YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

If followed, we believe it can help startup teams navigate the critical early stages of development – and avoid joining a majority of early stage companies that end up on the entrepreneurial scrap heap. Read on to discover why successfully traversing the Traction Gap is critical to early stage companies.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Yet, especially in the early stages of your business, you will have to drive the whole of that process. That doesn’t mean you need to be a software developer or an engineer — though that can be a big advantage, depending on your industry — but you must be comfortable with technology in general. Are you planning for growth?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These five strategies are proven to work for early-stage companies in a variety of industries — including, perhaps, yours. During development itself, utilize engineering simulation software to reduce prototyping costs and shorten trial-and-error timelines. They quite literally can’t afford to wait.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Apps popularly started out as a means for communication (call, SMS), which then evolved to a platform for content consumption in the early stages of data (news, MMS and YouTube), and finally to what we now define as demand services (food delivery, transport and e-commerce). The Need for Faster Communication.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Working with our summer fellows recently on a “preparing a fundraising pitch” exercise, I had them define success for the next 18 months by setting milestones in three broad categories: product/engineering functionality, customer/user numbers, and, if applicable, sales (revenue) targets.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

At this early stage in the game you just can’t afford to have potential customers getting turned away by an unprofessional and sloppy website experience. The content management system that you choose will basically be the engine that powers your website. Your Website Needs a Content Management System (CMS).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

To get your new business on a solid footing at an early stage, your online marketing strategy needs to be supported by the twin pillars of content and social. Publishing high-quality content consistently can help your website become more search-engine friendly and boost your credibility among prospects.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

What is the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) value of new domains? A controlled, PPC marketing study testing the use of different domain names to promote diamond jewelry found that new domain names have a dramatic impact on search engine results. New opportunities for website marketing campaigns and strategies become possible.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Even the IT sphere, well known for entry-level hiring and a never-ending search for talent, has shed a number of early stage positions in response to the COVID-19 virus. The factors are manifold. Closed borders prevent job seekers from interacting abroad, and opportunities for mentorship and talent training are restricted.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

This is very beneficial in the early stages of your business development as it may save you valuable time and resources. This may mean that you are reassured that your idea is one that is going to work, or that you need to rethink your business idea before committing valuable resources. Standing out.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

While apps excel at cultivating customer loyalty, the web remains the main engine driving mobile traffic and revenue, with the mobile web contributing 95% of traffic growth to retail sites, versus just 5% by apps. Prior to founding Moovweb, Ajay was an early stage investor in startups and wrote apps for the very first smartphones.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2020

The Atlantic Council found that the early-stage entrepreneurial activity, which measures the rate of individuals actively involved in business start-ups, is highest in most countries for young entrepreneurs than for older ones. Millennial entrepreneurs are brimming with activity and energy.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Another is Google Ventures, which works with portfolio companies full-time on design, recruiting, marketing, and engineering. Such programs help early-stage companies get the capital they need to fuel growth, especially when banks aren’t lending.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2013

million) worth of hardware and software technology tools that’s developed as an incubation center for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) working on high-value design and engineering services. These include NI’s LabVIEW software, NI PXI, NI DAQ, and NI CompactRIO.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Key to any early stage fundraising effort is a well-crafted Executive Summary, or Exec Summary. If you are an engineer, your vocabulary may include terms that are unfamiliar with the MBA investor. by Ralph (Buddy) Arnheim , partner at Perkins Coie. I have read hundreds of executive summaries over the years.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

It is rare to find someone with a combination of business savvy and engineering talent. Les Trachtman is currently the CEO of The Trachtman Group – focused on helping companies grow and scale, as well as managing director (and majority investor) of Purview, an early stage company focused on disrupting the medical imaging business.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Chances are if things are going good (or even not so good) those early stage startups you were so passionate about 12 or 18 months ago will be coming to the market again asking for more money. Do you have relationships with other investors at the next stage of the investment lifecycle? Plus, founders and entrepreneurs talk.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2014

During its journey across the world, the Seedstars World team held pitching events throughout Asia and staged in Bangalore, Bangkok, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo. Accelerators including the Singapore-based Business Strategy consultancy Galixo will coach and mentor the finalists.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2019

While still in its early stages, machine learning has already had a significant impact on different aspects of everyday life. The evolution of semantic-based search results in search engines. by Ronald Dod, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-founder of Visiture.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Teams accepted onto the program will receive S$25k cash investment, over S$100k in technical facilities, office accommodation, intensive mentoring and an introduction to more than 100 active early-stage investors. Today, that view is changing,” says Meng Wong, co-founder and “social engineer” at JFDI.Asia.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

Chinosorn, a prolific “hobby collector”, and Leung, an engineer, became friends at the University of Illinois and both worked on several startups prior to starting MentorMob. Which means you’ll be learning continually, as well. Learning From Others. MentorMob is bootstrapped and has 12 employees.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

The basic package is free of charge and is suitable for most websites and blogs, particularly in the early stages of development. Search engine traffic can take a long time to build up, so it’s a good idea to try a few other options. You can always upgrade to a paid package later. Choose an Address. Promote Your Website.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2017

Admittedly, many Omaha investors are still wary of early stage investments. There are some really talented engineers and developers here, and often they just want to focus on building great solutions to frustrating problem. Area for Improvement: Sales Skills.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

So even as he worked full-time as an aerospace engineer, he’d work on BlogFrog. Investors scaled back in early-stage investments and used those funds to help current portfolio companies get through the bad economy. The BlogFrog concept was born. He tested it on his wife’s blog, and it became a hit.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2017

Michael Beattie , who works out of Toronto, has married technical skills in using advanced programs for structural design and engineering with a keen understanding of the trends that are influencing today’s residential and commercial construction. Some entrepreneurs do fine when their organizations are smaller.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2014

Do this: Focus a great deal of time into the engineering, market placement, marketing, and support for the early adopters. Run scenarios to understand the effect of launching early versus waiting for the competition to make their move. The human brain is quite terrible at remembering a lot of small details.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

As any engineering VP based in San Francisco knows, it’s a competitive market for technical talent. It’s difficult to hire and retain the top designers, engineers, data scientists, and QA professionals, and an organization’s sustained growth can be threatened by this block to growing engineering teams.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

It is easy to use a cookie-cutter job description; we need software engineers, here’s what a great software engineer looks like. John Vrionis ( @jvrionis ) is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners who focuses primarily on early stage enterprise and consumer technology investments. Creating a Great Team.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2015

Monitor behavior early and often. Because you’re at a relatively early stage, customer frustration and confusion will happen. Consider earmarking a share of engineering time to deliver on customer requests. And you need to be there to smooth them out. Strategically react to feature requests. Customers always ask for more.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2017

But you can’t just sacrifice marketing at this early stage in the game. No matter how limited your startup funds are, investing in effective marketing practices is really just not up for discussion. You need to do it. The more you can stretch that budget, the better.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Keeping this philosophy top of mind during the product management phase is crucial for early stage CTOs, especially when working through backlogs and other barriers that can undermine the user experience.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2011

In the early stages of the human race creativity was confined to learning the basics of survival – making fire, joining wheels, moulding tools, fashioning rudimentary clothes, building primitive shelters. The first group of these is the foundation of an ongoing, successful society which cannot function without them.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Which means that your founding team consists of engineers, a product guru and designers who’ve been associated with Facebook, Google, a hot startup, Stanford, MIT or another top Ivy League or equivalent school. Team means “smart team” as defined by the investor. What makes a smart team? As a result, building a product isn’t the hard part.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Homebrew, an early stage venture firm focused on this same revolution has illustrated the following: An engineer or designer gets work by offering his skills via vertical marketplaces. An entertainer sells music, tickets and merchandise directly to her fans online.

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