YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. At Wildcat, we recommend benchmarking your startup against the four core architectural pillars of the Traction Gap Framework: product , revenue , team and systems. Revenue Architecture.

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www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Home About Contact My thoughts & lessons learned on startups, entrepreneurship, marketing and other stuff. The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders.

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

Startups focus on speed since they are burning cash every day as they search for product/market fit. I had lunch last week with Tom, the CEO of a startup that was quickly becoming a large company – last year’s revenue was $40M, this year likely to be $80M maybe even $100 million in ad revenue.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

Do you wish there was a product to help companies “Get things done” by leveraging your own employees, your employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around you? . Although we envision we initially use our technology for a political purpose, that’s only the test case and that alone is nearly a $20 billion market.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

Do you wish there was a product to help advocacy organizations and companies “Get things done” by leveraging their own employees, their employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around them? . As a VC, I’m interested in working with companies with large-scale revenue potential, and that’s the company we envision.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud. First check to seed?—?congrats

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 12, 2021

During the early days of my digital marketing business, my mentor offered counsel and functioned as my sounding board. 3- Helps employees develop skills. We practice career pathing in our company and mentorship helps ensure that our employees are on the right track to the next step in their path. 1- Offers counsel.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

And in an increasingly social and networked world — not to mention an economy where every dollar of revenue is critical — this type of third party validation is more important than ever. These may include references, referrals, testimonials, serving on advisory boards, and participating in your customer communities, he explains.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

I use the word natural deliberately because it is far easier to build solutions that will offer network effects if your market is actually wired that way. In Bazaarvoice’s case, the market was, fortunately, wired for brands and retailers to collaborate in a kind of grand bargain. The retailers were to provide the audience?—?and

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 28, 2019

Hospitality a difficult market. However, hospitality proved to be a difficult market for tech start-ups with some giants already on the market or numerous apps shutting down every year, including some spectacular failures in the recent years. Embargo has just started generating revenues from two streams. Lorcan London.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

Projected enrollment growth and market demand can also be tricky to estimate. Write about the market and how you’re fulfilling demand. Do a focused market analysis. Next up is a market analysis. How big is your target market? Who is your target market ? What employee childcare discount will you offer?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

All companies that This Week in Startups’ audience of entrepreneurs, company founders, and marketers would be interested in. A well-thought-out strategy lays the foundations for your sponsorship efforts in the same way a marketing strategy guides your marketing campaigns. Market identification.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

It’s very powerful to have a model that you can email to everyone in the firm, because then everyone sees clearly that you’re communicating the exact same message to the whole team (including outside consultants and the advisory board, if any). In banking, a lot of my time was spent on modeling cash flows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2016

In my role as an advisory board member for several startups, I’m always excited to see that initial surge of revenue from a great rollout campaign. An initial revenue surge, or a major cash advance from investors often leads to a mentality of building a large customer base at any cost.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book has been described by a few CEOs who read it and commented early for me along the lines of “The Lean Startup movement is great, but this book starts where most of those books end and takes you through the ‘so you have a product that works in-market – now what?’ What About Sales & Marketing?, questions”.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. We’re backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake Partners, and individual investors like Ron Conway, among others.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Advisory Board. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) - crowdSPRING Blog , September 13, 2010 At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Carpe Diem.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Market analysis. This looks at the target market for your product or service. It has a breakdown of your market segments, their geographic location, and what their needs are. How do they currently meet your target market’s needs, and how will you differentiate your product or services? Sales and marketing plan.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So Leon and I have met numerous times, about marketing strategy and the music one is that developed after Chicago became a customer. So that was sort of the direction that we thought about going in and it’s just hard to figure out the marketing strategy around that. Hamid: It’s kind of interesting. Dan: Exactly. Dan: Great.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

Referral Programs: A Guide for Small Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. By ignoring customer referrals or not incorporating customer referral program ideas into your marketing strategy, you're missing out on a valuable source of revenue. Referrals are invaluable to any business.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

You have some actual customers, driving real revenue and maybe even have an employee or two. And now here you are, all alone, trying to figure out how to take that concept, those few customers, that couple of employees and create a sustaining, scalable business. The employee desertions. You've never done this before.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2012

That Often It is Better to Receive than to Give : While advisory board members, unlike a formal board, do not have liability nor fiduciary responsibility, their time and energy requirements to participate are significant. The “ which ” questions are in many ways the harder ones that an advisory board dynamic can help address.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

If we think you may be cutting a sizable check and joining the board, we are evaluating you as a potential employee of our company. If you have some common friends, feel free to ask around about them, but if you want to talk to former employees, colleagues or other investors, don’t until you are fully committed.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Market analysis. This looks at the target market for your product or service. It has a breakdown of your market segments, their geographic location, and what their needs are. How do they currently meet your target market’s needs, and how will you differentiate your product or services? Sales and marketing plan.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 4, 2011

My company had its first meeting of its strategic advisory board this past week. Here is what I got out of it: That Often It is Better to Receive than to Give: While advisory board members, unlike a formal board, do not have liability nor fiduciary responsibility, their time and energy requirements to participate are significant.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

You have some actual customers, driving real revenue and maybe even have an employee or two. And now here you are, all alone, trying to figure out how to take that concept, those few customers, that couple of employees and create a sustaining, scalable business. The employee desertions. You've never done this before.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. 1- Bring world-class marketing communications. My BHAG is to bring world-class marketing communications to worthy organizations irrespective of budget.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

Finding a gap in the market can turn an idea into an amazing step for a potential business. Once he understood how well this device protected teeth, we discussed the possibility of bringing something like this to the sports market. Entrepreneurs are continuously discovering that if you find a place, you can create a company.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

We’re at 70 people, and we’ll do $40 million in revenue this year and should get to cash flow breakeven this quarter. ” It typically takes multiple iterations and pivots to find product/market fit – the match between what you’re building and who will buy it. It sounded like he was living the dream. If not, start one.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

All of us worked together as part of the leadership team at Return Path, a leading email technology company that we scaled from 0 to $100mm in revenue and 500 employees in 12 locations around the world while winning numerous Employer of Choice awards. We are here to make it easier for you to: Bolster your executive team.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

3 Types Of Referral Offers Every Business Needs written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I’m doing part two of a solo show series on where I’m going to be covering one of my favorite topics: referrals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2010

Many entrepreneurs work hard on the proof of concept (technical), but skip any proof of the business model (revenue flow). In other words, once they are convinced that the product works, they assume their price, sales channel, and marketing will bring in the customers. These days, the technical side is the easy part. Limited rollout.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

All of us worked together as part of the leadership team at Return Path, a leading email technology company that we scaled from 0 to $100mm in revenue and 500 employees in 12 locations around the world while winning numerous Employer of Choice awards. We are here to make it easier for you to: Bolster your executive team.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

A huge untapped market opportunity.?. 1 year later we sat down and had an honest conversation with ourselves and realized that our One Thing, the thing we were most passionate about, that we could realistically be the best in the world at, and that was a huge untapped market opportunity was: Design. Only do your One Thing.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 7, 2014

In this context, I define “second phase” as: growing beyond 1-2 employees and over $250,000 in revenue annually. My recommendation in most cases is for the CEO to lead sales/marketing in the early years. 4 steps to move into the “second phase” of your business: - Define your end goal. Find a mentor.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2011

a leading provider of online veterinary healthcare content and services, announced today that Raul Calvoz has joined the company as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. Veterinary care and pet services are a $15 Billion market in the U.S. PetsMD Inc., I am very excited to join PetsMD,” said Calvoz.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. However, no markets last forever. I’ll show you the memo in a second.

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