Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2017

Reports suggest that 90% of today’s shoppers skip marketing pitches, to research online before they buy, and over 50% check user reviews before making a decision. Kristin Zhivago, in her classic book “ Roadmap to Revenue ,” makes the point that the selling system is broken, since sellers no longer sell the way customers are buying.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

Last year, I gave a presentation on how we generated 40% year-over-year organic revenue growth by focusing on out executing the competition, not outsmarting them. You still need to: Create quality content on relevant topics that users search for; Make sure search engines can access it; Establish your site as an authority.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Those that didn’t provide mobile-friendly options in 2017 were hit with SEO penalties in their Google rankings, so it certainly pays to go responsive – that’s before you consider that a third of all online orders are placed via smartphones ! When it comes to e-commerce, we’re very much in a review and research age. PCI certification.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Legal cannabis generated $16 billion in total economic output in the United States in 2017, and research indicates it will increase 150 percent by 2021, according to a report from cannabis industry analysts Arcview Market Research , in partnership with BDS Analytics. The global market for CBD oils is expanding due to their medical efficacy.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

Having spent a significant portion of my career in high technology, I viewed LED lights as electronic devices whereas the majority of competitors viewed them as lighting devices. 7- Lost a job due to ill health. All of a sudden, I felt the need to reach out to her but Facebook yielded no results and Google had a billion search results.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2019

App time made up nearly 20% of total media time in 2017. According to ThinkWithGoogle , 81% of the users search for a product or a service online and 26% of them search for the apps related to that product. Finally, a mobile app gives your customers an opportunity to say what they want —a suggestion, a review, or a complaint.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Flash Pack turned over its first £ 1 million in 2016/17 and grew to £4 million revenue in 2017/18. We want to build up a movement of like-minded people searching for a challenge and escapism, just as we were. Flash Pack’s co-founders and husband and wife team, Radha Vyas & Lee Thompson. This resulted in 1.4

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The solution has to balance four variables: Revenue for publishers that sell ad space; Targeting capability for ad networks; Return on ad spend for ad buyers; Privacy for users who see ads. Publishers will get their ad revenue. Ad platforms will keep selling inventory. But eliminating third-party cookies won’t improve ad targeting.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

3- Due to financial difficulties in my family. I started my business when I was forced to drop out of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA due to financial difficulties in my family. So I got to work and jumped in on starting my business, TTYL—a tech-free community. This makes all the stress worthwhile.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

On his website, he states that, “new technologies – robots, software, artificial intelligence – have already destroyed more than 4 million US jobs, and in the next 5-10 years, they will eliminate millions more. Technology is going to displace many more workers than it’s going to create opportunities for in the coming months and years.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Leverage Cutting-Edge Technology. This took place in 68 counties in 15 languages with 250,000 applicants from July 2016 to June 2017. Recruiters’ time spent reviewing applications decreased by 75%. To build a strong virtual bench you must widen your search and appeal to candidates from different backgrounds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Hello Alice is a free, data-driven, and multichannel platform helping small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools while increasing owner success rates. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Alice started back in 2017.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

All I have access to is just a cursory review of their digital existence. There are Search people and Content people and Landing Page Optimizers and Cart fixers and Attribution Specialists and more. Outcomes: Revenue | Ideas Funded Behavior: Path Length | Cart Abandonment Rate Acquisition: Assisted Conversions | Share of Search.

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ConversionXL

JULY 19, 2018

This resulted in a $2 million increase in revenue in three months. HR GO , an HR recruitment firm, used Sentient Ascend , AI-powered conversion optimization technology, to test 1,080 designs on their site. They experienced over 153% more conversions, according to VP of Marketing for Sentient Technologies Jeremy Miller.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I don’t feel comfortable sharing exact revenue numbers but it’s now making me more than $1,000 per month. Thanks to Cynthia Brown, Only Top Reviews ! #4- 4- Home technologies. Due to the need of having to market myself, I learned social media and SEO. Very little work due to it being drop shipping. 14- Fiverr.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Moat, the biggest exit out of the bunch, was sourced when I met Mike Walrath at a tech event. It’s been incredibly difficult for both professional and personal reasons—and if I hadn’t met my wife Aja in late 2017, this would have all been a pretty dismal time, to be honest. Let’s start with my fundraising timeline.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Revenue needs to grow 20x, and margins must expand dramatically. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. Global smartphone revenue is about $420B.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2013

Mobile Payments Market Predicted To Reach $90B By 2017, Up From $12.8B Five of Steve Jobs’s Biggest Mistakes | Peter Sims-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Facebook Is No Longer Flat: On Graph Search | John Battelle’s Search Blog – [link]. Google Revenues: $14.4 Forrester: U.S.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 25, 2022

When you hear a member of Congress talking about the tech industry these days, there’s a good chance it’s in a negative context. A member of the House of Representatives (D – CA) since 2016, Khanna is one of just a handful of current Congresspeople who has experience working in the tech industry.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. When you tag your email, paid search, display, organic and paid socially shared urls, you are going to ensure that your analytics solution will capture the source accurately (even in all those cases where there is no referrer).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2016

It seems all technology is getting smaller and more efficient. billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. billion, and by 2017, nearly half of global mobile users are likely to own a smartphone. According to Dazeinfo research , there were about 1.13 billion smartphone users in 2012.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Self-Awareness will conclude this list for today.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Here’s the global maxima question: How many Surface tablets have been sold due to this near-blanket coverage in NFL games via precious undivided attention? To assess a more complete answer, we turn to our trusty search engine Bing…. Look at Revenue, Earnings, Margins, Employment… Everything is super sad.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 13, 2017

Initially, it was estimated that TV would be on top until 2017 but surprisingly social channels overtook the tv numbers very early this year. Additionally, it’s predicted that the amount of money spent on social media advertising is set to catch up with newspaper ad revenues by 2020. Advertising on Twitter. Promoted Accounts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

The 2017 Brandz Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands report offers important branding lessons for startups and small business. Before we get to the lessons from the 2017 report, we want to be sure that there’s no confusion about the term “brand.” Plan For The Future While Focusing On Today. We didn’t give up.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Technology Poverty – Every revolution has its downsides – those who miss out. Technology is bringing about a new form of poverty to those who don’t have equal access to it. The technology minimums are changing quickly. The government is using the shift to technology economies as their chance to reinvent.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

After being laid-off (again), I started a sales consulting business helping tech start-ups build, grow, and coach their sales teams. million in annual revenue. After working in the corporate world for 12 years I saw many quality co-workers laid off due to budget cuts. So what better way to beat them than to join them!

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

They recognize the average lifespan of a client is 3-6 months, so they implement a strong sales team to consistently search for new clients. My entire staff had been laid off due to an acquisition by an aggressive v.c. increase not only brand share but also revenue. Thanks to Anita O’Malley, Leadarati ! #14-

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Most employees work diligently to deliver against set expectations. In this case this was technically a micro-outcome in this case (conversion is offline). Revenue Per Human. But, you want people to obsess about Revenue and not Cost. If 10xing your revenue requires that you quadruple your costs, what's the problem?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

We were doing very groundbreaking technical and creative work, and we knew we had the portfolio to get to that next tier of customers. You can do it on premium, but it’s not as ideal as they’ve removed a lot of the search features. John: That’s where all the more advanced search functionality comes in.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

In 2017, Kaggle was acquired by Google. Below, I discuss five fresh and relevant features for marketers, regardless of technical ability: Kaggle datasets; Kaggle community analyses; Kaggle Notebooks; Kaggle cloud integrations; Machine learning with Kaggle. If you don’t code however, no worries—this isn’t a technical post.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

In searching for a suitable name for our new device, we came across a Koala orphaned after being caught in a bushfire (wildfire). We are technology agnostic with our focus on what will accomplish the client’s mission. We have been running at it for just over 2 years and the name has worked perfectly! Image Credit: Greg Houlgate.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Often, marketing creativity encounters technical limitations. Native applications resolve some of these issues but bring their own baggage—development costs, platform irregularities, download requirements, update needs, and issues with search indexability. Age 18+, June 2017. A web page can load only so fast. What are PWAs?

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