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The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

What I find exciting about Freshdesk is that they may be able to do the same thing in customer support that Zoho did in CRM: a drastic downshifting of the price-point of a full-functionality, differentiated, cutting edge customer support solution. Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers.

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So You Want to Start a Cannabis Business: Advice for the Absolute Beginner

Up and Running

Too frequently, a concept is exciting but cannot be supported within the legal framework or is simply a recycled concept that is reliant upon ‘first mover’ advantage in their jurisdiction. Funding and differentiating your service or brand will definitely help. Smoking a joint does not make you a cannabis expert!

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Partners With Indian Angel Network

ReadWriteStart

I presented my usual 1M/1M perspective on bootstrapping. Even if there were fleeting thoughts of being bailed out by investors, they have now been banished and we are focusing on bootstrapping and making the model work with customer money." Chetan has expertise in fragrance development and the company is in a turnaround situation.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

Well of course we’re focusing on this and that, and you can take a lot of times with frameworks or whatever, I say that doesn’t matter. What taglines are you using to differentiate yourself from other people, other businesses that might be similar. I’ve used a lot of frameworks. What is going well?

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Your Business “Driving Force”

market-by-numbers.com

Johnson & Johnson , for example, makes hundreds of highly differentiated products that serve doctors, nurses and patients. Means of Production Profits determined primarily by availability (uptime) of its differentiated or highly-efficient production capabilities. American Hospital Supply supplies hospitals with whatever they need.

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Out of the Crisis #10: HelixNano founder Hannu Rajaniemi on vaccines, suspending disbelief, and the power of stories

Startup Lessons Learned

How do we differentiate self from non-self? And then a well incentivized collaboration framework where any company or academic group can jump in to contribute and be correctly incentivized. And what's also really incredible is that our immune system doesn't attack our own cells, and that's a phenomenon that is still unclear.

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