ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Using a tool like SparkToro , you can uncover the channels and influencers that your audience is most engaged with. Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. This sets the intention for your early-stage priorities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

We’re looking forward to channeling the energy and excitement attendees bring with them, and to providing opportunities to learn about not just things that have been successful, but missteps and major obstacles that have been overcome--all part of the Lean Startup process. For the whole program, please take a look here.

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Lean Las Vegas Cofounder Startup 103

ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

Now users interact with digital products in much more complex and different ways than a decade ago…the more complex your stack is, the more customer data you are spreading across many different tools, and the more time you (or your engineering team) will need to reassemble the puzzle and get a full reasonable picture. Integrations.

Technical Review 86

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Technical Cofounder 86

David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

a pitch event featuring ten early stage tech startups, Tuesday night , September 4 at Microsoft’s midtown office at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. Pricing Engine Inc. Pricing Engine provides a simple, unified place for SMBs to manage their digital advertising. I’ll be a judge for IGNITE!, Presenting Companies.

Curation 114

Curation Japan Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. so it shouldn't be long till they hop across the Channel. OSEO validation in turn makes early-stage startups eligible for a variety of support services and funding options.

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do. Yelp, ChowHound, and even Zagat come to mind as other channels worth exploring.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? EP: Getting to live in the mindset that everything is “figure-outable” has by far been my favorite part of being an early-stage founder. IH: Day-to-day life in this early stage can be incredibly stressful- filled with fires to put out and uncharted waters.

Early Stage 156

Early Stage San Francisco Michigan Portfolio 156

Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

The first time a few brave corporate innovators tried to overlay the Lean tools and techniques that work in early-stage startups in an existing corporation, the result was chaos, confusion, frustration and ultimately, failure. Lean is The Engine for the Ambidextrous Organization. Fast forward to today.

Lean 120

Lean Management Business Model Incubator 120

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 12, 2011

By this, I really just mean what I look for in entrepreneurs and companies at early stages. Social media / word-of-mouth will dwarf every other channel of acquisition. But I wanted to organize my thoughts on this primarily for my own purposes. It’s helpful to force yourself to write down your principles.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Vertical Social Media Acquisition 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. We were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach engineering students a completely new approach to start companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To do a solid holiday season he will need to balance the inventory and marketing budgets, and getting stuck in a complex situation with inventory being stuffed in the retail channels with bad terms will be a kiss of death. I will connect the company to a few larger companies that may be good OEM channels for them. JCLABoutique.com.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Larger, more established enterprises can take on the cost of testing a large number of marketing channels. It’s essential to identify your “traction” lead-sources as early as possible and then leverage them fully. Your follow-up sequence represents the series of stages through which a lead becomes more engaged with your brand.

Customer 91

Customer Lead Generation Early Stage Social Media 91

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. The most frequently used channel to research people is unsurprisingly Linkedin , followed by Twitter.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Net-net: Customers expect seamless experiences across all channels and devices. While apps excel at cultivating customer loyalty, the web remains the main engine driving mobile traffic and revenue, with the mobile web contributing 95% of traffic growth to retail sites, versus just 5% by apps. And over ⅔ of emails are opened on mobile.

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Mobile Software Review eCommerce .Net 100

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2022

For starters, you’ll be able to expand your visibility and ensure your status as a thought leader is seen across many different channels. Your company will make mistakes, especially in your early stages of growth. The practice of guest posting and link building has several benefits. Acknowledge mistakes and apologize.

Affiliate 138

Affiliate Startup Reputation Leadership 138

Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. — An experienced team made all the difference to 2U finding success, Jeremy said: We had a phenomenal early group of people that were brought together to try to address the problem.

Cofounder 142

Cofounder Entrepreneur Africa Sales Cycle 142

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues.

India 126

India Technical Review Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 126

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Before you start talking to large VCs, find some early stage investors. Stefan Tirtey, Partner at Doughty Hanson Ventures , created this document with Berlin early stage investors. When I started hiring my first engineers, designers and marketers, I was mainly focused on passion, energy and most importantly potential.

Management 120

Management Cofounder Startup Bootstrapping 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. — An experienced team made all the difference to 2U finding success, Jeremy said: We had a phenomenal early group of people that were brought together to try to address the problem.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Africa Sales Cycle 120

Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

If you’re still in the early stages of your entrepreneur-education/journey, you may even think you need to protect your idea and not share it with anyone. Being in a competitive space isn’t a bad thing — Google was like the 8th search engine to enter the scene and they turned out ok. But you need to address the landscape.

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Seed Stage CTO Hire Email Later Stage 48

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business. Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation. In fact, it could be worth much more.

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Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

Channel 115

Channel India Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 115

Steve Blank

JULY 20, 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. That’s what scientists and engineers needed to embrace. Steve Weinstein , CEO of MovieLabs. Errol : And we did.

Government 120

Government Channel Southern California Lean 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Today, the first half of the Stanford Engineering Lean LaunchPad Class gave their final presentations. The goal is for them is to observe this class, then host and teach the next round of 50 NSF Innovation Corps scientist/engineer teams in July. Here are the first five. It Feels Like 20 Years Ago Today. And do it in 8 weeks.

Lean 256

Lean Business Model Agile United States 256

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel. If you are measuring these two correctly, you can make simple rules/decisions based on your results: If the CAC is over twice the LTV don’t even bother—this channel is likely not going to work. The cornerstone of any business is that LTV > CAC.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

I got to spend time inside his company while I was using their software to analyze early-stage ventures. Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. A Pivot a Week.

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Founder Cofounder Advisory Board Burn Rate 316

View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

So in college, I studied aerospace engineering, joined Air Force ROTC, and eventually was accepted by the Air Force to go to flight school upon graduation. I switched career fields at the last minute and ended up serving as an Air Force engineer where I worked on a few drone programs. My goal was to become an astronaut. And your least?

DC 156

DC Cambodia eCommerce Social Media 156

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2019

While still in its early stages, machine learning has already had a significant impact on different aspects of everyday life. The evolution of semantic-based search results in search engines. by Ronald Dod, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-founder of Visiture.

Artificial Inteligence 127

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Semantic Cofounder 127

View from Seed

APRIL 16, 2015

An easy way to think about it is that value over time doesn’t go up and to the right in a straight line like this: Instead, it’s more of a stair step like this: So, what are the value inflection points that create the stair steps, and how does one think about it at the earliest stages? These might include: Bring on a technical co-founder.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Cofounder Early Stage Startup 120

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Last week, we looked at some of the statistics gleaned from ChubbyBrain 's new Funding Recommendation Engine. To recap, the recommendation engine helps entrepreneurs find the rest investor match, based on the latter's previous patterns. Early Stage Startups. So how do ReadWriteWeb entrepreneurs stack up?

Silicon Valley 115

Silicon Valley Aggregator Early Stage New York 115

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Part 6: Distribution channels in Life Sciences. Vitruvian is a good example of a great early stage therapeutics idea with animal data missing and many key components of the business model still needed to verify. Principal Investigators, scientists and engineers can’t figure out commercialization sitting in their labs.

Lean 237

Lean Customer Development Video Early Stage 237

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? This is an incredible skill, one that most engineers overlook. But all things are never equal. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2019

That is the basic function of a board meeting and this is often 2–4 hours depending on how early-stage or late-stage the company is. At times I’ve enjoyed themes where, for example, one board dinner might invite just 6 members of engineering and another might bring sales. Managing a board is a bit like flying?

Networking 262

Networking Conversion Naming Hosting 262

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Your job is to help them move through those stages sequentially. Likely, they’d turn to a search engine or they’d ask a friend. At these early stages, they know they have a problem, but they haven’t yet concluded how they’re going to solve it. Make Lead Conversion Your X Factor.

Marketing 65

Marketing Social Media Conversion Early Stage 65

Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

What it was like to get out of the research lab to build a startup was the focus of interviews with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). She is an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Cooper Union.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Michigan Detroit 120

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. With certain complex products, this will need an on-site installation by a sales engineer, which sends costs through the roof. that will cost the company significant amounts of money.

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Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

You know, the small business and the local businesses that most of us work with that were writing the book find that if, you know, one of your main channels of driving new prospects and customers is really through search engines like Google, being the biggest one. But hey, we wanted to attract the search engine.

Search 48

Search Technical Review Chicago Engineer 48