Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. agile sales process? 10:00 Selling eyeballs & selling audience. It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. getting past the assistant. when to call.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

In fact, for startups, it usually makes sense to announce your solution on social media and blogs even before you have built the first one. Maximum agility for required pivots. Startups need the agility to test various business models and positioning messages. Build your audience and the product at the same time.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). PlentyOfFish has 11 million registered users, is the #1 dating site in the UK and Canada and the #2 in the US by audience share. Better to do personal outreach to blogs/local media.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. 16- Become more agile and flexible. In my opinion, one of the changes that companies will have to make this year is becoming more agile and flexible. In order to keep up with the ever-changing landscape, businesses will need to be more agile and flexible. Photo Credit: Emir Bacic.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Smart startups first delve into an in-depth market analysis where they learn more about their target audience and its pain points. That’s why it’s smarter to embrace the agile approach and constantly test your idea on the market to learn about the needs and desires of your target. Choose the right location.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Marketing initiatives include campaigns, content, PR, and interactions with your target audience or customer. Your organization may require multiple marketing plans at once, with each aimed at reaching different personas within your audience or working in service of different products and services. The brand strategy has some roots.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

blog posts) compared to sites that scale with inventory (e.g., It’s difficult to target personas when you may have hundreds of sub-audiences. Instead, looking at the jobs your audiences are trying to do—and in what context—is more fruitful. Simply describe interactions your target audience has with your product.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The Digital.NYC hub (an “Ecosystem Hub” as we call it behind the scenes) features every resource and insight for the NYC tech and startup scene including news, jobs, courses, events, blogs, and even available workspaces. For IBM, Digital.NYC provides exclusive community-building in the fastest growing tech ecosystem in the world.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2023

James Weintraub shares the essential steps to becoming a successful entrepreneur in this blog post. Conduct market research to understand your target audience, competition, and potential demand for your product or service. Ask yourself, “What am I truly passionate about?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

It doesn’t help that there’s a new blog post out every day about how you’re missing out on [X] and this company is killing it by doing [Y]. You have traffic, and I pay for placement in front of your audience. In addition, display allows you to target niche audiences based on interests. iPullRank Blog. Litmus blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Great blog! What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. I know this sounds foreign to many of you, and that we’ll have a few skeptics in the audience. For readers of this blog, Steve needs no introduction.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Ive written about this before in some detail, but this was an opportunity to try and frame it for a general business audience. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Five Whys has its origins in the Toyota Production System. Speed up or slow down?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Sean Murphy has an excellent and comprehensive roundup of resources about the conference: all of the slides, videos, summaries, notes and write-ups are listed on his blog here. You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) You are the ones that consistently blew the audience away.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Use Agile Marketing. Agile marketing is a business strategy that allows them to be adaptable. Agile marketing is also about being able to cater to the needs and wants of customers. billion people use social media , making it beneficial to businesses that would like to attract a wide audience. Build a Website.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

The design thinking process may have originated with designers, but the business world has started to take notice because of the agility, speed, and innovation that it promises. Beauty brands need to be audience focused and feedback driven in order to thrive. Amalie Beauty is now an in-demand, six-figure beauty business. Check it out!

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

PPC is comparable to a speedboat — fast, agile, and quick to pivot but, as it requires constant refueling, it can soon get expensive. As outlined by this Search Facts blog , building expertise, authority, and trust are essential for good SEO, and your website is where this begins. SEO takes time to execute and take effect.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Im looking for a few people to run ideas by, give feedback, and generally help craft ideas so that they can have the biggest impact on this audience. Expo or have attended one in the past.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business. From their SEO blog which really breaks SEO down to a routine level, to their YouTube channel which provides individuals with a chance to learn the ins and outs of SEO there is a lot to learn from them. Photo Credit: Jeremy Goldman.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you’re reading my blog, odds are you know who Clayton Christensen was. Christensen, writing for a corporate audience, explained that there were two classes of products – sustaining and disruptive. Say not in grief he is no more – but live in thankfulness that he was. He passed away this week and it was a loss to us all.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore some of the business challenges one might face while running a business and strategies entrepreneurs can employ to maximize their chances of success. Narrowing down your audience will help you focus your marketing efforts and develop a brand that resonates with your customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. And if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may know that IMVU started out as an instant messaging add-on. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff keeps a blog here ( www.jeffgothelf.com/blog ) with tweets available at @jboogie ( www.twitter.com/jboogie ). Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams. Hit a milestone? Tell the business owner.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. While we ramped up our content this year and increased the number of posts on our blog, we’ve realized that it’s also important to make a pivot now, and ensure that our content is optimized and will begin to rank on search engines. Thanks to Andrea Loubier, Mailbird !

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2018

I’m talking about using the new digital channels of blogging, social media, and influencers more creatively to “pull” people to your solution, and make them advocates. Let me be clear – I’m not talking about the old-fashioned “push” marketing, where you broadcast your message louder and more incessantly than others to get above the din.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

What those sites have in common (despite their very different audiences) is that something is causing their customers to become addicted to their product, and so no matter how they acquire a new customer, they tend to keep them. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Once reformatted for usage on other platforms, video content can also be used to create blog content. Going digital is one of the strategic ways businesses can increase brand awareness and build their audience. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc. Thanks to Lynda Le, Polish Perfect ! #14- 14- Focus on CSR.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Have you checked out this blog post, this video, and this infographic? The traditional buyer’s funnel relies on linear decision-making, assuming that an audience will move neatly to become a prospect, then customer. To build a playground such that your audience experiences a seamless journey, no matter which path they take?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In other words, you need to make sure your audience is just as excited about the idea as you are. Get your target audience (see step two) to pre-buy the product. This type of agile thinking is what matters. It helps guide the audience you’re creating. Design 3 core features of the idea, not the entire product.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Trello also maintains a super creative blog that will show you how you might use their product: to take the stress out of the holiday season, to plan an office party, to search for a job, and to plan a meal. As you may suspect, this is one audience you can rely on to produce good content or great lists. Don’t have a website or blog?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Split-test experiments that go on forever?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

Logos that use a wolf in their design demonstrate a ferocity, agility, and clever edge that work especially well for sports-related logos. Therefore, do your due diligence and research your audience so you can make the best choices based on their specific backgrounds.

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