Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2020

My bottom-line recommendation and theirs is that every visionary entrepreneur needs to be matched with a cofounder or key team member who has the required execution attributes. They enjoy the coaching and development role, and are able to match work assignments to people’s strengths, promoting both people and company growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

There seems to be an insatiable demand from consumers for a better shopping experience, meaning they will pay a premium to a company that can present them a better match in products to their interests, without jeopardizing their good name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. Not every great idea is a viable business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2020

If the shopping process, delivery, and support level does not match their expectations, no innovative product features will compensate. In my experience, the place to start is selecting your desired customer segment first, and then matching it with one of the following generic branding models, to best fit your desired customer segment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Labor rates are lower in some countries, but culture and language match are the real keys to productivity. Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. With the high-speed Internet, our workers can be anywhere in the world.” As with real estate, it’s still about location, location, location.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2022

In fact, his analysis of current statistics and many case studies leads both of us to recommend a focus on a set of key hiring principles that shouldn’t come as a surprise, but don’t seem to get followed very often these days by new companies, or even the more mature ones: Look for a cultural fit before a skill match.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2020

Here are some tips on the right approach and the right points to hit: Match your material to the time allotted. Then match your pace to cover all the material. Investors are more interested in your solution and your business, rather than your technology. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Then make sure that everyone on the team does the same, and are motivated to improve the match with your startup. This means personally listening, understanding, and responding to your customers’ evolving needs and shifting expectations. Seek out complaining and lost customers for the most important input.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months. The timing of cash flow is everything. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Some of these world-class innovators get recruited by large companies like professional athletes, with paychecks to match. Others join startups to strike out on their own. But what I’ve noticed is that it’s rare that the smartest technical innovator is the most successful entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

But for those of you who are a real match for the entrepreneur lifestyle, that’s what makes it fun. Yet, even by following all these principles, don’t expect it to be easy. The odds are still stacked against you, and the volatility of new markets make it even more challenging.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

Guidelines for use of this tech should be drawn up, perhaps paralleling the ones for genetic editing experiments – with Risk Assessments for the type of experiments and Biosafety Containment Levels that match the risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Outside of work is where you can best evaluate the chemistry match, and decide whether you can enjoy and learn from the relationship. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Make sure they match before you commit. The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel. Deliverables and the resources you have to achieve them are two sides of the same equation. How do I measure success?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

There is no time to be changing your culture to match the lifecycle. As companies grow in today’s high-speed Internet environment, with constant pivots and new products, they won’t even see the lifecycle phases flashing by, and in fact may be experiencing all of them concurrently. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2020

Every company and team develops a unique culture of work flexibility, personality, and communication that must be matched to every new hire, independent of job qualifications. Failure to include company culture in the hiring criteria. Thus every serious candidate should be vetted and approved by peers, as well as company executives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Service organizations must find effective ways to manage capacity and thereby match the supply and timeliness of services with customers’ usage of them. In all cases, experience details are quickly and easily communicated to others via Facebook or Yelp, meaning a relationship will impact many others very quickly.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

The CMS comes with ready-made themes, templates, and frontends that can get edited to match business needs. The traditional CMS is the most popular CMS used by small businesses and personal websites in packaging all content and digital assets to a single architecture that links with the website. Businesses moving to online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

You may feel good when that first burst of customers arrives, but don’t assume that “ word of mouth ” and those early adopters will grow your business to match your dreams of success. I have learned from experience that scaling any business is difficult. They won’t find you.

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The Entrepreneurial Perspective starts with a picture of a well-defined future, and then comes back to the present with the intention of changing it to match the vision. The Technician’s Perspective sees the business as a place in which people work to produce inside results for the Technician, producing employee income.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Through social media and customer interaction, you must convince customers that your culture matches theirs. Entrepreneurs who fail to invest in establishing rapport with their customers will suffer the same consequences as sales people who don’t put themselves in the shoes of their prospects.

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View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2020

But in a FOMO world, more investors are willing to take a chance on a founder that they don’t know, but seems to match some of the heuristics of other high quality founders. VCs are always founder focused no matter the market environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Outside of work is where you can best evaluate the chemistry match, and decide whether you can enjoy and learn from the relationship. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity.

Technical Review 310

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Offshore 310

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Match your office, facilities and computer equipment to the size of the staff you have today, and intend to have in the next six months. The timing of cash flow is everything. Waiting until you have something to sell before bringing on a sales and operations staff. Getting a sales contract before manufacturing inventory.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Management Salary 258

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2020

The leadership challenge is to find the training or mentoring to fill the skill gap, or to find a new role that is a better match for the skills they do have. These are people who simply don’t have the skills they need to do the required job. The leadership capital, and other costs to support square pegs is a huge startup resource drain.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

In both North America and Europe, many venture studios in non-major cities are funded by government agencies to stimulate local growth, at times with matching donations from companies. Today there are around 720+ venture studios across the world – half are in Europe. Why Would an Entrepreneur Join a Venture Studio?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 8, 2021

And finally, Michele Flournoy former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy offered what a new Secretary of Defense might do to organize to match those 2+3 threats and new technologies. Midterms and Finals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. Not every great idea is a viable business.

Intellectual Property 312

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 312

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In addition, they often find the need to pivot as they learn more out their customer needs and solution match to the market. Every new business finds it impossible to project growth and service needs, since they have no experience or history to guide them.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Employee 308

View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

With the new updated NextView Board Deck template, the work is half complete, as you just need to tailor the document to match your company’s business and incorporate in operating metrics. Download Board Deck Template.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Their pricing algorithm crawls the Web daily, and adjusts prices to always match the lowest price found anywhere, offline or online. When they need a new fulfillment center, they pick the best location by simulating all the orders and predicting an optimum location. Make your company a ground-breaking invention machine.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 2, 2024

Customization Options : These tools offer extensive customization options, allowing you to tweak colors, fonts, and elements to match your brand identity. Fonts : Select fonts that are readable and match your brand’s tone. Consider color psychology and how different colors evoke different emotions.

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Technical Review Software Review Audience Design 159

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2021

If you are a passionate technologist , it’s easy to forget that marketing is required to sell even the most compelling solution, to cut through the information overload everyone sees today on the internet. If customers don’t know you exist, you can’t solve their problem, they won’t buy.

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Las Vegas Matching Marketing Social Media 385

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2023

From her two decades of experience at Salesforce, Gartner, and consulting, she offers a unique perspective on what it takes to create a balanced focus on improving employee experiences to match customers.

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Employee Matching Customer Leadership 282

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Every company and team develops a unique culture of work flexibility, personality, and communication that must be matched to every new hire, independent of job qualifications. Failure to include company culture in the hiring criteria. Thus every serious candidate should be vetted and approved by peers, as well as company executives.

Cost 260

Cost Hiring Matching Internet 260

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Match with competitor prices and market demographics. Estimate your costs, including a 50 percent gross margin, as a lower bound on a price. Products too expensive for the market won’t succeed, and prices too low will leave you exposed. Confirm that your product or service solves the problem.

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