Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

My immediate goal was to have a showroom in every market in the US – Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. It was important for us to find independent sales representatives (salespeople who would travel and call on customers), showrooms and international distributors.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 25, 2018

Reading that headline, you might think, “Wait, why would you be scared of Amazon setting up its second HQ in Atlanta?” And Atlanta is now among the 20 finalists , and is the betting favorite in many cases. So, back to the headline of this post, why would I be scared of Amazon coming to Atlanta? Well, I’m not.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

See Also: How and Why to Collect Customer Email Addresses. MailChimp is ideal for the startup and small business customer that needs to grow an email list with industry-leading tools and best practices. See Also: 13 Ways to Make Customers Desperately Want to Open Your Emails. Which one should you choose?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2016

And while you’re networking, you’ll learn from other startups and established businesses that are connecting businesses with customers in new and innovative ways. The Incite Summit covers everything from marketing to publishing and customer experience. Especially for small businesses, customer experience is everything.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking. with the announcement of a funding round, new senior hires, etc. A more sophisticated way to do this: calculate your internal ratios , e.g., your Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. RJMetrics ); technology (e.g.,

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 14, 2019

Joshua Davis is the owner and CEO of a six-figure image consulting company in Atlanta. This can include basic wardrobe training for new hires all the way to immersive image management for the C suite. Image consulting field has grown over the years due to it’s impact in changing appearances for the better. What makes you unique?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2019

by Aditya Narula, head of customer success at Kabbage. As Kabbage customers explain, managing seasonal impact on revenue requires preparation – and if possible, alternate ways to bring money in the door. As we tell our customers, if you’re hiring us to transform your property, then you should trust us to take care of it forever.”

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Transformify

JULY 16, 2019

Unique Careers: Jenn Labin on hiring entrepreneurs at heart. ‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Jenn, diversity hiring has many faces, ranging from gender ratios to diversity of thought.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2021

As a result VC’s now value businesses based on customer retention rather than multiples of revenue. Because customer retention is a better way of working out the true value of a business. You need to think of the full customer experience, the brand, and focus on down-funnel metrics like CLTV, retention, pipeline dollars, and so forth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

17:21] When you talk about gatherings sometimes people just jump to big trade shows or events – but bringing your customers together for lunch could be a really simple way to gather, right? [20:02] If any of my startups hired you for community as a a service, they'd be out of my incubator because they need to start their own community.

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David Teten

JANUARY 2, 2013

You can’t hire in courtesy and managerial competence; it has to flow from company management outwards. I’m traveling to Atlanta and Boston this month, so starting to plan my logistics. Part of what Uber ’s customers pay for is an easy-to-use layer across multiple cab services in multiple cities.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Mailchimp looks like it’s going to be a huge exit down in Atlanta, but that might turn out to be a one-off. An individual standout founder who has the ability to recruit their first ten employees can build something interesting to a point where they’ll have no trouble getting funding, more employees, and customers just about anywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

You don’t even have to hire a permanent specialist to monitor the network. As a business owner, you expect your business grow steadily as you gain more customers and improve your market dominance. One particular example is the Jim Ellis Automotive Group, based in Atlanta. Scalable Bandwidth.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2017

At the time of this writing I have just attended a Georgia Tech Foundation board meeting in Atlanta and am always there surrounded by achievers who exhibit similar energy. You win customers with energy. Even the emeritus members like myself pay attention and ask the important questions.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Atlanta, GA. Minneapolis, MN.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Noro-Mosley, based in Atlanta, led the round with continued participation from Battery Ventures, Silverton Partners and Mercury Fund. The company plans to use the money to scale its operations, customer support, on patents and to hire more […] The post TrendKite Lands $10.7 million in Series C funding.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 22, 2018

Please your customers by tweaking your product or service the way they want. Don’t hire people just because they are your friends. Hire them on the basis on their skills. You think that you will hire few competent individuals, tell them the business goal and they will achieve it for you. So, start with a small budget.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 27, 2016

The energy there is palpable already and I believe it’s going to be a great addition to the city of Atlanta. He decided, “this is the type of company I want,” and then he proceeded to figure out what that company would actually do for customers. If you are interested in startups at all, you need to see the place.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

Clearly these two companies are exceptions to the rule, and both have grown dramatically in terms of customers, revenues and footprint in just a few years. Next it launched in cities including Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, San Diego, Phoenix and Seattle. They launched their offering to a relatively small group of customers.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

There are certain things that only a CEO can be involved in whether it be investor issues, partner discussions, escalating customer issues, and executive hiring and coaching. What’s our customer’s biggest issues that we can help them with? Hire more, spend more, achieve more. Bonus question: Why Atlanta?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Take a look: This full-day Master Class focuses on how to build a startup from the ground up to focus on customers, markets, and speed of iteration. Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 29, 2011

I knew that I needed to have a sales force to scale up my business to reach customers I couldn’t travel to. My master plan was to have local showrooms in Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago and New York. Internally, we were growing a strong team and were able to hire some key personnel who only made our company stronger.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide. My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. I hire the best, so we’re all able to have it all.

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Hippoland

MARCH 2, 2018

B) We made no CAN investments! :( C) Though we did no investments in TO/Waterloo, Atlanta, Boston, and really anywhere in the midwest in 2017, we have done a TON of investments in these locations in the past and will likely look heavily there in 2018. In 27% of our investments, we still have not met the founding team in person.

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Hippoland

MARCH 2, 2018

B) We made no CAN investments! :( C) Though we did no investments in TO/Waterloo, Atlanta, Boston, and really anywhere in the midwest in 2017, we have done a TON of investments in these locations in the past and will likely look heavily there in 2018. In 27% of our investments, we still have not met the founding team in person.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

Then, I will examine store policies, and how to get your customers to agree to them. Finally, in Part Two of this article, I will look at the delivery of goods and the delivery risks that arise when goods are purchased online or are delivered to a customer not in-store. See Also How to Hire the Best Attorney for Your Small Business.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Or a retail store can have an AI that hire human temp works from an AI human recruiter to perform instructed tasks during the holiday season. Natural language is “buy product ABC from cube XYZ” or “setup customer CDE in cube JKL” on the blockchain.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2012

A customer demands a discount. A customer demands a discount. When a customer asks for a discount, that’s a strong “buying signal”! Or, you can open up the conversation and learn more about your customer. A potential customer is indifferent or hostile. We’ve all experienced moments when we feel at a loss for words.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; and the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut. My first client, CoreNet Global, hired me right out of the gate and they were a client for nine years which is something I am very proud of.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 22, 2020

And “them” = the main client contacts, their bosses, their bosses bosses, their board of directors (everybody has an opinion on marketing and advertising), and ultimately and most importantly of course, their customers. There are mean people everywhere, and some work at brands and hire agencies.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

According to Managing Partner Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital, based in Atlanta, is “setting out to disrupt the wealth gap by investing in Black founders building innovative, high growth companies.” The fund specializes in “micro-SAAS,” often investing to help the founder go from part-time to full-time on their business or make a key hire.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

It’s this interesting cycle to watch as an outsider where the things that people are building, they are building for investors and not necessarily building for customers. As a VC, I’m in a position where I have a product that doesn’t work for 99.93% of my customers. And that’s kind of how venture capital works. Put another way.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. We hired a consultant to promote the book, allowing us to reach 14 different Amazon Bestseller lists and selling over 1,000 copies in the first 48 hours.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You really want to see how your company treats its employees, treats its customers, treats the environment, taking a longer-term view." I've also been spending a lot of time on the phone with my family and my mom in Atlanta. As he explains, it also has "a diversified bottom line where it's not just about near-term profits.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 25, 2014

The list so far: Raymond King , Zoo Atlanta. We are increasing sales for our clients by getting more customers to choose to identify themselves via email in building collections of product they’re considering prior to checkout. =. This is the tenth installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series. Devon Wijesinghe , Insightpool.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

As Peter Drucker famously wrote, “The aim of marketing is to know the customer so well the product or service fits them, and sells itself.” ” In conversion optimization , we talk about the importance of knowing our customers a lot. In majority of cases demographic data of your customers is the least important thing.

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