Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The operations superstar. He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. The sales professional.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

It’s why many modern technology companies prefer to sell individual products to end-buyers who can buy on their credit cards with limited need for approval from others. But you have no choice since in the first few years everything you do is about showing results to justify financing to continue your operations.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

The next few posts are going to talk about scaling your sales operations as you move out of the evangelical phase. But what happened to me and what I think happens to others is that this tacit knowledge of how to sell your company’s products is not as institutionalized as you think. I learned this the hard way.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

For example, manufacturing companies use On-demand courier delivery apps for kickstarting their production activities in their factories and plants. The entrepreneurs can reduce their operational costs significantly – by utilizing advanced technologies like autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots for courier delivery.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. Rinse & repeat. It takes options off of the table. You have a hunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

My rationale is simple: everything goes wrong and only great teams can respond to competitors, markets, funding environments, staff departures, PR disasters and the like. Without strong PMs you build crappy products that nobody needs or that real people can’t use. Final startup grind from msuster. figure out roles. identify gaps.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Thanks to Danielle Sabrina, Society22 PR ! #3- As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A lot of work goes into starting a business, developing and launching products, and running the day-to-day operations, so marketing often gets put on the back burner. In addition, if you plan to expand your product lines in the future, a broad name will make it easier to include different products under that umbrella.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance, and planning.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. So it might actually be more productive for you to improve your conversion than to improve your ad buying, for example.

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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. When the product is early and still pivoting, these are kind of the same thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

I need to give credit for the topic to PR Malloy who Tweeted me this question. PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. No carrier in their right mind wanted to cede control of the software but Apple was willing to offer its products exclusive through one carrier in exchange for not having any carrier software on the device.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 16, 2012

These days, few big businesses operate without a Twitter presence, and more and more business gurus, CEOs, and teachers are flocking to the site to share their expertise and inspiration with young professionals like yourself. This chat touches on a wide range of topics, including social media, marketing, advertising, technology, and PR.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Knowing the business, its operating area and opportunities and staying consistent are the prerequisites. Highlight the features of your product and tell the audience that you are doing it for them. Before the products are ready start a marketing or advertising campaign. Here are the tips to follow in 2018: 1.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

Over the past few months, we have been running a series of posts where we profile one of the many incredible operators in our network. These operators are generous enough to share their expertise and wisdom, and we are lucky to do deep dives into unique topics. And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

recently wrote a post talking about how some VCs meddle in operating company decisions or some executive teams are too reliant on VCs to jump in and make hard calls for them. So operating at a higher level, helping to set the framework for decision making and then sitting down and watching the game be played, is certainly the way to go.”

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

When it comes to changes I will be making in my business in the next year, I see us moving away from a traditional office space environment strategy we were operating under prior to the pandemic. From the feedback that I have received, I have gathered that my employees are happier and more productive while working from home.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. IPOs dried up.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As with most things in marketing and business, product innovation isn’t something that happens from a few meetings or putting together a polished slide deck. In this article, I’ll share what product innovation is, why it matters, and how to build a company culture where innovation is the standard. . Image source ).

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. Party rounds blew up on a number of startups who found it difficult to get ongoing operational support from investors who didn’t have time or inclination to lean in.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Before we can explain what and how sourcing products from China helps and how to choose China sourcing agents, let’s first understand the concept of sourcing itself. Sourcing refers to a practice where businesses and companies buy goods and products from another supplier or a manufacturer. The answer is simple: China sourcing.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Start with those around product/market fit – who are your customers and what features do they want? You act as a tactical implementer as you add no insight/or value to product development. You’ll collect a laundry-list of customer feature requests and deliver them to product development, without any insight.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2020

Thanks to Steve Turner, Solomon Turner PR ! #4- When entering a Target store you can expect to see a clean store, with clear site lines, and in style fashions and products. His new products don’t come out thick and fast, but when they do they are market-leading and voted best in class. Photo Credit: Mike Charles.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2023

They’ve opted for PR-friendly initiatives such as tree planting, or made vague claims about their supply chain being ‘sustainably sourced’. There are more meaningful ways in which organisations can support the environment within their existing operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The operations superstar. He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of partners: The technical guru. The sales professional.

Technical Cofounder 144

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Startup 144

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Prezi hired the former director of product from Pixar to build a more cinematic video meeting experience. Thanks to Kevin Burke, Extension PR ! #7- To avoid becoming the product, consumers are actively manipulating and devaluing the data that organizations collect. Thanks to Sameera Sullivan, a Relationship expert ! #6-

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A lot of work goes into starting a business, developing and launching products, and running the day-to-day operations, so marketing often gets put on the back burner. In addition, if you plan to expand your product lines in the future, a broad name will make it easier to include different products under that umbrella.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

You need to have a technical genius on the team to get your startup product off the ground. The operations superstar. He gives a wealth of practical advice on building a successful technical startup, including some specifics that I like on what constitutes a dream team of cofounders: The technical guru. The sales professional.

Technical Cofounder 245

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Advisory Board Startup 245

Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2020

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. 2- Bright and Digital!

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Building a great product. We’re calling them NextView Operator Guilds. . The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Sara Wajnberg, SVP of Product at Oscar.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 6, 2013

He has worked in multiple capacities throughout his career including roles in production, management, consulting, and sales. PR is about building relationships with media professionals and key influencers to help increase a company or individual’s visibility and profile; SEO is an iteration of that relationship. What can we learn?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. I spent time with the folks (Klaus Schauser and Brian Danahoo) at AppFolio before they ever launched their products. They recorded it.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Given how badly the announcement of the splitting went and their inability to control the PR cycle (or their stock price!) But they sure need somebody at the top handling their marketing and PR better. They price cheap, stack ‘em high and want to move a ton of product. Dumb, da-dumb, dumb, dumb. I pay for them separately.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Industry or Operating Experience? I know many VCs who don’t have operating experience and frankly some of them are fantastic. Connections? Now you’re talking.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

It is a truism that with more capital you will hire people more quickly and spend more liberally whether it’s on external contractors, PR firms, attending events, doing legal work (trademarks, patents) or whatever. There are some great funds that operate this way and I see some merits. million or $4 million.

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