VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Interestingly, there’s now more than 1,200 unicorns, but with the current state of the market it’s unclear how many will be able to justify yesterday’s price tag at exit. The 7 Traits of “Super Founders” 1. They are able to articulate this vision in a way that inspires others and generates excitement.

Founder 88

Founder Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation 88

Up and Running

APRIL 30, 2021

It’s when they keep quiet about the problems they are facing, and you don’t know about them, so you can’t solve those problems to support your team. Tag team members only if your message relates to them. Why not organize self-development sessions online? Communicate well and often.

Management 132

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2014

It seems like almost all technology goes to market with a “beta” tag attached. Instead, they can solve real problems based on user feedback and cut down on development time. by Sam Bahreini, co-founder and COO of VoloForce. After all, Gmail wasn’t taken out of beta until 2009 — five years after it was originally released.

Customer 231

Customer Development Team Review Cofounder Agile 231

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Architecture professors could tag campus buildings with QR codes, sharing their history and design with students. Put math problems on campus. Share problems and answers through QR codes, posting them on campus for other students to find. Create a math mystery worksheet that students can solve with QR codes. Music sheets.

Software Review 262

Software Review Technical Review Mobile Video 262

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

The problem, is historically, the investment in time and resources required for traditional digital solutions can feel out of reach, and the type of programs used by corporations aren’t practical for SMBs for daily operations like reporting, inventory, or accounting. Previously, this was a popular option among SMB owners.

Artificial Inteligence 164

Artificial Inteligence Analytics SCRUM Cofounder 164

ConversionXL

JULY 2, 2019

To deliver on that promise of professional growth, we had to confront eight key problems facing our team: 1. Whenever a junior analyst had to solve a complicated task for the first time, they made the same predictable mistakes. This process started by defining the problems and questions outlined above. Repeating mistakes.

Analytics 121

Analytics Metrics Distribution Algorithm 121

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. Addressing real world problems, they thrive in uncertainty, generating new jobs and new revenue streams in new markets. Startup founders are driven to solve problems and make a difference – many want to literally change the world. Risk and reward.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Solve everything yourself. Don't solve problems you don't have. Managers at large companies often have the obligation and luxury of thinking about problems that may arise at some future time if things go well. Tags: entrepreneur startup large company survival business. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Early Stage Technical Review .Net 238

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

And it’s not just a CRO problem—it’s a marketing-wide phenomenon. Give the participants a scenario in which they use the site to solve a problem or go through the check-out process. This gives me insight into what problems they’re trying to solve. Ghostery examines the tags that live on a website.

SEO 126

SEO Conversion Analytics Design 126

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

So what are the keys to avoiding this problem for yourself, and recognizing the signs and requirements in your own team, before the “level of incompetence” paralyzes your startup: Focus on communication skills. You will be tagged as the one with the Peter Principle. How many technologists have tried to run startups and failed?

Non-Compete 210

Non-Compete Management Founder Startup 210

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 23, 2010

This isn't just a problem when pitching — it's a problem with you defining who your customers are, what they want, and your role in the marketplace. There's no competition because this is an industry that has never used software to solve this problem.". You're competing against the status quo. Example: Netflix).

Software Review 275

Software Review Technical Review Software Advertising 275

ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

And it’s not just a CRO problem – it is a marketing-wide phenomenon. Give the participants a scenario where they have to use the website to solve a problem and/or go through the checkout process. This gives me insight into what problems they’re trying to solve. Add 1 point for tag management.

SEO 131

SEO Analytics Conversion Search 131

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2020

These tools solve an old problem in a novel way, and, in this case, are designed specifically for the ecommerce consumer. If you have a wide product catalog and complex tagging, you may see value in personalizing content for your audience. Tools won’t solve bigger problems—like a bad product or weak copywriting.

eCommerce 110

eCommerce Sales Software Review Development Team Review 110

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

This is the origin of the “ solution looking for a problem ” and “ if we build it, they will come ” syndromes, which result in surprise and frustration waiting for funding, and waiting for customers that don’t materialize. Tags: strategy entrepreneur startups business. Now it’s your move. Marty Zwilling.

Intellectual Property 231

Intellectual Property Startup IP Finance 231

Gust

APRIL 6, 2014

So what are the keys to avoiding this problem for yourself, and recognizing the signs and requirements in your own team, before the “level of incompetence” paralyzes your startup: Focus on communication skills. You will be tagged as the one with the Peter Principle. How many technologists have tried to run startups and failed?

Non-Compete 148

Non-Compete Startup Management Founder 148

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

So what are the keys to avoiding this problem for yourself, and recognizing the signs and requirements in your own team, before the “level of incompetence” paralyzes your startup: Focus on communication skills. If you are the last to see the problem, or the last to react, maybe it’s time to look in the mirror. Marty Zwilling.

Non-Compete 220

Non-Compete Startup Management Founder 220

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

FLoC tries to solve the simpler problem—interest-based targeting. It works by tagging ads with metadata (e.g., Google recommends that you “implement sitewide tagging with the global site tag or Google Tag Manager in order to minimize disruptions during this time.”. Image source ).

Caching 140

Caching Algorithm Advertising Metadata 140

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 8, 2022

My parents got an Apple IIe when I was around 5 and a game called Rocky’s Boots which entailed chaining together logic gates to solve puzzles. From there I could see how all the games I liked (Sim City in particular) were really engineering problems at different levels of scale. Andrew Bosworth : In two words: video games.

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Video San Diego Seattle Artificial Inteligence 104

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Many Lean Startup experts under one roof The conference features core Lean Startup experts helping you learn the most important ideas.

Lean 165

Lean Fractional CTO Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE 165

ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

As businesses, both large and small, continue to focus on understanding the entire customer journey, data complexity and fragmentation remains an increasingly difficult challenge to solve. If your customer service team has insights into why customers are churning, but your sales team is left in the dark, that’s a problem.

Technical Review 86

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Technical Cofounder 86

Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

A real problem for all of us. Google Photos uses AI to solve this problem. Notice nothing is categorized or tagged in the pictures above. Maybe there is a Move 37 to solve Global Warming, and we simply can’t conceive of it. My goal: Stay ahead by solving new challenges. trillion are on your phone!

Artificial Inteligence 60

Artificial Inteligence Analytics Marketing Campaign 60

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2019

With building an in-house IT department becoming a costly move for businesses that are still growing or still at the initial stages of their operations, business owners are lucky enough to get another option to solve IT-related problems in their companies. Fast Resolution To Technical Problems. Cost Reduction For Your Business.

Demand 182

Demand Operations Hiring Software 182

ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2020

The problem is that the fish may not be where your boat is, may not like the bait you’re using, and as productive as you are—you may come home empty-handed. ZoomInfo solved misalignment by creating a service-level agreement that required a dedicated member of their sales team to call MQLs: ZoomInfo had long struggled with warm MQLs.

Sales 90

Sales Cost Marketing Audience 90

ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

Cold email can potentially reach thousands with the click of a button—which also happens to be the big problem with cold email. Psychographics can provide insight on the “why” —what problem consumers need to solve and their concerns or opinions that relate to your product. But isn’t cold email just another name for spam?

Email 130

Email Campaign Reputation San Diego 130

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

If you were really smart you would use campaign tagged vanity url so you can segment them!]. The Problem: Unfortunately. Most website tag and campaign tracking implementations are poor (to put it charitably). Missing web analytics tag from landing pages. They land on a page that is missing the web analytics tag.

Analytics 122

Analytics Software Review Campaign Flash 122

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The features in Flickr seeded the consumer web gene pool for the following 7 or 8 years--tagging, favoriting, commenting, permalinks direct to content, newsfeeds, social consumption of media, sharing and embedding. Enter the collaborative web--where people get together to actively create, build things and solve problems.

Web 127

Web Curation Open Source Demand 127

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

8- Resolve a problem in a niche. Instead, I wanted to resolve a problem in a niche I had lots of experience in. People have become increasingly suspicious and frustrated of second-hand luxury items, especially when the price tags are lower than usual. Thanks to Mike Staines, HUB ! #8- Photo Credit: Nikita Chen. 23- Two reasons.

Entrepreneur 133

Entrepreneur B2B Database Technical Review 133

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

Tech Target defines brand recognition as: …[the] extent to which a consumer can correctly identify a particular product or service just by viewing the product or service’s logo, tag line, packaging or advertising campaign. One of the most compelling business strategies is to solve a real problem or fill a genuine need.

Small Business 63

Small Business Technical Review Naming Ohio 63

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

However, as an entrepreneur having the tag name, chief executive officer, you have to wear all different types of hats. Ability to solve Problems . Aside from the fact that every business has its ups and downs, the ability to solve the problem and go through hard times is essential in every business career.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Demand Social Media Management 120

Growthink Blog

APRIL 19, 2010

Since then, my wife and I have taken a bunch of steps to fix the problem (I'll tell you about those in a moment). Step 1: The first thing I did was go to the Internet to try to solve the problem myself. I read a couple forum posts on this, and realized I didn't have the technical skills to solve this on my own.

Idaho 87

Idaho Marketing Technical Review Sales 87

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 12, 2010

Sometimes the folks are confused, sometimes friendly, occasionally really pissed, but we’re happy to answer their questions, help solve their problems, (hopefully) assuage their anger, and, certainly, play along with their fun! How we doin? OMG, can we handle this much?

Small Business 69

Small Business Customer Startup Software Review 69

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 12, 2010

Sometimes the folks are confused, sometimes friendly, occasionally really pissed, but we’re happy to answer their questions, help solve their problems, (hopefully) assuage their anger, and, certainly, play along with their fun! How we doin? OMG, can we handle this much?

Small Business 69

Small Business Customer Startup Software Review 69

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

Quite simply, an explainer video is usually a short video that explains who you are, what you do, the problem you solve & who you’re for. It also uses high resolution imagary and sneaks the price tag in the shot – giving the video a similar experience to browsing their website. Specific example of the problem.

Video 122

Video Software Review Cofounder Metrics 122

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2018

Answer your audience’s questions and solve their problems with your content. Be sure to optimize on-page elements with relevant keywords including URL, page title, header tags, alt text, meta description, and within the copy itself. Build a backlink and review strategy. Ensure your site is secure.

Search 74

Search SEO Engineer Mobile 74

ConversionXL

JULY 30, 2021

Google Tag Manager (GTM) allows your team to collect data essential to making smart marketing decisions. Why Google Tag Manager is important for tracking behavior and solving analytics problems. Why Google Tag Manager is important for tracking behavior and solving analytics problems.

Management 140

Management Analytics HTML Naming 140

devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tim keeps a journal which he updates, tags, and adds ideas. CTO should be thinking about things such as the three hardest problems that the company faces, so they know what will also be affecting their competitors. Working on layers of abstraction on abstraction to avoid some possible future problem. I highly recommend this!

CTO Hire 40

CTO Hire Part-Time VPE Architecture Ruby 40

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2013

He has forgotten that new technologies are perceived by most customers as causing more pain than the problems they hope to eliminate. Everyone''s personal perspectives and interests are different, so the key is starting from market problems, and going from there to technology - not vice versa. Quantify the pain points.

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Technology Marketing Startup Engineer 252