The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Microsoft Azure, Heroku, Google App Engine, and other well-established PaaS providers let you install your own cloud-based applications. According to many providers’ tariff plans, the more services a user consumes, the more cost-effective it is for the service provider to charge per user. Ready-to-use SaaS solutions may be found.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It provides the freedom to partner with entrepreneurs and reduce the costs of agency work in exchange for equity in their startup. Today’s Talented Engineers & Designers Need Top-Shelf Tools of the Trade. It also helps bootstrap new startup businesses.

Incubator 188

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. Engineers who were attracted to the pace and dynamics of a start-up can get bored and frustrated with life in a big, public company. After all, the caliber of talent makes or breaks a company, no matter its size. Look for acquired teams.

Canada 153

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Distribution costs have, too. hours of TV / day. They read less than 30 minutes.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Using free tools like Google’s Keyword Planner and Google Search Console can help you identify which search queries users are typing in to find your business and where gaps in content exist for your vertical. Check out resources like Search Engine Journal or Moz to start learning about SEO tasks you can put in motion yourself.

Small Business 173

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

He and Bill Lowe somehow managed to convince then CEO Frank Cary to give them a dozen engineers, a small budget, and a few months, to set up a small skunk-works called Entry Level Systems in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop a low-cost personal computer (code name “ Acorn ”).

Software Review 185

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Sloan put in place GM’s management accounting system (also borrowed from DuPont) that for the first time allowed the company to: 1) produce an annual operating forecast that compared each division’s forecast (revenue, costs, capital requirements and return on investment) with the company’s financial goals. Modern Corporation Marketing.

Michigan 275

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

Now users interact with digital products in much more complex and different ways than a decade ago…the more complex your stack is, the more customer data you are spreading across many different tools, and the more time you (or your engineering team) will need to reassemble the puzzle and get a full reasonable picture.

Technical Review 86

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

MQL cost significantly increased. Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer. Our findings also suggested, marketing-qualified leads didn’t always convert to sales opportunities as expected.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

There are countless strategies to consider employing here, including search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click (PPC) advertising, email marketing, and even traditional advertising are all viable options. . Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? Marketing/advertising channels. Memorability. Dead Weight.

Startup 127

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

She’s also a professor at the University of Cincinnati in their Engineering department. Steve Jobs once challenged Obama to find him 30,000 engineers so he could build a plant in California. It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine.

Technical Review 102

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

Reason 1: Marketplaces can be applied to almost any industry From hairdressing to hotels, from events to engineering jobs, from racehorses to robots, there seems to be a marketplace in every industry. Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). This includes the cost of a domain name, a logo, some development work.

Software Review 100

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Finding the right engineer, UX designer or marketer can make all the difference for your start-up. Engineers who were attracted to the pace and dynamics of a start-up can get bored and frustrated with life in a big, public company. After all, the caliber of talent makes or breaks a company, no matter its size. Look for acquired teams.

Canada 67

Canada Acquisition Vertical Hiring 67

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

SEO 122

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Common examples include: Average order value; Sales conversion rate; Cart abandonment rate; Customer acquisition cost; Customer lifetime value; Bounce rate; Click-through rates; Pop-up engagement rates; ROI (return on investment; Average inventory sold per day. Customers can now shop directly from the SERP (search engine results page).

eCommerce 129

eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

After that, the adoption of the cloud as a more scalable and cost-effective approach allowed small/medium business to build CRMs around very specific market needs and establish dominance in new vertical segments. Just like cars with a great engine but no wheels. The Salesforce era was only at the beginning.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

For example, Neeva, a startup that tried to push the boundaries of web search and challenge Google by being the first ‘AI-powered’ search engine, found the hard way that’s one thing building a product and quite another to get users to change their habits and switch search engines. What else do we know?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

Technical Review 63

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Look at the search engine results page (SERP). Geography (i.e. A manual process works.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

Vertical banners placed on sidebars are known as skyscrapers. . One is the cost per impression. The next is the cost per click, so in this model, the advertiser makes a payment for every site visitor clicking the ad and then visiting their site. . Then there’s a third option which is the cost per action.

Advertising 158

Advertising Clickthrough Campaign Social Media 158

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany , the Customer Development text, I hadn’t yet thought about what vertical markets it might be appropriate for.)

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g. This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable).

Technical Review 165

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

So my primary goal for the next year is keeping our computing infrastructure costs at bay, especially as we are delivering more and more AI-powered processing-intensive product features to our clients, such as image recognition. Our business is all about social media data analysis, and the amount of that data almost doubles each year!

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 9, 2020

Pedram Zohrevand , an engineering consultant, explains the ways in which builders and property owners can increase their structures’ earthquake safety. Before the ’80s, building structures used to be constructed to mostly support vertical loads and seismic lateral loads caused by earthquakes were not accurately considered in building designs.

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The Next Web

JULY 19, 2013

Unlike, say, content discovery engines or Taxi booking apps , people tend to be pretty sensitive about their teeth, so overcoming peoples’ innate natural fear that a system won’t work effectively is one of the biggest challenges for Price. Yeah but I just need to know is the appointment booked?’. Yes, everything’s fine.’”. It’s Web-based.”.

Cloud 121

Cloud Software Review Vertical Email 121

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’re aiming to bring that boost in productivity and cost-efficiency both to CPA firms and other professional services firms in other verticals (i.e. Richard: Taxfyle is successfully addressing deep pain points experienced every year by both American taxpayers and accounting firms nationally, and overseas, around tax season.

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CPA Founder Vertical Cofounder 172

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

First up today was John Bertoni with Mava Consulting , who is setting up a part-time sales force for companies to use without having to invest the fully loaded cost of a direct sales rep per geography. So, effectively, at the cost of one full-time sales rep, they can access coverage in four different regions. Photo by yirsh.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2019

The ideal solution is to maximise the use of vertical space with the help of pallets; in other words, go upwards and not outwards. Vertical storage is going to work out for the best of your warehouse in the long run. What Are The Options? A safe workplace depends on it.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

It means that maintenance engineers will be required, further increasing the company expenses. Vertical Scalability. Vertical scaling websites are acquiring hardware with increased capabilities. Mostly vertical scaling has problems of its own. As such, the company will always be overcharged. Horizontal Scaling.

Vertical 156

Vertical Hosting Bandwidth Security 156

Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Computer hardware companies were faced with their customers asking for low-cost (relatively) desktop computers they had no experience in building. Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.)

Technology 139

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 139

Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the things he mentioned was that when it came to decision-making he still tended to think and act like an engineer. Since every situation is unique, there is no perfect solution to any engineering, customer or competitor problem, and you shouldn’t agonize over trying to find one. The same is true in your company.

Silicon Valley 302

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

A month or two before the QuickTime public announcement in May, the SuperMac hardware engineers (who had a great relationship with the QuickTime team at Apple) started a “ skunk works ” project. In less than a month they designed a low-cost video-capture board that plugged into the Mac and allowed you to connect a video camera and VCR.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k. Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! . #4- I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. and many others. .

Entrepreneur 56

Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 56

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The flaw in this thinking is that “first customer ship&# is simply the date when engineering thinks they “finished” the 1.0 release of the product.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Unfortunately most startups learn this by going through the “Fire the first Sales VP&# drill: You start your company with a list of potential customers reading like a “who’s who&# of whatever vertical market you’re in (or the Fortune 1000 list.) Your board nods sagely at your target customer list.

Silicon Valley 133

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development 133

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k. Thanks to Rafe Gomez, Vertical Cloud Inc. ! #4- I had a wide portfolio of hard-working friends from engineering school and previous places I worked that I picked from. and many others.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Delaware Hiring Social Media 54