ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

How you decide to invest in marketing channels can make or break your business. Okay, so it’s important to capitalize on effective channels that are conducive to growth at scale. An Overview of Common Digital Marketing Channels. That sounds like an obvious statement, but not a lot of people think about it critically.

Channel 118

Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

The founders of Benkheim&Co , an online brand which seeks to change the traditional luxury watch concept, explains how motivated entrepreneurs benefit from globalisation, efficient fulfilment services and new technologies. One concept was to cut down on inventory warehouses and send the products directly to the customers.

Cofounder 113

Cofounder Technical Review Technology Netherlands 113

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Using Video at Every Stage of The Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Ben is a co-founder and executive producer of Storyboard Media, a B2B marketing, and video production firm in North Carolina. How do you marry video or types of video to the different stages of the customer journey?

North Carolina 98

North Carolina Video Customer Technical Review 98

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I pointed out that the “data” you gather in 10 weeks (talking to 100+ customers, partners, payers, etc.,) Now that you’ve gotten to know your potential channel and customers, regardless of how much money you’re going to make, will you enjoy working with these customers for the next 3 or 4 years? ——– 1.

Cofounder 328

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Liquidity Event Lean 328

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2020

by Nick Frandsen, co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. Just because an idea is relevant for you, you may discover it is a super niche market and therefore will either require a dedicated marketing and promotion channel very specific to that audience or may not live up to the ‘unicorn’ expectations you were dreaming of.

Product 264

Product Cofounder Audience Product Development 264

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Aaron is the CEO and Co-founder of Leadferno, a business and text messaging platform to close more leads faster. Questions I ask Aaron Weiche: [2:00] How do you advise business owners who may quite frankly be fatigued from all of the available customer communication channels to manage all of them today? [3:35]

SMS 101

SMS Marketing Cofounder Software Review 101

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US. 10x the experience.

Technical Review 380

Technical Review Software Review Cofounder CTO Hire 380

Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

But I remind them that customers don’t ask for your transcript. It does mean that success in building a company that scales depends on finding product/market fit, enough customers, enough financing, enough great employees, distribution channels, etc. Lessons Learned. Entrepreneurship is a calling, not a job.

Technical Review 335

Technical Review Entrepreneur Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 335

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

They pivoted quickly and found new ways to stay top of mind for their customers, even without foot traffic. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. to keep the experience seamless Create on-site signage that clearly directs customers where to go for curbside pickup. The rise of new fulfillment methods. We did them. Image source ).

eCommerce 155

eCommerce Cofounder Community Channel 155

Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2018

Let’s start with the basics: You need your first 100 customers—like, now. Sales—the one word that most employees fear, but the only word that co-founders think about. And so, we decided to create our own custom goal-setting platform. It happens—even co-founders have this issue. Recording videos.

Customer 108

Customer Software Review Social Media Technical Review 108

ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

Customer journey mapping is a widely used and impactful technique that can help you make better product, marketing, UX, and merchandising decisions. However, like other UX research techniques (including user personas ), there’s some vagueness and obscurity around how to actually create customer journey maps.

Customer 130

Customer Channel Design Retention 130

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

by Lamar Tyler, founder of Traffic Sales & Profit. Even if you’re not in a retail niche the opportunity for you to get your product or service in front of potential leads that turn into new customers is heightened at the end of the year. This can be a series of videos helping to solve a problem that your potential customers have.

Cofounder 165

Cofounder Marketing Audience Technical Review 165

Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Nonprofit – An organization whose mission primarily isn’t to make profits for the owners but to channel revenue it generates to fund a social mission or cause. Develop a founders agreement. A founders’ agreement is a legal contract defining and governing the relationship between cofounders.

Small Business 167

Small Business Intellectual Property Cofounder Software Review 167

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2019

by Peter Johnston , founder and CEO of Kalo. The company this past fall opened IdentityMind Global , a store where customers can purchase compliance technology and integrate it into their existing workflows. Communication Channels: Open communication channels give freelancers and full-time employees a chance to connect consistently.

Technical Review 228

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Due Diligence 228

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no no surprise?—?that’s

Founder 424

Founder Product Cofounder Acquisition 424

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Provide specifics on the customer business model.

Business Plan 423

Business Plan Product Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch 423

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. He co-founded it in partnership with High Alpha (we are LPs) and SVB. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Fred Wilson was his lead investor.

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Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 195

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Getting more customers. The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Building a great product.

Operations 176

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth hacking is a practice that aims to acquire as many customers as possible while spending as little money as possible. GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. The skills and mindsets of world-class growth hackers.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

Therefore we needed them to think and learn about two parts of a startup; 1) ideation - how to create new ideas and 2) customer development – how do they test the validity of their idea (is it the right product, customer, channel, pricing, etc.). Customer Discovery in the Real World. That’s when everything changed.

Lean 334

Lean Customer Development Startup Silicon Valley 334

Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. government commercializes science. . If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

Channel 120

Channel India Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Ask former co-workers. New Web Order. 5th November 2010. #. are full of smart tech people).

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur 60

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2017

by Keval Padia , co-founder and CEO at Nimblechapps. Instead of reading what the brands have to say about their products and services, customer reviews and user opinions can nail the thing in the right manner. Reply to each customer queries and reviews in a polite and thankful way. User generated content.

Small Business 212

Small Business Marketing Technical Review Social Media 212

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Danish-based startup Inpay was formed after founder Jacob Tackmann Thomsen realized money donated to help orphaned children in Myanmar after 2008’s Cyclone Nargis would lose 5% to fees and take days to arrive. Below are four examples of organizations doing just this, including household names and some more up-and-coming startups.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Securities and Exchange Commission Myanmar Startup 158

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

Husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Laure Fisher founded CallTrackingMetrics in 2011 in their basement and together have grown it into an Inc. Key Takeaway: Today, it seems as though there’s a never-ending list of channels and ways in which your customers can communicate with you and your business.

Metrics 83

Metrics Marketing Software Review Cofounder 83

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2023

If you or your team sees you as an idea person, your first task as an entrepreneur should be to find a co-founder who can deliver. Finding a co-founder is rarely a bad thing, since two heads are always better than one in meeting all the startup challenges. Customer acquisition, retention, and support.

Cofounder 389

Cofounder Startup Term Sheet Acquisition 389

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

As you’d suspect, I was similarly ignorant of such things while watching the sale of ITWatchDogs (where I was a co-founder), and still harbored misconceptions as I went into the sale of Smart Bear. To stoke an existing sales channel. Channels are often measured in the billions of dollars. Actually, no.

Sales 260

Sales Channel Cofounder Valuation 260

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

So will failing to understand your customers. Successful founders have a laser-like focus and commitment; a keen understanding of customers’ needs; and a tenacious spirit, said the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Reetu Gupta. Mandela Schumacher-Hodge. It got bad.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder India Entrepreneur Maryland 120

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

This difficulty is something that Jatin Mehta, one of the co-founders of SpeedyBrand, is aware of. ” The SpeedyBrand platform employs generative artificial intelligence to produce custom content that is SEO-optimized for businesses. A: SpeedyBrand was established by Jatin Mehta, Ranti Dev Sharma, and Ayush Jasuja.

Generative AI 127

Generative AI SEO Artificial Inteligence Forecast 127

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

How to recognize when it’s time to pull the plug on your startup idea, and why founders can’t operate afford to operate in a vacuum were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Dan Miller , co-founder of Level Therapy , provider of mobile therapy sessions. Dan Miller. Brian Zuercher.

Columbus 247

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 247

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2022

Xenia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planable, a content review and marketing collaboration platform used by over 5,000 teams behind brands such as Hyundai, Christian Louboutin, Viber, and United Nations. Key Takeaway: Social media is a marketing channel today that can’t be ignored. Marketing Podcast with Xenia Muntean.

Cofounder 81

Cofounder Social Media Software Review Technical Review 81

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This network isn’t mutually exclusive with building an audience of customers. SparkToro is an audience research platform that helps marketers find their prospective customers’ main sources of influence. Take SparkToro’s Co-founder, Rand Fishkin. This is the basis of an effective differentiation strategy. This isn’t true.

Reputation 134

Reputation Audience Management Social Media 134

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. Customers have shown again and again that they really love free stuff. You know what customers like more than free stuff?

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2020

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Sydni Craig-Hart CEO and Co-Founder of Smart Simple Marketing, an award-winning content marketing consultancy. Connect with Sydini on social media, on all channels Sydni Craig-Hart. Their business customers say it’s like adding another staff member.

Cofounder 98

Cofounder Technical Review Social Media Channel 98

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 230