Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Too many entrepreneurs try to talk their way through all of these. Product development. Time management. Here are a few: Business networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. That includes estimating the money required to get to the revenue stage, and saving money to cover costs before you jump off the cliff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. The best entrepreneurs manage cashflow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. You will make mistakes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. You will make mistakes.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

Every entrepreneur knows this — at least in theory. From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. If you’re a first-time entrepreneur, I’m willing to bet you work longer hours than necessary trying to manage easily outsourced tasks. The result?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the 2023 trends they see in their industry and here are the responses. #1- For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress. Thanks to Sean Stevens, Immerse Education ! #5-

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We asked entrepreneurs and CEOs about having a business plan and here is what they had to say. #1- That way you can focus on what's important and not worry about whether or not your marketing strategy or product development process makes sense. Thanks to Jason Williams, Automate Your Life ! #7-

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. Here are their breakdowns of the costs and time investments to create 10 of the world’s hottest startups. 1) Twitter. 3) Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2013

Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Too many entrepreneurs try to talk their way through all of these. Product development. Time management. Here are a few: Business networking.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- From personal experience. Launching a recipe website can cost as little as $150 if you can utilize your phone as a camera to start. My expertise in product development and project management came after working as a consultant in many industries.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Here’s what entrepreneurs had to say about the companies they admire for their innovation. #1- Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. Even though they don't own any rental properties, they've managed to become the first place people look for lodging when planning a trip.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. You will make mistakes.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners who are their favorite disruptors and here are the responses; #1- Elon Musk. One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. Michael Pryor is the CEO of Trello, a cloud-based project management tool. 2- Dropbox.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. Entrepreneurs — frugal innovation can be a powerful tool for growth. But don’t give up!

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Great entrepreneurs, like Bill Gates, are great at both. For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Too many entrepreneurs try to talk their way through all of these. Product development. Time management. Here are a few: Business networking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. It has to be found and managed.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2024

Part of the reason this value is taking longer than expected to emerge is due to operating costs. Moreover, these costs increase exponentially with the size of the data sets that algorithms process. The findings are based on a survey of 300 data management professionals from U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Most aspiring entrepreneurs are convinced that their idea and passion are so great that failure is not a possibility. You need skills in finance, operations, and marketing to supplement product development, and more hours of work than one person can manage. Calculate your projected costs, and double the amount.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. That includes estimating the money required to get to the revenue stage, and saving money to cover costs before you jump off the cliff.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Here's what entrepreneurs predict for business in 2022. #1- To prevent hackers from gaining access to your business's checking account, use low-cost software and dual controls to strengthen your payment processes. B2B enterprises would have to use various digital technologies like workflow management software to attain these goals.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2009

This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. They spot opportunities that aren’t being met and the design products to meet these needs. We couldn’t cut product development (we had 23 people!)

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

The best product is one that is highly focused, and has the absolute minimum number of features to do the job. The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Define milestones for cost review and sign-off.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Without producing physical goods, every entrepreneur now can succeed in selling other manufacturers’ products online. Have you developed any vision of a product development strategy? Decide on what actually you need to have a more detailed vision on how much it will cost you. Develop a software solution.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2019

New product development is an essential part of the entrepreneurial landscape. Many people become entrepreneurs because they see a need or problem in the marketplace and have an idea to address it, improve the user experience or simply create a new efficiency. Why would a company want to introduce a new product?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Accomplished entrepreneurs often pride themselves on being able to spot a gap in the market from a mile away. If the communication with your employees is confined to little more than a regular Zoom meeting or the occasional email chain, there are still many aspects of management and leadership that need to be addressed.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

I just returned from a weeklong trip to India, having spent a few days each in Delhi and Bangalore to meet with local entrepreneurs and investors. And I had more than 20 1:1 meetings with founders, angels, emerging fund managers and institutional VC funds. Reverse brain drain” “Reverse brain drain” is a real thing in India.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. There’s the Alfred P.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2021

Most small businesses, growing startups , and individual entrepreneurs do not have ready access to legal counsel. Entrepreneurs are often DIYers by nature. If you decide to tackle the process on your own, there are several online resources for managing the whole process. The do-it-yourself approach. Hiring an attorney.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2016

The good news is that everyone expects entrepreneurs to make mistakes, since founders explore uncharted territory. As a result, repeating any of the following 10 mistakes outlined here won’t get you any credit for intelligence and learning and will cost you dearly in your funding credibility and real cash.

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Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Think about the implications of each to your own business, and the potential impact of getting them done incorrectly, or forgetting to do them entirely: Manage your financials and physical assets. Product development process. Manage human resources. Invested Interests entrepreneur funding investor processes'

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Don’t wait until you are almost out of cash before managing every dollar spent, or looking for the next refueling from investors. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young. The best entrepreneurs manage cash flow ruthlessly and never delegate decisions about spending money. You will make mistakes.

Burn Rate 120

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. Instead of the “entrepreneur that knows what the market wants”, we move to the “entrepreneur that knows how to discover what the market wants”. Reducing product turn time. Extending the runway. The Lean Start-Up Environment.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Such tools not only help bring order to the day-to-day work but also cut down costs drastically and speed up the time to market which are two very critical considerations for every startup. From recruitment to CRM, project management to marketing, there’s a tool for everything be it for managing work, tech stack , etc.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

Enter “ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses “, a New York Times bestseller by founder of IMVU (creator of 3D avatars) Eric Ries. Validated learning should be the goal of all entrepreneurs. This reduces guesswork, time, money and effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2015

The best product is one that is highly focused, and has the absolute minimum number of features to do the job. The solution is to do the right job up front on requirements, document and approve specifications, and have the toughest person you know do the project management. Define milestones for cost review and sign-off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. The cost of social media done well is low.

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