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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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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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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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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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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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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Reusable Rockets & Space Technology Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Services: Develop services enabled by low-cost LEO satellites, such as broadband internet and direct-to-mobile device connectivity. Datacenters: There’s a need for more data centers that can be built faster and at a lower cost to support AI infrastructure.

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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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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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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.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2024

Many firms are drawn to the region for its combination of technical expertise and cost-effectiveness. Many software developers and engineers from the region have extensive experience, making them valuable assets for IT outsourcing. The development costs in Eastern Europe are generally lower compared to Western Europe or the US.

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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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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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Marketing Social Media Startup SEO 200

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2019

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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Technical Review Startup Cost Product Development 233

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

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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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We have to design our forces to be able to operate in a contested environment and to reduce duplication of effort, enhance our speed and reduce costs. Everybody that comes into the space force will learn coding and adopt digital engineering standards as our as our standard for acquisition. We’re also focusing on partnerships.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In this way, we can reduce the time spent in commuting, reduce the environmental impact of our activity, optimize living costs and improve our work-life balance. All employees can decide where to work and where to live. In the future, there will be more companies working fully or partially remote.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2022

Despite being an incredibly cost-effective way of promoting services/products, many businesses are struggling to keep up with the competition in the digital market. One of the most effective and best digital marketing strategies is Search Engine Optimization (SEO), a key aspect of every successful business. 1. Credibility.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 3, 2022

Search engine optimization (SEO) promises many benefits, enabling you to increase traffic to your website, improve brand visibility, and set a course for long-term growth. You probably already know that most people rely on search engines to answer their questions, research new topics, and gather information. The short answer is no!

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost. Artificial Intelligence – Scaling global intelligence and redefining work: AI training costs should continue to fall 75% per year.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2024

Filling up that vehicle is going to cost some money and you don’t want to have to dig too deeply into your pocket in order to keep it up and running. Consider Maintenance and Repair Costs Maintenance and repair cost is also something that should be at the forefront of your mind as well.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Gartner predicted in 2024 that traditional search engine volume could drop 25% by 2026 due to users favoring AI chatbots and virtual agents. High User Acquisition Costs: The landscape for acquiring new users has become increasingly complex and expensive. If you can, collect and use your own user data to your advantage.

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