Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Some people pretend to have answers for everything, and are only looking for followers, rather than partners. Focus all initiatives around value to your customers. A business must be all about listening to customers, delivering value, and customer satisfaction. Founder and key partners are role models for results.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Balodana provides store hosting and marketing as well as support services such as concierge customer service and style advice to ensure a superb customer experience. Then in 2016 I found a dressmaker in Romania who created fashion-forward designs that were made to measure, and the light bulb went off!

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Although the class was run completely online, and even though they were suffering from Zoom fatigue, the 10 teams of 42 students collectively interviewed 1,142 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, industry partners, etc. How would customer interviews work via video? We Changed The Class Format.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

The most common channels in use today include e-commerce, direct to customer, wholesale to dealers, and value-added resellers. In other words, you may have a great new product, but no distributor penetration means no shelf space and no customers. Treat distribution partners as part of your team. Set marketing plans accordingly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. Mentorship.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With a focus on transforming raw data into actionable insights, Databox has carved out a niche for itself, offering unique solutions for businesses to visualize their metrics in a customized manner. I should have gotten on the partner train. I was 15th employee, I remember the hundred person party, the hundred customer party.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2019

A 2016 meta-analysis confirms this , noting that “leaders’ EI positively relates to subordinates’ job satisfaction.”. Glean insights from clients and business partners. They’ll stay late or work on weekends to make sure important projects are completed. Essentially, the team will rally around an emotionally intelligent boss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Founders soon learn that customers only spend real money for solutions rather than ideas. A good execution requires a plan and the right people, combined to create operational excellence and exceptional customer value. Smart entrepreneurs architect a value chain that includes customers, partners and vendors, based on market dynamics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2016

They don’t realize that strong team engagement leads to even stronger customer engagement, which can more than double your startup revenue and growth, according to experts. Team engagement has to extend well beyond your internal team of employees and executives, to the extended team of partners, vendors, and investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Fundable entrepreneurs have to feel comfortable talking and listening to engineers, financial people, marketing and especially customers. Investors are wary of “equal partners,” who may jeopardize a timely decision. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/10/2016. Relish the challenges of problem solving.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2017

Have a great logo and potential customers will immediately feel a certain way about your brand. Stat that matters : According to a 2016 Vendasta study about online reputation , 61% of consumers are more likely to contact a local business if they have a mobile optimized site. Your website is as important as your store front. Or reviews!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

You need business partners, investors and customers. The best professional relationships may also involve friendship, but entrepreneurs need to be able to manage relationships with competitors, partners and customers who have no interest in being friends. You can’t start a business with friends alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

It’s fine for one to be the visible head of the company, but if you look at recent great successes of recent times, almost always there is a partner behind the scenes who was key to making the right things happen. Do online research on crowdfunding and partner dating sites. Test potential partner compatibility outside of the office.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Kahn had a better idea – several, in fact – that led to the Smart Parka, the first product of North Aware that launched in 2016 with the help of a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. Things like negotiating distribution channels and partners and how to handle market expansions.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

Meanwhile, Sales and Customer Success teams are plugging away, working remotely, as if nothing has changed. Let’s take your standard Enterprise Client Partner, who manages a $3M book of business with 20 Accounts. I’ve had the opportunity to work with some of the best Enterprise Account Executives and Client Partners in the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Things change so fast these days in business that your first priority as an entrepreneur is to stay current, by talking to customers, peers, and experts. Your team will follow what you do, not what you say, so you have to be a role model for market and customer sensitivity. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/06/2016.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2016

The prevalence of mobile devices and smartphones used around the world has forced businesses to rethink the way they reach customers. It is also worth keeping in mind how a potential customer or app user will engage with the app and, by extension, the business. The solution for many businesses is to create a mobile app.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

2016 was a banner year for boldstart , and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family and the founders who have given us the opportunity to invest in and partner with them. The post boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017 appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 28, 2016

At Lightspeed Venture Partners, I have the privilege to coach our portfolio startups on their go-to-market strategies and connect them with CXOs from Fortune 1000 enterprises. A particularly good book for any up-and-coming entrepreneur or salesperson is The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation by Matthew Dixon.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

“ The idea that a business needs to treat its customers well and understand their tastes and habits is so obvious it seems hardly worth stating. To accomplish this, you sell a product or service to your customers and hopefully earn a profit on each transaction. By Steven D. But oddly enough, many big companies fail in this area.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In 2016, an estimated 100 million eligible voters did not cast a vote. Nudge your employees, customers, and community to complete the census. Speak with your media spend partners when you see coverage that you think is unfair, unbalanced, misleading, or offensive. Partner with other concerned executives.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 22, 2016

Seven Tips On Being A Great Customer – [link] crowdspring.co/1RGV93T. Three Great Web/Mobile Tools (social media, customer service, legal) for Small Businesses & Startups – [link] crowdspring.co/1OQizB5. The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016 | by @ ttunguz – [link] buff.ly/1T3827r. 1n9PllS.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In this article, we’ll cover the basics of Google Data Studio—what it is and what it does—and provide you with the know-how to build a custom dashboard for your sales report. Although Google first introduced Data Studio in 2016, it’s gained momentum as a reporting tool only recently. What is Google Data Studio? Select your template.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

On Facebook, an ideal customer may log on to see photos of a new nephew, not to check out a 30-second demo of your SaaS product. Several versions of a video, for example, might target a segment of your customer base or be part of an account-based marketing strategy. Direct Sponsored Content campaign with video not published elsewhere.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 7, 2018

And it is up to us, as well as our partners and resellers, to help them understand the power of AI, and ways it can be implemented into their organisation. Myles Matheson, a Data & AI specialist at Microsoft New Zealand, says the first step in talking to customers about AI is to understand what it means to them.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. At least 12 months of customer history, generally 20+ enterprise customers or 200+ SMB customers. We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Bigfoot Capital. ARR of $500K+.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

At a tactical level, companies can improve their customer segmentation and personalize marketing and sales experiences. IKEA now has a home solar offering that enables customers to generate their own renewable energy; it also shifted to renewable plastics and offers sustainable, healthy food in its restaurants. Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2019

In 2016, the FBI found that $19 million in real estate transactions were “diverted or attempted to be diverted” by bad actors, and that amount increased to practically $1 billion in 2017 — a 5,163 percent increase in just one year. The couple’s only saving grace was their daughter, who purchased the home for them.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

That’s why our first experience will be in a brewpub, where customers can see beer brewed on one side, and pork on the other, in the same type of reactors. In Austin in 2008, I cofounded Sixclear, and led it until 2016. I lived in Austin from 2004 to 2016, and attended SXSW every year. The facility will look like a brewery?—?for

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 30, 2016

Best in class customer service.” That’s a lot of top-notch customer service. Business owners know that great customer service can be a key part of consumers’ decision making process, so they stick this phrase in their marketing packet. Don’t just pay lip service to the concept of great customer service.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital , reports that “37% of our portfolio companies would be considered ‘impact’ qualified companies. Feenix Partners reports that “35% of our portfolio companies have either a female or minority (non-Caucasian) CEO or Owner.” . of venture capital deals.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 25, 2016

And it’s probably one of the biggest differences in seed investing when you compare 2006 vs 2016. We tend to pass on these types of companies when the technology is undifferentiated or the value proposition to the potential customer is unclear.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

In addition, we were lucky enough to finally find reliable partners, thus adding a few more services to our portfolio – like Locksmith and Childcare. We finally found a reliable partner and I am very confident that this service will be as successful as the others we deliver. People who need to up their customer service skills.

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Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2017

I take great pride when my portfolio companies break technology barriers and launch products and/or partnerships that truly move the needle for customers. Bitfusion Flex is the result of extensive customer trust, engagement, and feedback. Customers demanded a new paradigm, which brings us to today!

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Banks and other financial institutions need to take special care to ensure that they can protect the security and privacy of their customers. According to Verizon’s 2016 Data Breach Investigation Report , the motivation for criminals who pursue data breaches is financial. Types of Cyberattacks and Motives of Cybercriminals.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account. It may sound cliché, but we are earnestly committed to building customer-centricity into everything that we do.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Cerebri AI, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve customer relations for companies, announced Wednesday that it has raised $7 million in venture capital funding. The Austin-based startup raised the funds from new investor Arcris Capital Partners and existing investors. Cerebri AI has raised $16.4

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