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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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How the best startups do paid marketing

Hippoland

These days, our advertisers run the gamut — some of our advertisers make billions each year while others are bootstrapped individuals who don’t earn anything right now. This is what I’ve learned from our advertisers: 1) Don’t go for a sale right away. If you assume that you can get a direct sale on average 0.1%-1%

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Marketing Sweat Equity: Getting Your Startup’s First Sales—Without Spending Money on Consultants and PR

Up and Running

After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience. Current and new customers care a lot more about product or service quality, and the value of your item. Yep, you Google, Bing, or Yahoo it.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

be the manager and product developer). Make sure someone is thinking about overarching plans around PR, marketing and sales and spends time crafting the right messages, understanding audiences and figuring out distribution channels. Just make sure that at any given time, each person knows what they are responsible for.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

In particular, one thing to consider if you’re trying to make money off affiliate ads is to think about how unique the product/service is in the ads you’re running. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. Sales cycles matter though. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

In particular, one thing to consider if you’re trying to make money off affiliate ads is to think about how unique the product/service is in the ads you’re running. For example, if you are running affiliate ads for hotels, you might get 3-5% on a sale. Sales cycles matter though. 2) B2B startups have high margins.

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Technologies That Will Have the Biggest Impact On Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

Entrepreneurs are often wearing ALL the hats in the business while they're bootstrapping through growth. 11- AI-led Video Content Development. AI-led video content development will have the biggest impact on entrepreneurship. Social media channels are heavily pushing video content. Thanks to Joe Flanagan, Velvet Jobs! #6-