Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This is a trap of the past to be avoided at all costs. They overtly set out to create the future as a mission distinctly separate from their performance engine of today. The future needs to be treated as today by a team and a process that is insulated from interference, but empowered to draw on necessary performance engine resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. That includes estimating the money required to get to the revenue stage, and saving money to cover costs before you jump off the cliff. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Things will cost more than you expect. If your runway is less than a year, it’s time to either begin looking for a new cash infusion or defining and implementing a Plan B to assure survival.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Here’s how we got here, what it’s going to cost us, and where we’ll end up. Two massive changes are occurring in automobiles: 1) the transition from internal combustion engines to electric, and 2) the introduction of automated driving. These depended on the invention of low-cost, automotive-grade computers and sensors.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer? and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Silicon Valley’s conventional model is to integrate local experienced engineering, product development, and marketing people for the big push. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 9, 2025

They enable companies to offer comprehensive search engine optimization solutions without investing in building their own teams from the ground up. It provides an avenue to leverage expert SEO expertise without the associated cost and complexity of in-house operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Large corporations and conglomerates, the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have lost their edge and their image. The cost of entrepreneur entry is at an all-time low. They have proven themselves unable to innovate, and they have lost more jobs than they create. Next wave of economic expansion. Marty Zwilling.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

From my perspective, as someone that runs a company specializing in hiring high-quality remote engineers, matching people with opportunities, and managing remote teams, there are three key drivers. Companies Must Build a Process for Managing Distributed Engineering Teams. Many people are more productive working from home.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation. Engineering continually felt overwhelmed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

What validates credibility and makes your site memorable in the minds of consumers, and how much does it cost? Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Balance your focus on engineering elegance. At some point, this becomes compulsive engineering, and the tradeoffs in time to market, cost, and user friendliness move the product out of the intended market. They are your early opinion leaders, so they are required to build the image that the rest will follow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Things will cost more than you expect. If your runway is less than a year, it’s time to either begin looking for a new cash infusion or defining and implementing a Plan B to assure survival.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. Starting again with EC2.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business. Investors expect proof that your invention can be manufactured in volume, and can justify a sales price at least double the cost, to a large customer set that has money to spend.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2022

Here are the key parameters that can swing the pendulum: Engineers have an uncontrollable ability to add more features. Cost of a planning cycle is greater than cost of an execution iteration. Many good ideas never get off the ground, simply because the product or service is never “finished.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible. The investment thesis has shifted from “growth at all costs” to “growth with fundamentals.”

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. Starting again with EC2.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2024

LLCs and corporations provide limited liability protection but may require more paperwork and higher startup costs. According to This Old House, metal roofing can save up to 40% in energy costs annually, making it an attractive option for eco-conscious homeowners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

Wessel also summarizes the costs and potential impacts of creating and building your startup in secondary markets, usually meaning not in Silicon Valley or one of the other super-hubs: It takes longer to raise money. It’s very important. It decreases your odds of being bought. When it comes to the technology ecosystem, clusters are vital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As a hardware engineer, you already know the value, importance, and layout of a spec to keep you focused, but you may not be so familiar with the key elements of a business plan, and the way to use it to support and add credibility to your hardware solution. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer. Pragmatic Assessment : An in-depth evaluation by working engineers who understand what it takes to deliver in different development situations. Expert Recommendations : Concrete next steps that working engineers believe would be appropriate to consider.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

For example, when delivery costs and delays were still a major online sales hurdle, Amazon Prime membership was invented to offer free next day shipping. It has proven to be a huge customer growth engine, and now has over 100 million members globally. The cost of being late is hard to recover.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Here’s why: because they take technology that used to be available to engineers only, and make it available to everyone. They’re still built that way by the product’s engineers. The point of no-code tools is to empower non-engineers to create. The no-code revolution has begun. How no-code tools work.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2025

So I thought it’s a good time to share the video where lists are the key learnings from YC on how to start a technical startup: Start with a strong technical co-founding team: You need two to four co-founders with at least 50% engineering background. Notably, an initial idea is not a prerequisite at this stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Balance your focus on engineering elegance. At some point, this becomes compulsive engineering, and the tradeoffs in time to market, cost, and user friendliness move the product out of the intended market. They are your early opinion leaders, so they are required to build the image that the rest will follow.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

It’s not just the hardware product design process and all of what this entails – from developing and testing a prototype, to engineering the mechanics, electronics and software, to setting the product up for manufacturing. Regulatory testing costs can be as much as your entire design development costs and more when you make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2023

This is a trap of the past to be avoided at all costs. They overtly set out to create the future as a mission distinctly separate from their performance engine of today. The future needs to be treated as today by a team and a process that is insulated from interference, but empowered to draw on necessary performance engine resources.

Framework 240

Framework Engineer Leadership Revenue 240

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Among the best ways of speeding up the site is to switch to a web host with enough bandwidth because even though they are more expensive, the gains make the cost worthwhile. The presence of a FAQ page with updated information is also a strong SEO signal for driving better search engine results page ranks. Conclusion .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

Paid search engine ranking (PPC) is just buying advertising for your business. This is NOT the same as or better than Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In this context, there are many parameters and concepts you need to understand before you buy advertising: Cost per impression (CPI). Cost per click (CPC).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

Besides getting love from a traditional search engine, you can also get additional free traffic from recommended and search engine features of video platforms. One key to expanding a business is by reducing costs. Expensive traditional campaigns could be greatly reduced and converted into a simple low-cost video production.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 19, 2025

It combines website development, search engine optimization, social media marketing, and online reputation management into one cohesive solution. Back then, there was no reliable way to measure ROI, yet the costs kept climbing year after year.” ” His experience changed dramatically with the agency.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (also borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals. Modern Corporation Marketing.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2020

A responsive dental website not only provides contact and location details but also offer vital information about your services that patients are searching on a search engine. Search Engine Optimisation. Also, it is a free service and costs less than other traditional marketing options. Google Maps.

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