Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Especially if you are a first-time business owner, the payback for this initiative is well worth the effort and cost. Unfortunately, I see too many new entrepreneurs who let their passion for a new idea or invention blind them to the stark realities of customer need, opportunity size, or pricing and cost implications.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

According to the World Green Building Council (WGBC), the following findings support a case for green building: Lower operating cost – the construction of green buildings can help building owners and occupiers save money thanks to efficient energy and water usage. Introduction of smart metering. Upgrading of the HVAC system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2020

New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Sometimes your solution is impressive, but mass acceptance requires a big culture change, a large support system, or government legislation. Choose projects with financial resources within your reach. Minimize infrastructure dependencies.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Acting as the bridge between shippers and carriers, freight brokers ensure that goods are moved efficiently and cost-effectively. Navigating Industry Regulations and Compliance An array of regulations governs freight brokering to ensure safety and fairness within the industry.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In some instances, your government may be able to provide you with a template to follow. For the markets that don’t have anything like this, you can usually find a business worksheet online that will help you calculate your startup costs. You can then figure out the time that you can deduct your start-up costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Until last week, when the news that a relatively unknown Chinese company called Deepseek, released its R1 reasoning model which is equivalent to the performance of ChatGPT’s o1 model, but is fully open-source and available at a fraction of the cost (3-5% of OpenAI’s model). firms at a fraction of the cost.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Applicants were told that ERA was doing electronics work for government and industry. Unfortunately for the company they couldn’t tell anyone as their customer was the most secret government agency in the country – the National Security Agency. Costing $250,000 ($3.2 Each ATLAS I cost the NSA $1.3

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Most of these are easy to avoid if you do your homework up front, but can cost you dearly if you get sucked in. If you feel confused by conflicting time zones, differing currencies, and up-front costs, it’s time to run the other way. Use the common sense suggestions to avoid the pain: Decoy investor scam.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The value is tied to infrastructure outside your control, such as a pervasive network of fuel stations, trained service facilities, and new government regulations. 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

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

It’s important to learn from your own mistakes, but it’s even smarter to learn from someone else’s mistakes, without paying their high price in time lost, cost, and pain. Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This process costs money, which professional investors are not willing to contribute, since their interest is in scaling a proven product and business model into a growth business. Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

Amidst the outbreak, governments across the region, such as Singapore have been promoting the use of digital finance as a means to minimise physical contact and stamp the spread of the virus, channelling more monetary support for the growth of e-payments and digital financial solutions.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

certified test equipment and test environment) results available for governing agency review. In many cases the manufacturer must file the test data results with the relevant government authority. 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

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Business agility is defined as the ability to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently. Moving forward, you should expect the market volatility to increase, driven not only by customers, but by new technology, changing government regulations, and a surge in new competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Government bail-outs do not promote innovation. Universities and other R&D groups have created a large number of new inventions and innovations, mostly lying dormant on the shelves of our researchers and labs, waiting to be commercialized by aspiring entrepreneurs, with minimal up-front costs for licensing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

Act II was “revenge of the luddites” in which some local governments banned them and some annoyed citizens stole them or broke them. Scooters are now seen by the local government as an important long-term solution to both congestion and to reducing pollution. The key is being able to dial back variable costs during these period.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Cost of skipping Software Testing in Startup Culture. Revising the project plan and design post-launch can cost much more if testing is ignored. Save money but not at the cost of your company’s reputation and customer’s trust. ‘Software Testing’, or specifically the lack thereof, is one of the answers of why startups fail.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

But often the legal obstacles confronting startups have been put in place by companies that look to the government and regulators as their first line of defense against new market entrants. Banks protested that PayPal was an unregulated bank; and of course, are regulated by the federal government and states. to stifle competition.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Think of the PEO Directory linked below as a “Who buys in the government?” government intends to communicate this information. Amazingly, there is no single DoD-wide phone book available to startups of who to call in the Defense Department. So I wrote one. phone book. But the list is fragmented and irregularly updated.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Establish a governance process to support efforts. You can provide the discipline and the resources for results.

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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. Products requiring changes to government regulations. If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. You need a big differentiator in these arenas.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Sustainability reporting is the process of comprehensive disclosure and communication about a company’s efforts to achieve environmental, social, and governance goals. How Does Sustainability Reporting Work? To simplify your work, you should pick and use an appropriate sustainability reporting software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Despite the technology, the fears of pedestrians and government regulations strangled the business. Calculate your projected costs, and double the amount. For example, the personal motorized scooter Segway was announced as disruptive technology way back in 2002, but is still not a successful business.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 3, 2025

In Santa Cruz, personal injury claims are governed by California’s comparative negligence laws, meaning that even if you are partially at fault for an accident, you may still recover damagesthough your percentage of fault will reduce your compensation.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

According to recent research, any kind of workplace injury costs employers, on average, $120,000 (approximately, 1.2 Now that we have moved these issues off the table, let us take a quick look at how you can implement workplace safety changes in the most streamlined, cost-effective manner. million in sales).

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Many nonprofits use CRM (Constituent Relationship Management) software nowadays to boost workflow, efficiencies and reduce costs. Not only is social media cost-effective, but it allows organizations to target specific demographics. Government Grants. Many nonprofits raise significant sums of money through government grants.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

For example, a while back a passionate entrepreneur approached me with an innovative solution for reducing world hunger, but hadn’t focused on the fact that hungry people often don’t have any money, and governments are not easy customers. Selling below cost doesn’t do it, nor does giving it away free, and hoping to make it up in volume.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2020

Since you are not required to buy or produce them consistently, the overall cost of running a business is low and profit is good and if you have good networking skills, you might not have to find clients on your own. Property Development. This is another high profit-generating business that will bring a lot of opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2023

New smartphone apps cost only a few thousand, if you have the programming skills. Sometimes your solution is impressive, but mass acceptance requires a big culture change, a large support system, or government legislation. Choose projects with financial resources within your reach. Minimize infrastructure dependencies.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2023

In today’s fast-paced world, businesses with vehicle fleets are constantly seeking ways to improve efficiency and productivity while reducing costs. Properly managing a fleet can not only help businesses reduce costs but also improve customer satisfaction, increase employee safety, and promote environmental sustainability.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2020

Low Cost of Doing Business. The cost of starting a business in Canada is 5% lower than what it will cost in the U.S. This was revealed in the results of a comprehensive 10-month study of international business costs by KPMG. These are facts and figures attesting to Canada’s illustrious market and economy.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

On the other hand, HR agencies offer cost-effective, standardized services, while consultants offer customized HR solutions (best for small companies). Cost-cutting. On the other hand, outsourcing human resource services eliminates all of the additional costs associated with hiring, training, and retaining your HR employees.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

For instance, you can now see many non-government organizations using explainer videos to present their vision and objectives. 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

JANUARY 14, 2022

The government set a goal to increase the percentage of people employed in tech t0 15% but it cannot be achieved overnight. This excludes real estate prices and relates mainly to cost of living (prices of goods). Most expensive cost of living cities in the world (source: WEF ). Global tech correction. Strong foundations.

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