Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Others will work hard on a business plan, and then mail it indiscriminately to every potential investor they can find on the Internet. If you are not in that rare category of known and proven entrepreneurs, you should avoid the following list of my top ten turnoffs that I have personally experienced as an angel investor.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

There are numerous publications, reports and newsletters filled with content on gaming, so it would be hard to do the category justice by reducing it to five links, in this post I tried to break down the category trends as we all deal with information overload. Mobile gaming is by far the most dominant category. There are 3.07

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In this post I set out to explain why the seed market emerged as its own category in the first place and why it’s declined as of late. ( And with so many new funds in the market and looking to put capital to work it’s no surprise that there was an even bigger boom in the numbers of deals being funded in the early-stage markets.

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Board Effect

JUNE 21, 2023

As your board works together toward the goal of improving its effectiveness, it’s important to maximize the time that each board member has as a part of your board. When you develop your orientation process , be sure to include the topic of working as a team. Board member terms generally have term limits.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2021

How do you know which ones will work best for you? When it comes to email digital marketing tools, spam emails for brands and products that you are currently not interested in is one category that business emails fall into. The second category that business emails fall into is actually getting stuff you enjoy.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. These historically have included work-at-home, restaurants, telemarketing and social-service providers. Your startup is in a high-failure-rate business sector.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Which category are you in? Instead of responding with anger, you may learn by investigation that one of your processes isn’t working as desired. Some are able to overcome every challenge, and come out ahead, while others are discouraged and lose ground with each one, ultimately leading to their business demise.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2019

Don’t just be reactive — work out which ones they haven’t won, and prioritise these. Select your category. Once you have made a shortlist of awards you would like to apply for (these take a lot of time to do well, so 3-4 should be ample), it’s time to check the website for which categories are available.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

In general, we like to divide the metaverse into two broad categories: Closed metaverse: these are the walled, centralized, gardens such as Roblox, Fortnite, or MetaQuest. We look at both metaverse categories and believe that both will have a place in our digital world. An interesting case is Minecraft.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Given the current public struggle of tech-enabled services, marketplaces, hardware and DTC companies, enterprise SaaS also feels like VC’s most favourite investment category right now. We often see one category filled with dozens of start-ups competing with a similar product for the same customers. Vertical SaaS.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 2, 2023

A simple way to do this is to divide the scenarios into three categories; worst-case, likely-case, and best-case, and use your intuition and the facts to make a plan for all consequences. Prioritize Business Contingency Planning In case of a mishap, a contingency plan should work as the armor for your company.

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Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2021

For seven years Ferriz was Head of Communication at Makken (one of the top communication agencies in Latin America), where she had the opportunity to work on positioning strategies for Zara, Sephora, Disney, Fox, Formula 1, Nestle, Coca-Cola, Shake Shack, Modelo Group, Hublot, Old Navy, Levis, Danone, and Diageo Group, among others.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This event focused on relationship building and a lot of work was put into building curated groups to have fruitful round table discussions. You can’t beat category kings, and the only exception for this is through tech disruption. They don’t usually fit within the consideration set where only category kings go.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

London) and category (e.g. Otherwise, you risk having few suppliers scattered across many cities and categories. If there’s one point to take away here it’s to prove the concept in one location and/or category. Get traction and then expand by one location or category at a time. This makes for a poor user experience.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The third reason is to fund your short term operational expenses or working capital. Debt investments are primarily in the form of long term loans (personal or commercial) and short term loans in form of invoice debts and working capital loans. ? Royalty based investment. But, in reality, things don’t quite work that way.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Putting together a list of the top x items in your product or service category is an effective way to generate traffic and rank your offerings on bridge pages. Bridge pages that offer free things such as lead magnets, how-to articles, e-books, checklists, or samples are great ideas.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Next, consider what category of influencer you want to contract. If you’re an e-commerce that sells home decor items, you may want to look into influencers who fall into categories like lifestyle , fashion , mommy , or DIY. If you’re working with nano or micro influencers, you can probably close a deal for product alone.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

It would be odd to keep paying for a service after the work is done—like paying a subscription for shade instead of buying the tree. Which one should you work on? Action: If it’s not live, it’s not working. “No At Qualtrics, our mission is to create the Experience Management (XM) software category.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In addition, this body armor is of a hidden type, so you can go to work in it without revealing your protection to others. Hard armor This category of body armor safety equipment includes vests with armored plates 25-30 cm, 6-25 mm thick, covering the chest and back. Customers can choose the category, color, and many other parameters.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 9, 2017

You can change them over time but not without some work. A SWOT analysis is typically conducted using a four-square SWOT analysis template, but you could also just make lists for each category. I recommend holding a brainstorming session to identify the factors in each of the four categories. You can’t change them.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

This investment will accelerate our work to build the metaverse and create spaces where players can have fun with friends, brands can build creative and immersive experiences and creators can build a community and thrive.” In the gaming category Microsoft is a power house. Another interesting project is ‘realisty.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Companies need to work out a strong, reliable backup strategy based on the right technology, which guarantees ease of use and a unified interface. . In a way, it’s kind of like having your private cloud at work, only better. Selecting the Most Appropriate Method of Data Storage . Establishing Clear Guidelines for Safe Data Storage .

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Because the friendly fraudster appears to be like any other customer until they commit friendly fraud, security defenses that work against true fraud won’t be as effective against friendly fraud. Friendly Fraud Chargeback Categories. To combat friendly fraud, you must examine each case separately on its own merits.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Rather than matching exact terms and requiring specific field values as inputs, it interprets and understands user queries, pinpointing the desired types or categories. Even if certain categories aren't predefined in the database, users still receive relevant product suggestions. With the priorities determined (i.e.,

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

An overly simplified example would be Workday, which disrupted an existing category of HR software built on the cloud, replacing existing HCM spend at enterprises and stealing share from SuccessFactors and others. These are the enabling software and platforms that will make this whole category really work in the coming decades.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2022

You can ensure all modules within each category are interchangeable with one another. It can happen by tracking data on things like: Time spent working. By automating some of these tasks, you free up time to work on actual growth and scaling your business, which is where it matters most. It is a win-win situation! Conclusion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In this unique value proposition, you double the category of consumers that you target with your sales. All you would have to do, would be willingly work with the competition. This first stage of driving co-selling partnerships focuses on you and your new partner devising ways which you are going to work together.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 6, 2021

As far as I can tell, we have two clear options: Become a global brand or authority in your category Keep showing up every week and build a niche, yet valuable audience through compound effort. I fit into the latter category – and it works. It’s worked for more than 15 years and the returns keep on getting greater.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 17, 2019

It’s a smart idea to fill that out, and work some crucial keywords in there for ranking purposes. You also need to select a category for your business. Some business owners are casual about this step, but it’s important to be precise in the category you pick. You also need to select a category for your business.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 24, 2023

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a model that works for most organizations. NIST gives organizations specific ways to break down core functions into categories. Be sure to include your board’s work and communications as part of the scope of end-to-end security.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

My challenge has always been how to get people from the second category into the first. I always thought that I must be lucky to have found so much excitement and satisfaction from my work, so I never had any really good answers to those of you who second category who wanted to move to the first.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Getting it Right Apple’s entry into new markets by creating new product categories – iPods, iPads, iPhones – is unprecedented in the history of the modern corporation – $300 billion (75% of their revenue) is from non-computer hardware. All of these would have been great Vision Pro demos for training and repair.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This approach will give you more time and run rate to find what works best for you. You have to cater to many different user categories. The biggest challenge is that a user from one category can’t even realize that there are other users not like them. The key to work satisfaction in the long-term is living your core values.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2022

If you are not sure of your best fit, like many people I know, I just found help in a new book, “ The 6 Types of Working Genius ,” by Patrick Lencioni. He brings real-life insights from his organizational health work with thousands of business leaders around the globe. Assess your satisfaction and ability for this type of work.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Here we’ll take a look at what to expect when working in ‘high risk’ industries and how to make sure you apply to the most suited bank for your requirements. Card processing can be split into two categories — face to face payments and customer not present transactions. But where do you start if they decline your application?

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