Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

There are dozens of sources to help you construct your business model, and a good example is a classic book by venture capital investor Elizabeth Edwards, simply named “ Startup ,” which is really designed as a handbook for launching a company for less. Distribution. How do you distribute your product or service? Production.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Donna Fenn, in her book from the last decade, “ Upstarts! But the insights I see from her book and elsewhere are equally applicable to startup founders of all ages, and businesses of all ages. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Focus on your core competency.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. We're putting a 'Retweet' button inside the product to encourage viral growth.". I know of no companies who have " gone viral " because of buttons. Frightening honesty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Keep it real, social, and events-based. Want control?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Usually these are described as revenue growth drivers, as outlined in a new book, “ The Revenue Accelerator: The 21 Boosters to Launch Your Startup ,” by Dr. Allan Colman. You must use self-promotion early and often through viral videos, blogging, and industry leadership, to establish credibility with your customers.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

How To Close The Books on Your Startup. Yet to embark on the next project, you’ll want to properly close the books on your previous company. In most states, an LLC or Corporation must settle its debts before any distributions can be made to members. Again, no assets can be distributed until all debts have been settled.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2021

A classic book by global business consultant Diana Rivenburgh, “ The New Corporate Facts of Life ,” highlights these challenges and opportunities to the corporate world, but I believe they need to be understood as well by every startup. These are all huge challenges, as well as huge opportunities, for entrepreneurs. Stakeholder power.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Offer free solutions to bring in more customers. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Written by marketing consultant Mark Schaefer , the book traces the origins of “citizen influence” on the social web, delves deeply into the world of Klout , and provides tips on how one can navigate this new digital landscape. The concluding chapters of the book highlights the future applications of social scoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Offer free solutions to bring in more customers. Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 120

Board Effect

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Even in emergencies when such actions might seem necessary, rushing through decision-making should not be a norm, especially when board management software can facilitate swift distribution of critical information. Technology enables them access to the right information at the right time. Speaking of time, speed can be essential in a crisis.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. So what are some examples of distribution advantages? Legacy Distribution Power : Quite a few successful companies got a nice head start because of legacy traffic. Typically, I tend to notice two approaches to delivering product-oriented distribution wins.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

What are the main channels for app marketing and distribution today? Ads – targeted advertising is perhaps THE most reliable channel to market and distribute a consumer app. Therefore, my recommendation for startups who are pre-monetisation is to experiment with new organic distribution ways.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Sometimes that’s defensible distribution channels. Find and focus on one reliable distribution mechanism before diluting your time diversifying. It’s boring and doesn’t make you famous and doesn’t play into the false but common narrative that SEO and viral content will launch your startup into the market with almost no money.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I had just enough data to optimize the main funnel, found a bunch of wins, then hit a hard wall and needed to rebuild the entire distribution strategy from scratch to keep growing. Otherwise, consider using those marketing dollars to scale up your core distribution channel first. Just remember that true virality is really rare.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

“Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. ” Udemy.

Programming 73

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Keep it real, social, and events-based. Want control?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business Model Affects Metrics and Exit Criteria Web-based Business Model Exit Criteria In a web-business model you’re looking for traffic, users, conversion, virality, etc – not revenue. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Keep it real, social, and events-based. Want control?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

That can then be distributed through owned, earned, and paid, right? We're doing a lot more book funnels. I'm actually seeing a lot more traction coming from like a well written book nowadays. Go to desk team 360 dot info and book your call today. Like it's not about, you know, going viral and reaching masses.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

A DAM tool otherwise know n as a digital asset management software is an innovative software that stores, organizes/sorts, distributes, and utilizes digital assets with its greatest and characteristic feature being the ability of the tool to store the assets in a central location. What Then is a DAM Tool? Nipping security issues in the bud.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. Steven gave me an advance copy of the book. Want to start up in France? Except they won’t be called Product Managers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Viral is an outcome, not a strategy. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Keep it real, social, and events-based. Want control?

Marketing 120

Marketing Viral Demand Channel 120

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2014

Specifically, at FG Press the author gets 50% royalty on all books sold (up from the traditional 15%) and we employ the latest technologies, promotions, and marketing efforts to help the author build a personal audience who they have a direct relationship with. But what about sales and distribution? generate more revenue.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2021

The falling economic costs of production and distribution have been replaced by a new set of taxes — physical, emotional, psychological — as your community expects new content, accessibility to their heroes and open book authenticity. Being a modern creator is, for many, exhausting. was the beginning of Creator Health initiatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2013

Donna Fenn, in her book from a while back, “ Upstarts! But the insights I see from her book and elsewhere are equally applicable to startup founders of all ages, and businesses of all ages. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Focus on your core competency. Look for hidden sources of revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

In a recent episode, they talked with Kevin Perry about how he goes viral on every single platform. Kristi consults and speaks on how to move a culture from surviving to thriving, and she recently authored the bestselling book we're gonna talk about today. And that's where sort of the idea for writing the book came from.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

There are dozens of sources to help you construct your business model, and a good example is a recent book by venture capital investor Elizabeth Edwards, simply named “ Startup ,” which is really designed as a handbook for launching a company for less. Distribution. How do you distribute your product or service? Sales/Marketing.

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Business Model Distribution Viral Green 242

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

His popular book on this subject, “ The Lean Startup ,” lays out how today's entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses. Most startups these days use one of three primary growth engines: the viral, sticky, and paid growth models. Channel pivot.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 26, 2014

Specifically, at FG Press the author gets 50% royalty on all books sold (up from the traditional 15%) and we employ the latest technologies, promotions, and marketing efforts to help the author build a personal audience who they have a direct relationship with. But what about sales and distribution? generate more revenue.

Distribution 133

Distribution Viral Audience Revenue 133

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

“Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” The story behind Khan Academy is tech legend: educator Salman Khan started by posting videos on YouTube to help his cousin with her math homework and the videos went viral. ” Udemy.

Programming 48

Programming Technical Review Small Business Illinois 48

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 5, 2011

Guest Bloggers can distribute content for free. Next Week I am re-listening to a book on billionaires, and noticing many patterns within these mega successful people. Aziz signing off Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here. Nice deal Why?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

There are dozens of sources to help you construct your business model, and a good example is a recent book by venture capital investor Elizabeth Edwards, simply named “ Startup ,” which is really designed as a handbook for launching a company for less. Distribution. How do you distribute your product or service? Sales/Marketing.

Business Model 246

Business Model Distribution Viral Green 246

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2013

A new book by global business consultant Diana Rivenburgh, “ The New Corporate Facts of Life ,” highlights these challenges and opportunities to the corporate world, but I believe they need to be understood as well by every startup. These are all huge challenges, as well as huge opportunities, for entrepreneurs. Stakeholder power.

Entrepreneur 257

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2012

Donna Fenn, in her book from a while back, “ Upstarts! But the insights I see from her book and elsewhere are equally applicable to startup founders of all ages, and businesses of all ages. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Focus on your core competency. Look for hidden sources of revenue.

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Entrepreneur Viral Revenue Distribution 234

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

One of the books that first made me aware of the “creative brain&# was “ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain &# by Betty Edwards. All are known creativity drivers and are covered in the book mentioned above. She literally encourages you to draw things upside down. For others they swear by music.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

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