Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

Pick a name, location, and marketing strategy early. Make sure the name and trademarks you want are available, as well as web site address, social media tags, and any other intellectual property. It helps to advertise your new presence with a grand opening, viral video, and traditional advertising to highlight entry into the arena.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 7, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business Marketing 2014: Smart Web Design Best Practices and Tips - crowdspring.co/1dn9KvH. The simplest and most important dashboard for early stage startups - crowdspring.co/1gMgfqV.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. If I were a number 3-5 players I’d be looking to exit early while there’s still a lot of enthusiasm for this hot market. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

As I look at more and more start-ups predicated on viral growth, and at the use of social marketing, its becoming simultaneously easier to understand some aspects of viral growth and still a gap in understanding whats going to be that "hook" that will grab people at the end of the day. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Because it can be hard to define or agree company objectives at an early stage I believe most people avoid them. Measuring viral adoption is obviously important. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? If you change your company objectives or measurements later that’s fine.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Citibank First to Test Revolutionary.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. How did you do that?

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Please note that we expect our members to invest at least $25,000/year in early-stage investments, although there is no contractual commitment to do so. C8 Sciences ( [link] ) markets web-delivered cognitive development programs based on Yale IP of integrated computer and physical exercises.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Business model viability, in the majority of startups, will come down to balancing two variables: Cost to Acquire Customers (CAC) The ability to monetize those customers, or LTV (which stands for Lifetime Value of a Customer) Successful web businesses have long understood these metrics as they have such an easy way to measure them.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

So while ads can be an effective way to grow, spending on user acquisition before figuring out monetisation is a sure way to shorten runway for early stage startups. are trying to automate the process of content creation with GPT-3, but in the early days, there’s no substitution to creating your own voice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? If youre still very early stage, then you need to know what a true early adopter looks like. But all things are never equal.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

They expect a seamless transition between web and device-native applications through color, flow, and overall quality. This is hardly a surprise: a viral-friendly experience and Instagram aesthetic heavily inform the Glossier marketing campaign. They’re at the forefront of the digital branding revolution. Know what matters.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. I knew that OATV had invested in the company and I typically like to look harder at stuff that they do since I consider them to be very savvy with early stage trends. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Read more: TechCrunch.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. channels (search, social, viral, new media), cost-efficient distribution He also points a fair bit to Eric Ries – The lean startup. A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. Great stuff.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur. Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Wow” moments lead to word-of-mouth viral growth and high net promoter scores. The opposite was true for OpenTable where the installation of a personal computer and internet connectivity were part of the early roll-out requirements. When this experience delta is great enough, it creates “wow” moments for new users.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Rely on cheaper forms of marketing : Blogging, email, viral tactics etc. PayPal famously offered a $20 2-way reward in their early stages of growth. If a big corporation is pushing a new product, you might expect them to take out TV ads, online ads, maybe hire a PR agency and set up big distribution partnerships.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The old playbook six years ago was that the web distribution could be bought for a price with Google Adwords. is a progression in thinking.

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Genuine VC

APRIL 30, 2008

After the crash at the end of the last decade, web startups clamped down to focus on their core value proposition and were forced out of necessity for survival to hone their revenue models. The old playbook six years ago was that the web distribution could be bought for a price with Google Adwords. is a progression in thinking.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. It’s not just that we’re connected to the Internet at higher speeds and for longer; we’re actually always tethered to the web. And the future?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

For Web and SaaS businesses with smaller transactions at higher volumes, this kind of modeling and tracking is much easier, as web-based lead generation and marketing have easy to implement measurements, and the greater the volume of transactions, the more clearly patterns emerge. But this can be expensive to increase.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

There are a number of other variables here like virality (the chances of a user referring another user), but I don’t want to overcomplicate things. See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. Successful and failed experiments. I’ll be going over some of the tests we did and our results. Masterful onboarding (cheap).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

It bears repeating: an early-stage startup must focus on making one customer group excited by a mission-aligned product. For software products, they would be the operating systems with big market shares: iOS, Android, web, Mac, and PC.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have, um, customers, you don't yet have traction in sales, how are you gonna judge it? These are the kind of decisions we wanted to help people with at that early stage.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Being an engineer, I built myself a kind of algorithm that helps determine an early-­stage startup’s sales channels, and that’s what I’m sharing with you today. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Well, then you’ve got to go viral. Product virality is an art. Step 1: Figure out the LTV (customer lifetime value).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

They are from my post The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It! I have a massive bias against the current click-bait, let’s go viral , “hot story of the moment” traffic. This limits a little bit what we can track in web analytics tools. Web Analytics Success Measurement For Government Websites.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

If it's the number of invites sent, it's virality. In the early stages of launch, the most important metric was the number of families who fired up the app at least once a day. You're choosing only one metric because you want to optimize it. That metric is tied to a KPI. Step 1: Figure out what metric to improve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. If the viral coefficient is 0.9, Expo SF (May.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Then, you can refine through testing different ads and web landing pages. For example, if you’re an early-stage SaaS provider that is shifting from a horizontal solution to a vertical focus, your mission, culture, and competencies can stay the same and the pivot transition will probably go smoothly. You’re giving out money.”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. Do you feel like the more users you have it helps accelerate, is there some kind of, maybe not necessarily viral, but that people just tell their friends at all.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lessons from a top Angel Investor: Fabrice Grinda talks about his 100 early-stage investments – [link]. New Examples of Brilliant Web Design - [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

Our firm invested at a very early stage in retail brands including CostCo, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ulta, Starbucks and many more. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 “And importantly Web 2.0 companies versus the Web 1.0 And they still do.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. I used a freelance web designer and I only created the core functions to create, send, and manage invoices. Additional resources to help you brand your business: Branding Step 1: Refining Who You Are.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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