs Android Gingerbread Confirmed, Mascot.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game. 10 Fresh Blogger Templates for Any Ap. Steve Jobs Speaks Candidly About the. 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs Android Gingerbread Confirmed, Mascot.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. I’m not trying to imply that all VC’s are socially inept – that’s not the case. Free product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. There is no free lunch.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 141