Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. Regional Angel funds that pool investors capital and typically make a one time investment in a startup, sometimes at an early stage but often at a slightly later stage.

Early Stage 287

Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 287

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

2 – Start a YouTube channel. This means that when people are in the later stages of their decision making process they will turn to Youtube to see if they can find that last bit of information to solve their problem. No matter what your product category is, there is surely an influencer that has a Youtube channel.

eCommerce 194

eCommerce Video Conversion Channel 194

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. When you are raising a large, later-stage round given by this time you’ve likely got a fairly large business to run. I spent time on college campuses. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). International money.

Early Stage 361

Early Stage Deal Flow Investment Bankers Technical Review 361

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Later stage companies have some additional concerns: What favorable impact could IP have for PR, marketing and investor relations purposes, or as an attraction to potential acquirors? Nevertheless, experience has shown this to be primarily a later-stage company problem.

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. When you are raising a large, later-stage round given by this time you’ve likely got a fairly large business to run. I spent time on college campuses. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). International money.

Deal Flow 347

Deal Flow Early Stage Investment Bankers Technical Review 347

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2019

Cat food grain-free,” “cat food senior cat formula,” and “cat food for kittens” are all more likely to result in a conversion because these consumers are at a later stage in their journey and have a better idea of what they want. Hiring a specialist can be a wise move to help you coordinate your strategies between multiple channels.

Audience 164

Audience Algorithm eCommerce Cofounder 164

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2018

He was in a later-stage financing round and was talking with many investors. But if you can bottle up just a little bit of that feeling, if you can channel just an ounce of your best FOMO juice and i f you’re willing to accept taking just a few more self-confident risks in your process ?—?it it will go a long way.

Term Sheet 217

Term Sheet Later Stage Demand Email 217

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. Bullet out the key awesome things about your business.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage CTO Hire Email Later Stage 48

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This skillset is usually not required / less important until later stage of the business when you’re wrestling with more complex questions, such as “what are the predictive indicators of churn?”, “what’s the forecasted LTV of given customer cohort?”

Analytics 149

Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The templates you can access include the following: Google Ads Search Performance Overview Google Ads Campaign Performance YouTube Channel Report Google Analytics Audience Overview Ecommerce Store performance. These are the channels from which your data will filter through to your dashboard. Add your data sources.

Sales 137

Sales Metrics Customer Analytics 137

Austin Startup

JULY 29, 2018

It doesn’t make any sense to pitch a later stage, “growth” investor with your seed stage idea just like it doesn’t make much sense to pitch a new tech startup to an investor who only does oil & gas. Some like to be the first investor to commit and others prefer to be the last. Do you have any hobbies or background in common?

Angel Investor 59

Angel Investor Technical Review Los Angeles Seed Stage 59

OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

You find that you have to support channel partners as well as direct customers (or vice versa). We set some pretty tight deadlines on the later stages. • Customer involvement, early and often —The team involved customers in building our new product from the very beginning. You’ll build custom code for certain clients.

Software Review 67

Software Review Development Team Review Later Stage Technical Review 67

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

If you’re a late stage company trying to penetrate a new market (think Warby Parker trying to expand internationally), we have people who can help with that. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. We have the ability to help excellent companies throughout their life cycles.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

That being said, it’s not going to come down that much because so many VCs got funded, and the best later-stage deals have a little more consensus in the market based on their data—so you’re still going to get VC competition. So, yeah, that’s going to come down—especially because they likely got over their skis on valuation.

Stock 97

Stock Marketing Valuation Later Stage 97

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

Most new teams are geographically dispersed these days anyway, so paying rent for an office should be differed to later stages when revenue is plentiful. Use multiple social-media channels, blogging, email and voicemail to build the same image and responsiveness as larger competitors. Operate small, but show a big-company image.

Bootstrapping 120

Bootstrapping Hockey Stick Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2015

Attracting attendees for a webinar is a lot more challenging than getting visitors to your Youtube channel. If you have a session that involves a lot of Q&As, do remember to tell your audience that the event is also being recorded as a video for your Youtube channel. Have you organized webinars for your business?

Cofounder 100

Cofounder B2B Later Stage Audience 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2016

Connections to industry experts and channels are another positive to highlight. This factor is more relevant to venture capital investors who come in at a later stage and expect more traction to qualify. Investors will look to see how many employees are full-time and paid, versus week-enders or volunteers.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Startup 120

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

We’ve had a lot of success promoting job openings through newsletters to our user base as well as through our social media channels. These skills are hard to develop, many founders actually decide to hire a CEO at a later stage. I honestly had a very simple strategy, I hired Wunderlist users to build Wunderlist.

Management 120

Management Cofounder Startup Bootstrapping 120

The Startup Toolkit

DECEMBER 5, 2011

This feels good, but there’s one crucial missing ingredient: channel. So we made mom the channel. Our business model has become self-referential — our customer channel depends on one of our other user groups which we haven’t yet figured out how to reach. We have a channel for the bosses, but not for the moms.

Business Model 32

Business Model Channel Later Stage Advertising 32

Brandanew

AUGUST 4, 2015

b) Branding experts will ensure that a re-branding at a later stage is avoided. d) Maintaining coherence on all channels. In my first posts, I talked about the need of working with marketing and branding experts. Some key pointers are: a) Branding experts will create stories helping you differentiate from competitors.

Social Media 100

Social Media Marketing Later Stage Media 100

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

It’s not a channel, campaign, or tactic. ABM is a full-court press to build powerful engagement with contacts on the channels that they’re most active. If your company isn’t properly aligned, work on opening channels of communication and data sharing. Test different channels. ABM isn’t a quick and easy win.

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups. That’s awesome for users of Salesforce.com or companies that want to cater to them but less awesome for pure startups that want independence and are really just looking for cloud infrastructure. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Brandanew

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

If one had to determine the whole marketing funnel to generate any business, the steps would be as follows: Stage 1 Awareness – Making sure you’re only getting business in front of your niche of consumers that are likely to spend money with you at a later stage. You must have some content worthy of people’s attention.

Viral 100

Viral Social Media SEO Later Stage 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 20, 2019

Stage one was focused on building your house and getting the five most essential elements in order. Stage two was about getting those five channels to a level where they can start to pay dividends, and then adding on three additional channels. Interactions through your online channels generate tons of data.

Marketing 65

Marketing Social Media Campaign Analytics 65

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 26, 2013

It promises increased efficiency in the marketplace as worthy startups may be able to raise money faster and simpler than through traditional channels. Later Stages. Let’s look more broadly at later-stage equity financing. Crowd-funding has a lot of potential at a high level.

Later Stage 87

Later Stage Liquidity Event Equity Vertical 87

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2016

There's no sales team or channel relationships to get that flywheel turning in a predictable manner--yet. That's nice if you're raising a later stage round, but when you're a seed funded company, you should have lots and lots of growth ahead of you. Now, they're out fundraising.

Later Stage 60

Later Stage Sales Channel Audience 60

www.ashmaurya.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

There are many channels that can produce your first early customers and contacts, but the one I see most often is cold email. Running through the complete process in the early stages makes you much more efficient in later stages as you get a feel for the industry and have warm introductions.

Email 52

Email Customer Tennessee Software Review 52

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Later stage, public companies are right-sizing their teams, so there are many opportunities out there. So just keep an eye out; depending on your growth stage, it could be reasonably attractive. There are billion-dollar startups that have a later stage of maturity than the $10 billion company, right?

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Resilience – the ability to bounce back from adversity – is one of the key attributes of entrepreneurs and was the focus of my first weekly radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , on Sirius XM Radio Channel 111. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur New York Cofounder Equity 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Bodas notes, “Some corporations are very technology and engineering centric so the technology risk that may come with investing in an earlier stage startup is more broadly understood within the corporation. Understand whom you can approach with what type of a request before you do, and always use warm channels to reach out.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Time is money and there are too many people wanting me to spend a lot of money on better ways for me to spend my time for their not to be better channels for this, because I still can't figure out what to do with myself this weekend.

Technology 116

Technology Valuation Community Restful 116

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Qnary is one of numerous tools which can help build out your team members’ virtual presence. 11) Exit .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Andrew Warden (05:09): Channel, I got you. We think that BEC, which is a new channel, right. So I'm waiting to see, I have no idea, but this is what I, you know, you ask about experimentation and you always have to make sure that you're carving out, you know, 10, 10, 15% of your budget of your spend to try new channels.

SEO 85

SEO Channel Campaign Audience 85

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

And lastly summarise all the above points for easy referencing at later stages. No app can survive without proper feedback mechanism and customer support channel. You then draw the hierarchy of your operational and managerial roles. Now you design a sales and marketing strategy. Then you figure out all the finances.

Mobile 113

Mobile Developer Social Media Later Stage 113

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Continuous innovation requires the imagination and courage to challenge the initial hypotheses of your current business model (channel, cost, customers, products, supply chain, etc.) And in later stage rounds an explosion of corporate VCs and hedge funds now want in to the next unicorns. The founders.

Founder 252

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 252

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

John Jantsch (05:07): I mean, you use that like as your core channel. We think that Bec, which is a new channel, right? Because the moment that you rest on the laurels of the channel that's working so well for you is the moment it stops doing that. They want a path to grow themselves. No, actually it, yeah.

SEO 87

SEO Audience Channel Campaign 87

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

When PPC first took off, it was praised as an affordable way for small businesses and scrappy marketers to avoid big advertising budgets via traditional channels. When asked about the most important PPC channels, respondents proved that text ads, remarketing ads and mobile ads still reign supreme… Image Source. CPC Is Rising.

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PPC Matching Campaign San Francisco 48