A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 9, 2011

I think the answer is terrible: That I’m afraid I might piss off someone famous or potentially famous who then might not want to work with me in future or even say something bad about me in public. The title of the email was excellent: “Guest Blogger Proposal – An Interesting Twist.&#.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2019

As a young entrepreneur, you may be fairly new to the intricacies of the business arena as compared to your older and more experienced counterparts, but what you do have is the advantage of being more socially aware and more technologically literate than them. Among these digital marketing techniques, SEO stands above the rest.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners of a word that could represent their business in 2019. Lastly, I have also grown through significantly more networking in 2019 and have met amazing female entrepreneurs through several networking organizations. To be focused a person has to be strategic about it to get things done.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo. Visibility-fail.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

As part of this, TechStars announced the TechStars Network , an affiliation of TechStars-like programs across the country along with our commitment to the Startup America Partnership to help 5000 experienced mentors work with 6000 entrepreneurs to create 25,000 new jobs by 2015.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Our goal in hosting The Lean Startup Conference —which starts in just over two weeks—is to help entrepreneurs learn absolutely useful things from each other. Thousands of attendees, men and women, tweeted and talked about why this and other, similar displays, made them uncomfortable. We invite you to take a look.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 2, 2015

I even wrote about my experiences attending Web Summit , something I rarely ever write about. ” So how should you feel about Web Summit, DreamForce, TechCrunch Disrupt, CES, SxSW or any of the myriad of tech events that are put on every year? Big conferences in part are about education and entertainment.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 12, 2018

To come up with a small business name, we tried to do a combination of using relevant keywords as well as to throw in a dose of creativity to set ourselves apart from the competition. We’ve gotten good feedback over the years about our business name, so apparently that strategy has worked. Thanks to Andrew Schrage, Money Crashers ! #2-

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Brand marketing is concerned with objectives such as: Brand tracking , identity, and recognition; Improving brand awareness ; Building brand equity ; Understanding and influencing consumer perceptions about the brand. Brand marketing is about building connections through emotion and experiences, a key driver in consumer decision-making.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Any SoCal entrepreneur raising early-stage money should put Rincon on their short list. I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. You should, too. (no,

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 14, 2011

Since Leigh is a long time reader of Entrepreneurs-Journey.com (and now columnist) she’s been around long enough to see this content come and go on the front page and be in a position to talk about what she thinks is worth reviewing, especially if you are new to this blog. Link to older articles on Twitter, Facebook and in email.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

I’ve had the privilege to work with many great entrepreneurs, both in my operating days at the start of my career and over the last decade plus on the VC investing side. And if we’re investing in the company, it then impacts how I might be most helpful as a thought partner to the entrepreneur depending on their archetype.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 8, 2010

I’ve been an Amazon Associate (Amazon’s affiliate program) for many years. and I woke up to the following email. I expect the Internet Affiliate business in Colorado will completely die within the next thirty days (every company that has an affiliate business will turn off all of their Colorado-based affiliates.).

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2020

Hacking 4 Recovery is a 5-day version of the Lean LaunchPad / Hacking For Defense / National Science Foundation I-Corps curriculum that’s trained tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and innovators. This class is not about how to write a business plan. Course Description. This class combines theory with a ton of hands-on practice.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Our Story The two of us met at NYU almost 10 years ago. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. We began telling our friends about these investments. As entrepreneurs, Tushar and I immediately knew that when product-market fit hits you in the head, you jump on it.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

With some CEO’s getting in trouble in creating toxic company cultures, we connected with Robert to learn a little more about what his company does, how he creates a great culture and how other entrepreneurs and CEO’s can do the same. Tell us your story. Tell us about your business and what you do? .

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 10, 2010

Please forgive me for harping on about outsourcing in so many blog posts recently. If you haven’t caught the latest John Reese video, the third in the series talks about the six online business models and how you can outsource the tasks involved to make them work. This is about to change. Here’s My Plan.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I wrote previously about Kajabi and some of the competing content marketing systems available to us who sell information online in this blog post – Which Content Management System Is Best For Selling Information Online? What Is Kajabi? This can reduce refunds.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

I sent out a few emails to mentors of mine who had been VCs in the 1980s. Many people used it as justification for stuff and there were very few critical responses that dug deeper on the history. Highly regarded private SBIC, **Sutter Hill Affiliate, Norwegian Shipping Family, +B of A’s SBIC. 1,250,000. Total.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2023

The complexity of marketing today often leaves us wondering if we are doing too much or too little. Often, I find entrepreneurs trying to be everywhere at once, which, in my experience, leads to two things: wasted time and wasted resources. Remember, it's not about doing everything—it's about doing the right things.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

If you’re building a startup, you’re likely to be in one of these two situations: Launching and selling a new product that nobody’s ever heard about, and probably don’t even know they need, or… Improving an existing product or service, which means that you’re going head on against someone with more traction, people, and money than you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

The key is to think about what that future looks like and how to contribute to making it better than the world that brought us into the pandemic. 16:25) Be aware of what's happening in the marketing of your products, learn everything you can about what's going on in your industry to set your company up for the future. (18:56)

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2011

This week, our small business spotlight comes to us all the way from Brazil (quick shout out to our team of Brazilian software engineers, Jonas and Adriano!). Most of us have probably thought at least once in our lives after receiving a less than desirable gift, “Wow, I wish I had just received money.”

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur planning to start a business outside of the United States, you might be looking for assistance and resources that are available in your specific country. There are plenty of local resources and services available to help entrepreneurs in their local areas around the globe. First, what’s your question?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Entrepreneurs refuse to take no for an answer. The latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere shared what they learned from having their ideas rejected and how those lessons propelled their businesses forward. Tell me about a ‘no’ that made you smarter. Nigel Caldon. Steve : Give me an example.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2013

Many small business owners and young entrepreneurs are intimidated by marketing. To learn more about SEO and PPC marketing, read 10 Practical Small Business SEO and SEM Marketing Tips. Email Marketing. This type of marketing involves delivering content and promotional offers to customers through email. Display Ads.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 24, 2014

At best I thought one or two people who wanted to learn about the book marketing process, would join me. The 4 (Although It Is Really 3) Rules of The Buzz Warriors, Plus 3 Additional Reserved Rule Spots In The Off Event That We Need To Use Them In The Future. You are showing entrepreneurs how to succeed. Two people signed up.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 28, 2023

The complexity of marketing today often leaves us wondering if we are doing too much or too little. Often, I find entrepreneurs trying to be everywhere at once, which, in my experience, leads to two things: wasted time and wasted resources. Remember, it's not about doing everything—it's about doing the right things.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

My macro theme was “great entrepreneurs&# who mapped to my belief system about the kind of entrepreneurs I wanted to work with. Offline / Online Integration: Think about it, when you shop at Nordstrom they should know as much about you as Amazon does when you’re shopping online.

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Traindom Traindom Customer Login Sign Up Affiliates Support Information Marketing Conversations 36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage October 4th, 2010 § 45 Photo used under Creative Commons from theparadigmshifter So you have a new startup company and want some coverage.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Discussions about whether or not retailers should open on Thanksgiving to the monitoring of ‘Christmas Creep’ by various blogs and websites can be seen everywhere. The recent release of Apple Pay, the mobile payment service available on the iPhone 6, gives us a window into how consumers will make their purchases.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

The premium members have been working with us for a bit and have made progress, so this was an interesting roundtable where we were able to discuss some more advanced issues. Next, Dan Stewart from Safety Harbor, Florida, pitched Happy Grasshopper , an email-based referral marketing service. In February, he had about 200 customers.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 11, 2016

If you’ve read our first post in our Blogging series about what is a blog and why you need one, you’re aware of how important blogs are for increasing traffic to your website and for gaining your potential customers’ trust. Blogs such as Entrepreneur On Fire, Smart Passive Income and Boost Blog Traffic. The good news about this data?

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help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Email Management. Affiliate Program. Contact Us. It might be helpful to tell you that the business will probably be valued in excess of $200 million when fully operational (about 1 yr.). I am excited about the opportunity to work with you. Ask them about their deal, how much they paid, and how it went for them.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. as everyone pulled out their iPhones to check email and Twitter.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 16, 2010

I was comfortable with my stance on outsourcing, comfortable enough to recommend it and promote products, and profit from the affiliate commissions, from people who use the catch-call of $2-per-hour labor and the phrase – “ they do the work, you get the money “ I’ve begun the process of outsourcing to the Philippines.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 30, 2011

until I was asked to keynote at the annual meeting which I did a few weeks ago where I talked about “entrepreneurial communities and why Boulder is such an awesome one.&# I’ve written about the stupidity of these types of taxes before in posts like Amazon Fires Its Affiliates in Colorado Because of Colorado HB 10-1193.

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