Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2010

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Economies of scale also apply to marketing, distribution, and sales. Economies of scale.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Tech stack.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 27, 2011

The amount of blogs and information products out there in the make money online and internet marketing niche has exploded. What works in my market has changed. With all these changes going on to technology and marketing techniques and media formats, you need to at least stay aware of what is going on.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Uber , Zenefits , Tanium , Lending Club CEOs of companies with billion dollar market caps have been in the news – and not in a good way. — all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. And while new markets were created (i.e.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. If a consultant claims they can enhance your marketing efforts, pay them based on their direct impact on your incremental sales. Their story, market positioning, products, etc. Startups cannot afford such scapegoat luxuries.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

A lot of folks treat it as a synonym for online marketing. I was hired to level-up the marketing team. The team started as all marketers focused on lead generation. Every team included a mix of designers, engineers, marketers, and copywriters. Design, Product, Marketing, and Sales get pissed that you’re not in sync.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And for non-founder employees, as the broader employment markets even for college grads has gotten softer, the opportunity costs of a joining a risky startup have never been lower. I think the long-tail (size in terms of market cap, revenue, employees etc – pick one doesn’t matter) is moving towards the city.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Unlike Lean startups, their priority isn't to learn in order to create a scalable business model. In addition, channels such as Applifier, Appsumo or the Humble Indie Bundle have made it easy to reach large groups of users. The lean methodology aims to find and create sustainable value, regardless of the state of the market.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. And while new markets were created (i.e. The founders.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Spacecom is offering a wide range of Pan African satellite services, including: Cellular backhaul, Rural telephony, Broadband VSAT networks, e-government, e-learning, e- health, Direct To Home (DTH) Multi-channel platforms, DSNG, Video Distribution & Contribution. Ceedo Technologies. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd.

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