Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. I presented them to our chief product officer and our CTO. ” Let’s define an MVP, a minimum viable product.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Paul Greenberg recently wrote about the phenomena of companies declaring themselves to be focused on customer experience, and graciously giving them the opportunity to put up or shut up. He is right, and to his credit Paul saw the importance of customer experience and wrote about this in 2001.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Telesales simply don't work without reference customers. Rangrut.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2015

Does this mean that you should avoid online marketing and social media channels? In fact, entire businesses are marketed solely using using social channels, and a huge industry of consultants and agencies specializing in these tactics has developed over the last five years. An old school channel selector: Wikimedia Commons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

According to Edison Research , 80% of users listen to most of each episode, averaging 7 per week, while 69% of listeners agree that podcast ads make them aware of new products or services. Podcasting as a marketing channel. But podcasting does have a lower cost and barrier to entry than video (at least quality video production).

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members. Erica Nicole , YFS Magazine: Young, Fabulous & Self Employed. Experience with Startups!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: 10. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

But you want relevant traffic and an actual purpose for driving those leads — letting them sit around on a list, rarely if ever hearing from you as you build product, is not an effective demand-gen tactic. a product launch, hiring a key executive, a rebrand, an expansion of market focus, etc.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Start building your customer community early.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to determine what is the product of genuine entrepreneurial wisdom and what is pure bunk. It requires time, hard work, and consistency to build trust with prospective customers, rank higher in Google searches, and gain a following for your brand. It’s easy to build a brand online.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Demand generation combines marketing tactics, strategies and programs to create awareness and drive interest in your products or services. Marketers raise brand awareness to capture leads that are handed to sales teams to convert into customers. What is a demand generation manager and why do they matter?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

95% of B2B buyers are not ready to buy your product right now. They’re having conversations with colleagues, researching on social media, and listening to podcasts about the product or industry and learning where your brand fits in. It’s an acknowledgment of the changing customer experience. Social media platforms (e.g.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

And actually that statement of the purpose of a business — to create, keep a customer — is probably the genesis of Duct Tape Marketing, believe it or not. When he was talking about the purpose of a business, creating a customer, that idea has become so morphed these days into persuasion, right?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 21, 2010

At First Round , I often hear the term “product-market” fit. Interestingly enough, I thought more people started taking part in the conversation who weren’t on Hot Potato because they now knew their thoughts were being syndicated to an app where more people were talking about the event.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles. Now practically everyone is getting involved in Series A.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Otherwise, the hours you spend posting about your product, service or even general advice will yield little to no fruit. – Alexandra Levit , Inspiration at Work. Stop spending money on aggregation services that, at best, syndicate your content without driving any real eyeballs. – Firas Kittaneh , Amerisleep. Expensive Agencies.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The new player automatically adapts to device platform standards, including HTML5, and provides functionality for sharing eCommerce video via social media and email channels. Consumers who find a product video helpful can easily share it with their friends and followers by clicking a sharing icon.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2014

Here’s a few ideas: Use your show to teach customers (or potential customers) how to use your products. Your show could simply be a method of broadcasting company events, messages and updates to your employees, strategic partners, vendors, and customers. See the NutritionFacts.org video podcast for an example.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

While it doesn’t publish prices publicly, an interview with the Demandbase CEO in 2017 claimed that the average revenue per customer per month was $20,000. The high price tag self-selects Demandbase customers. It’s not just a giant CRM that matches customers with a subset of relevant accounts. Image source ). Image source ).

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The only reason I know loads of new people and brands is because of my subscription to their channels on YouTube. Some brands have channels with content that is rarely updated or it is just a digital repository of their TV commercials. Owned Brand Channel. Build your very first amazing owned brand channel. Not even close.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Furthermore, angel groups frequently syndicate (co-invest) with neighboring angel organizations in an effort to help fill round of investment for local companies and assist members in diversifying their portfolios with investments in nearby regions. Product/Technology 0-15%.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. We do a lot of soul searching around how do we built this product, when nobody knows it exist. They’ve come light years from there, that’s for sure.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Unusual or Commoditized Products. These products compete on individuality and aesthetics more than price. Lifeproof , a line of waterproof and shock-resistant iPhone cases, aligned itself with Best Buy for this very reason, and it was able to penetrate the mainstream audience, whereas before it was simply a niche product.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Home to over 80 private- and public-sector tenant customers who directly employ about 12,000 people on the campus, activity from Port SA contributes over $5 billion annually to the regional economy. Twenty four are in Dallas and 22 are in Houston. said Robert F.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

One state — one Accelerator When Capital Factory opened our space in Austin in 2012, we were able to create a true center of gravity and then use that to connect together entrepreneurs, investors, customers, talent and press in meaningful ways. Startups in Dallas will open a customer service office in San Antonio.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

What’s the first thing you want a customer to think in regard to your business? After all, what good is word-of-mouth if your customer tells a friend, “You really should look up my caterer for your next event. Adding this qualifier instantly tells potential customers what your business is all about. Set the tone. 2 followers.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. If your startup is in that boat, it’s really not a matter of figuring out how to pitch your company — instead, you may want to consider improving your product before hitting the pavement. Customize Your Pitches.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

LevelUp uses payment as a checkin, presenting merchants the opportunity to reward loyal customers. Birchbox didn’t discover the subscription product model when it launched in 2010, but it did make subscription service sexy. dog products ? Subscribe to the Business channel. Productivity Lists. 4 followers.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

For them, “working from home is the most efficient situation for us to build our product — we can be machines over here,&# says Golkin, explaining that the two simply “work, eat, sleep and gym, all with a constant Spotify soundtrack.&# instead of having to travel home. Let us know in the comments below. All Rights Reserved.

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