Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

I found these challenges and opportunities outlined well in a classic book, “ Out-Innovate ,” by Alexandre Lazarow. With today’s pervasive Internet, the best ideas traverse continents and improve with successive waves of adaptation, through diversity in experience, culture, and worldview.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 28, 2022

The story of Nomad Internet is one that startup owners of every variety should be paying attention to. Today, the company advertises up to unlimited wireless internet for rural areas, but back then, the founders were stuck on a single problem. RV parks counted on Nomad Internet to bring value to their business. LTE and GSA .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. The best place to learn is by scouting around the Internet today. Use the Internet to outsource staff.

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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. Guy Kawasaki, in his classic book “ Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions ” provides some in-depth recommendations on the “how to” of pull technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

I found these challenges and opportunities outlined well in a new book, “ Out-Innovate ,” by Alexandre Lazarow. With today’s pervasive Internet, the best ideas traverse continents and improve with successive waves of adaptation, through diversity in experience, culture, and worldview.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

All you need is just an internet connection & some ABCs of what you want to do! And in some cases, only the internet connection is enough to start making money. Self-Publish a Book on Amazon. Publishing a book is so troublesome because of all those edits, formats, marketing, etc. Create a Digital Product or Course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

I found some good guidance that supports my own view in this regard in a new book, “ Startup Myths and Models ,” by Rizwan Virk, who has been there and done that. Influencers are talking about this opportunity as one of the “next big things,” like the Internet of Things (Iot) or artificial intelligence (AI).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

I see a good discussion of the relevant strengths and issues in a new book, “ The Unfair Advantage ,” by Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba. Intelligence and insight: book and street smarts. Book smarts represent your current depth of understanding of technology and business concepts. The more you have, the greater your potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Gerber wrote a best-selling business book called The E-Myth: Why Most Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world.

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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

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

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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

” Bill Gross, who is one of the Godfathers of the Internet, once told me, “ If you don’t design a product that is 10x better than the competition then you’ll never build anything truly big or amazing.” ” That’s what we’ve set out to build at MakeSpace. 10x the experience.

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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

MAY 21, 2021

Thus I was pleased to see that it’s consistent with the guidance in a new book, “ Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most ,” by Greg McKeown, a well-respected author and public speaker on business breakthroughs. they still find time to meet and compare notes regularly, and are avid readers of business books.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In addition, as every business becomes instantly global via the Internet, it’s virtually impossible for you to touch every customer personally. I saw these modern challenges and some positive guidance summarized in the classic book, “ Service Excellence, ” by Ruth N. Bolton, a distinguished Marketing Educator Award winner at the W.P.

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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. Rose, according to his classic book, “ Angel Investing.” I still don’t see it happening any time soon. Neither does David S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2022

Many entrepreneurs think that adapting to the new technologies, like smart phones and Internet commerce, are the key to attracting new customers. Today’s customer buying dynamics are all about “user experience,” according to Brian Solis, in his classic book “ What’s the Future of Business?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2022

I found real insights into this strategy, along with specific sources of purpose inspiration in a new book, “ Leading With Heart ,” by John Baird and Edward Sullivan. You see this today on the Internet with people who dominate social media as “influencers,” leading customers to new trends and brands.

Technical Review 357

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet. Rather than hide seemingly non-productive gaps in your work to-date, investors look for logical actions, and iterative small steps that could be quick to market or quick to fail. Expert in your chosen domain.

Intellectual Property 316

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Early Stage Venture Capital 316

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

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. In the classic book, “ Fish Can’t See Water ,” Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Consider MySpace and Webvan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Thus I was pleased to see this subject, and related strategy decisions, covered well in a recent book, “ Brand Vision ,” by Jim Everhart. 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.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2021

This reminded both me and Dave about our chapter in the book, “Play to the Audience.” Our essay in the book discusses the importance of a speaker having empathy for the audience, not just in terms of the content but also in the communication medium. If the venue has bad acoustics, even a great violinist sounds terrible.

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Technical Review Audience Security Technology 231

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

author of “ The Art of Preventing Stupid: How to Build a Stronger Business Strategy through Better Risk Management “ A recent Internet search for “problems in business” on Google produced 1.76 billion entries, often a list of the top 20 or 10. by Matthew Neill Davis, Esq., Or, it may come from the competition.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 In startup world low GM almost always equals death which is why many Internet retailers have failed or are failing (many operated at 35% gross margins).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

I was pleased to see these questions addressed in a new book, “ Small Town Big Money ,” by Colby Williams, focused on entrepreneurship and opportunity in today’s small towns. In today’s world of social media and the Internet, people want to know who you are, what makes you outstanding in your field, and relate to your vision.

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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 cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low.

Artificial Inteligence 315

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Visit DTM world slash scale to book your free advisory call and learn more. Book your call today, DTM world slash scale. (01:05): And then in the internet area it became retargeting. As part of the work that I did with the BCG in writing the book, we surveyed thousands of consumers in the US and other countries.

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Customer Generative AI ChatGPT Cloud 77

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I just finished a new book for entrepreneurs, “ Secrets to a Successful Startup ,” by Trevor Blake, which makes the same points, based on his own real-life experience with three successful startups. As your business matures and stabilizes, regular employees make more sense. The terms are clear, and there is no entitlement to deal with.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.

Institutional Investors 271

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet. Rather than hide seemingly non-productive gaps in your work to-date, investors look for logical actions, and iterative small steps that could be quick to market or quick to fail. Expert in your chosen domain.

Intellectual Property 278

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Early Stage Venture Capital 278

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.

Founder 239

Founder Architecture Startup Public Relations 239

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2023

These issues are addressed well in a new book, “ Think Bigger: How to Innovate ,” by Shenna Iyengar. Use all available search platforms, including Internet search engines, social media, and discussions with experts to find and evaluate these alternatives. Evaluate alternatives that are now available.

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Technical Review Stealth Social Media Search 300

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

Others will work hard on a business plan, and then mail it indiscriminately to every potential investor they can find on the Internet. Business plans the size of a small book are a big turnoff to investors, and will only serve to make your business seem more complex and more risky.

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