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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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. The most investable ventures stem from painful needs by customers who have money to spend.

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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. Don’t forget seminars and events.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused.

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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. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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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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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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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. The most investable ventures stem from painful needs by customers who have money to spend.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2024

Exclusive to new customers—upgrade and grow your business with ActiveCampaign today! You could choose our system to move from vendor to trusted advisor, attract only ideal clients, and confidently present your strategies to build monthly recurring revenue. I found it. This is what I've been looking for. So where do we go?

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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. For example, are you measuring revenue growth, or profitability? A company is nothing without its customers; so is a company successful if it generates profit but has a low net promoter score, or review rate?

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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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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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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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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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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. The most common example of an API strategy is around companies who aspire to build a developer community as a new revenue source or as the foundation of their business. Twilio is an interesting example of such a company.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

1,983% boost in annual revenue, 1,000% user base growth within six months with no upfront costs. increased revenue. In this light, high quality business training becomes as critical as product training. Customer success guru Lincoln Murphy talks about the ideal customer profile. Can this be true? Economic factors.

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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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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

1,983% boost in annual revenue, 1,000% user base growth within six months with no upfront costs. increased revenue. In this light, high quality business training becomes as critical as product training. Customer success guru Lincoln Murphy talks about the ideal customer profile. Can this be true? Economic factors.

Channel 77

Channel Partner Programming B2B 77

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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paulgraham.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

A barbershop serves customers in person, and few will travel far for a haircut. When a startup both begins with an idea exposed by technological change and makes a product consisting of technology in the narrower sense (what used to be called "high technology"), its easy to conflate the two. Almost everyone needs their hair cut.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Exclusive to new customers—upgrade and grow your business with ActiveCampaign today! They provide every new customer with one-on-one personal training and free migrations from your current marketing automation or email marketing provider. 10:25): Now, this offer is limited to new active campaign customers only. Fuel your growth.

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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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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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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. Deliveries can be planned in the most efficient manner ensuring that customer goodwill is acquired or retained through impressive delivery times. Workflow System.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Five major elements of every business include your people, product, opportunity, money and marketing. Innovative products and services always take longer to develop than anticipated, and quality problems pop up where least expected. Written product specifications and business plans pay big dividends.

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Small Business Force

APRIL 23, 2017

Revenue is the top line of your P&L and for a good reason. You have no business without it and the customers it represents. And beyond the initial revenue, it’s about building long-term relationships with clients, so they keep coming back and become a source of future income. It all starts with people.

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Small Business Force

JANUARY 9, 2012

It gave you the opportunity to "live life on the fault line," as your business got launched and haltingly began to generate revenue, and maybe even some positive cash flow. Like your first customer. The first defect-free delivery month for your new production guy. Like one of your customer's 100th year in business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

You may have gotten some articles that covered your product launch or may have gotten into industry rags but this might be your first time on TechCrunch, AllThingsD, PandoDaily, GigaOm, Business Insider or the equivalent. So while you get the benefits of recruiting, being on VC radars and customer legitimacy there are also downsides.

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ConversionXL

JULY 6, 2021

In this guide, you’ll learn how to make your ads budget go further, whether your products are right for LinkedIn, and how to measure your success. A LinkedIn Ads strategy for better ROI: Advertise high-value products and services. The products or services that do (and don’t) work for LinkedIn Ads. Do work: High-ticket items.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. When they fund you, they know that they have to believe that you can also go out and sell the product. Are you saving them time? Are you saving lives?

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

If you only understand one thing about building products, you must understand that energy put in at the beginning of the process pays off tenfold and energy put in at the end of the program pays off negative tenfold. Ben’s point is that investing time in proper planning pays huge dividends when building products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

They have a product that has a moderate number of customers. Its well done, looks professional, and the customers that use it like it a lot. Still, theyre not really hitting it out of the park, because their product isnt growing new users as fast as theyd like, and they arent making any money from the current users.

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Up and Running

JULY 20, 2015

Most simply, cash flow statements very quickly tell the story of how much revenue a company has coming in (inflows), and how much it has going out (outflows). Your organization’s operating activities include everything that relates to how you generate revenue. How does your business make money on a day-to-day basis?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Five Why’s rarely works for general abstract problems like “our product is buggy&# or “our team moves too slow.&# When customers are affected, try to have someone who experienced the customer problem first-hand, like the customer service rep who took the calls from angry customers.

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