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10 Early Mistakes Startup Founders Should Avoid D9aa1adbb0aeeeb61a9800d1df81c1460d99acecba203b7d0f9d21e61e965e1f

Copywrong: Brilliant, Disruptive, Illegal Business Plans

Entrepreneurs tend to focus on opportunity rather than risk, and rightly so.  As Steve Blank has written, at its core, a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.  In the lexicon of the lean startup movement, once “product-market fit” has been achieved, the focus shifts to scale and execution as the startup […]
Antone Johnson
Antone Johnson , Founding Principal , Bottom Line Law Group
3 May 2012
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Disruption vs. Revenue Quandary and the Tech Bubble

I remember the first tech bubble well. True story: In 1998, one prominent online vendor – long since dead, by the way – was selling my company’s product for $66 when the distributor price was $76. Also true: In 2000, a would-be acquirer flirted with buying Palo Alto Software for its web traffic, but wanted to leave […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
1 May 2012
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6 Reasons Why Startup Prototypes Attract Investors

It’s a long way from an entrepreneur’s “idea” to a working product with a real market and paying customers. A necessary intermediate step for proof of concept, credibility with potential investors, and communication with your team, is a working prototype. Building a prototype should be an early and high priority task for every startup. A […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
29 Apr 2012
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Are Startups Now Changing the World Instead of the Web?

It’s too soon for rigorous data analysis. I don’t have surveys. But I’ve been through about 120 startup business plans in the last month and it seems like there’s a big shift. There’s a lot more science and a lot less web. There’s a lot more save the people, save the world, than there is […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
24 Apr 2012
Startup Strategies: The Strategic and Financial Significance of Intellectual Property

Startups Need the ‘Why’ Before the ‘What’ to Build

All too many startups are founded simply on the basis of a new and exciting technology invented by an industrious technologist. This is the origin of the “solution looking for a problem” and “if we build it, they will come” syndromes, which result in surprise and frustration waiting for funding, and waiting for customers that […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
22 Apr 2012
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