YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2020

If you focus too much on sales and conversions, you’ll likely be disappointed because sales are almost certainly down. For example, if you place less stress on conversions and more on social media interactions, you’ll be able to better see positive results during the crisis. corporations.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Optimizing Conversion Rates with 5 Quantitative & Qualitative Tests (Part 2) – [link]. Amazon’s Approach to Product Development – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Nanea Reeves has a storied career in senior leadership roles at technology companies. Nanea help leadership roles at EA (SVP, COO Global Online), Gaikai (Chief Product Officer, Chief Strategy Officer), JAMDAT (SVP), Machinma (COO) and currently textPlus (President & COO – including leading engineering and product).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help. Highly trained salespeople.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” In addition, there are different ways to build a growth team no matter the reporting and leadership structure.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

If you couldn’t make it, here are some interesting insights based on conversations we had and exhibits we visited. She and her team had worked hard to convince their leadership that sponsoring the Capital Factory Lounge would be a good step in shifting the Walmart culture towards becoming more innovative.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

Startups that use quizzes’ built-in lead generation see immediate, measurable results – automatically sending each lead personalized follow-ups based on their quiz responses for better conversion. Sometimes the most simple and effective approach is the best because it is, well, simple. Further, it is a scalable and automated solution.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

Every conversation and decision we made came down to finding out what would make the service (more) saleable. It was stressful, but productively stressful and fun. Second is the ability to capitalize on a well-known brand—the result of many years of marketing, PR, and thought leadership within the industry.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. The Growth Manager also needs creativity, strategic thinking, and of course leadership.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. The Growth Manager also needs creativity, strategic thinking, and of course leadership.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2014

Her message is apparently being heard; Adam Grant, whose research on leadership is helping to further erode the stigma of introversion, recalls how he instructed two groups of Wharton MBA students, first in 2011 and again in 2013: “Raise your hand if you’re an introvert.”. Maximize your leadership potential as an introvert .

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They didn’t pull any punches in telling us how difficult — and yet important — it can be to get leadership on board. Brant: In my experience, the conversations don’t ever go that way. Patrick: Last week I had an interesting conversation with the CIO of a major European company operating in a mature, very profitable industry.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products. The Customer is a Genius Then instead of talking about our products he segued the conversation into their products.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 25, 2013

The conversations are always incredible, futurists, brain researchers, inventors, master teachers, authors, artists…you get the picture. Of course, many corporate folks attend, they need creativity in the worst way and some actually know it. AND also attending: educators, consultants, students, and from many parts of the globe.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. And the converse is true; Palm would have failed, burning through all their cash, using Handspring’s strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2014

It was strong leadership. Whether the arena is politics or business, the difference between mediocre leadership and exceptional leadership often is defined by your ability to cultivate and engage your own Kitchen Cabinet. The goal is to have a meaningful, enlightening, and educational conversation.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2021

Marketers can be involved in product development to ensure the product aligns with the customers’ needs, in communicating price points, in finding the best angles to keep customers coming back, and so on. Here are four steps to help you feel confident throughout the conversation. Marketing touches every part of a company.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This meeting was a biannual gathering of all the leadership involved in the corporate-wide initiatives to out-innovate their new disruptors. After the end of the day people gathered around the firepit for informal conversations. It was an amazing display of organizational esprit de corps. Creative destruction.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Very few people turn up with a strong sense of “what we should be doing” or ready to lean into a productive conversation The financials were prepared by the VP of Finance / CFO. This can include: Fund raising, product development choices, sales, marketing effectiveness, competition, business development, M&A … whatever.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2014

This is the magic number for leadership teams, product teams, research teams, design teams, and more. For example, FedEx — a giant, incredibly complex company — has streamlined its core leadership team to CEO Fred Smith and 10 direct reports. As a result, product development time was cut nearly in half in a three-year period.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

We had some great conversations in the car, but one stuck in my mind. We started in North Carolina eating BBQ and enjoying the Southern culture, went through Washington D.C It was something I never thought about, and when I first heard it I thought it was a terrible thing to have taught her.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

So it’s a using the idea of our ability to create compelling, wonderful, engaging, inspiring, thought leadership-orientated content as a means of changing the behavior of a consumer. The one side, I think it’s a really interesting point you bring up, which is does it immediately lean toward to creating new products and services?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

It’s bad for their reputation, it’s bad for their brand, and they’re also going to make mistakes if they don’t have the right people at the table being listened to when they make marketing decisions, product development decisions. Make room for a new revenue channel. So unaware is, I don’t see the problem.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

What’s the best way to increase conversions? Adventurers – love nonconformity, spontaneity and leadership. Wikipedia puts it well: “…in empathic design techniques, users are almost as involved in product design as designers and engineers. From there, you can better develop A/B test hypotheses to explore.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking? Is there a profitable business model? Great post!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 17, 2013

All of those conversations can be incredibly distracting to those forced to listen in, s this might mean you need more private office space, or at least cubicles or dividers that can absorb the yak-yak. Determine your needs.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

Even if they become part of the founding team, it’s not a given that the founder, having come up with the idea has a “guaranteed” leadership role (CEO or VP) in the new company. They deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. Lessons Learned. Founder has the initial idea.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Customer Development Model is designed to minimize the risk of launching a product for a market that does not exist. It encourages a startup to invest in customer discovery and validation in parallel with product development prior to product launch.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 27, 2010

I was looking forward to this conversation for two reasons, the first being that Brightidea is a successful 11 year old company that has never taken venture financing (I expect that will change) and as it relates to product R&D, especially for digital products, ideation is contributing to the software tools sector becoming exciting again.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

It was always a welcome change of pace to leave the brown of the unchanging desert and travel into town and have dinner with them and have a non-technical conversation about books, theater, politics, travel, etc. Her husband would look at me out the corner of his eyes and then we’d segue the conversation to some other topic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

You know, we're seeing multiple companies use it for product development and they're, they're using what they're hearing in their communities to make their product better and have a, a continuous conversation with, with a customer. How can we support you in your leadership journey?

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I was fortunate to get some thoughtful input from the leadership of DarwinApps , Casual Corp , Coventure , HappyFunCorp , OAB Studies , and World Accelerator. on top of that often results in conversations and incentives that are difficult to overcome, especially early on in a company. equity that belongs to departed cofounders)?

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider your own network of connections,” says Susan Bender Phelps, owner of Odyssey Mentoring & Leadership. However, consider first focusing on building the relationship, and once it has been established, shift the conversation and making it clear that you would like them to mentor you.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And here’s where life gets really interesting, as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well-thought-out business plan becomes irrelevant.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I love business plan competitions (and with my valley-centric bias, I think Berkeley and Stanford have two of the best.) If you are outside of Silicon Valley, you ought to jump into them with both feet. You’ll learn a lot. If you’re text averse like i am, try to diagram these key items and then write-up the diagrams.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

We do content marketing such as webinars, guest posts, thought leadership pieces, press releases, and more. As a result, it will become easier and faster to solve problems, create more growth channels, and enhance customer confidence in your products or services. Inbound, Inbound, Inbound. We also do social media marketing. Expansions.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Catalin Braescu • Nov 15, 2010 this rockstar conversation is nonsense - the more experienced the more hurdles will be created imbo. Think instead about the set of capabilities the leadership at your company needs: Great network and reputation to get you intros to investors, partners, employees. Leadership and management ability.

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