Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

We market to four populations: High-potential founders. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. I host on Hostforweb **. Linkedin.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

According to Hugh Mason, co-founder and CEO at JFDI.Asia , around the world accelerator programs like theirs are evolving as a consistent way to direct innovation, teach entrepreneurship and manage the risks involved. FashFix , from Singapore and Malaysia, helps fashionistas turn their wardrobes into blog shops.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

I talked to Adam Hempenstall, founder and CEO at BetterProposals , who has been using freemium for three years for his SaaS product: “Honestly, I think it was a mistake. It’s mostly popular with B2C markets. What it did do to start with was remove price as an issue so we could focus on getting the product right and usability right.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Some founders stay at hostels. Each founder who owns shares in the startup and has attended JFDI will be invited. Each founder who is part of the team and has attended JFDI will be expected to be there to man your startup’s booth. ii.actual REVENUE?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2014

by Alex Miller, Co-founder of PosiRank . The increased difficulty and added opportunity is ironic and problematic for business-to-business companies as well as B2C (business to consumer) advertisers. Alex Miller, Co-founder of PosiRank , loves to talk business. Make Automation Customized.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, posted a brilliant analysis on why VCs have to look for billion dollar companies (“unicorns”) to deliver acceptable returns, and how rare it is to invest in one: “The odds are somewhere between catching a foul ball at an MLB game and being struck by lightning in one’s lifetime.”. Be thesis-driven.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. Blogs, SEO, Ads. This may work in B2C scenarios where the transaction volumes are large and ARPUs are relatively small. all from one place ensuring consistent messaging across organization and clients. Traditional process. Inbound marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog? Eric- I rarely comment on blogs, but I wanted to thank you for your efforts to disseminate the lean start-up techniques to build better companies that deliver products or services that people want. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 8, 2017

As Des Traynor , co-founder of Intercom put it in the Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done book : Des Traynor: Some products are better defined by the job they do than the customers they serve. Another one is to serve something different for daytime visitors vs night-time visitors. Behavioral segments. Here is the biggie.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. Patrick Collison , self-made billionaire founder of Stripe. Bill Gates , founder of Microsoft. Choosing a co-founder, and hiring the early employees is key to building a successful company.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 21, 2018

These ramblings are about my week in London with 10 other women as part of the inaugural Startup Catalyst Female Founders London Mission where I was supported to attend by Advance Queensland. Female Founders Unite Some of us arrived the day before our official start and met up at the closest pub. Pack gloves!

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Too many founders try to do huge advertising bursts at the end of the year in a lazy attempt to hit sales numbers. Instead, founders should be focusing on developing a content strategy for 2015 that allows them to educate, engage, nurture, and close sales throughout the entire year. – Kelsey Meyer, Influence & Co.

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entrepreMusings

MARCH 12, 2011

I then went to the Entrepreneur’s Lounge, co-hosted by the Austin Technology Incubator (awesome new website alert!! I had met Adam for lunch with a couple of my co-workers before, but had never seen Michael that up close and personal before. I have since transferred that angst to other things in my life, but still.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

Are you more of a B2C type or a B2B type? What blogs are you reading? Your co-workers in one start-up become your co-founders in another. In order to narrow things down, I recommend following a simple, four-step heuristic. Here's the advice I give: . Pick a Domain. Pick a Stage.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Not only that but according to studies conducted by the CIM suggest that more than 80% of B2B marketers and 70% of B2C marketers used content marketing for their online businesses last year. This will enable you to create a content schedule that works around your business calendar. It’s all about your time management. About the Author.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2014

On the other hand, Easytobook , a B2C company, had 1.5 It seems that B2C companies might benefit far more from social login than B2Bbut even that seems to depend on a company’s expectations. For some pointers on how to predict whether you’ll go viral, read Roger Wu’s blog about the very same subject on Forbes.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. Of course one must be aware of the cyclical zeitgeist as it impacts the behavior of competitors, co-investors, and others.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. Of course one must be aware of the cyclical zeitgeist as it impacts the behavior of competitors, co-investors, and others.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 2, 2017

For this reason, we’re excited to announce that we have closed on NextView’s $50M third fund, with a mission to champion founders who are redesigning the Everyday Economy. . While our lens on the Everyday Economy is focused on our actions as individuals, it’s not constrained to B2C companies.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront. I saw that 37signals had hidden theirs.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 21, 2017

Here’s how Misha Talavera , founder of NeoReach , put it in AdWeek : Misha Talavera: “In fact, we see so many that we’re unconsciously tuning them out, a phenomenon called “banner blindness.” Summary: put an ear to the ground and figure out what influencers and blogs your target audience is consuming and trusts. Image Source.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Here are some of the most interesting facts about female founders as well as startups. She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2011

Update: This blog post is overwhelmingly for those who want to become Analysts ("Business" in the matrix above). Blogs: There is no doubt that the most current knowledge exists in blogs (yes, yes I know that the fad of the month is Twitter & Facebook, for someone starting to build a career the most current distractions exist there :)).

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Guest blogging. Even if you never did it on your own, you probably know someone who wrote a piece or two for someone else’s blog. Guest blogging entails searching for industry blogs that accept guest contributions, pitching a list of topics, writing content, sending it back to the editor, and finally getting your post live.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

– Eric Ries In April of 2009 my partner and I had an idea for a web app, a B2C platform that we are selling as SaaS [software-as-a-service]. Rich Collins , founder of the Lean Startup Circle , responded to the poster with some Q&A. Rich Collins , founder of the Lean Startup Circle , responded to the poster with some Q&A.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

We were witnessing, firsthand, the dramatic shifts in B2C e-commerce, and the resulting incredible experiences and benefits brands were delivering their retail consumers. The differences between B2C and B2B within the same brands were staggering! Thanks to Stephen Gibson, Vyteo.com !

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2015

Neil Patel , founder of QuickSprout , uses a short-form case study from Ben Huh , a widely recognized name in tech, to encourage conversions. This type of social proof is most effective for B2C products and services, but that doesn’t mean it never works for B2B. Use this if you’re marketing B2B software, agency services, etc.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Gili Golander is a co-founder and CMO at Bazaart. Your mission is to grow, and for B2C companies it means more users. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum is an Ukranian immigrant, and I’m betting it had helped him realize the potential of going global from day one. The tweet that got us major tech blog coverage.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

I encourage startup founders or anyone interested in social commerce to read it: [link] When you think about Big Data Applications (a term coined in 2012 by Raj De Datta in this TechCrunch article ), Bazaarvoice is one as Raj points out in his article. B2C startups we’ve invested in like ROIKOI and Thread are tapping into network effects?—?and

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2. automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Generally speaking, a name is more valuable to a B2C (marketing-driven) company than a B2B (sales-driven) counterpart, so allocate your efforts accordingly. Blogging Lists. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. Pay to Promote Them.

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