Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

When self-driving cars felt imminent, many pundits started thinking about its consequences on car ownership, housing choices, on-demand economies, etc. many if not most of these startups are unlikely to get to significant scale. Is there a means of efficient distribution amidst the noise? How defensible are these businesses?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

How do you figure out what’s the right mix of skills for the co-founders of your startup? I was having breakfast with Radhika, an ex-grad student of mine who wanted to share her Customer Discovery progress for her consumer hardware startup. I told Radhika this is a perennial question for startups. ——-.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup? If you buy that Amazon is a tech startup then essentially you’ve already answered the question. In short — how the hell did we raise $30 million?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Leverage your customer conversations to predict and validate your business model.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. With a tactical understanding of two different marketing strategies: demand generation and lead generation. Demand generation vs. lead generation: Critical differences. Demand generation is about creating demand.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

1- Virtual assistance Photo Credit: Abdul Saboor It is my opinion that the need for virtual assistants is great since there is such a high demand for new businesses and there is such a large increase in the number of new enterprises opening their doors. Also trending are housewares that are bespoke, unexpected, and conversational.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Social commerce is helping businesses improve their engagement and conversion rates. The present challenge for companies is how to make distributed digital workplaces as (or even more) collaborative than a physical workplace. The main benefit of digitizing supply chain management is that the company becomes more demand-sensitive.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 26, 2013

In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Others believe in the start small, grow strong approach: build a small version of the app, test user demand, and then take it from there. In both scenarios, it seems that startup venture initiation and idea validation are strictly dependent on the app. Then, about two weeks before launch, I distributed a survey to those 256 partners.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The approach allows users to generate limitless amounts of training data on-demand; customizing the camera type, lighting conditions, occlusions, and materials in a training set purpose generated for each application. Launching our public dashboard tool for on-demand training data generation. What is your top goal for LexSet for 2020?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

This year’s hottest startups were all about boosting our productivity and well-being. It also allows team members to search through conversations by keyword or topic. Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. Product Hunt. Kimono Labs.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Social commerce is helping businesses improve their engagement and conversion rates. The present challenge for companies is how to make distributed digital workplaces as (or even more) collaborative than a physical workplace. The main benefit of digitizing supply chain management is that the company becomes more demand-sensitive.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The pay gap speaks to the distribution of women and minorities in a company. Millennials now outnumber any other generation in the workforce, and they are demanding transparency around pay. What has the startup experience taught you about life? What is your top goal for Syndio for 2020? Coffee, tech, mountains, and saltwater.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

ABM/Demand Gen), Richard Crowley (Slack, Ops Architect), Misha Brukman (JanusGraph, co-founder). Along these lines, we are starting to hear serverless more and more from the Fortune 500 and see this trend reflected in the sales pipeline at iopipe which has gone from mostly startups to larger companies.

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View from Seed

JULY 15, 2020

One topic of conversation among VC’s over the last few months is how their portfolios are faring during the Covid pandemic. These companies are probably burning a lot of cash, seeing headwinds in demand, and have funding needs that are substantial. Unevenly distributed, but broadly optimistic. But that remains to be seen.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2020

Now, data is pulsing through customer experience, conversation, distribution, claims and inspections in insurance, and more. And artificial intelligence is being applied to that data to help companies automate decisions, conversations, and other typically costly human interactions. 14- Rise in demand for innovators.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 5, 2018

Economic Diplomacy and Tech Startups: the “What” and “How” of an Honorary Consul of France in Austin, Texas I do not have diplomatic immunity, but special license plates are available to me for purchase. Before a change in the way France distributes passports to French citizens in the U.S., I have a photo I.D. issued by the U.S.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

A data-driven approach can help you make accurate and timely business decisions to meet market demands and improve cost-efficiency. However, as a founder of a small business or startup, you’re juggling many things. Conversion funnel: shows how prospects advance through the marketing funnel in a specific duration. Sales KPIs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up because, “How could they succeed when they’re not even profitable!” What did they actually do?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

But this isn’t restricted to distributed teams, multi-country environments or even large companies. The funny thing about a startup is that if you keep it together for several years life happens along the way. I *think* he found the conversation relieving and confirming. Tags: Startup Advice.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. of startups raise VC.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

Like the stock market, Cryptocurrency can be bought and sold based on supply and demand. When demand is high the price people are willing to pay will go up. Conversely, if more people want to sell a crypto coin rather than buy, the price will go down. The post Making Sense of Crypto appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 6, 2021

As I reflected on the things that get each of my partners most worried or excited, I realized that they provide a pretty good blueprint for any investor pitch, especially as you prepare to pitch a group vs. having a conversation with an individual. The go-to-market approach and any unfair distribution advantages.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

It’s been exciting to see so much renewed investor interest in climate tech and clean energy startups. And the demand on the grid is notoriously prone to spikes where the cost of energy can jump an order of magnitude for 1-2 hours when everyone is cranking up their A/C together. But that’s a conversation for another article. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

His title “ The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World ” characterizes the challenge of demanding attention from a new generation of consumers who want what they want, when they want it, and where they want it. Don’t just join the conversation, spark it. Mobile is where it’s at.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

These days, it’s not uncommon for companies large and small to be completely distributed, i.e., have a wholly remote workforce. Conversations can be had. If you find yourself managing a virtual workforce, modern communications tools like Slack allow team members to stay connected with one another, wherever they happen to be.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2022

Coworking spaces have also seen a huge surge in demand. In an office, you can simply walk up and have a quick conversation with people to understand their workload when trying to make decisions about who to staff on what project. You can have an open conversation with people in the same vicinity so people can raise any objections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

His title “ The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World ” characterizes the challenge of demanding attention from a new generation of consumers who want what they want, when they want it, and where they want it. Don’t just join the conversation, spark it. Mobile is where it’s at.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Influencer Marketing defines it as: “…creating content that will be promoted through paid distribution channels like sponsored placements, advertisements, and pay-per-click campaigns. Ensure content is relevant to your conversion funnel. Use content advertising to fight rising costs. It can also scale credibility quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2019

The customer lifetime value also must consider the customer stage (search, conversion, retention, advocate) and the profit you expect in total. Assuming that customers fit a bell curve distribution. The costs and lifetime value models are different for each of these types, so they shouldn’t be lumped together.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

While the arrival of coronavirus and its consequent workplace disruptions might seem like the main contributing factor, new trends are also shaped by younger generations entering the workforce and demanding a different set of priorities, with different working models and solutions being a common theme. Contractor workforce solutions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

His title “ The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World ” characterizes the challenge of demanding attention from a new generation of consumers who want what they want, when they want it, and where they want it. Don’t just join the conversation, spark it. Mobile is where it’s at.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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