Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists. Marty Zwilling.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

The most successful agencies are beginning to invest more time and money in content marketing to establish expertise in their industry and, more importantly, generate inbound appointments. With industry trends identified, your next step is to identify relevant communities and conversations. Information about your audience.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A CPA provides input on tax structure and metrics, and assists with due diligence related to your industry. Consider the county of your registered agent for service of process and principal place of business, where you will be subject to lawsuit. Think about your employee and ownership hats. Must you wear both simultaneously?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Since my business is a part of the lawn care industry, the way in which we operate can have a massive environmental impact. My company is designed to inform the public and help them make smart, financially acceptable decisions without being taken care of. 9- Giving to non-profits. . #1- Being greener.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2021

For example, I believe that Starbucks surprised most people by proving that they could take a commodity business, a coffee shop, and make it a worldwide profit winner, just by justifying premium pricing with a quality product, the right locations, personalized service, and appealing to the professional customer personas.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Ten years is not a very long time, but in a world of exponential technology, a lot can happen. Sure, some of the ideas below might seem like science fiction or fantasy, but so was much of the technology we take for granted today. Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. Thirty of them, to be precise.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. This industry is so mature now that the cat-and-mouse game between companies and Google has gotten sophisticated. It’s worth a quick read.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

A finalist in the Blockchain category , which will pitch at 9:30 am Sunday, March 10, Steamchain is unlike any other Industrial IoT company in the market today. Steamchain values key information over big data. How did your team decide what key areas of information to focus on? Do you foresee a future with institutional buy in?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2016

Leveraging Embedded Competencies. Brand extension and market growth can be aided by a family name in ways a non-family brand name cannot. As an example, Apple may be able to expand into other technological markets related to computing and mobility, but the brand identity may not extend much beyond closely related industries.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The changeable ‘new normal’ we find ourselves in means that much of what influences consumer behaviour and ultimately informs business action, will continue to be difficult to predict. If late payments are putting finances under pressure, it pays to invoice as soon as your product or service has been delivered. Tweak operations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In a lot of ways, I think the real service posts like this perform is to put a name on things that people are already starting to feel. I don’t claim to have special knowledge about the future, I view things through a lens informed by the thousands of conversations I have with business owners and influencers alike.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2014

Exhibit A: Seventy percent of Americans are disengaged from their jobs, which leads to the poor customer service we experience all too often. Exhibit B: Impersonal automated call technology increases the time we must wait to talk to a human (not to mention our frustration!). In fact, not caring seems to be an epidemic.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

By contrast, Staples closed down some underperforming facilities but increased its workforce by 10% during the recession, mainly to support the high-end product categories and services it introduced. Smart marketers will recognize this and be empathetic to the realities of journalists, customers, and their industries.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). So did the media.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 12, 2023

And, ChatGPT does have an uncanny ability to speak coherently and informatively on a huge range of subjects, because it’s been trained on a massive corpus of text from the internet, then fine-tuned on examples of human dialogue. People absolutely love using its conversational interface to fulfill their information needs.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. While there are certainly still products and services fetching big price tags with little to no revenue, the majority of companies in our year-end roundup are building products that will have an impact on how we think about technology.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Unless you’re creating a new industry, you will have competitors. And you’ll need to figure out how to beat them or at least to compete with them. To understand your competitors and the industry, you’ll need to do market research. A great business plan should be compelling, interesting, informative, and exciting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Most technical entrepreneurs cringe when they finally realize that marketing is still king, despite the power of technology, and they are up against competitors who have a hundred times their spending power. This message is defined as the knowledge or information that will be retained by customers after they are exposed to your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists. Marty Zwilling.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 22, 2020

It impacts the pace at which businesses grow and it remains interesting to see trends that will emerge from some of these technologies. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the technologies that will have the biggest impact on technology and here’s the responses. #1- 6- Two technologies.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Your success or failure will not rely upon the historical data and industry statistics, but from how well you manage daily operations. For instance, a portion of your budget for direct mail services per year can be cut significantly if you decide to bundle in your print and mailing house services to one provider.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2015

Image via Flickr by socialautomotive Most technical entrepreneurs cringe when they finally realize that marketing is still king, despite the power of technology, and they are up against competitors who have a hundred times their spending power. Ryan and Rob “Spider” Graham. The first step is to create the perfect online marketing message.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

4 – There Were 2 Gaping Holes in the Industry. It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. 13 – The Industry was Antiquated. Image Credit: Jonny Nicol.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Intel attempted to compete, (and actually owned an ARM license) but fell victim to a classic failure of ignoring a low-end disruptor and hobbling their own chances by deciding not cannibalize their own very profitable x86 business. In contrast, startups operate with speed and urgency, making decisions with incomplete information.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2012

People gather information from mixed sources. According to a relatively old study (2009) by Harris Interactive, the most common methods of gathering information prior to making a purchase are. There are huge incentives in consumer markets even for competing companies to make everything the same. Not necessarily. Image source.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 8, 2022

For us, we like to focus our marketability particularly when those in our industry, such as ISPs, slip up. Listening to the noise in your industry can let you know when to jump in and take control of the conversation or to become a prominent part of it without having to become part of the noise first. Photo Credit: Drew D’Agostino.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists. Marty Zwilling.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

With the advancement of technology, there are several changes that have been taken part in each and every sphere especially of the sectors that are related to IT sector. ITIL stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library. It is globally recognized around the world and across industries. Basics of ITIL.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. That’s what we call “blitzscaling”. Take Amazon, for example.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Zoom is the company that most impresses me with its ability to completely satisfy the schedule of an industry and to shift our physical availability routines. DeWalt is an innovative industrial tool company that I really admire. They are free-thinkers and I admire how they viewed the potential in technology and made it happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2015

Most consulting services, like marketing, are not scalable, since they must be delivered by experts, and cloning experts is slow and expensive. Investors don’t invest in services startups. I see too many business plans that are really product plans for customers, touting free services and long feature lists. Marty Zwilling.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

There are two primary reasons that startups fail: One, the execution of the idea is poor (wrong location, poor product, bad service, etc) and two, the startup is not making something that people want. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

The global healthcare industry is in flux like never before. It is one of the first few industries to embrace digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, mHealth, wearables, telehealth, and robotics. Just claiming your product or service is revolutionary isn’t going to be enough.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

We currently work for a top financial services firm while we focus the majority of our efforts on our startup. While our industry is the educational sector, our target market is primarily high school students, undergrad and graduate students. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

But even if he’d had more knowledge about the fundamentals of epidemiology, and if he’d shown more competence in directing the resources he had at his disposal, knowledge and competence alone are no longer enough to effectively combat the spread of pandemics. In our globally connected world, a slow response means catastrophic loss.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

I saw an opportunity to create a firm that would be significantly more prepared to compete in the LED lighting industry. Having spent a significant portion of my career in high technology, I viewed LED lights as electronic devices whereas the majority of competitors viewed them as lighting devices. #2- Saw an opportunity.

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