Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors love to have smart and experienced people in the boat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors love to have smart and experienced people in the boat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors love to have smart and experienced people in the boat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Build qualified advisory board. If you can convince a couple of domain experts, or a couple of experienced executives to join your board and be your advocate, that’s traction. It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors love to have smart and experienced people in the boat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Convince investors that your team is experienced in starting a new business, and have great expertise in the selected business domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Explain the business model. Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Convince investors that your team is experienced in starting a new business, and have great expertise in the selected business domain.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model. I’ve seen too many businesses get stuck or fail because of their endless pursuit for the magic new feature that is going to help them gain traction. Use them as a sounding board for corporate development issues.

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