Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

With a concentration on providing a more diverse workforce, Capital Factory and Opportunity Hub are partnering in 2019 to converge on the Austin tech scene this spring at SXSW. Opportunity Hub is one of those communities forging the path towards true diversity, equity and inclusion.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? My basic claim is that you MUST HAVE LOTS OF EARLY CONVERSATIONS. Lots of thoughts here. But let's leave that aside for a minute.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? My basic claim is that you MUST HAVE LOTS OF EARLY CONVERSATIONS. Lots of thoughts here. But let's leave that aside for a minute.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. I always take a very different approach in early conversations. A lot of the product discussion feeds off the answers to this conversation. Administrators?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For an investor, partnering with Difficult Founders also comes down to how you both think about relationship building. The folks who recoil from these conversations or get defensive or blame others for every failure, that’s. Are they Difficult but know what they’d be signing up for with you?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

This post explores the most important benchmarks VCs look for in B2B SaaS with data brought to you by 20VC/La Famiglia, Serena Capital, Emergence Capital, and Openview Ventures, providing definitions and insights into the most critical metrics for SaaS companies. PLG products see higher adoption of these metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. and had several phone conversations after that. By September 18th we were ready to bring them to a full partner meeting and as a group we were bought into the vision and the experience of this exact team to pull things off.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

You can listen to the entire conversation above or via this link , but I also wanted to highlight one topic we discussed that I feel strongly about, which is how I think enterprise sales and venture fundraising are basically the same muscle. You can hear more about these three rules and more in my conversation with Samir?—?it

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2017

As mentioned above, business seminars offer open, friendly environments that allow attendees to feel comfortable enough to join in on conversations. Find Business Partners. Some individuals who are interested in starting a business will want to find a partner. Renew Your Motivation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fact, when Brian and Dharmesh were actually creating it and wrote the book Inbound Marketing, that's when Duct Tape Marketing was really around and I had a lot of conversations with them early on. I should have gotten on the partner train. I started the agency partner program that you passed on and built that up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2023

In addition to saying yes too often, some entrepreneurs under pressure say no poorly, by attacking the requestor or by avoiding any definitive response. It’s acceptable business practice to review your schedule, or converse with other principals, before committing to an answer. Ask for time to check your calendar.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2024

During our, dare I say Meta conversation, we uncovered the transformative power of podcasting for businesses, focusing on how it can be a game-changer for networking and lead generation. That is when I just really appreciated your voice because that was definitely a period of when I was kind of shifting from one identity to another.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2024

07:19] How does a business partner with recognized climate & sustainability organizations as opposed to being enemies? [10:02] There are a couple broad definitions of sustainability. We wound up with a very specific definition of sustainability that we could then work towards. So it's a really active conversation.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

To understand what Social CRM is, let us first consider this definition by Metz: The customer owns the conversation now, so companies need to change the way they do business. They range from customer insights, marketing, sales, analytics, demand management, support, and customer experience, to mobile and location based services.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 27, 2020

I think Bill Murray said it best while explaining the situation in New York in 1984 when the ghosts were let out of the…well, I don’t want to spoil it for you, let’s just say it led to this epic line: Side note: is it just me or is there some weird acting going on by his partner in the background ? So yeah, things are nuts.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 12, 2018

To assess the State of the Conversion Optimization Industry in 2018, we gave a 26 question survey to 701 people who work in the optimization space. This year we partnered with VWO , the all-in-one platform that helps you conduct visitor research, build an optimization roadmap, and run continuous experimentation. Conversion Optimizer.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 9, 2014

There’s definitely a feeling out there that businesses with a $1m revenue run rate are well-established and thus have a growth risk profile rather than a venture risk profile. I’m excited, for example, about our investment in SnapTrip , which we backed at inception with a team of one last December.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

There is a well-known trope that choosing a VC to partner with is like marriage. I know many VC’s that are amazing partners to founders in thick and thin. Conversely, it’s very common that investors seem wonderful to work with when they are trying to get access to a deal, but then act totally differently once they are on board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2021

In addition to saying yes too often, some entrepreneurs under pressure say no poorly, by attacking the requestor or by avoiding any definitive response. It’s acceptable business practice to review your schedule, or converse with other principals, before committing to an answer. Ask for time to check your calendar.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Greylock Partners will be talking about “blitzscaling” with his co-author Chris Yeh, and Stanford Professor Bob Sutton. This kind of testing, done right, is definitive for creating growth. We’re looking forward to seeing you in Las Vegas. If you haven’t registered yet, you can do it here.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 26, 2014

One of the exciting things about Forward Partners is that we’re blazing a trail in the investment world. We definitely don’t do that. Examples include Forward Partners , Science Inc , aspects of Betaworks , and maybe Rocket Internet. I like that about us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

most shared hosting companies), but they only make interesting money at large scale (by definition, because it takes over 8000 customers to make only $1m/yr in revenue), which takes a long time to grow. . $10/mo means people see you as a cheap version of something else, but still expect a phone number. Think: GoDaddy).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Marketing and public relations trends will most definitely move towards diversifying the image and representation of brands and businesses. 18- Conversational marketing. I believe conversational marketing is the most exciting trend we’ll be seeing this year and in the years to come. Photo Credit: Assaf Kostiner.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For that reason alone, I could definitely see technology having even more impact on my business tomorrow and for years to come. The biggest impact of technology on our business will be in finding the right influencer partners. Currently, we are looking at ways to properly vet a potential partner. Photo Credit: Ziga Breznik. #27-

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

I’ve definitely been wrong on market value. million, and we can write as little as $250k or as much as $15 million in our first check (we can follow on with $50 million + in follow-on rounds) We build a portfolio that is diversified given the focus areas of our partners. I’ve sometimes been right about the market value but too early.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 7, 2021

I definitely don’t blame founders for underestimating the distance between enthusiasm and a concrete commitment. Others VCs definitely know what I’m talking about. Satya and I have a list in our heads of GPs who we think do this and help our founders manage those conversations accordingly. When it’s a junior partner.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I can tell you that my startup ZEEF is awesome and that you should definitely try it out, but it’s much more convincing when someone else, who is not or doesn’t seem affiliated to ZEEF, recommends ZEEF to you. Who should look into finding affiliate marketing partners? How do I get into contact with potential affiliates?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2020

Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Now, data is pulsing through customer experience, conversation, distribution, claims and inspections in insurance, and more. Thanks to Rytis Jakubauskas, Latana !

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The name On Site Opera was definitely derived from a mission-drive place. I found Dilate and loved the definition; Dilate comes from the Latin word ‘Dilatare’ meaning to grow, to expand, to enlarge and elaborate. Luckily I didn’t have to – a friend ended up texting me and my business partner, suggesting the name Codal.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

by Keith Tully , a partner at business rescue specialists Real Business Rescue. The first step is to write a formal internal complaints procedure, which should include the definition of a complaint and how to recognize one. Without customers, no commercial organisation can survive.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

More generally, the RPA vendors are taking a bottom-up approach: “process definitions and context will emerge from the task automation work”. The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Highland Europe. Originally published at [link].

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

In other words, go beyond “shallow, legalistic” definitions of diversity. Encourage tough conversations. But stay the course and urge people to speak up and have difficult conversations. Tell me what you liked about being on a team and what you didn’t like about being on a team.” Individuals’ answers can tell you a lot!

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

While this means that you should absolutely articulate yourself in the most direct way possible through email, phone calls and in-person conversations, it even more importantly means you should become an excellent listener. Creating a rolodex of chums does not necessarily infer future business partners.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

So that's just one example, but we set up those interns to have a mentorship chat or conversation with that investor of ours, James, who's just a phenomenal role model. A few years ago, I put it on my vision board that Boss Beauties, which was a brand new company which partner with Mattel and Barbie. Lisa (20:21): Yeah, definitely.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Silos also exist between external partners, such as agencies and consultancies. Silos between external partners are also very common and can duplicate work, generate a lot of unnecessary back and forth, and waste an opportunity to maximize the value of one agency through another. Set clear responsibilities across partners.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 14, 2018

I am working to develop deeper relationships with LitLife’s school and district partners to ensure that our literacy consulting work is as effective as possible. By highlighting work that is going well with partners, we can also cast a light on the amazing work happening in each of our sites! 7- New ideas and partners.

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