Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2021

Every entrepreneur should consciously follow these five key actions and implementation tips, to compete and survive, as well as to get the personal satisfaction they expect from the lifestyle: Act on the important, don’t react to the urgent. Fuel your fire, don’t burn out.

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Up and Running

MAY 17, 2021

However, you must keep your eyes on the prize and not react impulsively. Turn your vision into bullet points that can go into different categories of questions and responses. Here are some questions to ask yourself when answering a sexist question: How does your response fit in with your long-term goals and where you want to be?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2022

Many smart people I know fall into the category of “idea” people. The challenge is to proactively stay ahead of change in the market, rather than wait and react to the next crisis. Here are some key ones I have learned in my years of experience: Business success requires focus and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The challenge is knowing what to look for, and how to react. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged. Recognizing and interpreting weak signals into timely decision making is critical to your business, and it takes skill and focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2021

Of course, if you are new to the challenges of business, it’s especially hard to anticipate correctly and react wisely to complex business situations.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Included below is my accumulated wisdom, with the hope that you’ll fall in navigate category and not the crushed one. Archetype #1: How they react: This individual lives in a bubble, so their reaction to any data is… Nothing. Archetype #2: How they react: They attack. Archetype #1: The Bubble King (/Queen). They attack the data.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product marketers own a variety of marketing responsibilities, which can be roughly divided into two broad categories: pre-launch and post-launch. With a solid foundation of product marketing, brand marketing can help you win a greater share of the market and even become a category leader. How will the audience react to this story?);

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

But then I thought about it for just a few more seconds and realized my own internalized misogyny could be reacting. We began by creating multiple categories to start filling with ideas. We began filling each of these categories with ideas. I Googled it and discovered that the collective noun for a group of girls is “giggle”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2017

The challenge is knowing what to look for, and how to react. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged. Recognizing and interpreting weak signals into timely decision making is critical to your business, and it takes skill and focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2013

The challenge is knowing what to look for, and how to react. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged. Recognizing and interpreting weak signals into timely decision making is critical to your business, and it takes skill and focus.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In the past, Best Buy included six standard gift categories on their homepage, like Gifts for Teens, Stocking Stuffers, and Gifts $50–$100. When consumers run into this warning, nearly three-fourths react negatively. This holiday season, choosing the right gifts for family, friends, and loved ones may prove especially challenging.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2017

The five-day design sprint’s purpose is to quickly find out how customers react before investing too much time and expense. Logging, monitoring and alerting Dan shared his slides with the group including free resources for every category, many from Google, AWS, Udacity, Udemy, Code Academy and more. Cloud Computing 11. Testing 15.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2019

If you are in that category, you should take a hard look at a new book, “ Nincompoopery: Why Your Customers Hate You--and How to Fix It ” by John R Brandt, who has some real insight on this problem. Start today in modeling the activities of recognized leaders in this area, including Whole Foods, Toms Shoes, Warby Parker, and Patagonia.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

They divided companies’ responses—their “driving” strategies—into four categories: Prevention. Companies in this category add features when customers desire greater value. Yet as the Bain study concludes, companies that struggled post-recession had often “switched to survival mode, making deep cuts and reacting defensively.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. How will regulators react? A finalist in Social and Culture , which will pitch at 11 am Saturday, March 9, New Age Meats makes meat from animal cells instead of animal slaughter. How will the public respond?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I have been examining mission statements for the past two decades and have concluded that they tend to fall into one of five categories based on both the senior management’s goals and the employees’ reaction. Category #2 includes organizations that embody the ethos: “We finally have a mission statement—now get back to work.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2015

The challenge is knowing what to look for, and how to react. For example, quarterly sales on one of your most important products suddenly decreases, or your inventory across a whole category has surged. Recognizing and interpreting weak signals into timely decision making is critical to your business, and it takes skill and focus.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2019

You can easily include a new product category for a period to test and see if it proves to be profitable. Reacting to customer demand is one of the most significant factors that need to be paid attention to when carrying out any type of business. It’s great for testing out new product ideas in a short period of time.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2019

So, put all this stuff in the noise category. This is really difficult, especially given our natural human tendency to try to anticipate and react to things in order to win (or believe we are winning.). The core of my frame of reference is that I’m playing a very long game.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you sit on your email all day you’re reacting to somebody else’s input rather than proactively getting your work done. I wish I were good in the email category. The 4 Hour Workweek sets out an extreme view of email and similar communications but it is directionally correct. Yeah, right!

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2018

Whether you’re a small business, a promising start up, or expanding into a whole new category, designing a new office is a big deal. Discuss your vision for your next office and see how they react. Making the move into a new office is a big step for any business. You won’t get very far pushing design theories down their throats.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

Although there are several business leadership styles, they typically fall into two basic categories: Leaders and bosses. Bosses tend to worry less about feelings and react hastily to staff members when mistakes are made. by Bob McIntyre, director of service operations for Insperity. Leaders listen to understand.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

When you visit multiple salons as a client, you can use your observation abilities to see how personnel behave and how other clients react to customer service. Salons are divided into three categories based on their size: A beauty parlor is a smaller practice with restricted services, staff, and space needs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

I felt a rush of relief, because the facilitator had acknowledged how I sometimes react to networking. They feel like they have most of you figured out, so they start putting you in their pre-conceived categories. But, as almost every hand went up around the room, I also got curious. So what can you say instead?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

It was such a great way to see what competitors were doing or where I was beating them on paid or organic or brand or category terms. We can guess our brand terms and product keywords, but the wonderful harvest of category-type, and beyond, keywords is gone. What is happening in my product/industry category when it comes to search?

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Im amazed, though, how often companies get it wrong and then are slow to react and change. We tried to buy some software recently that the vendor wanted to price on the basis of third party uses, a category of activity uncontrolled by us. Im amazed, though, how often companies get it wrong and then are slow to react and change.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

I was on a panel this weekend and reacted to the statement that “CRM had failed” by pointing out that CRM has been, as a category, extremely successful but that it is solving a different set of problems than companies are trying to solve with next generation social technologies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

How to react to halved reach on Facebook (for Brand pages) | We Are Social - [link]. Typographic Style: Identifying Type Categories | DesignModo – [link]. Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall | TechCrunch - [link]. Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong | The Atlantic - [link].

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

You’ll also be able to add dynamic variations and code blocks that support Objective-C, Swift, Java, HTML5, Xamarin, and React Native. Works with React. Apptimize offers you a full control visual editor where you’ll be able to rapidly create new variants and target them at different user segments. Powerful targeting features.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2016

Every entrepreneur should consciously follow these five key actions and implementation tips, to compete and survive, as well as to get the personal satisfaction they expect from the lifestyle: Act on the important, don’t react to the urgent. Fuel your fire, don’t burn out.

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ConversionXL

JULY 28, 2021

The big changes are designed to help you “get ready for what’s next”, as opposed to solely reacting to what’s already happened. Events in GA4 are grouped into four categories: Automatically collected events. Here’s how: 1. A model based on users and events. This means sessions and pageviews are now events.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Once every few years, the combination of a couple of macro trends allows for a new software category to emerge. At Lightspeed, we believe such a confluence of macro factors is coming together to create the next big software category: Customer Success Management.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

These themes can be used as blog categories to organize your content for your audience. For example, debunking the myths of React Native or Firebase as the cheapest/most expensive solutions. The topics and content formats you’ll create for them.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Since the new VP of Sales was brought on board to “fix” sales, the marketing department has to react and interact with someone who believes that whatever was created earlier in the company was wrong. Now the VP of Marketing starts sweating.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 12, 2018

However, if your goal is make print on demand your main business gig, you have to be able to spot the latest trends and react to them quickly. For instance, Amazon’s best sellers are conveniently separated by category, allowing you to find the most demanded items in your industry at the time. Source: Pixabay. How do you do that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2015

Every entrepreneur should consciously follow these five key choices and implementation tips, to compete and survive, as well as to get the personal satisfaction they expect from the lifestyle: Act on the important, don’t react to the urgent. Fuel your fire, don’t burn out.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

That was exactly how the partnership reacted when I brought in Airbnb. The majority of my investments fall into the “humanity mission” category. This is going to be a drag on the portfolio, this is going to be a waste of time.”. A central reason why I joined Greylock was David Sze, who was my most helpful board member at LinkedIn.

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