YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2020

Fortunately, there are inexpensive but straightforward ways to gain exposure during the initial stages of starting up the company: Be Visible In Search: Visibility and ranking in search engines are crucial for businesses who want to gain exposure and become more competitive in their industry. Provide Relevant Business News And Information.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Alow users to generate, refine, and stitch different content types in one workspace Enabling in-platform refinement – AI products can help users identify what can be improved, and then automatically make these changes. Iterating with intelligent editors – products that enable users to take an existing output and refine it (ex.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

Currently, it feels like every sharp technologist is pouring their effort into generative AI models or embedding them into their products—a movement too significant to overlook. The first time you try to do anything with a generative AI product, it feels like magic. Are these features, products, or actual companies?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Traditional video had very high costs of distribution due to limited time slots of broadcast TV (we only had enough spectrum to support 3-4 channels). The number of channels grew with cable & satellite TV but we still have limitations that makes distributing content high. But distribution is now unlimited. Not so fast.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Isaac Cambron is co-founder and CTO of Zensight.co , whose pre-launch product enables sales reps to find and use their best content to close more deals. Below, he answers questions about developing products from scratch, as well as the difficult technology choices and tradeoffs CTOs must make.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Fisker, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

Electronic speed controllers regulate power distribution from the flight battery to the motors, while the flight controller acts as the drone’s computerized brain coordinating inputs and stabilizing altitude. Motors directly impact maneuverability, lift capacity, and flight times based on wattage specifications.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Until we start giving grades for resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition, tenacity and having a passion for products and customers, great grades and successful entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.). Lessons Learned.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Yet while product launches are a risk, they’re not as risky as you think. Image source ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2013

For years we’ve worked in small, distributed engineering teams and we’ve always struggled to find the right tool for communication. We primarily use chat because software engineering is very text-oriented. We tried many different products: free, paid, basic, complex. None worked well for us.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

For example, in hospitality and digital marketing; hospitality and entrepreneurship; hospitality and IT, hospitality and engineering, just to name a few. It is also important to not be afraid even after failing to launch new tourism products or business models. One must have a huge appetite to learn novel skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. Production costs have fallen more than 90%. Distribution costs have, too. hours of TV / day. They read less than 30 minutes.

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Rembrandt Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

know which news wire services distribute credible news and which ones don’t. If you distribute your news via a “cheap” distribution service, it will probably be ignored by the press … unless you are a well-known company or celebrity. Watch out for press release templates and search engine postings. Does anyone care?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Marketing a brand or product can be a daunting task for the uninitiated. Design, print and distribute. It’s now the name given to eye-catching and simple advertisements that can be distributed across social media, and not just in your city. However, take a moment to think back to how the old guard used to handle it.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

The way in which small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) approach online marketing is being revolutionized by SpeedyBrand, a cutting-edge startup that is a pioneer in the field of search engine optimization (SEO) content creation. The content can be personalized and edited through the user-friendly dashboard before distribution.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Set your sights on Google’s Popular Products 4. To get to the heart of what customers care about, conduct customer interviews and ask open-ended qualitative questions such as: When did you realize you needed a product like ours? Who might their products and brand appeal to? Leverage FOMO in social media marketing 3.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2020

You can use these elements to promote your business products or focus on your message as a whole. An eCommerce shop doesn’t have to just list products; it can feature a blog too. This helpful content is an ideal way to focus on keywords for your website and strengthen your position in search engines.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Value Propositions and Customer Segments are covered in weeks 1 and 2, emphasizing the search for problem/solution and then product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While most of the early attention in a startup is paid to finding product market fit ( the match between value proposition and customer segment on the right-side of the canvas) it’s the left side of the canvas that will tell you what your founding team should look like. So What Does this Have to Do With A Founding Team?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

No brand, no features, no customers, no money, no distribution, no search engine rankings, no efficient advertising, no incredible executive team, no NPS, no strategy. I apologize in advance for using the dang iPhone as an example but… The iPhone is one of the most successful and important products of the past few decades.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Growth hacking has resonated in the startup community due to today’s growth challenges: new channel creation, channel saturation, the “best product” fallacy and “product-growth” fit. Since this change in the OpenGraph, both products have seen their traffic decline. The best product fallacy. Product-growth fit.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

For example, manufacturing companies use On-demand courier delivery apps for kickstarting their production activities in their factories and plants. The user chooses a particular courier service – and adds important information like the type of products to be delivered, pick-up, delivery destination, and deadline for delivery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. Products requiring changes to government regulations. For new car companies such as DeLorean and Tesla, designing and testing the product is only the beginning.

New York City 202

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. Back then, an entrepreneur used a serial product development process that proceeded step-by-step with little if any customer feedback.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Tech startups were running out of cash prior to launching great products over talent shortage and ever-increasing salaries and rents. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc. The country experienced the worst of an earthquake and coronavirus outbreak.

Technical Review 132

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Think of the iPhone and its yearly new models.). Days of Futures Past for Tesla.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy.

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Rembrandt Communications

APRIL 1, 2023

It’s a simple, one-page document that provides information about events, products, services, awards, and other news happening at your business. Usually, it’s written in the standard AP Style and distributed to media members via a distribution service. Appear on the search engines… indefinitely. Attract top talent.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The first was a shakeup in our software engineering team, which was originally based out of New York City. We used an agile coach to help us navigate the challenges of remote working on a software engineering project and the project went extremely well. Our team went from being fully in-office to an international distributed team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Entrepreneurs always work hard to create an innovative product or service, but often count on standard seller marketing for sales. Distribute an Executive Summary and Recommendations report, as well as transcripts of your interviews, to all the key players in your company. Align your business model to how your customers want to buy.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Still, a product is nothing without scalability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It’s easy to get so pre-occupied with handling the business rollout that you forget to maintain and increase your social media interactions, search engine optimization efforts, and highlighting positive customer reviews on your website. Continually add new marketing and distribution partners. Real growth always requires real marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2022

I’m talking about the kind of change that moved Apple from personal computers to music distribution to consumer electronics, and Amazon from books to e-Commerce to cloud computing services. Initially, all companies sell to customers who are the easiest to reach and most excited about the new product.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2011

In a developer panel discussion this morning, there was a muted but robust discussion around the creation, distribution and monetization of apps. CEO and co-founder of Swagsoft Aldric Chang recommended search engine optimization (SEO), especially for apps that have highly targeted audiences, such as those for legal and medical use.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2019

You can find reviews about products or services on different websites, such as [link]. You can use social media as social proof, which is a popular way to promote your products and services. Real people or social media users and influencers usually boast of photos and videos of a product or brand.

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