Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Yet many of you are telling me that we are all missing big opportunities by not recognizing the unique challenges faced by startups in developing countries , where infrastructure is lacking, and talent is not so concentrated. Develop new venture models for tougher ecosystems. Assemble a distributed A-team from top world talent.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

But OpenAI (the company that developed ChatGPT) is letting ChatGPT reach out and interact with other applications through an API (an Application Programming Interface.) scientists who worked on the development of the atomic bomb proposed civilian control of nuclear weapons. In the U.S. Post WWII in 1946 the U.S.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

TechEmpower has been instrumental in developing chatbots like these, utilizing generative AI to sift through internal documents and user manuals, enabling them to provide precise answers to customer service questions. It also facilitates rapid prototyping, allowing for quicker iterations and thus shorter development cycles.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Tactical Technical Advisor stays on top of the development team to ensure that they’re team is building the right thing in a high-quality, efficient manner. This is especially important with outsourced development teams. Are developers following best practices in their code and life cycle?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling. Brings complementary skills and experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2020

For new entrepreneurs, leadership development efforts may be more valuable for achieving startup success than business skills development. To be a better Arbitrator, you need to be more assertive, more open, share your feelings, and work on developing your listening skills. Perfectionist.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. Common Signs You Need a Technical Review We’ve already mentioned the most common signs that you might need a technical review: Slow or late delivery: “I’ve authorized two new developers, and we’re still behind.”

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2021

The class emphasized that winning future conflicts requires more than just adopting new technology and developing new weapon systems. Next, we described the US strategies developed since World War Two to gain and maintain our technological and competitive edge during the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2022

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Lots of people still believe the major cost of a new product is development. It takes focus to resist adding a long list of features that seem to make the opportunity larger, but dilute to focus of both you and potential customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You alone will never find enough hours in a day to keep with all the challenges of sales, support, and scaling the business, in addition to developing and delivering your solution. Your leadership skills do not develop without effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Leadership brand development. Investors want organizations that manage people talent and growth, through good hiring, performance feedback, development on the job, and building commitment. Every business and brand has unique requirements to fit into their market environment. Focus on talent and people growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Microsoft spent a huge amount of time and money with software developers for applications, and with hardware manufacturers to support multiple PC platforms. You need to convince a thousand partners that they can become winners, if they join you as believers. That’s real viral marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Concurrently, I am seeing an upswing in the number of entrepreneurs and startups, with the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the new focus on entrepreneurship in every university and every community development organization. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2023

The cost of any new product these days must include education and rollout marketing, perhaps equal or greater than the development costs. Solution may require new category development time. This may require you selling exclusivity, doing channel development, or alliances with new partners.

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TechEmpower

JULY 12, 2023

A Fractional CTO bridges the gap between founders and developers to help keep your tech strategy aligned with your business goals. This helps your startup stay agile and competitive in a fast-paced marketplace.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

Students formed teams and developed hypotheses of how commercial technologies can be used in new and creative ways to help the U.S. By week 2 of the class students formed teams around a specific technology challenge facing a US government agency and worked throughout the course to develop their own proposals to help the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2022

Here are the key elements of the strengths framework they have developed, with my own insights and experience added for your consideration: Money: the capital you have, or can easily raise. Fortunately, you can develop this skill. In my experience, emotional intelligence (EI) is a better predictor of business success than IQ.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2023

None of us has the skills and interests for all aspects of developing an idea, as well as growing a new business. Know yourself and find help to fill in the gaps. I recommend a personal SWOT analysis first – find your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Develop viral content. As a result of the rising popularity of viral campaigns, the cost of developing one has increased significantly, and the increased ‘viral clutter’ has made it more difficult to stand out from the crowd. In addition, special offers and competition prizes may be required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For example, the development of reusable rocket technology by SpaceX and Amazon, who could not match NASA supplier budgets, has opened huge new opportunities in space travel and exploration. I’m often asked for the secret to this attribute in developing a team culture.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2025

Pro tip: Check out local economic development offices for grant leads. Building ConnectionsNetworking and Development Programs That Open Doors They say its not what you know but who you knowand thats doubly true in business. Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) are another must-know resource.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Software and hardware development architects and designers. On the other hand, there are some roles in a startup where Boomers are probably not the best candidates: Constantly-on-the-road sales territory management roles. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers. Labor-intensive roles, including warehousing and construction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there are over 34 million registered developers in 2022. Above all, don’t forget to develop a comprehensive marketing and promotion strategy. Be there intentionally rather than randomly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Some entrepreneurs view their outsourced employees as temps, or as a cheap way to staff the company during its startup phase. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. Bored and unmotivated teams are never cost-effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2023

I recommend his checklist as a starting point for developing team connections and building engaged team members as a key step in becoming an effective team leader, even if your team is spread all over the country: Consciously reduce time spent on outside activities. Murray, who is a recognized expert in the field of business leadership.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2021

Develop a mindset of self-worth and ability to adapt. People often use ego and arrogance to avoid taking full accountability for actions within their control, and this lowers their own self-esteem in everyone’s eyes, including their own.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Here are some key ones from the most satisfied business leaders that I know: Develop your own plan to get where you want to go. In all cases, I’m convinced that whether you see personal fulfillment as more business success, or making the world a better place, there are some common strategies to get there that I recommend.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique. This all-star team of 4 undergraduates and a JD/MBA developed new ways to provide logistical support to maritime forces in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

No Knowledge of Computers Silicon Valley emerged from work in World War II led by Stanford professor Fred Terman developing microwave and electronics for Electronic Warfare systems. The company took on any engineering work that came their way but were kept in business developing new code-breaking machines for the Navy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

Marketing should start before product development. It’s never too early to start marketing, since it usually takes as long to build marketing momentum as it does to build a product. No startup can afford to do these serially. In today’s information age, it takes time and money to make your solution visible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Every consumer today wants to be an insider and development contributor to the finished product, or at least feel connected to it throughout the process. For trust, they look online to see how you handle real support and satisfaction issues. Real-time in-process updates vs after-the-fact stories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2022

Bill Gates will probably be more remembered in fifty years for his Foundation to save lives in developing countries, than Steve Jobs for his “insanely great” consumer technology advances. Growth, on the other hand, is most simply defined as change by natural development. From goals to aspirations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2021

The CEO is the check and balance on the constant parallel pushes for more development, more marketing, and more growth. It's important that the CEO define alternatives and have a very clear view on how he will use the proceeds, including the option of not raising any outside capital at all. Craft an operational plan and make it work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the midst of high-tech development, funding, and selling, someone has to keep the office network running, get processes documented, and manage to keep everyone happy and busy. It’s time to think about licensing what you have to an existing company already in business, and give up developing and marketing it yourself.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 20, 2022

But Anthony’s insight was he needed to get out of his 8 th floor office and spend time where his company’s products and services were being developed and delivered. They often know where all the innovation bodies were buried.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2022

I have personally used this approach in leading startups as well as large organizations, in highly technical roles as well as business development and marketing. Meetings at this level should never be seen as “working sessions” for actually solving the problem, but as mentoring and direction setting for team members.

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