Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In my experience, it means it will likely be necessary to supplement your product business plan with some key personal initiatives that define you as a business leader role model for all to see: Take a visible leadership role in your industry. Build relationships with known business leaders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2023

That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count). They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Here, the key metrics are Acquisition and Referral, combined into the now-famous viral coefficient. If the coefficient is > 1.0 , you generally have a viral hit on your hands.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2016

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Finish the product before marketing begins. It’s never too early to start marketing, since it usually takes as long to build marketing momentum as it does to build a product. Marketing should start before product development.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Consumers are becoming increasingly health-conscious and seeking to understand their options for treatments and healthcare products. For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress. Thanks to Sean Stevens, Immerse Education ! #5-

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2015

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. Finish the product before marketing begins. It’s never too early to start marketing, since it usually takes as long to build marketing momentum as it does to build a product. Marketing should start before product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2020

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. Introduce new products and enhancements every month. Growth requires market innovation as well as product. Both are strategies for business failure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2020

That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count). They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Tiny, unknown apps can suddenly go viral and, seemingly overnight, grow to millions of users. Mobile apps and games are known for their unprecedented customer growth and scale, unlike anything seen in traditional retail or Web commerce. The five keys to getting to Support Zero.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? Still, a product is nothing without scalability. You can’t just build a product today, you need to build a venture. million to develop.”.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 13, 2017

Jonathan Price wrote on the same Quora thread that he believes growth marketing to differ from regular marketing because it “is technology-centric and it blurs the boundary between marketing and product development.” A growth team, however, is largely overlapped with product, engineering, and design as well.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. After all, virality often tends to be based on ideas that are new to the public. Two years ago, 93% of Americans believed companies should have a social media presence.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Good short read dispelling productivity myths about employee performance – [link]. Recommendations for usability in product development – [link]. New OK Go Video – White Knuckles (Have these guys mastered full-proof viral videos?) – [link]. Fuck That Noise. Guess What? Programmers can #JFDI it too!

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

I appreciate the thought and care that went into The Farmstand, a product developed by Zooey Deschanel and Jacob Pechenik that enables buyers to garden fresh vegetables without pesticides and less water than conventional gardening. Thanks to Richard Mews, Sell With Richard ! #14- 14- The Farmstand. Photo Credit: Amrita Saigal.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

ProductHunt/ Reddit/ Directories – another form of PR/social media, directories of new products and forums solicit feedback from users and contribute to discovery. Build a community – often overlooked, but building a community around your app can help you build better products and dramatically increase retention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count). They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Remember the whole controversy over Facebook’s Beacon product where a guy bought an engagement ring for his wife and it was published to a stream and ruined the surprise ? So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2018

That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count). They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months. What’s going on?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Like many small companies with limited marketing budgets, we are forced to work with the resources at hand, so creativity, partnering approaches, social media, and viral efforts tend to be our stock in trade. Which brings me back to my old friend (and yours, too, I hope) the four P’s&# Product. Does your product provide value?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

The awards focused on achievement in product development in the following areas: Deck Equipment & Hardware. This interactive activity helps those in the boating industry to sell their products and services by simulating the boating lifestyle. Products and Promotional Items. Mechanical Systems. Electrical Systems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2016

Others do far too little, assuming the viral effect and word-of-mouth will soon kick in, and sales will suddenly grow exponentially. Introduce new products and enhancements every month. Growth requires market innovation as well as product. Both are strategies for business failure.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

You want your company to show up first in the search results whenever someone is looking for a product you sell. When deciding on the purchase of an expensive domain, startup teams should first consider whether the money might be better spent on other areas such as product development, customer acquisition, or hiring new talent. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

In my experience, the majority of changes we made to products have no effect at all on customer behavior. This kind of result is typical when you ship a redesign of some part of your product. Without split-testing, your product tends to get prettier over time. First of all, why split-test? One last note on reporting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2016

That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count). They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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Gust

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I can’t count the times I heard people saying that “product development defines the product, and marketing gets the customers”. I’d like to argue, however, that expanding marketing’s role into helping define the product could save companies a lot of headache. It is shocking to me how prevalent this POV is.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

From these posts, it should be clear that we get excited about social and collaborative platforms where there are strong network effects , virality and daily utility. Unlike code where version control of text is relatively straightforward, product and design IP is locked up in inaccessible file formats (binary).

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

In today’s market ( 8,000 martech products alone ), it’s easier to attract the right customer with material they value than it is to chase down and convert a prospect who isn’t ready to buy. If your product was developed to solve a real-world problem, your ideal customers already exist. email, ads, retargeting, etc.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. Stickiness, Ben and Alistair say, is where people move on too quickly--they don’t make sure they really have a product that has the right features and functionality to meet their customers’ needs.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

If you’re building a startup, you’re likely to be in one of these two situations: Launching and selling a new product that nobody’s ever heard about, and probably don’t even know they need, or… Improving an existing product or service, which means that you’re going head on against someone with more traction, people, and money than you.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Additionally, “a startup is usually a company designed to effectively develop and validate a scalable business model. Product development also occurs in small iterations or changes. Final thoughts.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

This is native advertising in real life, on a real website, acting as a key player in the race for the strongest, viral, engaging content. The company, known for viral social content, is predicted to bring in $100 million in revenue in 2014 from native advertising on 150 million unique visitors a month, according to a 2013 Forbes article.

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Gust

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Too many entrepreneurs develop a new product without regard for market demand , then build an entire strategy based on creating a need, rather than acting on an existing market need. Temper your product with actual market and customer feedback. This means building a brand, viral marketing, and multiple expensive promotions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Offers virality optimization tools and A/B testing inside Facebook.

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