Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the computer retail channel was a large part of our sales. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In consumer packaged goods, the benchmark for a “highly successful” product launch is no easy feat: $50 million in first-year sales. Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Image source ).

Product 110

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Time will tell.

Partner 240

Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

You might have started searching for a tech-oriented co-founder to help you launch your idea, only to find that your startup can’t afford the ongoing salary for a skilled software developer. What drives sales for online services and mobile apps? He is also a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai They said sales and marketing.

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Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 53

ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Clavier began his presentation at the beginning of a company's lifecycle, asking how many co-founders a startup ought to have. He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. Are all co-founders equal, Clavier asked?

Investment Bankers 153

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. Test your channel and support strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. Or will you need to staff and finance a whaling ship to be out at sea for months at a time to catch two or three whales (enterprise sales model)?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Brett is cofounder of Kumospace, the virtual HQ for remote teams, and Charge Ventures, a pre/seed VC based in Brooklyn, NY. I guess how do you talk about the benefits for that, uh, distributed team or if that work from home, uh, team, I mean, what's the benefit of adding this? So, you know, we have a fully remote and distributed team.

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Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Adrien Briod , the co-founder, envisioned how a collision-tolerant drone would assist in managing such dangerous situations. The product of course shares some similarities, yet the customers are completely distant: they don’t value the same benefits, and don’t share sales channels or word-of-mouth. They call it Elios.

Agile 54

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. Test your channel and support strategy.

Technical Review 399

Technical Review Product Advisory Board Business Model 399

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2018

by Florine Eppe Beauloye, Co-Founder and CEO of mOOnshot digital. Online shopping has long been considered by luxury brands to be a channel only appropriate for selling low to mid-range luxury goods. Luxury brands pivot their strategy to sell online as one-fifth of luxury sales will take place online by 2025.

Artificial Inteligence 147

Artificial Inteligence Cofounder .Net Merger 147

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

For much of 2013 I watched the press write articles about how the YouTube “MCNs” (multi-channel networks) were doomed and tried to square that with the data I was watching at the one I invested in, Maker Studios, who has had one hell of a year. I agree with YouTube (that they provide more (hosting, ad sales, etc.)

Networking 366

Networking Media Distribution Video 366

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. Bain offers a rubric based on your current market position and financial strength: ( Image source ). Learn from forced efficiency.

Marketing 121

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2014

by Eric Groves, CEO and co-founder of Alignable. And by working together, you can also reach more local customers by co-marketing the event. Make sure you have a plan to distribute promotions and events through all of your marketing assets. Connect with others nearby to become stronger.

Marketing 203

Marketing Social Media Cofounder Small Business 203

YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2017

by Edmund Buckley , co-founder & CEO of CampusSafe. How you make money, who pays you, your channels of distribution, and your gross margins. Slide 6: Marketing & Sales. Before joining the CampusSafe™ team, he was the Co-Founder & CEO of 360 Mortgage Group, Co-Founder of TrieverMedia.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2018

How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Sales Conversations written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use LinkedIn to generate sales conversations. Everyone seems to be on it, but no one seems to know quite how to use it to generate sales conversations.

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Conversion Sales Audience Social Network 75

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

They are tasked with “getting deals done” so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc.

Cofounder 164

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. I’ve thought about using a tool to increase distribution/viewership of my past blog posts by drip marketing them, but haven’t signed up yet. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

There are terrific free YouTube channels for entrepreneurs and small business owners and many online schools and sites offer free or low-cost online courses. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Udemy.

Programming 73

Programming Technical Review Small Business Illinois 73

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2015

by Mark Fabian Henkel, co-founder and CEO of Paymill. Golden times for online retailers, many of whom have already hit walls when it comes to both sales and country borders. Therefore it’s recommended to sign up at the VAT MOSS and transact sales taxes in the seller’s country. Challenges In Operation.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

In the past few weeks, we’ve had our data.world executive team and then leadership team off-site, All-Hands kick-off for the year at the Alamo Drafthouse, Board meeting, and another event I co-host every year outside of data.world. Hurt Founder and CEO Bazaarvoice, Inc. Thanks, Brett A. And that is the big point here.

Conversion 48

Conversion Email Cofounder Hosting 48

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

by Jason Humphries, co-founder of Good Pharma Dermatology. Not only is this more productive, it is also easier to integrate all functions of the business from branding to channel distribution and export marketing, which helps strengthen company operations. Jason Humphries is seasoned multinational healthcare executive.

Singapore 100

Singapore Global Marketing Cofounder 100

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in. More on that in a moment. They are closing orders.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Successful founders believe anything is possible but they build strong founding teams to achieve their startup dreams. Naivete and a shared vision are among the key markers for success, two social entrepreneurs said on the latest episode of Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111. Liz Powers.

Africa 120

Africa Cofounder Entrepreneur San Francisco 120

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

There are terrific free YouTube channels for entrepreneurs and small business owners and many online schools and sites offer free or low-cost online courses. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Udemy.

Programming 48

Programming Technical Review Small Business Illinois 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Simply sign up using your Google account, create a channel , and upload your video files. Suggested videos encourage people to increase their watch time not just on your channel but on the platform as a whole. But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Although customers didnt flock to this offering at first, we had enough of a developer program active to start recruiting early adopters to start creating 3D objects for sale in our catalog.

Product Development 88

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 88

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2015

by Fayez Mohamood, cofounder and CEO of Bluecore. An overload of spam complaints can cause problems with your email marketing firm and impact your brand on social channels if you develop a “spammer” reputation. Higher rates of unsubscription can prove disastrous for companies. Consider an email list of 500,000 individuals.

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Email Marketing Cofounder Mobile 100

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Joe Lonsdale (co-founder of Palantir, Addepar and Formation8) kicked off a meaningful conversation with us on building multi-billion dollar businesses in big data at one of our recent Lightspeed Dinner Series events this week. Lightspeed Dinner Series on Big Data with Joe Lonsdale from Formation 8.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. I'm the founder and executive director of SF New Deal. Prior to COVID, I was and still am the founder and owner of Three Babes Bakeshop, a small bakery business here in San Francisco. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 18, 2016

Over the course of the last couple years co-founder Jack Dorsey was reinstated as CEO due to decline, the constant buzz about doing away with 140 has caused uproar on both sides, and every week a headline concerning stolen information is splashed across every news site. Twitter is evolving to become a more mainstream channel.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Social Network Channel Social Media 48

Brandanew

JUNE 15, 2015

Storytelling as a Content Marketing technique that was introduced in 2012 by the co-founder of Contently, Shane Snow. Storytelling is the art of convincing your target audience to buy your products and services without actually giving them a sales pitch. Growth hacking. Owned media.

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Viral Marketing Social Media SEO 100

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2016

You have to invest time and money into building a sales and marketing team to acquire customers beyond early adopters. To begin with, let’s illustrate the sales process with a simple graphic of the funnel that comes from an excellent post on Stratechery about marketing channels. sales or support). Use the right tools.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Back in 1986 when Barefoot was founded, my cofounder Bonnie Harvey and I pioneered what we call “worthy cause marketing” (WCM). And in return, the NPOs received donated product and manpower at events, as well as publicity via Barefoot’s distribution channels. Think creatively about marketing. Use performance-based compensation.

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