YoungUpstarts

APRIL 13, 2017

Security is still a great area of concern for many households due to the threat of break-ins and home invasions. Something is definitely better than nothing. New technologies have disrupted this as devices can now be setup easily either through wireless connectivity across devices or through a home’s WiFi network.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Nearly all businesses, whether they are small or large, are comprised of intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets, which can serve as the foundation for commercial success. The World Intellectual Property Organization defines IP as, “creations of the mind,” which, depending on the business, can take many forms. Customer lists.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. And please tweet your thanks to Software Promotions for sponsoring Smart Bear Live! Jason: Right.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

Information like IP address, the page requested, time stamps, browser ids and more are stored. Please reach out to a local technology lawyer who can help you navigate those issues. They are more often rejected due to default browser settings, user choices, cookie cleaners, etc. This is quite inadvisable.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Because every business adapts ABM to suit their own growth model, the definition changes to fit. Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. Sales finds aligned accounts and works with marketing to create customized journeys.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

As if that was not sad enough, even people who do know what the definition of Direct traffic is rarely focus on it or work hard to tease out the opportunity that exists in Direct traffic. So let's look at the definition, to make sure we understand, at least on paper, what this traffic is supposed to be. Definition.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Finding New Customers In Untapped Places written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Pam is best known for her book Escape from Cubicle Nation, and she recently wrote a new book called – The Widest Net: Unlock Untapped Markets and Discover New Customers Right in Front of You – launching in November 2021. Like this show?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I would say you need customer feedback or maybe expert feedback. The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Essentially, it’s the real-time individualization of a site to suit each visitor’s unique needs and guide them through a custom conversion funnel. Increased visitor engagement, improved customer experience and increase conversion rates are seen as the biggest benefits to personalization… Image Source.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

For example, you know that to avoid social media shitstorms you’re supposed to have stupendous customer service , so you claim as much on your website. Or it might mean you have enough customers to have “proved&# you have a viable business model, so now you can raise money with sensible terms. This clause is fair.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

.   (“If we can close 35% of all opportunities, and can get an opportunity by making x contacts, and there are 300 opportunities per month, then we should be able to sell 100 customers per month if we have the capital ($35 per contact) to cover the market every month.”   This results in a five-year projection of XYZ.).

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Tracking such revenue can be a challenge but is possible to approximate the revenue impact of PR activities via the use of unique URLs, customer surveys, etc. Any function within your startup that involves iterative learning, passion and/or close proximity to your customers should not be outsourced. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You really want to see how your company treats its employees, treats its customers, treats the environment, taking a longer-term view." Most people I think at least in the technology community know you as the inventor of Soylent and the company by the same name. You really want to see the whole system. Robert Rhinehart : I did.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

25 questions that DTC entrepreneurs should ask themselves before scaling customer acquisition So you run a direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand. You just spent a few thousand dollars on advertising and your paid customer acquisition cost (CAC) numbers tested well relative to your best guess for customer lifetime value (LTV).

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to the Smart Bear Live producer, Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com , to schedule a recording with Jason. Are they trying to get to the end customer? Jason: Okay.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. Make sure you’ve done the due diligence on all of these areas of your business. Pretend that you are the investor. Are you saving them time?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Home Social Media Business Entertainment Tech Web Video Dev & Design Apple Mobile Social Good Jobs Web Design Web Development Now Trending : Sony Retires the Cassette Walkman After 30 Years September 28, 2010 Jolie ODell View Comments 11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused email share email share Do you like this story?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

The best definition of entrepreneurship, in 25 words – [link]. I don’t agree w/ @benkunz – obscure price increases that trick customers are not brilliant – [link]. Why You Ought to Throw Away Your Vanity Metrics for These 5 Customer Metrics – [link]. Study: Why Do People Use Facebook?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2017

But when you are thinking about writing a book, you’re thinking about what ideas you want to get out, what IP you have, what methodologies you have and you want to get out there because you know it’s good information. But mid way through it, in fact about 45 days from the manuscript due date for the entire book I had this ah ha!

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And I’m definitely a nobody. Make sure you own all the IP created during this trial period, and make no promises for later. Customers are technophobes. Need to learn about IP, patents, etc.? Asking an IP lawyer, “Is my invention patentable?&# I will store and review again and again.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Make sure you think through how you will administer the system, handle customer queries, examine user accounts, run reports on user numbers and website traffic, etc. More than one person can review it, but only one person can author. Documents and mockups created by the customer are awful in all cases!

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

If someone asked whether or not your business has Intellectual Property (IP) and your answer is “I do not know” or “I doubt it,” you are not alone. It is difficult to be in a business situation completely devoid of IP worth identifying and protecting. IP is a not just a legal issue.

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Intellectual Property IP Technical Review Software Review 109

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But it will definitely raise questions during the phone screen, for reasons that are best explained by simile: Programming with.NET is like cooking in a McDonalds kitchen. This is a rant about how startups, by definition, need to think of things from new angles, and those angles typically don’t involve.NET.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The Department of Defense has thought that Artificial Intelligence is such a foundational set of technologies that they started a dedicated organization- the JAIC – to enable and implement artificial intelligence across the Department. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. What’s Different?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2017

Ryan: That’s your words but I will definitely agree. John: Yeah, well definitely. I just buy and they are definitely documented cases of that. One of the most common ways that people are trying to cross the internet is their IP address. And when you use Tunnelbear the IP address is kind of hidden or masked.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Girls in Tech. Google Custom Search Engine. IP Location Tools. Seed Startups.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Value hypothesis: why a customer is likely to use your product. Don’t use cost per acquisition— use the cost to acquire a customer and the retention cost to keep that customer coming back to buy again. Ben Labay: “How to Add Millions in Revenue with Voice of Customer”. Voice of customer focuses on the audience. 'User

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

There are many articles by many experts ( myself included ) extolling the virtues of listening to customers. In fact, there are so many of these propaganda pieces that this question might naturally cross your mind: if listening to customers is so great, why do we need so much propaganda? We did not take this step lightly.

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