Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
Early-stage ideas fall in the same category. People like to complain about global warming and the plastics pollution problem, but they may not be ready to buy alternative energy at twice the price, or change bad habits for global gain. Don’t get me wrong. Lock in your sustainable advantage.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 10, 2020
In the early stages, it isn’t uncommon for businesses to bank their earnings on a handful of customers (or sometimes, just one). As such, business owners need to ask themselves if they are still as implicated now as they were in the early stages of their business.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 6, 2014
The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. We we’re now a tight board of early-stage VCs, management and two hands-on operational experts in our target markets.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 30, 2011
With more competition in early-stage many VCs are investing smaller amounts at earlier stages. Some are going later stage to not miss out on hot deals. I call this “stage drift.&#. What I’ve started to observe is that we’re certainly headed for a bit of a brick wall for early-stage companies.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 4, 2013
With 30 million registered users on a global basis. It has become the largest art community on the web with huge pockets of global users who never had a website in which to express themselves amongst peers and also find ways to monetize their talents on a global basis. 65 million monthly actives. billion monthly page views.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population. There are 20x more consumers online. thank you to Kidlandia for the chart].
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 20, 2019
Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.
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