Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no no surprise?—?that’s

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

All of these stories are useful for recruiting, internal alignment, and business development—they really serve as analogies for different types of startups. If you can tell these stories well, it will be a huge weapon in your startup’s arsenal. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Is your new startup targeting auctions? … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. . The other half is commercial gallery sales.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2011

Video is a great way to get your startup some viral visibility. Below are a few of the better examples of videos produced by Israeli startups and those that managed to get a plug in traditional media, reaching a huge potential audience. 1) Dealery , the daily deal aggregator gets on the evening news. Amazing, no?

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nickoneill.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

As described on the Pipes website : Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Perhaps the communication about Unix Pipes was responsible for confusing the early audience. The only difference is that Yahoo was 5 years ahead of these new startups. Back in 2007 Yahoo!

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Free Template for Great Startup Pitch Decks, Direct from VCs. Entrepreneurs should know their audience, and most importantly, how savvy it is about the company’s particular market segment.” ’ like all startups have to, but also “why invest now?'”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

The people who spend the most money on reaching consumers: consumer products, car companies, food & beverage, entertainment – need to reach mass audiences and smaller channels aren’t as effective for them relative to the time to produce creative and learn how to perform in a channel. It creates a reason to “go now!”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

And for the record, that’s per month not total in aggregate! The media world now has its own leader running the largest YouTube multi-channel network startup. This has been a very welcome addition. And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views. hours of TV / day.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Although there’s some overlap with freelance platforms, where creators look for paid ‘gigs’, I’d argue that while creators are looking to monetize their craft, they care about “artistic freedom” To do that, they need to build and engage an audience, create unique, quality content and monetize it in different ways.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In the A16Z blog , Li Jin, one of the most prominent writers on the creator economy, said that creators can make a living with only 100 true fans, by segmenting their audience and offering tailored products and services at varying price points. While some say that its 1,000 true fans needed, others say its much less. The new Creators.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

A number of startup companies, I call them social utilities, are leveraging the social graph to potentially disrupt traditional online businesses such as dating, e-commerce, travel and recruitment. Startups to watch in this space are Legolas Media , Krux Digital , and BrightTag , among others. Are you ready? *A

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Auren Hoffman is the CEO of Rapleaf , a personal-data aggregator that has been the subject of a remarkable amount of controversy but is wildly useful as a data provider to must-see apps like Rapportive and Gist. Auren Hoffman on hiring people to work in tech startups. As a startup, you can't afford to do it that way.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Are you a startup struggling to optimize your sales and revenues because of the Coronavirus pandemic? More than established organizations, it is the startups, which have been hit in the worst fashion. However, while there are some startups, which have gone under, others have risen. The higher you rank, the better will be your-.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2021

Congratulations, you’ve successfully found a niche product to deal with that has a competitive advantage, fantastic market viability, active target audience, and fits within all legal requirements. The post Guide On Sourcing Products For Your Retail Store appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here are four critical challenges of tech startup PR. Technology industry startups have to pay more attention to their image than most other companies do. The business side chronicles which startups locked down financing rounds, who are providing them, and what the money is earmarked to do.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2020

Selling globally and getting access to an international audience will increase the market area considerably. They should also work on aggregator platforms to improve exposure and reach out to audiences. The post Setting Up A New Manufacturing Business: 5 Things To Know appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2016

In episode 22 of our podcast, Traction , Unbounce co-founder and marketing keynote speaker Oli Gardner shared five key parts to well-optimized startup landing pages. You can listen to the full episode below, or read on for the five things you need to include on your landing pages: The 5 Key Parts to Startup Landing Pages That Convert.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. What advice do you have for young startups searching funding? Tell us about the startup ecosystem there.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

As a mentor, you are expected to bring to the table real experience, sound advice, relevance, customer and/or funding connections, enough technical grasp to speak the language, and adequate availability to see the startup process through. They had a couple of crusty NYC real estate barons on the show, and the audience asked astute questions.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 8, 2015

Visit a startup’s website, and you’ll eventually drift towards a few standard links, from About to Team to Contact. ” Don’t misunderstand, it’s not the fact that a startup’s blog exists that’s so troubling. So the question needs to be asked: Should seed-stage startups even blog in the first place?

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. By the way, this is why TechCrunch traffic is not profitable for startups. It’s completely un-targeted (unless your niche market is other startups) and you have no relationship with that audience. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

And ChubbyBrain released the demographics from early enrollees in the program, revealing some interesting statistics about who is seeking startup funding. ReadWriteWeb readers also trended younger than ChubbyBrain's aggregate data. Early Stage Startups. So how do ReadWriteWeb entrepreneurs stack up? Younger, More Educated.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. What is a startup? Before we look at ways to bootstrap a startup, let’s consider a comprehensive definition of what a startup is. Ways to bootstrap a startup.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 9, 2016

His outfit evolves based on how effective a solution it is for him and the way his target audience – in this case his enemies – react to his product. Deadpool’s outfit evolves as he goes out to attack his nemesis’s confidants. For instance, he improves his mask so that his voice does not get muffled. Keep collecting feedback.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2013

My team and I built our company, Turning Technologies, into the world’s largest audience response software enterprise using this principle. TurningPoint allows presenters to instantly receive audience responses via keypads or smartphones in real time. Be Driven by Data. Succeeding through Innovation and Persistence.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 25, 2020

The “absolutely yes” category was dominated by creators who had branched beyond their initial piece of content and created some persistent space for the community to aggregate. What they’ve done is use their content to assemble an audience and then create a space for that audience to create content with each other — aka community.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

If all you ever do is create YouTube content then I agree – that’s not a viable startup business. But if your goal is to develop an audience that can be monetized in other ways, I’ll repeat my argument “you need to fish in the pond where the fish are.” You can spend money building audiences on YouTube.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Focus is everything in a business, whether it be a new startup or a large enterprise. As a place to start, I recommend that you model your business after one of the following archetypes, understanding the pros and cons, rather than defining a new one with a large inherent learning curve: The aggregator – one-stop shop.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As many of you know, in the past I’ve done a series of posts deconstructing the S-1s of VC-backed internet startups going public. A few years ago this was sort of a novelty… not that many startups were going public and not that many bloggers or mainstream journalists took the time or had familiarity with combing these SEC filings.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. An Existing Market All four were trying to resegment an “Existing Market.”

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Usually these M&A posts involve a private startup being purchased, but this past week, we witnessed a different type of deal — Google acquired Fitbit, which had been a public company for nearly four years. 1/ High End And Low End Disruption – Fitbit ended up owning nearly one quarter of the wearables market.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. " For major buyers of display advertising, real-time access to the largest audiences on the internet holds the promise of vastly improved targeting and performance. It wants to click.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2012

Umbel Austin, TX umbel.com Umbel empowers publishers, advertisers and agencies with a deep understanding of audience engagement by leveraging vast amounts of aggregated, real-time social data. Here are the local companies you will be seeing up on stage!

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

However, these can be difficult to obtain and ship, and this is exactly where social enterprise startup Maternova has made—and continues to make—inspirational strides. While Meg was deeply involved in the nuance of the maternal health crisis worldwide, Allyson had in-depth experience building successful startup companies.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Startups aren’t only for twentysomethings. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. In Sweden, he founded omvard.se

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

PR can do wonders for your startup or small business, but not all strategies have proven to be effective. Below, 16 entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) share the one PR strategy they think all startups and small businesses should stop using, and why. They’re not bringing useful information to a new audience.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). We have witnessed one hell of a startup boom from 2009-2014 which has coincided with the boom in accelerators. Startup Lessons'

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