Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

When I negotiated crowdSPRING’s initial contract for internet and IP phone service, we had a few important deal terms (price, reliability, redundancy) and I made those terms very clear in the beginning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

It takes more than one person to build a business, so the lone entrepreneur, without support from any visible team, advisors, partners, or potential customers, will not attract investors. Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet. Surrounded by the right people and track record.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Outside partners and channel impacts are complex. Of course, you need work with partners and channel to quantity their costs and contributions and normalize total results. With the internet at our fingertips, even B2B customers research and compare solutions, completing 50-90% of the work before a sales rep is contacted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

These have helped them build trust and confidence among team members, and effectively sell their message to partners, investors, vendors and customers. In any business domain, there is no substitute for skills acquired by personal experience to supplement any academic training and the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2023

Major leading-edge (also called bleeding-edge) products or technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) or the Internet of Things (IoT), involve new concepts, time for acceptance, and focus on understanding value. This may require you selling exclusivity, doing channel development, or alliances with new partners.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

Today is the day that eight hopeful startups got to pitch their ideas to investors at startup accelerator Springboard’s Internet of Things (IoT) demo day in Cambridge, England. Cains said he’s also in talks with partners to adapt the technology for a variety of televised sport.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

I had the good fortune to attend and participate in GTK Partners and Pillsbury's Internet of Things (IoT) Executive Event in Palo Alto last week. What GTK's and Pillsbury’s IoT event taught me last week is that we can make money in it, be safe in it, and with a little help from our Internet friends, enjoy it too. read more.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

We’re on our fourth fund and second opportunity fund , and we are looking to add a third partner over the course of the next year or so. You want to be a great partner to founders, asking good questions but not always shouting out the answers. The partnership is currently Angela and myself. We like to lead, not follow.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The initiative launched by Transformify and supported by its valuable partner, Genashtim, will help those who can not afford the skills training to access it on - line. E-learning is a convenient way for people worldwide to acquire knowledge using their computers, tablets or phones, and Internet access.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

You need to build business relationships with partners, team members, investors, and of course customers. These days, by starting a blog or publishing on the Internet, you don’t have to be a social butterfly to get supporters and be recognized as an influencer. Increase your visibility and expertise in your domain.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. An industry agnostic studio , such as Rocket Internet , is a standalone venture studio that generates its own ideas and IP and is industry and market agnostic. Unlike an accelerator, a venture studio does not fund existing startups.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As we are spending more of our resources online, we believe that a “new Internet” is being created – with the consumer at its centre – on top of a strong tech infrastructure: 5g/6g, cloud, edge computing, new powerful GPUs, spatial computing, decentralisation etc. . The “new internet” aka “Metaverse” .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

It takes more than one person to build a business, so the lone entrepreneur, without support from any visible team, advisors, partners, or potential customers, will not attract investors. Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet. Surrounded by the right people and track record.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

In that environment, you need to look broadly and work effectively on all the available sources of capital, including friends and family, angel investors, and strategic partners. Personal branding is how we market ourselves to others, and is very important in this Internet age. Intelligence and insight: book and street smarts.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In this Internet age, a company sells products or services via an online store, app, or subscription service. Who should look into finding affiliate marketing partners? Next to finding partners, affiliate marketing networks also do the technical part of tracking leads, so you don’t have to implement this into your website yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2022

With the power of the Internet, and the impact of the recent pandemic , the world of business services, such as accounting and marketing, have gone more and more remote. We all have goals and expectations, and a backstory that may be inspirational, memorable, and important to potential partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Others have seized on the opportunity to restructure their business for the future, eliminate marginal processes, and find new growth partners. With free world-wide Internet access, outsourcing no longer requires the extensive travel, translation, and communication costs once associated with remote work.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

After almost five years of working closely with a partner in an internet venture, I have had a great deal of time to think about how to do it better. Here are 10 tips to that I hope will help you to better work with your own partner: 1. Listen hard to your partner. Don’t compete with one another. Share the load.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

Influencers are talking about this opportunity as one of the “next big things,” like the Internet of Things (Iot) or artificial intelligence (AI). Very few new startups are getting funded at this stage, and existing ones are looking for strategic partners and being acquired to achieve continued growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2020

These have helped them build trust and confidence among team members, and effectively sell their message to partners, investors, vendors and customers. In any business domain, there is no substitute for skills acquired by personal experience to supplement any academic training and the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Will consumers want to watch short-form mobile entertainment? Will these third parties produce something people will watch?

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 2, 2023

But how can you tell if it’s the internet connection that’s causing trouble, or if it’s your own gear that’s acting up? Here are some pointers on how you can diagnose a hardware problem versus an internet connection issue so you can troubleshoot the problem accordingly and get back to business.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2022

Since most startups in 2022 are going online, you need to think about starting your business on the Internet. Thanks to the Internet, anyone can become a business owner. All you have to do is partner with wholesalers and manufacturers to sell their products under your brand name. What Business is Popular in 2022.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2014

Just now Fred Wilson posted an Open Internet Letter to the FCC that my partners and I at Foundry Group signed on to. The post Support The Open Internet appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Politics fcc net neutrality open internet' It came together in the last 24 hours and was driven by our friends at Union Square Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far. Even the homework is easier, with free and mobile access through the Internet to more business assistance sources, opportunity data, investors, and competitor details around the world. Prepare a pitch deck to document and share your plan.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2023

In today’s digital world, a strong internet connection is the lifeblood of most businesses. With modern technology and digital ways of working available (and constantly evolving), it brings into sharp focus the question – is your internet bandwidth up to the job? First of all, what is bandwidth?

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. Jonathan Siddharth . David Zhang.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

Vancouver executive Christopher Kape is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who founded JAMCO Capital Partners , an early-stage investment and strategic advisory firm that focuses on a number of industries, including gaming, high-tech, food and wellness.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2020

They need to be capturing the attention of customers, not attending to internet connections. Such data is at risk to internet thieves and hackers who may wish to retrieve it for malicious purposes. Your Business’ Top Technology Partner. Stay Safer. IT support companies aren’t simply there to fix bugs and errors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2023

The Internet and the current information wave have changed everything. The Internet is the problem, by facilitating constant change, and it’s the solution, by providing an absolutely current view of customers, trends, and best practices. Success requires challenging assumptions and status quo. Marty Zwilling

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

For instance, companies run the risk of having their data stolen, of being the target of cyberattacks, and of other forms of internet security risks. For the storage of data and the accessibility of apps from any location with an internet connection, for instance, organizations may employ cloud-based solutions.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Although it looks challenging to embrace, it is worth every effort invested in it, especially when you acquire the right knowledge and suitable partners. Such are the right partners that your business needs. According to the Internet Crime Report filed in 2018 , most businesses lost billions of money from data breaches.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. About Bessemer Venture Partners: Bessemer Venture Partners is a global investment group with offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, Mumbai, and Tel Aviv.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. With the unlimited access to “how-to” videos and detailed instructions on the Internet, you shouldn’t need to hire experts for most things. Use your equity for key executives and business partners.

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