Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Whether you are contemplating an investment in your favorite startup, or a little-known stock on a public exchange, there is “big data” out there that can’t possibly be evaluated by you without predictive analytics. Investment risk management.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Many thanks, you’ve changed my startup a hundred times already. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. Keep ‘em coming.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2013

I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

Think of it as a selling effort, not an attempt to fully describe your startup. Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation). Business model. Executive team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2011

I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Think of it as a selling effort, not an attempt to fully describe your startup. Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation). Business model. Executive team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2010

I suspect that a good part of the problem is that startup and small business owners still don’t know where or how to start. They don’t know if they should move to social networks for lead generation, branding, customer loyalty, or for direct marketing and e-commerce. Develop a marketing strategy specific to this media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

This is a whole new world for startups seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. With a tactical understanding of two different marketing strategies: demand generation and lead generation. Take Ross Simmonds , Founder and CEO of Foundation Marketing. Use direct marketing to continue the conversation.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

Capture the data – the currency of online direct marketing prior to Twitter was the email address. If a brand had your email address and permission from you to send occasional messages to you then you could effectively market new products or services. Tags: Social Media social networking startup technology Twitter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Think of it as a selling effort, not an attempt to fully describe your startup. Do you now have real customers, are just starting development. Outline your sales and marketing strategy (direct marketing, sales channel, viral marketing, and lead generation). Business model. Executive team. Marty Zwilling.

Elevator Pitch 138

Elevator Pitch Viral Lead Generation Business Plan 138

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

And it’s possible to balance work and family when doing a startup. Family relationships influence founders and their startups. She discovered that investment banking wasn’t for her, and chose to do a startup instead. My father was a dentist, a very prominent dentist in Stanford and he also developed real estate on the side.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

I am a lifetime member of the National Association of Business Executives (NABE), and their resources greatly help me in managing both personal and professional development. I also support various non-profit organizations such as the Small Business Development Center (SBDC). Thanks to Kreisel Jaquish, Hello Vein !

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Paul Graham’s Startup Curve – avoid the “through of sorrow”! Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). First Steps in Growth Hacking for Startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Whether you are contemplating an investment in your favorite startup, or a little-known stock on a public exchange, there is “big data” out there that can’t possibly be evaluated by you without predictive analytics. Investment risk management.

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Analytics Retention Social Media Campaign 177

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2014

This is a whole new world for startups seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Big Data entrepreneur Eric Siegel predictive analytics startup' Investment risk management. Marty Zwilling.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Testimonials- these are the tried and true workhorses of the direct marketing and copywriting world. Take care Paul [link] Simple Techniques Direct Marketers Use To Ensure Success Before Even Launching Products. 3) You spoke about developing trust with your customer in order to lessen purchase anxiety.

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Tim Keane

JULY 20, 2007

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. « A New old Idea: Direct Marketing Revisited | Main. | It is more important to prove that a market exists and that a product works than it is to build infrastructure. Funding startups. Startup ideas. Resources for startups. » July 20, 2007.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Here are ten examples to get your creative juices flowing: Targeted direct marketing. Whether you are contemplating an investment in your favorite startup, or a little-known stock on a public exchange, there is “big data” out there that can’t possibly be evaluated by you without predictive analytics. Investment risk management.

Analytics 120

Analytics Retention Social Media Campaign 120

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Develop your brand. Marketing consulting. Few business owners understand marketing. Yet they still need to create a marketing plan, develop strategies, and execute. Develop Your Brand Identity. This is especially true for new small businesses and startups trying to compete in an increasingly noisy world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem) Lean startups don’t optimize. Many optimizers are in favor of split-testing, too: direct marketers, landing page and SEO experts -- heck even the Google Website Optimizer team. That’s right.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2019

So I think that the big, big thing that people really get wrong about social media, and this is the real impetus behind why I created this book is that people mistake… They think that social media is a tool for what we call direct marketing and not really for brand marketing. So I think of direct sales.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! More amazing bus ads in the Social Media & Marketing section below. How To Grow Your Business With Content Marketing (20 tips) – [link]. – [link].

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. Develop a personal board of advisors about that topic. Go seek out the experts. in honor of my mother.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Gregory Heilers has helped on two startup farms: his father’s 200-acre grass-fed beef and goat farm, which also includes an orchard, a berry patch, and a vegetable garden, with areas set aside for future logging; and on a seven-acre organically grown market garden in upstate New York. See Also: Free Business Startup Checklist.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

If you’re a startup looking for the fabled goldmine of a Google exit, here’s the guy you’ll want to meet: David Lawee. The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. (One Google bought web 2.0

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

3 Growth hacks for early stage startups: Find your scaling lever (HouseTrip, Facebook). Use marketing to amplify your product. Stacey MacNaught – Nobody Pays the Bills in “Social Shares” – Content Marketing That Delivers Tangible Value. Develop a ‘better quality’ ignorance.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 20, 2016

If you’ve got the time, watch his poetic “Modern Man” routine: Comedians like Carlin rail against the softening of language, the vague generalities that (mostly) marketers thrust into public discourse. Today, many people poke fun at startup jargon , business jargon , and even conversion optimization jargon. BMW and Lexus, of course.

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