Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The best way to ride the “silver tsunami” is to develop age-focused products or adapt one’s customer touch-points to the effects of physiological ageing. 3) Retail - Apple stores feature bright, spacious layouts with easy waist-height product access, clear and visible labels, and minimal ambient noise levels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. I spent time with the folks (Klaus Schauser and Brian Danahoo) at AppFolio before they ever launched their products. They recorded it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 309

Intellectual Property Technical Review Venture Capital Startup 309

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? What do we need to do to make sure we can survive technical due diligence by investors and partners?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Modern businesses rely heavily on this positive cyclical and iterative disruption to be competitive in the marketplace and innovate, delivering new services and products to their customers faster than ever. The creation of Unix operating systems prompted a standardization of hardware and software into more focused and manageable systems.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

The trend today is for teams and projects to be flexible, adaptable, continuously reassessed and developed to ensure that products and/or companies fit market demand. In the chase to produce the best minimum viable product or to push out the next killer feature, security is often given the backseat. “Agile Methodology.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

My favorite new software tool is DailyBurn. Problem is – Weight Watchers software TOTALLY SUCKS. I loved the product that much. If you have an iPhone you can scan the UPC code on the food you eat and they will be entered directly into DailyBurn done through a partnership with a company called Occipital.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s what makes you stand out from the rest. I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

China 333

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2014

While there is a strong temptation for micro businesses, small businesses and start-ups to be distracted by the latest technology fads, business owners should be very wary because information on new technology also comprises hype from vendors trying to sell their related products. Know your IT requirements. Be a tech follower.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s what makes you stand out from the rest. I keep my competitors as friends and those that didn’t choose me or my product as friends, too. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

China 328

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Entrepreneur 283

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“…if you look at a lot of the early stage investors, whether it be Union Square Ventures or First Round or Jeff Clavier at Softtech or Dave McClure – we want to try the product, we want to experience the product, we want to get a sense of how the entrepreneur is thinking about it. You still need the presentation to back that up.

Technical Review 288

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive. Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. A Borderless Talent Pool.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 261

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.” Are our users addicted to our product? But if users don’t come back to your product directly and often I question whether you have a sustainable product / company. The rest eventually become shelfware.

Product 150

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The classic lifespan of successful products is a story in four parts: Introduction Growth Maturity Decline. How this story plays out has a lot to do with the type of product and how it’s improved over time, if at all. In this article, we’ll look at the different stages of the product lifecycle through the lens of marketing.

Product 142

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Now entering our third year with Agile we’re continually trying to improve the efficiency, productivity and velocity of the various teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

But for the rest of this post I want to talk about the specific lesson I learned about losing: you’re most vulnerable right after you’ve won the deal. An external consultant helping the procurement team overturned the decision and got the company to select a small software company owned by the consultancy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Consider licensing your product or intellectual property, and “white labeling.”

Intellectual Property 219

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

That’s no easy task and Association managers can benefit from using HOA management software to help you take care of everything from ownership management, unit activity, and payments to some of the finer details of the process. Using HOA Management software can be seriously helpful here. Source: Pixabay. Easy Reporting.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2020

No-code and low-code tools are on the rise , with thousands of businesses and makers turning to a faster and cheaper way to test, validate, and build out their ideas. Marketers and businesses who take advantage of no-code and low-code now will be in position to reap the rewards. No… No-code won’t make developers obsolete.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

When we demand overwhelming customer outcry before committing to the slightest product change, we're in danger of losing the value of creating a cool feature that takes too much effort but people just love. Still, every article I read turns the creative process of business and product design into Vulcanian objectivity.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 20, 2020

boom – expectations were high for B2B (product) marketplaces. A marketplace needs to bring product catalogs from multiple suppliers and aggregate them in one convenient spot for customers. Tie in with the rest of the ecosystem. Suppliers can pay a listing fee to include their product(s) in the catalog or directory.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 3, 2023

For a mission-driven organization, investing in board software to help your board be even more effective is a key decision. Every penny counts, the reputation of your organization matters, and when it comes to ensuring the effectiveness of your board, the role of board software cannot be overstated. Access Controls 4.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

In one sentence, what does your product do and who buys it? In one sentence, why does someone buy your product? people not knowing you exist, pricing, not enough product features, unorganized sales strategy, look-and-feel of website, haven't identified pain points,). Don't just rest on what comes easiest.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I just got an email asking about exactly this: I''m with a new company that needs some software built, but doesn''t need (or have the resources for) a large staff of software developers. Most of the rest of the post is going to focus more on finding development rather than design firms. What are the review periods?

Web Development 204

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

I apologize in advance for using the dang iPhone as an example but… The iPhone is one of the most successful and important products of the past few decades. You could type git push production and your site went live. You always had a staging area to test things in a real server environment before pushing code live.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2019

Businesses of all shapes and sizes are always looking for ways to innovate and increase their productivity by investing in the latest tools, software and training programs. Shred or archive the rest. Any images shared on social media should therefore present an organised and diligent work atmosphere. Key Takeaways.

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You know the ecosystem and have a network that is additive to the rest of the team. You have unbounded curiosity for emerging trends, a love for experimentation, and you’re always eager to dive into new products and technologies before others do. All applications will be reviewed confidentially. How To Apply .

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

When I was writing my first novel, Avogadro Corp , I would spend my most productive time writing in coffee shops. Then you’re free to spend the rest of the day however you want. After I published Avogadro Corp, I knew that I wanted to send review copies to newspapers, bloggers, and other folks in the tech industry.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Knowing which documents require what at this point in organizing a paperless office will make the rest of the process much smoother. Sometimes outsourcing the project is more feasible due to time constraints and need for a higher-quality end product. Which physical copies will be shredded and what will be preserved?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Dip in Productivity. Mega brands like IBM and Google found that their productivity plummeted when they went all-remote. Upon closer inspection, I have identified a few factors that hamper productivity in remote settings: Less face-to-face supervision: Trust is an issue between remote cadres. Unhealthy Employee Morale.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

To this end, a number of commercial green buildings have been designed with features that promote workplace productivity and ambiance. Healthy workplace and enhanced productivity – new research suggest that the state of indoor building environment and physical characteristics can impact worker productivity and their health and well-being.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2012

On “ Intelligence Is Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed “, a research by Carnegie Institute of Technology shows that “ 85 percent of your financial success is due to skills in “ human engineering ,” your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. For example, try to register to your product.

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