YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Did it get declined due to timeline, costs associated, lack of testimonials. Reach out to see how they are, and share any improvements you’ve made to your product or service. Ask your current customers for “introductions,” not “referrals.”. Create an upsell strategy for current customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. Here is my list of red flags that cause many investors to look elsewhere: No well-defined need or viable customer set.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Indie VC has also created the INTRO product which automatically matches companies with a vetted network of non-dilutive funding options based on their financial data provided. Versatile has built out a suite of no-cost portfolio acceleration services to help its companies succeed. 20% initial ownership. Details here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2022

Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. Sustainability and social responsibility alone don’t make a viable business. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Yet, in the interest of full disclosure, and an honest intent to save future entrepreneurs some grief and money, I would remind you that starting any business has key dependencies on at least five major elements, including product design and delivery, the right people on the team, adequate funding, a sizable market opportunity, and marketing.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

With their affordability, you can invest in several and gain more return by earning customer trust before a sale occurs. They’ve built more trust with their followers, so customers might be more willing and trusting when they check out your website after the micro-influencer recommends you. Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3-

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2019

Social media, for one, has potential as a digital tool that more than one-third of internet users turn to when they want to learn more about a product or service. Then there’s live chat, which is gaining in popularity for companies looking to outfit their websites with real-time, 24/7 customer support. Custom websites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. Here is my list of red flags that cause many investors to look elsewhere: No well-defined need or viable customer set.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2019

Image via Wikipedia The challenge for all of us in business is to improve competitiveness by improving employee productivity and reducing costs. According to Gartner , one of the biggest drags on productivity is employee engagement, still hovering around 30 percent, and costing our businesses over $450 billion per year.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). 5) High Productivity: Kayak had 148 employees at the end of 2010.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Is it an evolution or a revolution for your business and customers? Our goal is to develop innovative products and features that help make recruiters jobs easier, emphasizing the importance of humans making decisions in hiring. Our customers were growing and hiring quickly, and as a result our business was growing fast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Whether you are looking for partners, investors, or future customers, you need to show a level of professionalism and leadership very early that will draw people to your idea. It can pay big dividends as this stage to get help from an experienced business advisor. Two-minute video highlighting you and your idea.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The knowledge you collect from speaking candidly to your customers or clients can be invaluable too. If you have a customer database, consider implementing a quarterly or biannual survey to collect anecdotal feedback. For your customers, the beauty in dealing with a small business can often be that personal touch.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I love the enthusiasm, the boundless energy and the sense of possibility that comes from having an idea that hasn’t yet been beat up in the marketplace of competing ideas, customer contracts, VC skepticism, jaded journalists or fickle consumers who are on the The New, New Thing. But alas I must scale with businesses and make money.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

They also directly impact your business, both in terms of reducing your operational costs, as well as streamlining your processes by making them more efficient. In addition to cutting your utility costs, it’s also quite possible to cut down on the costs of transportation, water, waste disposal, and paper. Brand Recognition.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

Joris Poort , Founder and CEO, Rescale (Software platform and hardware infrastructure to perform scientific and engineering simulations; undisclosed capital raised, per CrunchBase): We spent two and a half years writing custom software to run large-scale simulations on Boeing’s data centers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2019

Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. Sustainability and social responsibility alone don’t make a viable business. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. Ideally, they will help you understand technology ROI, innovation accounting, and also help you understand where you can cut costs and where you need to invest.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Business owners, however small their company, need to be engaged with their remote workers to ensure they’re motivated, productive and feel valued. Are they more productive in the mornings? It’ll motivate them, and they’ll be more productive. Here are three ways you can better engage with your remote employees.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Everyone was in the flow; the team was hyper-productive. In many cases, they did the impossible, building a new product faster, cheaper, and better than anyone could have predicted. And a certain amount of chaos reigned too.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

While one may see profits as a success, others may view it as customer satisfaction, employee retention, or innovation. A slower growth company can easily return higher dividends to its shareholders compared with a higher growth one, where profits are constantly reinvested. Business success is great, but at what cost.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For startups and entrepreneurs, a podcast can be especially attractive due to their low production cost. In order to do this effectively though, you need to make sure your podcast is providing a significant amount of value to the customer — free of charge. This is especially true if your product or service is expensive.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Applied to APIs, if there is an API strategy then it means that API is the product in-and-of-itself. In this sense, the Netflix API was a product designed to offer incentives to developers to motivate them to build applications around the Netflix experience. In this sense, the API was transitioning from a product to a tactic.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They have created two internal technology “products&# and wanted to figure out how they could turn their services business into a product business that could be financed. This team is talented.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Accumulating the resources necessary to hire an in-house data and analytics team pays regular dividends as your firm keeps growing. Investing in AI and algorithms that can predict traffic patterns for logistics companies and distributors leads to huge cost savings in both money and time. Workflow System.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2018

You also benefit from easy access, high liquidity, and low transaction costs. It’s all well and good having designer office furniture or a swanky shop-front, but potential clients and customers will be more interested in what you have to offer. Make marketing about your client or customer, not the company. Curb your spending.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2017

To put a finer point on it, we have found that when you adhere to the following three demand-based priorities companies can drive growth while saving 20% or more of total costs – costs that are often completely overlooked through traditional cost-savings mechanisms. Does this expense drive customer satisfaction?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. Sustainability and social responsibility alone don’t make a viable business. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

That’s a win-win-win deal, since the ease-of-use attracts more people to the new site, it enhances the Facebook brand, and it simplifies the customer interaction. Here are the other reasons to use this strategy: It reduces common costs and customer learning curves. If they so the same, you both win, along with the customer.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

SERPs with a high cost-per-click (data those tools also return) suggest a bottom-of-funnel or transactional query. Categorizing keyword modifiers is especially useful for sites that have hundreds or thousands of similar pages, like review sites with city-specific content or sites with hundreds of similar products. Image source ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

As a veteran of many disasters in which improvising in the moment to meet an immediate need led to innovative solutions, Carl has been impressed by how many businesses, small and large, have reinvented the way they serve their customers during the pandemic. Then they've gotten to work. It's member-owned.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Before you start to produce any marketing materials for your direct marketing campaign, you will need to identify who your target customer is. Give your target customers value. By providing offers, bonuses and discounts that your target market is likely to identify with, you can increase customer engagement without spending a fortune.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Five major elements of every business include your people, product, opportunity, money and marketing. They may come cheaply but will likely cost you dearly when times get tough. Innovative products and services always take longer to develop than anticipated, and quality problems pop up where least expected.

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Up and Running

MARCH 27, 2015

He was tempted to jump right in, choosing a theme and hiring someone to customize. You need visitors to turn into customers. Getting to the first page of Google for your keywords will pay dividends—but only if you choose keywords your clients use. Carl next considered working with a designer directly. Will you use video?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2017

Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. Sustainability and social responsibility alone don’t make a viable business. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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Green Dividend Angel Investor Global 137

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2013

Most customers today won’t pay you five times the cost of alternatives, just because yours is “green.” That’s a win-win business for the customer and the entrepreneur. Sustainability and social responsibility alone don’t make a viable business. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

Getting investors to trust you with their money is always a challenge, and it’s even more difficult in the early stages, where you don’t have a significant revenue stream, a few customers, or maybe even a product yet. The most investable ventures stem from painful needs by customers who have money to spend.

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