Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

> Uber's " Reality Therapy 4 Startups": What U Need 2 Know NOW > Steve Blank on why NOT to be an Entrepreneur > Airbnb's Globetrotting Lessons: Building 4 a Global Market > Vinod Khosla - The VC Legend: Interview w/ Dave McClure > Eric Ries on Entrepreneurship: What He's Learned Along the Way > GitHub's Secret 2 Success: Rethinking (..)

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

That’s what ReadWrite predicted would be the hottest of hot startups in 2013 and, for the most part, we were right. 2013 showed us new hardware built by smaller companies for what seems like the first time in a long time. Evolution and innovation continue in 2013, unabated and unafraid. CyanogenMod.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Over the last years, there has been an explosion of online trading platforms that offer the option to trade online with the best technology and the lowest-priced account that maximizes the premium features your customers can actually use. If your customers are online, you should be too. ROI of Customer Experience.

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Actionable Analysis Analyzing Customer Data Conversion & ROI ROI Marketing Verifying Business Value. 7 Social Media Tactics Your 2013 Budget Needs to Succeed [Research]. To get your 2013 marketing plans on track to increase revenues, here are seven social media tactics based on solid research that you need now. Live Events.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Torment your customers,” Stephen Brown advocates , tongue only partially in cheek. It playfully suggests differentiation via extraordinary customer service—while creating real differentiation by entertaining its recipients. Your Customers Do. Misused, they are P. Barnum–style gimmicks. . They’ll love it.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. WHEN OUR INDUSTRY CHANGED — THE ERA OF THE UNICORN Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures first coined the term Unicorn in 2013, ironically to signal that very few companies ever achieved a $1 billion valuation.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Torment your customers,” Stephen Brown advocates , tongue only partially in cheek. It playfully suggests differentiation via extraordinary customer service—while creating real differentiation by entertaining its recipients. Your Customers Do. Misused, they are P. Barnum–style gimmicks. . They’ll love it.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

In fact, Michael Dell privatized his company again in 2013 for a few years, in his words to “unleash again the passion of our team members.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 22, 2020

In 2013 & 2014 , Kim was a Social Media Correspondent and participated in Regional Emmy Award winning videos that were created by newscaster Michelle Li. One of the Top 25 Small Business Experts To Follow on Twitter in 2013. Selected to serve as one of the Google+ Top Contributors since of 2013.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2021

Once united merely by their commitment to providing value for their companies and their customers, they are now united in being of value to society. Because today’s customers tend to show greater loyalty to companies that do good in society. Today’s customer is socially conscious and expects respect.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2015

and the author of “ 501 Ways to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers “ For many businesses, the holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year. 70% of buying experiences are based on how the customer feels they’re being treated. The holidays are hectic and can be stressful for customers and staff alike.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

If you have, you may be one of the 100 million people to use Yelp in January of 2013. The post Grapevine Alerts Businesses to Online Customer Reviews appeared first on SiliconHills. Have you used a review site such as Yelp to find a restaurant lately? Did you review that restaurant? I hope it was [.]

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. The most common mistake startups make is assuming they can operate the same way big companies do, and expect success with little to no feedback from potential customers. This is a customer development problem.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2013

The Asia Showcase, the Asian component of the Challenge, is supported by NUS Enterprise and will take place in Singapore on 16 May 2013 as part of NUS Enterprise ’s flagship event InnovFest 2013. and Europe Showcases for a grand prize of US$50,000 in September 2013 at the Dubai Grand Finale@SIBOS. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

In fact, Michael Dell privatized his company again in 2013 for a few years, in his words to “unleash again the passion of our team members.”

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

In its Global Phishing Survey 2H2013 , the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) said there were a minimum of 115,565 unique phishing attacks worldwide between July 1 and December 31, 2013: “This is nearly a 60% increase over the 72,758 seen (in) the first half of 2013.”.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

Everything from customer service, technical support, to back office operations are able to be outsourced as a way to reduce costs, keep up with the evolving consumer expectations, and drive a faster return on investment. Put simply, offshore outsourcing means hiring a company to perform a service from a different part of the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We spent a year (2012-2013) building a merchant acquisition machine and all of the systems to support bookings, calendar integrations, location services, etc. We then spent much of 2013 proving out the merchant model in one city – Los Angeles. ” Ah, but that’s exactly the point. With smart phones everybody does.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 3, 2013

Fliptop – A customer intelligence platform for marketers. The post 100 AngelList Startups To Watch In 2013: How Many Are New To You? Freshplum – Brings the power of data science to businesses that sell electronically. Origami Logic – Visual Big Data analytics for marketers. Fundraise – Social fundraising.

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Guy Nirpaz

JANUARY 18, 2015

The idea behind the first Customer Success Summit came as a result of many conversation with new customers who’ve asked us to connect with their peer group. As Customer Success is relatively new and there is not a lot of known best practices, customer success practitioners wanted to exchange notes with one another.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 12, 2022

Bitcoin has become increasingly popular since its creation, with the total number of Bitcoin users around the world growing to more than 5 million today from 500,000 in 2013. Bitcoin is the first of hundreds of “cryptocurrencies,” which are forms of currency that exist digitally through encryption. Bitcoin is here to stay.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 11, 2020

And startups in a number of industries are poised to capitalize on this wealth of data to optimize services and solve the issues most important to customers. Data fuels AI, but growing pressure from regulators and customers to maintain user privacy has caused corporations (e.g., Converging Trends. Data fuels AI. Security First.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

According to the 2013 OfficeMax Small Business Efficiency Index , small business owners lose four billion hours each year managing time-consuming tasks. We practice what we preach by leveraging our own business software review platform for valuable research and customer testimonials and it has saved us time and money.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 6, 2019

However, it is even more important to preserve product quality, run your business with moral guidelines in place, and value your customers’ safety and long-term health. Whether a startup or established company, these guidelines will establish your business as a reputable, ethical company and help you build and maintain customer relations.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The world is already very well connected, but we’re set to become even more global than before come 2013. Here’s an infographic that outlines those numbers:

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth hacking is a practice that aims to acquire as many customers as possible while spending as little money as possible. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing. What is growth hacking?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

———– What’s striking about Fast Company’s 2013 list of the world’s 50 most innovative companies is the relative absence of large, established firms. Instead it requires iterative experimentation, talking to large numbers of potential customers, trying new things, and continually making adjustments.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2020

Barely 4 months later, Yahoo admitted that there was a previous breach in 2013 that had affected 1 billion accounts, but later revised the figure to 3 billion accounts. In addition to the legal fees , they also had to pay one million dollars to the affected customers. How often do you protect your online data using VPN?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

improved) customer experience. Anita convinced customers to spend their hard-earned money on greener products at a time when it was very uncommon. In 2013, he successfully executed a summer campaign that included larger models with the help of Hollywood superstar Beyonce- known for her body positivity and great confidence.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Happy New Year and welcome to 2013. Just as a small community newspaper or a special-interest magazine didn’t need significant amounts of capital to become sustainable, so too today with many of the recently seeded startups which have focused services for a specific target audience or customer-set.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup. Great for recent grads or career switchers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2013

3 Website Trends That Customers (and Business Owners) Will Love written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Andy Hayes – Enjoy! I know what you’re probably thinking: oh, great, another trends post.

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ConversionXL

JULY 1, 2014

Conversions are mostly about being relevant to your customers. If what you offer and the way you present it is relevant to your visitors they will convert to buying customers. Then again if you don’t understand who your customer is or worse it’s “everybody” then you have very little change of being successful at it. Demographic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Focus on Customers not Competitors – [link]. Focus on Customers not Competitors – [link]. 20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013, Selected By Frog|Co.Design – [link]. Customer Service on Twitter: Top Brands Respond To Only 14% Of Tweets | The Realtime Report – [link]. Losers exist. Losers exist.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2013

The confetti has fallen, the ball has dropped, and the champagne has been popped — 2012 is officially over, and 2013 is underway. The reason for doing a 2012 post-mortem is simple — it supplies an owner with current facts about their business and the market so they can use the information as they look forward and plan for 2013.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

As far back as 2013, Pew Internet & American Life Project started reporting that their focus groups found “waning enthusiasm for Facebook” among teens, that Facebook has become a “social burden” for them, and that “users of sites other than Facebook express greater enthusiasm for their choice.” Maybe they just don’t care.

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