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. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In Q3 of 2024, AI-related startups landed $19 billion USD, which equates to 28% of total venture dollars. From the next generation of AI solutions, and revolutionary software engineering solutions to cost-saving consumer solutions, heres a list of 10 breakout innovation trends and companies to watch out for in 2025.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Startup studios continue to grow in popularity as incubators for new businesses. Rather than simply launching one startup, the startup studio model creates an organization whose business is launching startups. These can then be repeated and improved on with each successive startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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. Sponsor experiments and measure like new investments.

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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. We need this new generation of entrepreneurs who relish the challenge and the opportunity of rebuilding our business engine to fit the culture and the global needs of the twenty-first century.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For a startup, the first goal is to invest in the advertisement of your business to get customers. Here are some tips that can help you when utilizing affiliate marketing for your startup. Affiliate Networks Are Great for Startups. Provide you with the most famous keywords that help with trending on a search engine.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. Climate tech – We have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change if startups offer commercial solutions to decarbonize society or remove carbon from the atmosphere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

In my experience, the Silicon Valley startup model, focused on disrupting established industries, has treated the USA well and created some great global businesses. It has played almost no role in the emergence of current non-US bred startups, including Alibaba in China, Waze from Israel, Paytm in India, and many more.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2024

Establishing a strong online presence is crucial for any startup looking to carve out its space in the digital ecosystem. A startup’s web presence serves as its digital handshake, often being the first point of contact between the company and potential customers. Easy to remember : Short, catchy names are easier to recall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

Even in this age of globalization and virtualization, the geographic area where you choose to live and work can still make or break your startup business. Of course, there are always exceptions, but how much added risk do you need for your startup? Raising capital isn’t the be-all and end-all of startup success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2022

Most people I know in business begin by capitalizing on technical strength or passion for change , such as engineering, or focus on saving the environment. Luckily, you can learn needed leadership skills.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

Nuclear weapons and genetic engineering had advocates for unlimited experimentation and unfettered controls. Simultaneously, new startups are forming, and venture capital is already pouring money into the field at an outstanding rate that will only accelerate the impact of this generation of AI. Let the science go where it will.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

With the current strong economy I’m seeing a continued resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. There is additional encouraging news for aspiring entrepreneurs on many fronts, just in case you are thinking about joining the existing ranks: Valuations of successful startups have hit an all-time high.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Outgrowing your stack: Your tech stack was just right for your startup. 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. But as you’ve grown, it’s become cumbersome and constraining.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Yet most startups I know experience the same shock of disappointment when they first open up their website to offer their “million dollar idea” product, and nobody comes. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts.

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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. Description of the business entity you plan to form.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

These days, people like to say we are living in the golden age of startups. The startups that play too safe and don’t take any active steps to meet these goals are making themselves vulnerable to the harsh realities of the globalized economy. Employees are the engine that will drive your company to success.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Others join startups to strike out on their own. Most great technology startups – Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Tesla – were built by a team led by an entrepreneur. . … successful entrepreneurs are also ones who take challenges in stride, adapt and adjust plans to accommodate whatever problems do come up.”.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2024

I was the head of Marketing for MIPS Computer , a RISC chip startup. I invited him over to meet the founding team of Ardent, our new startup, whose founders he knew from DEC. By the end of the day Gordon had joined our team as founding VP of Engineering and another phase in my education was about to begin. 2004 I’ll miss him.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

If you have been working alone, perfecting your idea, with no new business track record, your best strategy is to license the technology to a company or team with real business startup experience. Many great technology solutions, like hydrogen engines for cars, look great on paper, but are extremely difficult to make a business.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. I know a change is going to come. That doesn’t scale.”

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Employee Training: Teach your team about phishing scams, social engineering attacks, and other common cybersecurity threats. The post How Entrepreneurs Need To Plan To Protect Their Business appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Encryption: Encrypt sensitive data to prevent unauthorized access, even if a breach occurs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups. Power Recommendation Engines. Engineers can input design goals into AI-driven generative design software , along with parameters such as performance or spatial requirements, materials, manufacturing methods, and cost constraints.

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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. Having growth makes fundraising significantly easier.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2023

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. Sponsor experiments and measure like new investments.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

A reported 27% of data breaches are caused by human error, as an internal mistake could lead to a ransomware attack or social engineering scam. Startup companies can’t afford to ignore cybersecurity. Train Your Team. It’s for this reason that you must train your team on cybersecurity. For example, they must: Use impenetrable passwords.

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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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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2024

LLCs and corporations provide limited liability protection but may require more paperwork and higher startup costs. Similarly, your website should be user-friendly, informative, and optimized for search engines to attract more potential clients. Partnerships allow for shared responsibilities but can lead to conflicts between partners.

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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. Leveraging Expert Knowledge and Resources Through White Label SEO White label SEO providers offer unparalleled expertise in SEO, staying ahead of evolving trends and search engine algorithms.

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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. I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2022

Yet I believe that many more have benefited from this approach, especially in early startup stages. Here are the key parameters that can swing the pendulum: Engineers have an uncontrollable ability to add more features. Many good ideas never get off the ground, simply because the product or service is never “finished.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Yet everyone has limits, and every investor implicitly has similar limits on what makes a startup investable, or one to avoid at all costs. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs.

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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. The post Hibu’s Smart Solutions Spark Local Business Success Stories – Sponsored appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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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). Their computers then merge your ads with search results when users search words imply an interest in your products.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Search Engine – Your Gateway to Information A search utility app wouldn’t be complete without an outstanding search engine. This app integrates a powerful search engine, delivering accurate results at lightning speed. appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Your digital workspace makeover starts now.

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