Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

The cost of entry as a services professional is at an all-time low, with powerful free tools to create your own website, cheap incorporation of yourself as a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) via the Internet, and community colleges offering courses for anyone in the new technologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. Consider MySpace and Webvan. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to start watching these things more carefully from the very start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

With today’s pervasive Internet, the best ideas traverse continents and improve with successive waves of adaptation, through diversity in experience, culture, and worldview. But for many other innovative startups in emerging markets where shocks are frequent, a focus on sustainability and the longer view are more key to success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Some pundits argue that the E-Myth principle is now outdated, due to the instant access to information via the Internet, pervasive networking via social media, and courses on entrepreneurship at all levels of education. In the interim, I recommend you use advisors, social media, and the Internet to find your alter-ego. Hence most fail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

I heard it again recently from a technical entrepreneur who should know better than to believe the old “ Field of Dreams ” sports fantasy movie theme in today’s Internet information overload environment. “If we build it, they will come.” Mobilize the total power of your team to not only build the product, but also build the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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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). I don’t recommend an expectation of funding on that one just yet. Market is recognized as real and growing by investors. Typical valuations range from 3x-5x revenues.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

With information overload due to the Internet, you need to find your customers, rather than assume they will find you. Change happens every day, and it takes time and effort to prepare you for the next step. Survival requires regular updates. Even the best solutions require marketing to survive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

With the Internet and modern video communication tools, including Skype and Google Hangout, you can find the people you need, from anywhere in the world, and sign them up quickly. Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers. Successful startup teams today have a mix of remote employees, freelancers, and contractors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2022

But these days with all the resources on the Internet and elsewhere, there is no excuse for not keeping up on the latest insights, best practices, and technology in the area of hiring, motivating, and training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2021

Yet truly disruptive innovations, like the smartphone from Apple and the rise of the Internet, are very rare, and are generally unpredicted. Every entrepreneur with a new technology tells me that his innovation will be industry-disrupting, meaning that it will render the existing technology obsolete, and create a new market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With real-time online reviews and feedback via the Internet, and instant relationships via social media, a voice from the top that is inconsistent with what is heard from the firing line defines a dysfunctional and noncompetitive company for today’s customer. It takes an effective team to attract and serve a community in business these days.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Focus on a solution that is scalable world-wide. Global considerations include culture differences and translation.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Is the internet a commodity? The post Is The Internet A Commodity Or A Differentiated Product? Well, anything that is produced to be sold or exchanged in the market is a commodity. appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

(Researchers believe this tipping point is result of the complex interactions between the neural network architecture and the massive amounts of training data it has been exposed to – essentially everything that was on the Internet as of September 2021.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

Even if the idea sounds unique to you, it’s worth your time to do a few Internet searches using relevant keywords. Despite what you hear from some Internet spammers, there are no slam-dunk entrepreneur ideas that can make you rich with no risk and minimal effort.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Internet of Things or shortly IoT is a term used to describe the rapidly growing network of connected objects which are collecting and exchanging data in real-time by using embedded sensors. The post Internet of Things: Devices & Best Examples In 2021 appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

Original Problem Statement: How might we implement a ubiquitous secure global access to the internet in order to help circumvent censorship in authoritarian regimes? Final Problem Statement: How can we create an open, free Internet and maintain effective lines of communication in Taiwan in preparation for a potential invasion?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

We have all heard of a few cases where viral marketing resulted in a message “spread through the Internet like a cold in a kindergarten,” but counting on this can just as quickly lead to the death of your startup. That’s a double death wish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2021

I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once by not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. The market for domain investors has taken a big step down in the last few years, since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) has rolled out top-level domains for every country, like.us

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2022

With today’s worldwide Internet and social media, your brand impact is not set by what you say, but by numbers of followers, influencers, and satisfied customers. In my view, that was their key to the early goodwill they needed. Brand recognition and market influencer support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co m are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 25, 2024

The internet has made it much easier to research rival products and discover more about them. You can also use the internet to research various data that can be useful for marketing such as finding out what keywords other companies are targeting. CCO Licensed. There are even databases dedicated to product blueprints and designs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

The many crowd funding platforms on the Internet, led still by Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , were expected by many to put regular people in charge of funding new opportunities, and kill the need for angel groups. I still don’t see it happening any time soon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

You see this today on the Internet with people who dominate social media as “influencers,” leading customers to new trends and brands. Many of the most successful fashion and even dating organizations were built around a leader with a purpose of personal dedication to a more fulfilling lifestyle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The cost of entry as a services professional is at an all-time low, with powerful free tools to create your own website, cheap incorporation of yourself as a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC) via the Internet, and community colleges offering courses for anyone in the new technologies.

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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. New offerings which build your brand will increase acceptance and sales of all solutions, not just the new one.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. I have often thought that creative endeavors where one has a quick turn-around between idea and realization of one’s work as one of the more fulfilling experiences in life. It was 1991.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Internet and social media are also a key knowledge source. Start by walking around and getting to know the other members of your team. Outside connections usually come by taking a more active role in your industry and community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2023

I’ve heard it many times from technical entrepreneurs who should know better than to believe the old “ Field of Dreams ” sports fantasy movie theme in today’s Internet information overload environment. “If we build it, they will come.” Mobilize the total power of your team to not only build the product, but also build the market.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The internet has had a significant impact on the way people live. The post How The Internet Has Changed The Way People Live appeared first on Young Upstarts. It has allowed people to connect worldwide, has made information more accessible, and has made it easier for people to do business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. The most effective new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

Personal branding is how we market ourselves to others, and is very important in this Internet age. Motivation and recognition are usually tied to increasing our status, and people around you will unconsciously look for and react to your status. The days are gone when you could hide behind the company brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

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. Long sales cycles obscure beginning and end of costs. More empowered buyers have resulted in longer sales cycles. People no longer go straight to the source to make purchase decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

In any business domain, there is no substitute for skills acquired by personal experience to supplement any academic training and the Internet. Can demonstrate domain expertise and experience. You have to lead by example, setting a personal standard for competence for all to follow if you intend to lead your competitors and customers.

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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. Yet the value of real relationships, as with consumer customers, has become critical to your business services growth and success.

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