Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Your startup, for example, will more likely see and understand sooner the needs and wants of a larger and more diverse customer base. You as the entrepreneur will thus have access to a broader pool of potential investors, customers, vendors, and expertise. Diversity will likely strengthen team culture.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis zJoining me in from the studio at Stanford University were: Evangelos Simoudis , venture investor and senior advisor to global corporations. Filed under: Customer Development. Srivastava , chief data scientist at Verizon. Ashok Srivastava. ” We certainly did.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

How they think and feel; their sense of community; and their appetite to share their opinions are all creating new paradigms for how any business, regardless of size, connects with its customers. As the world’s first global generation, life is first and foremost about choice. They are highly educated and mobile centric.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 2: Defining and Testing the Story…Start Out By Admitting You’re Wrong, A Lean Business Plan Template, Problem, Solution, Key Metrics, Unique Value Proposition and Unfair Advantages, Channels, Customer Segments, Cost Structure and Revenue Streams. Chapter 28: Going Global…Should Your Business Go Global?,

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2018

After name and logo , the biggest part of branding that people see is how you act every day and how you talk about your products and services to customers and potential customers. You could dump money into advertising, but research shows that customers only believe about 16% of what they are told. Make purpose your brand.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Thankfully, the availability of other unconventional funding options is also increasing, providing capital to entrepreneurs whose businesses may grow to become long-term customers. Case in point: It took Amazon six years to earn a dime, during which it consumed huge amounts of venture funding and issued an IPO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Make sure you build your business to meet the needs of a specific niche to avoid overspending and underwhelming all of your potential customers. That passion will come through in everything you do, and your customers will appreciate and embrace the authenticity of your brand. NOT SATISFIED WITH THE GROWTH OF YOUR BUSINESS?

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

I recently joined the Advisory Board to Gerhard Blechinger , the Rector of the FachHochschule Salzburg, (the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences) and became a guest lecturer on Entrepreneurship at the University. He published the book Zero to One in 2014.

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Austria Global Silicon Valley Advisory Board 28

Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

But to put it more in concrete words and referring back to our core product; We want to be the Golden Standard of mouthguards globally, where we can take great pride and comfort in that we are saving teeth globally. Sometimes a great advisory board can be just as useful. The answer isn’t always VC’s or angels.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As an entrepreneur, joining organizations or networking groups can allow you to connect with like-minded people who can provide you with information and support, and refer customers to you. For business owners under the age of 45, it provides access to a global network and instructional programming.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product. Unfortunately, we made two critically flawed assumptions: that customers would primarily consume first-party assets that we shipped to them on CD and that they would tend to congregate in a relatively uniform way. How likely will customers ultimately use that feature?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

When you get started (and you will! ), you will spend most of your time dealing with crises that never end and setting up meetings with current and future investors, customers, suppliers, and distributors. In my opinion, it's tempting to want your product to be the next instant global brand, but you need to remember to start small.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

Speak with potential customers, speak with industry experts, speak with potential partners?—?validate And I guess it seems appropriate that I’m writing this post from Edinburgh, Scotland here at TED Global. And Dean became our first Advisory Board member of many. I’m also a product of bootstrapped entrepreneurs?—?my

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

He posted on several social networking sites the following message: If you know of a startup company that could benefit from the knowledge, experience, professional network and reputation of a globally recognized technology and innovation leader. Some weeks might end up being pretty much full-time on a single startup (e.g.,

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

We look at how much value a gram of quantum dots will bring to the customer, and how big is that addressable market opportunity. We have a partnership on anti-counterfeit security inks, which can address the global $500B counterfeit goods problem. The higher the value-add, and the bigger the market, the better.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2018

Knowing why customers want to buy your product or service. Creating a customer first orientation. Know why customers want to buy your product or service. While ideas are great, a critical question that needs to be answered is, “Why does the customer need to buy your product?” Create a Customer First Orientation.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Whether that’s a funny ringtone or an impromptu blast of Rebecca Black’s “Friday,&# coworking can be a great way to network, make friends and have a built-in advisory board of people from many different industries. Plus, a lot of coworking spaces offer classes and seminars on new technology and tools. startupcto

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It’s not about you, it’s about your customers. At Fab we have been focused from day 1 on making our customers smile. Passion for building a business is not enough; there needs to be passion for your customer and solving your customer’s problem.?. Your customer is growing up on social media. Provide feedback.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In using such a scattershot approach to social media, these organizations are missing out on major opportunities to engage with potential and current customers, manage their reputations, and more — and they may be alienating social media users in the process. Listening: Interact meaningfully with customers.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

As a SaaS company, we have had pretty good success in acquiring new customers for our business using various techniques: organic traffic, paid ads, email marketing, etc. This is one of the biggest problems in SaaS – churn is essentially the number of customers you lose every month because they cancel their subscription.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Customer Relationship Management. great web customer acquisition tutorials. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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