Posted on July 23, 2011 ¬ 7:25 PMh.Patrick Kedziora
Companies can still have zero revenues and have tremendous value. Most VC’s assume $2 per user per year in revenues, with one million users and a multiple of 20X that’s $40 million of value with zero revenues. Good, if you’re a US company. Difficult if you’re in Europe where angels and VC are still struggling with the concept that a company with zero revenues can have tremendous value. So, what’s a European entrepreneur to do? Simple, find a local VC who “get’s it” or come to America and unlock the value you’ve created!
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Posted on July 14, 2011 ¬ 5:32 PMh.Patrick Kedziora
Here are three business development tips you’ll need to be successful: 1) make the f’ring phone call, 2) have something the client wants and 3) actually deliver on what you said you’d deliver. That’s right, sounds simple but hey that’s the fun of having the rubber hit the road.
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Posted on July 9, 2011 ¬ 2:12 PMh.Patrick KedzioraComments Off on Biz Dev – Part I – Know Where You’re Going or At Least Move!
Some say marketing, some say sales, some say business development. The sale happens where these three come together. Your marketing is the physical manifestation of your strategy; it’s the web site, brochures, videos and ads. Sales is the stuff inside the web site, brochures, videos and ads. And, business development, we’ll that’s a fancy term for when you get your butt out of the office and start knocking on a customer’s door.
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Posted on April 14, 2011 ¬ 5:37 PMh.Patrick KedzioraComments Off on 5 Simple Mistakes That Can Derail Your Startup
Five simple mistakes that most startups make are completely avoidable and can be fixed in less than 5 minutes.
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Posted on March 31, 2011 ¬ 5:28 PMh.Patrick KedzioraComments Off on Guide to Newspapers – Humor as insight
Making the point that you can use humor to 1. make a point, 2. stimulate a conversation or 3. make someone laugh. Enjoy April Fool’s Day!
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Posted on March 20, 2011 ¬ 3:07 PMh.Patrick KedzioraComments Off on Ceci N’est Pas Un Téléphone – This Is Not A Telephone
An over reliance on using the cheapest forms of communications by many entrepreneurs – particularly those outside the US – results in lost venture capital, lost customers and lost partners who simply could not hear what you had to say. So put Skype down and pick a regular phone to make all those critical calls (and they’re all critical by the way).
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Posted on September 23, 2010 ¬ 4:33 PMh.Patrick Kedziora
Citizens banding together in anonymous fashion to protest against an organization, person or event will grow in the years to come. We are already seeing this as evidenced in last week’s successful DDoS attack against the MPPA and RIAA websites. Perhaps it is the beginning of the anti-Facebook, anti-MySpace, generation?
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Posted on August 27, 2010 ¬ 12:20 PMh.Patrick Kedziora
We’re so busy trying to conjure up the next Facebook that we’re missing Facebookx10 opportunities. So start innovating outside the box (e.g. the Fifty States, the EU).
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Posted on June 17, 2010 ¬ 4:27 PMh.Patrick Kedziora
Ever more complex and burdensome features have been built into products in the mistaken belief that “more is better” as design has shifted away from actually engaging and listening to the end user.
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