YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

Every day, your employees do a lot of “little” things that keep your company running smoothly and customers coming back: Refilling the copier with paper when it’s empty. Smiling at customers after each transaction. Todd Patkin grew up in Needham, Massachusetts. I noticed what you did.”. And so forth.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Brad has had some success in working with retailers as well, but I advised him to be careful about the cash flow management. Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. This is an open opportunity for an entrepreneur to build a custom solution. Today, the telecom industry charges customers based on fixed price business models for data services. Cion has 18 customers and is considering funding.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. Rangrut.com.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

This company provides a crowdsourced customer service solution to enterprises. Gio pitched it to me as a crowdsourced BPO, but I think he will have more success if he simply focuses on customer service as his core value proposition. They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Our discussion today was largely around her financing strategy, and one of the key milestones that I probed her on was: What does it take to get a validated customer? Well, it turns out that with about $900,000 and 12 months, Siobhan can get to paying customers. Rajan, however, needs to negotiate his early customers better.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Struggling to manage costs, the start-up closed shop as quickly as it opened. The fleet of cars in Getaround has grown to 10,000 from 1,500 a year ago, and suburban customers make up about a quarter of its bookings. Weve had some awesome people come through," says Kim Gardner, an associate product manager at Flavorpill.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

I am talking about the nitty-gritty reality of operating a business, paying the bills, washing the dishes, and managing employees. Tow other good online resources are Ceridian and HireRight.com both of which can help you to manage the search and the screening process. Payroll and record keeping. Health and disability benefits.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

It is also an excellent platform to address the questions from prospects and help clarify issues and objections for any sales process, which is one of the primary ways Voluble is seeing some of its major early customers using it. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. I asked him about his customer acquisition strategy and heard the word "advertising" a lot: Facebook advertising. Well, all that costs money, I would like to see a more cost-effective customer acquisition strategy.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Marcial proposes to use friends living in the United States to transport products on behalf of consumers in Costa Rica who are regular customers of products from the US e-commerce vendors. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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Up and Running

JUNE 8, 2016

By allowing existing customers to purchase gift cards or gift certificates for friends and family, you not only bring in new customers, but you also increase sales and get paid immediately in full, even if that person never takes you up on your offer. In the U.S. alone in 2016, gift card sales are expected to hit $140 billion.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Then Praful Thachery pitched Delyver Retail Network , a home delivery solution through which Praful is already delivering food, flowers and a variety of other products and services (like dry cleaning) to over 5,000 customers in Bangalore. The value proposition is sound. Photo by barunpatro. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. First up, Raj Sheth from Bangalore, India, presented Recruiterbox , a SaaS recruitment management tool for small businesses, with co-founders Raghu Kancherla and Girish Redekar. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition.

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Brandanew

JULY 17, 2015

About: Social Media Strategies Summit is a three day affair for those who want to learn about building meaningful customer relationships using relevant and engaging content – the two most important foundations of a successful social media strategy today. Place: Boston, Massachusetts. Place: Boston, Massachusetts.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. From employees to customers to investors, and entrepreneur has countless stakeholders depending on them at all times. Although I’ve managed it, there has always been a temptation toward complacency.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 21, 2023

EMP’s electricity reliability research focuses on developing and enhancing reliability data, metrics, trends, and economics; improving the understanding of the relationship between power system reliability and customer benefits; and promoting applications of reliability-value-based planning.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

He lives in Central Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. Me: And I am an honest customer. This is a guest post by Mike Lemovitz which originally appeared on his blog. He works in marketing for a large healthcare organization, and moonlights as a photographer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. Learn more at [link].

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. Athenahealth version 1.0 was a complete failure. And when you do pivot, pivot hard.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

Seth Godin once said, “You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.” Friends into customers? Customers into salespeople? Curate and customize your shop’s product catalog. Manage orders. ” [Tweet It!]. Image Source.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Open Courseware program is high-quality information from a renown and trusted institution. Managing a Business Sales and Marketing' To make it easy to get started, we’ve rounded up ten free online marketing classes from the best institutions and sites around. The Basics.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2016

by Stephen Wunker, David Farber, and Jessica Wattman, authors of “ Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation “ This past August, Mass Innovation Nights launched its 11 th MIN FOODIE event in Somerville, Massachusetts. Segment the market to find under-satisfied customers.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Kittredge started making candles in his Massachusetts home and started selling them to interested neighbors.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

First, Ankit Duggal from Clifton, New Jersey, pitched RER LLC , a firm that currently manages a real estate investment fund and is working on an investment advisory service catering to real estate investors - individuals and small businesses. In addition, I also suggested testing the wealth manager market. Discuss.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

She partnered with Rett Clevenger who at that time was an online media manager for a large e-commerce site, to launch Steals.com in April 2008. Most of the customer service staff is able to work from home for 30 hours a week. Being a completely bootstrapped company, Steals.com cannot offer its team the best possible pay.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

When a company produces their new and exciting product, it is important that they give the customers the best possible option. You will learn information management, how to organize information, how to put importance on certain parts of it, and how to share this information in the most effective way. Massachusetts, Boston.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. In February, he had about 200 customers. Happy Grasshopper has incredible testimonials and a host of satisfied customers who are now helping build word of mouth buzz. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Bhupendra has built a product and has started engaging a few customers. My key advice to him was to focus on acquiring customers, and getting a thorough positioning exercise done based on segmentation, competitive analysis and market sizing to identify a segment where competition is less active and the product is particularly effective.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

At today's roundtable we saw three very nice businesses, each with pilot customers, and each working on real problems. Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

A contract with the Center for Global Health at Partners/Massachusetts General Hospital. makers of the #1 selling business planning and management software in the world, develops and publishes tools, products, and content to help small and midsized businesses plan, pitch, and manage their ventures. Palo Alto Software, Inc.,

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

First up at this week's Strategy Roundtable was Cheryl Yeoh presenting CityPockets , an online destination, and an app for managing daily deals across a wide range of sites. Such OEM deals may cost him 50% of his product revenue, but would be the fastest way to reach a large number of customers, nonetheless.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

Meaningful workplace gratitude is easiest to spark when it comes from leaders, but eventually that attitude will start to also spread between employees; from there, it’ll even trickle down to customers. Just as employees respond well to gratitude, so do customers and clients. All of that is great for business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. Boost sales and engage customers all from one powerful platform. Capture leads.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 10, 2011

First up, Nimesh Khiara from Mumbai, India, discussed StopWaitin , a restaurant reservation system that includes managing waiting lists and is similar in concept to OpenTable. It would be much cheaper to acquire customers this way. Edward has a medical tourism portal customer for whom he is building such a solution. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

for the app and has 30,000 customers. He asked me if he should offer the app for free to get more customers. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. Richard is currently charging $1.99 I said, no.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

First, Jose Briones from Dallas, Texas, pitched SPOTS Online, a QuickBooks add-on product for companies that have to manage complex supply chains but are not quite ready to take on the expense and complexity of an ERP roll out like NetSuite. The solution looks compelling, and Jose clearly understands the pain of his target segment.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

Mike wants to manage online identity on behalf of consumers so that they can maintain multiple identities for different types of sites, say photo, career, etc. Mike's customer acquisition strategy is weak at this point, and he also has a rather broad strategy in approaching this market. Remote Stylist. Photo by Bessarro. Discuss.

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