YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

by Joseph Michelli, author of “ Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way “. All leaders know this in theory … but how many are willing to bet their paychecks on their ability to knock the customer’s socks off? Customer-driven compensation makes people uncomfortable.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2015

and the author of “ 501 Ways to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Customers “ For many businesses, the holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year. 70% of buying experiences are based on how the customer feels they’re being treated. McKinsey, 2014). Call customers by name.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 21, 2015

We’ve gathered up some of the worst fails of 2014 and included some helpful tips on how to avoid them yourself. When or if your company makes a mistake and customers or employees are telling you they want change, listen. The post The Biggest Business Fails of 2014 and How to Avoid Them appeared first on Bplans Blog.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

INTERACTIVE CHART “ Average Cost of Hard Drive Storage per Gigabyte 1980-2014” Human Progress. Put yourself in the shoes of Mark Liu, chairman of TSMC: Do you view China as more of a competitor or customer – and why? Lee Bell, “ What is Moore’s Law? WIRED Explains the Theory that Defined the Tech Industry ” WIRED , Aug.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

We first released a version of the board meeting deck template template back in 2014 and then a revised version a couple of years later. Updating your investor set, especially to include “asks” for customer introductions, advisor recommendations, and recruiting assistance, gives Founders leverage beyond the team that is on the payroll.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This 4-part story, however, explores the Austin ecosystem based on the 4Cs framework —  culture , capital , customers, and competencies. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers? Silicon Valley is known for early adopters among both consumer and enterprise customers.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How would customer interviews work via video? See here for an extended discussion of remote customer discovery.).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 22, 2020

In 2013 & 2014 , Kim was a Social Media Correspondent and participated in Regional Emmy Award winning videos that were created by newscaster Michelle Li. Their business customers say it’s like adding another staff member. Their business customers say it’s like adding another staff member.

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Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 9, 2014

Want to start 2014 with some great content for your customers? It’s the start of a New Year, and that means potential customers are looking for new content and information to help them reach new goals. What kind of content are you providing?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

But in 2014, the oil price crashed — from $120 per barrel to down below $30. Look inside your business: A catastrophe could be caused by a disgruntled former employee, or a dissatisfied customer who decides to disparage you on the Internet. They may be forces of nature, such as a fire or hurricane, or market fluctuations.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2013

That means it’s time to start thinking about how to improve your business for 2014. Pick a free service like Dropbox or Google Drive, or work with a cloud storage company to develop a customized, private cloud server just for your business. Does your business have international customers or clients? Cloud Document Sharing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. Marketing and sales to Gen-Y customers. You too will be one someday, if you are not already.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Since July 2014 Nadella has evangelized a device-and-platform-agnostic strategy for Microsoft. On the surface, an immediate opportunity created by the acquisition appears to be a greatly expanded customer base to which Microsoft can market Windows software, devices and services. Microsoft’s $2.5

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 17, 2014

Four Important Small Business Insights: Marketing in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1d0lOBF. Empower Your Small Business: 2014 marketing insights, biz plans, resolutions, content marketing – crowdspring.co/1fyj2Z1. Should a Company Create a Separate Customer Service Twitter Handle? by Becky McCray – crowdspring.co/1cXKpqQ.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 12, 2022

Bitcoin value fluctuates according to demand but it can also be traded for other types of currency at exchanges like MtGox which once made up 90% of Bitcoin transactions worldwide before suspending trading in early 2014, shortly after Bitcoin value plunged from about $1200 to around $500. As of this week, Bitcoin is worth about $564 USD.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Unfortunately, for most solution markets, early adopters represent only 10 to 15 percent of the total opportunity, so it’s easy to get mislead on the real requirements of mainstream customers. The good news is that early adopters are never reluctant to sign up as beta customers and will provide you early feedback on product quality.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2013

SPROCKIT 2014 , a year-round program by NAB Show and World Series of Start-Ups that showcases elite emerging companies in media and entertainment and introduces them to industry influencers and decision-makers, is again looking for startups to participate in the coming year’s program.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2014

Here are six tips I recommend small business owners implement for a successful 2014: 1. If there is a product similar to yours available in store or online, how is your product and customer service going to be better or different? Here’s to a successful 2014! Be Different and/or Better. Do your homework.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I thought it might be nice to turn to my network of authors, strategists, social media executives, and entrepreneurs and ask them one question: “What is one prediction you’re seeing others make for 2014 that you just flat-out disagree with?”. Many are predicting that content marketing will offer improved results in 2014.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2014

Young entrepreneurs often are so excited by new technology or their latest invention that they forget to translate it into a value proposition that their customers or potential investors can understand. Customer data integrity and security. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/22/2014.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2015

With Nadella’s message that the company he leads is primed to further evolve into a platform and productivity company communicated at great length during the Windows 10 preview event in earlier January 2014, it is clear that the primary focus for Microsoft has shifted back to increasing user engagement with Windows software.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2016

But that doesn’t mean all of your potential customers are comfortable with it. A 2014 study of 10,000 people found an even higher percentage of people were worried about eCommerce transactions: Image Source. First off, you need to know what, specifically, is making your customers nervous. ” Something seems off here.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2020

In 2016, Yahoo revealed that it had fallen victim to one of the biggest data breaches of the 21 st century (in 2014). In addition to the legal fees , they also had to pay one million dollars to the affected customers. Fast forward to today, even the biggest companies have at one point been hacked or have experienced a data breach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2014

Every new entrepreneur has to initiate the right actions to be perceived as a leader in their chosen business domain by their team and by their customers, or the road to success and satisfaction will be lost along the way. Don’t wait for competitors to force the need for better products, lower prices and better customer service.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Your prospects, customers and partners (and employees for that matter) do not see you as a series of disparate organizations. Even better are those companies open-minded enough to reevaluate every aspect of operations with an eye toward new, customer-centric innovations. They see you as a company. 3 Frustrating Bottlenecks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Message delivery must be customized for each investor. It takes more than one person to build a business, so the lone entrepreneur, without support from any visible team, advisors, partners, or potential customers, will not attract investors. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/28/2014.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

We practice what we preach by leveraging our own business software review platform for valuable research and customer testimonials and it has saved us time and money. From here, we were able to compile a list of the top ten products listed on our site, ranked on customer satisfaction, by small business owners and employees.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. I’ve always said nothing beats the high of getting that first customer to sign up.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2014

by Bill McBean, author of “ The Facts of Business Life: What Every Successful Business Owner Knows that You Don’t “ The confetti has fallen, the ball has dropped, and the champagne has been popped — 2013 is officially over, and 2014 is underway. In 2014, you know your best competitors will work to become better.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2015

How to Use Marketing Automation Throughout the Customer Journey written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. The customer’s journey is often defined in 3 stages: Awareness, consideration and decision. It helps improve customer targeting (30%). Social is a powerful thing.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

Just after closing Fund II in October 2014, Boris took a trip to Toronto. The immediate thing that came to mind was customer support, and so they began to tackle the problem. With Mike and David ferociously developing product and doing sales, they launched the Ada bot with early customers like Medium, Kik and Wattpad.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 14, 2014

A new 2014 State of Marketing Report from ExactTarget presents the results of a survey taken by approximately 2,000 marketing managers. In fact, 57 percent of marketers plan to increase the number of emails they send in 2014. Related posts: How Content Marketing Can Help Grow Your Business in 2014. Conversions are king.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 2, 2014

He’s passionate about building products that delight customers, and also blogs on justinjackson.ca and tweets via @mijustin. But 2014 is a new year. It’s time to go back to basics: who are your customers? Take the beginning of January develop a clear vision of who your customer is, and what they need. Amy Hoy, 30×500.

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SiliconHills

MAY 23, 2014

Toopher, a security platform that helps businesses authentic and verify their customers online, won the ATC Startup Showcase in […] The post Four Austin Startups Shine at the 2014 ATC Startup Showdown appeared first on SiliconHills.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

9, 2014 event was the largest its recent history, raising expectations and questions about how the company was going to deliver on its promises of new products. Most of the new features and capabilities had been rumored or disclosed at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June 2014, and most of the improvements were incremental.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

Just a few weeks after we finished the website, this business had paying customers coming from Google search and free Craigslist postings. Sales dropped dramatically in a matter of weeks, and still haven’t gone back to their 2014 high. Keep your customers close. See Also: How Should You Handle Unhappy Customers?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 4, 2014

For entrepreneurs in and around the tech industry, conferences are an excellent way to get up to speed on the latest developments, find great new services, and get a read on potential clients and customers — plus, you never know who else you’ll meet. Aside from TNW, which conferences are worth it? Their top 10 answers are below.

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