Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Best Practices For Email Marketing For Small Business and Startups – crowdspring.co/1t8KeUm. Small Business and Startups: Number One Leadership Skill – crowdspring.co/1CKROUS.

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OCTOBER 4, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: What Would Mom (and Pop) Do? Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: 6 Traits of Great Businesses – crowdspring.co/XMbzgT. The Metrics Required for Raising a Series A Round | EquityZen – crowdspring.co/ZEAcxq.

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JUNE 20, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Lead Velocity Rate (LVR) Is The Most Important Metric in SaaS | saastr – crowdspring.co/U3ZbaM. The Optimal Average Customer Value for SaaS Startups – crowdspring.co/1ib05xm.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II) - crowdspring.co/1atXci8. Good whitepaper on advertising measurement metrics | by Ben Kunz – crowdspring.co/HsVIMR.

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APRIL 5, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric – [link]. ” – [link].

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MAY 10, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 Myths about Startups – [link]. How a 1-Page Business Model Will – and Won’t–Help Your Lean Startup | by Kevin Dewalt – [link]. ” [link]. – [link].

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JULY 10, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Why this incubator takes the studio approach to startup creation for.tn/1D0Wh6C. 5 Tips for Launching a Startup With Little Money – buff.ly/1JUdHqF.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Arming & Aiming: How to handle sales objections at a startup – [link]. The Importance of Customer Experience to your Startup – [link].

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MARCH 25, 2012

We write often about marketing strategies and tactics for small business and startups. The Lean Startup movement provides a wonderful template, and Ross wrote a great post in which he discussed how managers can use these principles in their own marketing campaigns. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” If these sound like reasonable answers to you, and you are in a startup/small company, update your resume. What I was actually hearing was a failure of management.

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Startup and Small Business Marketing: Website Optimization Mistakes – [link]. Startup and Small Business Marketing: Website Optimization Mistakes – [link].

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MARCH 8, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 5 Startup Costs You Might Not Have Thought About – [link]. Why Startups Fail – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Small Business and Startup Tips: Analyzing Your Search Data | @crowdSPRING Blog – bit.ly/1EFd59a. 30 Startup Lessons – buff.ly/1DIXcZy.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 17 Simple Tips On Working At A Startup | LinkedIn – [link]. Startup UX and Design Demystified | 500 Startups – [link]. Humans need to know why – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

Traditional banks have helped fuel business and economic growth by providing small business owners with startup loans, general business loans, lines of credit and refinancing programs, to name a few. Starting a small business, and keeping it running smoothly, requires capital. How it Works.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

The perfect startup pitch helps entrepreneurs separate their companies from a growing amount of competition. Startup activity in the United States increased in 2016, continuing an upward trend that began in 2015 , according to the Kauffman Foundation. How to Make a Startup Pitch. Design is critical to a startup pitch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The 4 Personality Types Every Startup Needs | ONStartups – [link]. What are the coolest startup culture hacks you’ve heard of? Quora – [link].

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small business and startups: great reads from the business press – [link]. 9 Metrics to Help You Make Wise Decisions about Your Start-Up – [link].

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MAY 25, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Excellent tips for startups on hiring product managers – [link]. Optimizing Emotional Engagement In Web Design Through Metrics – [link].

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Biz and Startup Tips: 5 Ideas to Prepare for an Economic Recovery – [link]. 5 Reasons The Windy City is a Great Place for Startups – [link]. – [link].

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JUNE 8, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Billion-Dollar Startup Club: Then and Now – [link]. Display Ads Lift Branding Metrics – [link]. The image above is one of a number of very aggressive ads. .

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Humility is Essential for Every New Startup Hire – [link]. Metrics for Series A – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Also think about your public relations efforts – promoting your story via local and industry media will only help grow your sales! Monitor metrics across all aspects of your business – whether it’s the amount of time or money spent to complete a project or the cost of customer acquisition and customer retention.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2010

Maybe you’re a newly hired entry-level marketer who wants to learn the soup to nuts of everything you need to master to one day become the top VP of Marketing or CMO of a huge venture backed startup. How do you run a keyword campaign? What’s an affiliate network? How do I improve my conversion funnels? Should I be buying e-mail lists?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Like most business startups, NFPs should also write their plan out in the form of a report or a presentation. Ross made a video on this topic and it is just as relevant for NFPs as it is for all small business and startups. Related posts: Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups.

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MARCH 13, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Essential Email Marketing Metrics You Should Be Tracking | Hubspot blog – crowdspring.co/1gY786G. Yahoo: Destroyer Of Startups | ReadWrite – crowdspring.co/1gY8bTY.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 9, 2010

Appozite , an Austin-based startup and the creators of CheapTweet , today announced the launch of its new professional Twitter analytics service, TweetReach Pro. This new offering, TweetReach Pro, is targeted at marketing, public relations, and social media professionals who coordinate Twitter campaigns.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 19, 2013

Look at all of their accounts, dig beyond their main FB and Twitter accounts to their more targeted channels that promote everything from specific offerings, to their own philanthropy, to their public relations and media channels. Establish metrics.

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MAY 23, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 12 indispensable digital tools for startups | Blue Sky Innovation – crowdspring.co/1vm5ncs. Ruthlessness and Grit in Startups | by @ttunguz – crowdspring.co/1odycDT.

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MAY 8, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Steve Blank On Why Most Startups Fail, And It’s Got Nothing To Do With Technology – buff.ly/1IhCLrF. – buff.ly/1EY9ktL.

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APRIL 24, 2015

We so like to talk about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! The Startup Revolution Is About To Surge Again bit.ly/1yLp2YC. Why Revenue Isn’t the Most Important Financial Metric for Startups buff.ly/1DhyQo4.

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JUNE 5, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! The Traffic Prediction Accuracy of 12 Metrics from Compete, Alexa, SimilarWeb, & More – buff.ly/1KBkzIK. audio/draft/ro….

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! My Golden Rule for Pitching Your Startup or Product – crowdspring.co/1n4zIpz. Six Key Benchmarks for Your SaaS Startup | by Tomasz Tunguz – crowdspring.co/W6wR8d.

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JUNE 13, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Most Effective Price Discovery Question for Your Startup | by Tomasz Tunguz – [link]. 30 Examples of Startup Landing Pages | InstantShift – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Optimal Average Customer Value for SaaS Startups - crowdspring.co/NrGI59. Say no to SaaS vanity metrics - crowdspring.co/NzqJ53.

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