Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Second, this class – which is built on the idea of interviewing customers/beneficiaries and stakeholders in person – now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? At first this seemed to be a fatal stake through the heart of the class.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 20, 2020

As we wrap up 2020, there are those business ideas you’ve been longing to start and 2020 is the year to implement them. This could be a home-based business, franchise option or whatever option looks attractive to you. I have faced many troubles in 2020. 1- A new app idea. 1- A new app idea. Photo Credit: Levi Li.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Votem is a revolutionary election management company that aims to give democracy back to the people. What is your top goal for Votem for 2020?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2020

It follows a pretty basic business model of selling products online for people to order. If you’re looking to launch a successful startup in 2020, this is probably the best idea you’ll find. This doesn’t just include small businesses, but massive corporations as well. Well, not in theory at least! More product images.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

2020 was a good year for Zoom. Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. Their latest round of 138 millions dollars, led by Viola Growth ?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist. Who does it serve?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 Seattle-based Syndio has a bold ambition: to eradicate unlawful pay disparities in the workplace. This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2020

Innovation drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. It seeks to solve customer problems in a better and modern way, thus helping such companies edge the competition. Innovative if a word often used to describe successful companies.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2023

#3- Embrace remote working Photo Credit: Thomas Niemczewski With the pandemic still underway, remote working is becoming the norm for many businesses. Companies should invest in the necessary resources and technologies to ensure employees have a comfortable and secure work environment. Businesses must invest in the right technology.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 8, 2019

My business is also nominated for a local award, a first for us. Personally this year, my husband was able to leave his 9-5 to come work with me in our business which was a huge accomplishment. I can’t wait to see what 2020 brings! Thanks to Allison R Lancaster, Online Business Solutions by Allison R. Lancaster ! #2-

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

They enable new business models that bring purpose to clients’ IIoT investments by connecting financial transactions to machinery performance. We have assembled a team that understands the machinery, technology and commercial considerations in our target markets. They don’t just create dashboards that need to be monitored.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. The concept, if technically as compelling as it sounds, could become a standard in building safety all over the world.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2020

2020 may have been a bad year for especially due to COVID-19 pandemic while to others, it was a great year. Many businesses were launched and others were closed. In the last few days of 2020, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and businesses what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1-

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. First up today was Yogesh Sharma presenting Rangrut.com , a business that connects employers with learning institutions and on-campus students to fill job openings. What we have taken on is hard enough.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Ankur has uncovered a very real and substantial problem in the transportation industry spanning road, rail, ship: very often vehicle capacity goes under utilized due to lack of information on cargo and its whereabouts, and lack of communication among shippers and their clients. I detected a major flaw in Kiran's business model assumption.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

We see a lot of businesses that can be characterized as social enterprises, ranging from education to rural development businesses. But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. The business idea was not very well fleshed out, and needs a lot of work still.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Monetization models, while not yet validated, can come from charging the customer base that is already acquainted with the service, as well as selling the white label solutions to colleges. Chris is primarily trying to assess his customer acquisition strategy, which requires that people see the game being played.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies. Photo by thesaint.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. PowerStores.in.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. Ramkumar has made certain pricing model and delivery model assumptions that are yet to be validated.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

2020 has produced significant challenges for businesses of all sizes across the entire world. Brick and mortar type businesses were forced in many states to close their doors for the safety of their patrons and employees. Through this economic turmoil some businesses have collapsed and others have flourished.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

This company provides a crowdsourced customer service solution to enterprises. Gio pitched it to me as a crowdsourced BPO, but I think he will have more success if he simply focuses on customer service as his core value proposition. They already have several customers including some telcos, and are at about $350,000 in revenues.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In fact, remote work is on the rise – especially in the form of virtual assistants – and it’s one of the primary reasons why more small businesses are opting to outsource work. For instance, some focus solely on technical support, and others that work specifically in the marketing industry. Virtual Assistants: What’s All the Fuss?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

She realised the revenue operations market was booming, especially within the tech industry, and therefore wanted to explore what is largely an untapped market within the UK and Europe. Using customer data to ensure new revenue opportunities. Therefore, it seemed natural to move into the tech startup and scaleup space.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. How easy / possible is it for global customers to buy your product – to purchase your service? • How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities? Your India strategy? • How can they find you? This is HARD.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

He’s also the author of Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change. Key Takeaway: There are economic, technological, and social parts of our world that are changing rapidly today more than ever. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Duct Tape Transcript. So, right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

We talked about how her background has made her well-suited for this kind of civic engagement, her relationship to the tech world, how she scaled the organization so quickly and much more. 2020 was shaping up to be a promising year for her bakery called Three Babes. A full transcript of the show follows the resources below.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Pre-seed rounds accounted for 14% of all seed stage deals in 2023, up from just 5% in 2020 according to Pitchbook data and I predict it will be even higher in 2024. Therefore, software startups (it depends of course) need less money than ever before to build an MVP and get to first customers. who’s talking to customers?)

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Board Effect

AUGUST 25, 2021

Ordinarily, the community banking trends from 2020 would provide a glimpse of what’s to come in 2021, but to say the least, 2020 was an extremely unusual year. We’re reviewing four of the top community banking trends for 2021 to keep you informed and ready to take action. The Top 4 Community Banking Trends for 2021.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Thanks to Robert Harbauer, Laser Bonding Tech, Inc. ! #2- We wanted to honor the special bond people have with their pets by creating handmade, custom plush replicas. This allowed me to once again leverage my technical skills to deliver innovative solutions to serve our community. 23- Due to prior experiences and education.

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Transformify

AUGUST 1, 2022

When you go global you are providing your business access to a new talent pool and a different technology. Moving some divisions of your business to foreign countries is not a new concept. One prime example of this is the global development of the digital expansion of businesses when the pandemic was rampant.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Nir is contemplating various different business models and channel options, all the way from Freemium B-to-C to white labeling the solution for universities and colleges. I advised him to focus on the for-profit colleges and business schools in India and sell them a white label solution, hence a B-to-B business model.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You’ll understand their weak points and even win those customers to your side by suggesting your better solution. On a higher-level, it’s a good way to understand your niche and target customers. I prefer this approach for two main reasons: With video courses, you can engage your customers in a meaningful way (e.g.,

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Kilimo: AI-powered water efficiency in agriculture It is estimated that between 50% and 70% of the water extracted in Latin America and the Caribbean is wasted due to evaporation, leaks and other reasons. As part of their business model, the brand spends months finding ethical factories around the world, and regularly visits them to check in.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . “Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. Technical” Companies (i.e. any mention of a focus on tech companies). Technical founders . Occurrences.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year. Image Credit: Janet Wu.

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