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7 Modern Day Business Strategies For Long-Term Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. I continue to be amazed that more than a quarter of new businesses don’t even have a website , and many more don’t pay attention to social media, or monitor feedback on sites like Yelp. They won’t find you.

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower

Look at different customer acquisition channels, how they are converting, and the expected lifetime value of customers acquired through those channels. Apply costs to each channel. Finally, review the numbers with your partners. We need to make sure we have these numbers. Don’t overcomplicate things with reporting tools.

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As I recently watched an episode of “ Shark Tank ,” I realized that the shark investors focus on your responses to these questions is also a credibility test on your business savvy, as it leads to other relevant questions on margins, channels, and your understanding of key customer forces. Outside partners and channel impacts are complex.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

Are there other founders, business leaders, partners, or administrators? What channels will you use (e.g., Do you need to process user-contributed media? What’s been done so far to validate the concept? Who are the other stakeholders involved? How will you be taking this to market? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)?

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4 Keys To A Successful Integrity Check With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

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9 Success Principles To Propel Your Next New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Develop a product line and add alternate channels.

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We’re Hiring a Platform and Operations Associate at NextView

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We are looking to bring on board a versatile new team member to support the varied internal operations of the firm as well as collaborate with the partners on our external programs and communications with the broader entrepreneurial community. Supporting other external PR and media relations for the firm.