Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2020

The biggest complaint I hear from fellow investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. Tag team shows don’t work in short venues. The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2022

Businesses, entrepreneurs, and startups all join in the hope that they can keep their millennial workforce engaged and happy. For you as a startup owner, this insight holds far greater significance. With their prowess and charm, millennials can change the fortunes of your startup for the better.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

by Rick Mac Gillis , founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “ Startups, more than any other type of business, are sensitive to change. Macro and micro influences which others survive can often be fatal to that of the startup. Because startups are fragile and fledgling.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. To generate growth in a startup, it is almost always necessary to raise external capital to run the necessary. In order to understand startup governance, you need to understand risk and reward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2014

Let me assure you that it is also alive and well within startups. I see startup founders and managers who are stalled transplants from large organizations, as well as highly-capable technologists trying to start and run a business for the first time. How many technologists have tried to run startups and failed? Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2023

The biggest complaint I hear from fellow investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points. Tag team shows don’t work in short venues. The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. Or they get sidetracked by a technical glitch due to poor preparation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2023

A common question I get is “How do I get a bank loan to fund my startup?” The default answer is that it probably won’t happen, because most banks just don’t make bank loans to startups. The failure rate is just too high, and startups typically don’t have the assets or revenue stream to back up the loan.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2020

While the concept of search engine optimization (SEO) may seem complex and daunting for many B2B startups and medium-sized organizations, there are several key SEO tactics that organizations can take right now to improve their search rankings. Continue reading to learn some actionable SEO tactics for B2B startups.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2022

Use benefits to create Image alt tag. The ‘alt’ tag, which was initially designed to display a message when images are not displayed due to a slower internet connection, has got a new meaning. Search engines use this tag to identify and categorize the content on your page.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Labeling data is a significant data tagging process that adds context to data before using it in model training. For example, labeling specialists may be tasked with tagging all the images in a dataset that features a motor vehicle. Data labeling usually starts by asking humans to make observations about given pieces of unlabeled data.

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Our Own Start-up

JULY 26, 2020

In the first half of 2020, only three startups have received a 'unicorn' tag, each one valued at over $1 billion against six startups in H12019. These three startups are - FirstCry, Pine Labs, and Nykaa.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Today, my new book, The Startup Way , finally hits bookshelves! It's a huge day for any author, but I also hope it can be a huge day for the future and growth of the startup movement and for the future of our country. If you do post online, it would be great if you tag your enthusiasm with #StartupWay. People like you.

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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 Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2023

There is real value in doing the key things yourself, before your startup is even started: Demonstrate thought leadership before selling a product. These days, images are especially important, as well as a tag line, and your social media links. These days, winning in the crowded startup world is all about marketing.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 15, 2024

Startups today face the challenge of establishing efficient, secure, and affordable remote access capabilities. This article delves into strategies that allow startups to leverage remote access tools without incurring prohibitive costs, all while maintaining a high level of security.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference The Lean Startup Conference is next week--and now that we can step back and see all the speakers and mentors, we have to say: Wow. Ben Horowitz ’s book The Hard Thing About Hard Things is driving the conversation around startup management this year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference Eleven months in the making, the full schedule for The Lean Startup Conference is at last complete, and we can’t wait to show you around! For first-time attendees, this conference offers a complete introduction to Lean Startup. But other than that, it’s all there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

As an advisor to many startups, I often spend hours with business owners helping them anticipate every possible obstacle to the adoption of their solution, and developing a rollout plan to include antidotes. Yet most of the startups I see these days are providing a solution that is easier to use, more fun, or more productive.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 11, 2010

I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. You have all sorts of shortcomings: First startup, inexperienced, ignorant about how "sales" works, buggy software, whatever. I don't care that your resume doesn't prepare you for a startup — mine didn't either! Pretending your faults don't exist.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Customer Development is a technique startups use to quickly iterate and test each part of their business model. Ash Maurya , the CEO of WiredReach, has extended my work by building a model of Customer Development for Web Startups. Go read both of his posts on Discovery and Validation for web startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

There are a myriad of ways to make this happen in the world of startups. An approach I suggest these days is for freelancers to contract for the actual role, probably part-time, of startup CFO, VP of Sales, or President. Share the everyday life of the startup team you are working with. Then lead by example. Dress to fit in.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. The hand-offs between teams are (mostly) eliminated, and close-working autonomy creates a good startup vibe as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

All too many startups are founded simply on the basis of a new and exciting technology invented by an industrious technologist. Although their book is written for businesses of all sizes, I believe the principles apply especially to startups as follows: To increase return on equity invested. To form a basis for making better decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2019

Based on my years of experience as a new business advisor, I always find leadership to be more important to business success than any new technology or innovative solution. The challenge is to adequately define leadership in terms of everyday activities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2010

More and more, they choose to intern at a dynamic small company or startup. For a startup or small business executive serving as mentor, the proverbial “win-win” is created as they benefit from an injection of essential bandwidth, youthful energy, and technical expertise. Startup companies foster a creative spirit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So who do you believe, and what are the keys to success for your startup? In the book, and in his popular lecture series, he says you can do it yourself, and outlines five steps to success, which I have adapted a bit for startups as follows: Analyze existing media, social media, and your demographics. Marty Zwilling.

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Gust

APRIL 6, 2014

Let me assure you that it is also alive and well within startups. I see startup founders and managers who are stalled transplants from large organizations, as well as highly-capable technologists trying to start and run a business for the first time. How many technologists have tried to run startups and failed?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Why does researching [hash]tags matter? Researching the right keywords, expressions, tags and hashtags is more essential than ever. But many marketers still overlook the importance of researching tags and hashtags. Here, we will explain how tag research is related to your core keywords, and how it is an essential growth hack.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

More creative and unique packaging options may have a higher price tag, impacting profit margins. Following these ecommerce packaging tips will go a long way to enhancing your The post The Power Of Thoughtful Packaging To Help E-commerce Sales appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s a global phenomenon, but to be successful in AI, startup hubs require a density of AI engineers, access to data and compute power and access to capital. But it’s not only the AI startups that are active in the generative AI space. We published the first version of the landscape in February 2023 , which included 40 startups.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 2, 2018

HelloFund takes just 1% on top of standard credit card processing fees, staying true to their tag-line, “[They] take less, so you can do more!” Using HelloFund, you can swiftly and effectively create crowdfunding pages, event ticket pages, custom pages and recurring payment pages.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

About this Blog If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. However, I noticed my RSS feed is also down, and when I remove the closing RSS tag the feed works in my browser, but FeedBurner chokes on it. I will blog about it more next week.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

As part of our Founder interview series , The Startup Magazine caught up with Salo Sterental, Co-Founder of the SoStereo, a marketing firm that enables brands and artists alike to unlock the marketing power of music. TSM: What characteristics does it take to lead a startup success to a scaleup success? The Zumba instructors loved it!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2021

Small but important options to provide expedited delivery, or priority service can significantly increase your average sale, without being tagged as a higher price. Define ancillary services to increase the average price. Set a price based on your customer psychology bias.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2022

You need other people with skills that complement yours, are not “yes” people, and have relevant experience rather than a low price-tag. Building a successful business takes more than one person. The ability to build a team, as well as the intelligence to ask for help, is a huge bit of luck.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Every entrepreneur and startup loves you, but too many forget that every potential customer is not like you. I would guess that most of you are early adopters , just by the fact that you are interested enough to come here and see what’s new in the business world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2012

To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. Some people, and some entrepreneurs, have that something extra, like Simon Cowell is searching for on the X-Factor , that you can’t quite put your finger on.

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