Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. They didn’t do this by selling better books or electronics, they did it by building a logistics & warehouse powerhouse.

Technical Review 268

Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review Artificial Inteligence 268

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. So they’ll have to look for other competitive advantages for distribution. Simply write a great book?

SEM 379

SEM Viral Marketing Widget 379

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution.

Intellectual Property 436

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 436

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

In his classic book “ The 3rd American Dream ,” thought leader Suresh Sharma summarizes the large corporate accomplishments of the 19 th and 20 th centuries, and then lays out the potential of a new entrepreneurial business ecosystem for the 21 st century. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

Artificial Inteligence 315

Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The required reading for this class was Chris Brose’s book The Kill Chain. We thought the students would find having the author discuss the thinking behind the book enlightening. AI, machine learning, autonomous systems, distributed networking, advanced manufacturing, commercial space, etc. War Made New. Disruptive Technology.

Technical Review 399

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology United States 399

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.

Startup 287

Startup Bandwidth Distribution Agile 287

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

But while Amazon blew away existing physical distribution channels to deliver products to you, we are blowing away existing physical infrastructure to help you store the things you want to keep – just not at your home. I guess he was as excited about the opportunity as I was! Full on burger flipping mode.

Technical Review 380

Technical Review Software Review Cofounder CTO Hire 380

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2023

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. Distributed. The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.”

Social Media 281

Social Media Media Software Review Social Network 281

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Angel Investor 359

Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator Business Model 359

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

YouTube did it with videos, Instagram did it with photos, and Amazon did it with books. Of course, once you have a brand and more resources, it can pay to expand your book selling to a full e-commerce site. Every aspect of every product requires development, testing, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.

Bandwidth 262

Bandwidth Distribution Agile Social Media 262

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Well, that is, after I booked airplane tickets to be there just to meet him in person, but that was a small detail I decided not to share with him. I didn’t have a lot of spare dough back then so I booked cheapie flights, slummed it on a friends couch, and got my 30 minutes with the Bong-man. I booked non-refundable tickets.

Europe 352

Europe France San Francisco Chicago 352

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2013

Charlene Li, in her book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. Distributed. The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.”

Social Media 257

Social Media Entrepreneur Software Review Leadership 257

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2022

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team.

Semantic 342

Semantic Technical Review Retention Distribution 342

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

I recently finished a new book by thought leader Suresh Sharma, “The 3rd American Dream ,” which summarizes the business accomplishments of the 19 th and 20 th centuries, and then lays out the potential of a new entrepreneurial business ecosystem for the 21 st century. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Offshore Merger Technical Review 263

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Matt Briel In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Matt Briel. 5:12] Why would someone want to self-publish a book? [7:30] 11:42] What does it take to produce a book? [18:49]

Audience 98

Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 98

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Charlene Li, in her classic book “ Open Leadership ,” shows leaders how to tap into the power of the social technology revolution and use social media to be “open” while still maintaining control. Distributed. The mantra of open leadership is “Be Open, Be Transparent, and Be Authentic.”

Leadership 230

Leadership Software Review Social Network Social Media 230

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

The country has also been a strong supporter of distributed ledger technology and recently announced that their blockchain payments project, Project Ubin , is ready for mainstream commercial deployment. Shaun is also a Regional Partner at Kenetic Capital, an institutional platform for blockchain advisory, technology and investment.

Asia 290

Asia Technical Review Technology Singapore 290

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

You can review all the specifics of this approach in a recent book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Startup 296

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 296

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution.

Intellectual Property 312

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 312

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

You can review all the specifics of this approach in a book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur''s Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Startup Angel Investor Technical Review 283

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In his classic book “ The 3rd American Dream ,” thought leader Suresh Sharma summarizes the large corporate accomplishments of the 19 th and 20 th centuries, and then lays out the potential of a new entrepreneurial business ecosystem for the 21 st century. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model.

Engineer 219

Engineer Entrepreneur Offshore Merger 219

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

Now there are many resources out there to help engineer entrepreneurs, such as the book by Krishna Uppuluri, “ Engineer to Entrepreneur: The First Flight.” Business constraints, such as market size, customer demographics, manufacturing, distribution, and support costs need to be set, or there is no context for getting it right.

Engineer 250

Engineer Distribution Technology Entrepreneur 250

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

The entrepreneur can earn plenty of revenue – from subscription plans and publishing targeted advertisements, commission from courier delivery personnel, booking cancellation charges, and transaction processing fees from an Uber for courier app solution. Why would courier service apps always be in high demand?

Technical Review 163

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Demand Social Media 163

Board Effect

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Board administrators send the meeting agenda or meeting book out ahead of the meeting so board members can study the issues and be prepared for the meeting. Technology can help make the setting and distributing the agenda easier. The agenda is a tool to help board members focus on the priorities of their organization.

Technical Review 92

Technical Review Jacksonville Software Review Florida 92

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Startup 245

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 245

deal architect

JANUARY 1, 2013

While my book had a section which shows the distribution of those checks is uneven, and this NY Times article. Apple says it has written $ 6.5 billion in royalty checks to iOS apps developers in the last few years.

Distribution 370

Distribution Developer 370

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. The book is 132 chapters broken into 11 sections. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000.

Fractional CTO 195

Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 195

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

We discuss best practices for system hardening, managing security in a distributed workforce, and the significance of password management and compliance standards. Managing security in a distributed workforce requires clear policies. Visit DTM world slash scale to book your free advisory call and learn more. What can we do?

Software Review 80

Software Review Security Distribution IP 80

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2019

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team.

Semantic 235

Semantic Technical Review Retention Distribution 235

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 21, 2020

In fact, he started his own consultancy, Entiende Bitcoin , to help Bitcoin companies develop and distribute products in emerging markets. Max is far more than a smart guy with a lot of books. He’s super passionate about many aspects of tech, from solar to crypto/blockchain and machine learning. He loves basketball.

Mexico 148

Mexico San Francisco Technical Review Software Review 148

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

One of the books that first made me aware of the “creative brain&# was “ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain &# by Betty Edwards. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above. She literally encourages you to draw things upside down. For others they swear by music.

Technical Review 356

Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for. were more distributed. I always push companies to hire “an operationally focused CFO” during this phase because in order to systematize you need somebody who brings economic rigor to decision making.

Operations 286

Operations New York City Technical Review Startup 286

deal architect

DECEMBER 8, 2021

If you know Paul, you know he is a big-hearted, generous storyteller – his books. In the 60th episode of Burning Platform, we (again) host Paul Greenberg of The 56 Group and co-host of the popular CRM Playaz video show.

Distribution 370

Distribution Hosting Video 370

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2017

Whether you like it or not, a book is judged by its cover. David Chambat is Chief Executive Officer of Villa-Finder.com , the leading villa booking and distribution platform in Asia, with 1,000+ villas in Bali , Sri Lanka , Phuket , Samui and Mauritius. Design your website well. Visuals rule the digital world.

Sri Lanka 160

Sri Lanka Customer Finder Mauritius 160

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Lehman disguised a real estate hedge fund as an investment bank to process distribution of home loans. No one wants a governing body storming their offices to review the books. You want to know if there are financial improprieties in your books and trust they won’t be front and center. Lehman Brothers.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Securities and Exchange Commission Due Diligence Reputation 174

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This request calls for a rethinking of how documents are created and distributed for e-signature using AI. This includes creating APIs to help agents pay for services, book travel, or engage in contracts. DocuSign 2.0: Vertical AI Agents: YC wants to fund companies building AI agents that are tuned to automate specific types of work.

Software Review 78

Software Review Technical Review Startup Software Engineering 78

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Do real tests with real pricing to see if customers will pay you, without being pushed.

Startup 161

Startup Angel Investor Technical Review Incubator 161