Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For example, when you think about distribution channels, revenue streams, or the relationship with the customer, ask customers what they expect. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one. Marty Zwilling.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 16, 2012

Incubators are hot. The flock of incubators is spawning a glut of wanna-be entrepreneurs ready to quit their jobs, commit their lives to a 10-week incubator program and end up with nothing but broken dreams and a souvenir hoodie. You should select an incubator the same way. There are more than a thousand in the U.S.,

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Niesh worked with ecentre, the startup business incubator at Massey University, as part of the Sprint Launch programme, focusing on growth through customer acquisition. Business incubator “ecentre” is based at Massey University’s Auckland campus in Albany. It’s not always the right approach,” said Yoo.

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View from Seed

APRIL 24, 2019

Couple that noise with the flurry of AI/messaging startups from a few years back (set off by Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition), in conjunction with app developers’ notification euphoria… all of which have resulted in a state on our mobile phones where “ our brains being overloaded with push notifications about nothing.”. They don’t.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc. A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. The hard part in a company is not getting a demo or setting up an internal accelerator, it’s getting something delivered all the way through your existing sales channel.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

Our discussion today was around prioritization of the next few critical steps around customer acquisition and validation. The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

It describes the product/service, who is it for, what channel sells/deliver it, how demand is created, how does the company make money, etc. While it’s fashionable to build corporate incubators there’s little evidence that they deliver more than “Innovation Theater.”

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

You’ll realize you’re ready to exit the Search step when you have customer validation: You’ve found a sales channel that matches how the customer wants to buy and the costs of using that channel are understood. Startups in Search mode have little process and lots of “do what it takes.” Most startups die here.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

He mentors young startups at Singapore Management University and True Incube Thailand , a 500 Startups Partner. Getting your app’s content posted through a major distribution channel exposes more people to your app and results in more users trying your app out. Jon Yongfook is a serial entrepreneur based in Asia. Why does it work?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. Brainscape. The answer to the question is neither.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

We never seek any rights to give Amex preferential treatment at the time of a potential acquisition. There is a possibility that Amex may explore acquisitions within the Amex Ventures portfolio, but those discussions will be on market terms similar to those with other potential acquirers.”. I posted a summary of this at PeHub.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

To replace them, employers spend $11,500 average per healthcare employee acquisition cost (20% of the annualized salary plus hiring incentives is considered customary for acquisition cost). Distribution Channel for Product Companies. A customer acquisition strategy that is pragmatic, and. How does he mitigate that?

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. So it gives you content, multiple distribution channels, and you start building this audience. We were expecting twins.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. The next two customer acquisition strategies we will be expanding on are more aggressive guerrilla p.r.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. Most incubators, accelerators, or angel groups won't be willing to work with the smaller TAM businesses.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. Mava Consulting.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Most of the social and mobile channels (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, iPhone, Android) have emerged in just the past 3-5 years. But scaling customer acquisition may take the same amount of dollars as a traditional software startup. ). One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

I also advised Antonio to defer his investor road show and even customer acquisition programs until this basic positioning exercise is in place. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. IDES Technologies. You can register for the next roundtable here.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

We also had two other entrepreneurs who are working with the William Factory Incubator in Tacoma, Washington. We discussed a numbers of customer acquisition methods to do so. We also discussed Dan's options vis-à-vis channel partners. You can read more about athenahealth here. Wise Mind Studios LLC. Social Pulse.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); The founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. The Wedding Channel. Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups. Shopping.com.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We offer 3 turn-key products: Branded content: Marketers are given the opportunity to hire influencers solely to shoot or act as talent in branded content that will be used on their brand’s owned and operated channels. To start, our team is made up of media and technology experts who have sold companies or been a part of acquisitions/IPOs.

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Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

slack channel and have received nearly 250 applications. is not a back up school for your failed attempt to get into some other incubator, accelerator or a grander catapult to launch you into the world or traditional VC funding. The Slack channel becomes more vibrant by the day so request and invite here to join in.'

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

Google continues to evolve and refine its search algorithms over time, leading more businesses to turn to paid advertising models to get the exposure they seek in the multi-channel, multi-device world. Angela Stringfellow is a Startup Advisor for 25K Startups , a Long Island incubator providing funding and resources to promising startups.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. Acquisition. After playing coy and dropping hints for weeks, Microsoft has finally announced its newest incubator, the Bing Fund. 4 days ago. From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary. Cloud services.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

Its goal is to take the original idea and search for a repeatable and scalable business model - first by finding product/market fit, then by testing all the parts of the business model (pricing, channel, acquisition/activation, partners, costs, etc.). but instead jumped into bed to start a company. Everyone has ideas.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Advertisers are brought to the site and driven mainly through self-service channels, so there is no need for a large sales force or account management team. Whether its an internally built effort or something you incubate through an acquisition (we’ve acquired over a dozen companies), keep it separate operationally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Lock in customers with loyalty and high cost of change.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup. For example, Google’s acquisition of Nest (which had customers, revenue and a distribution channel) allowed it to enter the connected home market immediately.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I just launched a small online retail business last week, and feel a bit lost about marketing ideas and how to get the most out of social media channels. Acquisition / Lifetime Value, etc. customer acquisition, like Launchrock, you called that something, what was that again? 2) yes, join an incubator, (1) Read this [link].

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

SM: Every incubator you look at takes pride in how exclusive they are. We want every entrepreneur to have access to our curriculum and incubation services, and give them an opportunity to build their businesses, irrespective of the scale of their entrepreneurial aspirations. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

He started his first company at 18, where he grew the business and successfully lead it through an acquisition just two years later. He later launched Cofound Harlem, a non-profit incubator in Harlem, and currently serves as a Managing Partner at Harlem Capital, a diversity-focused early stage VC firm.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

07:00 PM: TechSet Party Speakeasy – This Friday SXSW kickoff party unites the digerati as they channel their inner Fame Monster by reviving a decade of style and glamour that made the social elite go ga ga. million acquisition, and the epic win of the closely-linked Pirate Party. Hilton A/B ([link].

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

great web customer acquisition tutorials. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Israeli Center of Incubators. Roku Channel Store. mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials. SEO for Startups â?? good tutorial.

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