The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2020

We interviewed entrepreneur Mr. Peter Agarwal, President/Owner of LED Phantom Distribution, a distributor of high quality LEDs, lighting, and lighting control products. Peter followed a similar path as many successful entrepreneurs, first with early corporate career positions, then getting the itch to build something of his own.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As opposed to other dividends that are distributed on a quarterly or semi-annual basis, monthly dividends are paid out to shareholders each month. It follows a conservative policy by keeping its monthly payout low, thought it distributes a special dividend twice a year. Realty Income. Shaw Communications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2015

If the startup team is distributed around the world, your challenge is to meet their process requirements, rather than expect them to meet yours. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/10/2015. Deliver results rather than recommendations. PowerPoint presentations are not business results.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I love working with people from around the world and truly believe that distributed teams provide huge benefits for small businesses and startups. I’m not alone to think so – according to a study updated in September 2015, the number of people working remotely risen 103% in the past year. This thinking seems very short-sighted.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2019

Most refrigeration entrepreneurs can probably remember when R-12 first came out. That’s right they are working with The Chemours Company, a global leader in fluorochemicals and refrigerant technology, to produce and distribute a new refrigerant to North America. The same thing is now happening in the heating and air industry with R-22.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed. So VCs made fewer investments at lower prices and generally on terms that were more favorable to investors relative to 2015. This chart surprised me the most.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2016

With a product no longer focused on short-term rentals, RelayRides changed their name to Turo and raised another $47 million in funding in 2015. After receiving $4 million in seed funding, the company launched their first product in 2015, a handheld app-connected device designed to detect gluten levels in your food titled Nima.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

With technological advances and globalization on the rise, virtual companies, also known as “remote companies” or “distributed teams,” are becoming more mainstream. As the founder and CEO of Fit4D , David Weingard received the PM360 Elite Entrepreneur award for transforming the diabetes landscape.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Since launching in 2015, MeisterTask has been listed as a top app by the Apple App Store, Google’s Chrome Web Store, WIRED, Zapier and many more, acquiring over 2 million users. In 2015, to enable a full creative workflow from idea to implementation, our team launched our collaborative task management tool, MeisterTask.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2016

By Jay DesMarteau, head of small business and government banking distribution for TD Bank. According to the Kauffman Index, which measures the economic impact of American entrepreneurs, new small business creation experienced its largest year-over-year growth in 2015, resulting in around 530,000 new business owners per month.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2018

What started as an e-commerce hobby selling men’s leggings in 2015 quickly turned into a global business with a steady increase in sales and stockists in the US, UK, Australia and Germany. We’ve put a big focus on distribution and our vision is to have a network that can get killer meggings to our customers wherever they are in the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

As a startup advisor, when I suggest cooperating with competitors, most entrepreneurs initially think I'm crazy or suggesting something illegal. Every smart startup starts with a focus on a unique advantage, such as owning a distribution channel. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/11/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2015

Being an entrepreneur seems to be one of the most popular lifestyle aspirations these days. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to pick the startup model that best matches their real motivation. Every business needs marketing, distribution, a positive revenue model and intellectual property to survive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2015

When pitching to investors, entrepreneurs always seem to start with a customer pitch, then add a slide or two about the business. Investors are business experts, while the entrepreneur is more likely the product expert. Partnerships, distribution channels and pricing models should be included. “If

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Influencer collaborations: Clients will contract an influencer to leverage their social expertise in creating a piece of content but will also have them distribute it to their organic following. January 2015 – #paid opens the doors to all SMBs globally. June 2015 – #paid pivots to open-marketplace model.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2015

So what should an entrepreneur do to convince themselves, as well as potential investors, that they have a viable business model before it is totally proven? To get the visibility and distribution you need will likely require one or two levels of partner relationships and a real model for marketing, events and promotions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

Most new entrepreneurs assume that great investors will find their startups based on the compelling solution the founders have created. Thus it behooves every entrepreneur to optimize their investment strategies early, based on time and dollar costs, as well as odds of success. There are just too many scams.

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The Next Web

MARCH 9, 2015

Matthew Capala is an Internet entrepreneur, SEO strategist, speaker, and author. Content monetization in 2015 involves learning new ways to distribute and market content so that you can reach incremental buyers and leads on platforms that offer a large number of engaged users who are there for one reason: to buy premium digital content.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In 2015, there was $1.77 Dastmalchi, LLC was started by serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Alex Dastmalchi. The Dastmalchi company has a portfolio of health, beauty, and lifestyle brands, and works with global companies to provide worldwide distribution. Based in Newport Beach, Calif.,

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

They focus on helping content creators and app developers create, identify, package and distribute those meaningful video highlights in ways that help them reach more customers and generate more revenue. The Fantag team came together at the end of 2015. COO Cheryl Beninga shared more about the company. Our technology and team.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 8, 2019

Luvleen launched BankMobile in January 2015 – when she was only 28-years-old – with the understanding that everyone needs financial services, yet it is one of the least customer-centric industries that exists today. In January 2015, I founded BankMobile, to give consumers an affordable, efficient and enjoyable banking experience.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In 2015, 9-figure apparel retailer Karmaloop.com filed for bankruptcy. The result of this query was this histogram: This chart displays the distribution of whale second-purchase latencies. This is where you should focus if you are time and cash strapped like most entrepreneurs. They brought me in as CMO. At the margins.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It was stimulated by a recently announced spending increase of 18% for the 2015 budget, borrowing $4 million from the general fund for the municipal utility effort. Beth Hartman recently reached out to me with an extremely clear point of view that parallels mine. Boulder’s Budget: Our Best Bet? By Brad Feld and Beth Hartman.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Between January 2015 and January 2016, we grew our platform Slidebean from $1K to $20K in monthly recurring revenue. This is what our hiring landscape looked like over the past year: Pre-2015, we hired three founders: 1x hustler in charge of strategic growth hacking. 1x hacker in charge of product/development.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2021

However, a reported 40% of small businesses will sustain a claim-related loss by 2025 ( The Hartford, 2015 ). By insuring their business from the very beginning, entrepreneurs can position themselves for success, knowing their assets are covered. For most, if not all new start-up businesses, cash flow is top of mind.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 8, 2021

From its start in 2015, the number of registered users has “suddenly” climbed from 45 million in 2017 to a reported 300 million by the end of 2020. It was as much in reaction to my getting blank stares from entrepreneurs when I asked the above question as it was for me to better understand the problem itself. Here is my list.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Looking back at 2015, the standout theme in the VC/startup ecosystem was unicorn hunting. We started the year enraptured by the “Age of Unicorns” with this cover of Fortune in January 2015 : Illustration: Jeremy Enecio. But clearly 2015 saw the bloom come off the rose for this group of companies broadly.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

More recently over the past few days, projects such as Loot, the N Project and Bloot emerged that distributed building blocks on the blockchain for people to create their own games and game economies. The Philippines and SE Asia have been the largest markets to date for Yield Games.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2016

Amazon’s Annual Letter to Shareholders has become a must-read for entrepreneurs, investors, and business leaders – and the recent 2015 letter provides great insights into how Jeff Bezos thinks and how one of the most successful companies on Earth operates (this year, Amazon became the fastest company ever to reach $100 billion in annual sales).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Image via Flickr by Side Wages Some entrepreneurs forget that they need an innovative business model along with an innovative solution to have a successful startup. Every solution needs a business team first who knows how to market, distribute and support the product. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/02/2015.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

With a little luck, 2015 could go down as one of the best years ever for American business. In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. Barring that, on balance for entrepreneurs and executives out there seeking to make their mark, 2015 is looking nice and juicy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Most of the technologists I know inherently believe that the terms inventor and entrepreneur mean the same thing, so they are frustrated and surprised when they build their products and no business evolves. The term entrepreneur has always been defined as a person who builds a new business, which may or may not involve inventing a product.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

For many entrepreneurs and inventors, mass producing and distributing products simply doesn’t play to their strengths. Most inventers and many entrepreneurs are not prepared for the ongoing struggles with getting a product to market. Entrepreneurs often worry that the lawyers are going to get all the money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and maintenance. Talk to industry experts and investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Too many entrepreneurs look for that one magic bullet -- an exciting new technology, perhaps, or their own determination to make the world a better place -- to override any shortcomings in their startup model. Product distribution or service delivery. Physical products often require access to existing distribution channels.

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