Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2016

Remote startup team members are the norm today and can be very productive with smartphones, video and the high-speed Internet. Practice your sales skills early. Popular examples include monthly subscription fees and optional service fees, versus one-time product sales. Ask for advance on royalties and vendor deferred payments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2015

The way to start is with a sample financial model, freely available from many sources on the Internet, such as this one from Entrepreneur. This can be projected top down from market share assumptions, or bottom up from actual costs and sales results. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/20/2015.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. This is what our hiring landscape looked like over the past year: Pre-2015, we hired three founders: 1x hustler in charge of strategic growth hacking. Aug-15: Head of Sales (growth team). Lean marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2012

For e-commerce startups the question then becomes, “Do you really want to turn down a sale just because the order comes from overseas?”. Too quick to execute on a sale without securing payment. Brands, on the other hand, can likely go overseas much faster to support direct sales [or] and distributors,” Gilmore explains.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2012

For e-commerce startups the question then becomes, “Do you really want to turn down a sale just because the order comes from overseas?” There is a difference between selling overseas as the owner of a product brand and as a retailer of other brands,” says Nate Gilmore, vice president of Shipwire , an ecommerce order fulfillment company.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2012

For e-commerce startups the question then becomes, “Do you really want to turn down a sale just because the order comes from overseas?”. Too quick to execute on a sale without securing payment. Brands, on the other hand, can likely go overseas much faster to support direct sales [or] and distributors,” Gilmore explains.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

billion in retail sales and even more the year before. Between our long life expectancies , medical breakthroughs , and the everyday miracles of things like the internet, digital photography, and air travel, we are living lives that would have seemed like a dream to people growing up just a few generations ago. You go girl!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 26, 2015

Retailers will be relying more on data to drive sales and inventory decisions. Implementing a central inventory management system that tracks cross-channel sales data is what retailers will rely on most to make smarter decisions this holiday season. Consistency is key to increasing sales, and building a loyal customer base.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

China alone is tipped to exceed $1 trillion in retail ecommerce sales in the next three years, making up more than 40 percent of the global eCommerce market. [1]. With this huge growth set to continue, all kinds of businesses in Asia can benefit from the new world of eCommerce. 1] [link]. [2] November, 2014. [4]

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I was now in a position where I needed positive cashflow quick, while staying in ecommerce, which was an industry I fell in love with. Because of my background as a service provider, I realized that the fastest, simplest, and easiest way to hit my financial goals was to offer services to ecommerce brands. I didn't like it much.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

By 2015, the U.S. In addition, look for new markets to add size and profits, implement processes to cut out waste, and transition more and more customers to internet communication and ecommerce buying solutions. Gray’s career started in sales, marketing and new business development at Xerox, American Express and Contel.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

As we turn the page to 2015, Uber has a new BHAG, and it’s name is UberPool. UberPool is the natural evolution of this journey, and obvious BHAG candidate for 2015 and beyond. ecommerce Finance Internet marketplaces Mobile Regulation Twitter Uber Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech UberPool UberX' A Quick Look Back.

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ConversionXL

MAY 5, 2016

The problem is, if you don’t do it right, it’s pretty meaningless (or worse, you trigger a psychological backfiring and hurt sales). Studies of retail sales have shown that if more than about 30% of goods have ‘sale’ sticker on them, the effectiveness of this method decreases.”. What Is Scarcity? Image Source.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Not encouraging…teens have trouble communicating without the Internet – [link]. Report: Search To Dominate Mobile Advertising By 2015 – [link]. Create An eCommerce Landing Page In Adobe Photoshop – [link]. Buy it now, for real: eBay to refer sales to nearby stores – [link]. – [link].

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2017

Back in 2015 when we only had about $2,000-$3,000 worth of marketing budget to spend each month, getting the most out of our buck was fundamental—not only for growth, but for survival. One month later, they read another piece of content from your blog that they found browsing the internet. They read the content and leave.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

If we work in sales, all we care about are sales touch points. And that comes before you think about marketing/sales/advertising/billboards/tv. What about grabbing the incredible mobile opportunity by the throat and truly delivering for utility marketing and executing for mobile 2015 ? You want sales, yes.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

It can trawl the internet for mentions of your business or products. But by learning from the experts, making a conscious commitment to social media as a sales or customer service channel and leveraging their inherent flexibility and adaptability as small organizations, SMEs can get it right and reap the benefits. [1] 2] [link]. [3]

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ConversionXL

JULY 12, 2017

In the pursuit of sustainable and consistent ecommerce growth , we look to many places: content, SEO, Facebook, Instagram, paid acquisition, new channels, growth hacking. But rarely do we turn the focus to our own website and ask, “how can we improve our own ecommerce user experience to drive growth?”. Why Care About Ecommerce UX?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

2015 site vs. 2017 site. Long copy” doesn’t mean “long form sales page”. There’s a time and place for long form sales pages. Joel Harvey: Essential Ecommerce Optimization Techniques. Everything you do in ecommerce reflects your value proposition. Marketing/Sales optimization funnel. What’s the lift?

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ConversionXL

JULY 12, 2017

In the pursuit of sustainable and consistent ecommerce growth , we look to many places: content, SEO, Facebook, Instagram, paid acquisition, new channels, growth hacking. But rarely do we turn the focus to our own website and ask, “how can we improve our own ecommerce user experience to drive growth?”. Why Care About Ecommerce UX?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2016

Technological advancements and the democratizing power of the Internet have allowed retailers to scale up without sacrificing intimacy and personal service. 2] “Micro-Moments: Your Guide to Winning the Shift to Mobile”, Google , 9 April 2015. [3] 3] “eCommerce Industry Outlook 2016”, Criteo , January 2016. [4]

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The number of patents filed in 2021 is more than 30 times higher than in 2015 as companies and countries across the world have realized that AI and Machine Learning will be a major disruptor and potentially change the balance of military power. Until recently, the hype exceeded reality. Examples here , here and here. Examples: Alexa and Siri.

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