Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A design mindset is not product-focused - it’s solution focused and action oriented towards creating better customer experiences and value. By understanding experiences, you will better understand the needs of people around you, including your customers and partners. Focus on creating a benefit for the customer.

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Up and Running

MARCH 28, 2017

Before you start your business, it’s essential that you make sure that customers are interested in buying your product. In this article, I’ll show you how you can make sure your customers are interested in your product before you spend any time building your business. Needless to say, we struggled to get customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

For years software development worked on a “waterfall model” in which you did research, design, build, test, deploy and then watch how users reacted to your product. Often these projects took 12–18 months so by the time companies shipped product they often found out that the product didn’t meet customer needs.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The variety ranges from customer service chatbots to tasks automating your work or detecting fraud for the company. So if there is one technology consistent in meeting the dividend demands, it is artificial intelligence. AI is giving the world of finance and banking an efficient way of meeting the needs of their clients and customers.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Before product-market fit… just care about speed of iteration according to your customer feedback. So in terms of hiring, get people that can help you build the product faster… anything that minimizes the time between observing a need or a problem, and the execution or the fix for it.” Team, product, market.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

impactful work (we point to specific features that are being used by 100s of customers) and 3. Tools such as LinkedIn are obviously useful, but it can also pay dividends to use your network to find potential hires. Not sales, product development, or fundraising. cutting edge technology (WebRTC), 2. Be Specific.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2017

Whether you’re a startup looking at taking those first steps into the business world or an established company wanting to expand your customer base, marketing your business is an important step in getting your brand in front of the right people. Get social with customers and clients. Then we come to good old-fashioned networking.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

This value-based model bringing all the right customers to their yard is called demand generation. But when executed right, it pays dividends. In today’s market ( 8,000 martech products alone ), it’s easier to attract the right customer with material they value than it is to chase down and convert a prospect who isn’t ready to buy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). The “product” value is difficult to quantify, the costs are nebulous, and entrepreneurs have to clone themselves to scale the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A design mindset is not product-focused - it’s solution focused and action oriented towards creating better customer experiences and value. By understanding experiences, you will better understand the needs of people around you, including your customers and partners. Focus on creating a benefit for the customer.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2017

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. Your customers are already spending money with you, so now we just need to increase the amount.

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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. Our founders can run their companies profitably and pull out dividends, they can raise additional rounds, or they can decide to exit. 20% initial ownership.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2021

This will help you gauge who your audience is and how to speak to them at every customer touchpoint. The point isn’t to complicate your content creation—it’s to ensure your messaging is aligned with the customer journey every step of the way. Figure out how your product uniquely fits into the market and drive that message home.

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Board Effect

APRIL 30, 2024

No matter the current state of your board, leaders of mission-driven organizations can always find work to maintain or restore stability and ensure successful and productive collaboration. Getting board members off to a good start pays dividends in increased engagement and retention as well. Increase engagement and retention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Yet it would pay real dividends to know at the start what separates the “also-rans” from the winners. It still requires solution delivery, a team working together, and customers with money to spend. Make sure you are building what customers want, rather than what you can build. The founder sets the culture by words and actions.

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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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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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ConversionXL

MARCH 10, 2021

External Auth Providers as Primary: This allows users to use third-party authentication products as the major factor, instead of revealing password as the first factor. By making it easy for them to use tools they need to be effective and productive you can significantly reduce turn over and build a strong company culture.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 1, 2022

95% of B2B buyers are not ready to buy your product right now. They’re having conversations with colleagues, researching on social media, and listening to podcasts about the product or industry and learning where your brand fits in. It’s an acknowledgment of the changing customer experience. Social media platforms (e.g.,

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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

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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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2024

Exclusive to new customers—upgrade and grow your business with ActiveCampaign today! And if you do a Google search for a product, you say this product versus that product, you get all of these crappy affiliate links and it's all just spam and junk. Now, this offer is limited to new active campaign customers only.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. Visionary CEOs don’t need someone else to demo the company’s key products for them. They know who their customers are because they spend time talking to them.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. Visionary CEOs don’t need someone else to demo the company’s key products for them. They know who their customers are because they spend time talking to them.

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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

APRIL 25, 2022

Just because you dream it and build it, doesn’t mean they will come – that encompasses not only customers, but also investors, partners, team members, and even your own family. A debt repaid before it is asked for reaps a huge dividend in trust. They won’t come if they don’t trust you. Formalize business promise keeping.

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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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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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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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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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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 6, 2010

To share with you three custom reports that I find to be super valuable when I am doing web data analysis. I love custom reports. With that motivational speech, :), below are three custom reports that are of incredible value. and instead advanced the creation of focused custom "micro-ecosystems" that 1.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Giff is a repeat entrepreneur whose companies include Neo, a product innovation consulting firm where he worked with organizations like the Mayo Clinic and Time, Inc. We recently spoke about customer discovery, experiments, and his writing habits and process. This small investment pays dividends with speed and better decisions.

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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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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

There’s a new virtual trade show program, for example, that lets users interact in a variety of public spaces which fosters the exchange of ideas and sharing of new products, and also offers more private spaces for confidential negotiations. There is a conversation going on about your business.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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