Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

You can have all traction in the world—acquire, activate, and retain users, but until your startup earns money, you are doing charity work, not running a business. Even if you are just starting to consider building a SaaS startup , you’ve probably used products with either freemium pricing or a free trial. Choose wisely. Youtube ads.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

Through their extensive networks and relationships with media outlets, they can ensure your story reaches a wider, yet targeted, audience. Whether it’s B2B or B2C, tech or retail, the right PR approach can make a significant difference in how your business is perceived.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Below, she shares lessons learned from the earliest days of marketing the company and how this has translated to her second startup role as VP of Marketing at Toast. Where do you start?

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VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Clubhouse was the trailblazer, but it sparked a huge interest in the category from established social networks, new startups and even the open source community. While Clubhouse is the most popular of this lot, several new startups are vying to be the place where the conversation happens. Telegram launched Voice Chat 2.0

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

People say the important part of a Startup is its Team. There are three market categories that startups from Singapore are likely to address: 1. Startups in this category start off in their home markets (i.e. As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. Consumer Facing B2C.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

4- Network Marketing. One such industry is the Network Marketing, which entirely depends on customer acquisition. Even in the current scenario, network marketing is booming with the help of their technological advancements. Network marketing is helping people who are open and looking for a job to gain a residual income.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

He's been an SEO specialist to Fortune 500 companies and venture backed startups around the world for two decades. And that looks different for a B2C journey versus a B2B journey. So he's able to tap into those networks to show Google that he's gaining traction and all of that. Book your call today, DTM World slash scale. (01:02):

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech. Top-line metrics are indicators of success, not the one bar to clear to raise funding for your startup. 500 Startups created a helpful primer on key B2C metrics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Whereas b2c, I mean m and MS has had a, has a community, right? I mean I think a lot of B2C companies kind of get that. John Jantsch (10:27): Yeah, that's, I've been teaching that exact tactic, I call it peer-to-peer networking.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. In that time, I've discovered that the startup scene is infused with passion, energy and a strong spirit of collaboration. Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. Earlier this year I founded a new startup called KlickFu.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Check out which Capital Factory startups are looking for you to join their team! Thrillbox Thrillbox is an immersive media analytics platform that provides distribution tools for content generators, advertising agencies, vendors, and networks. Talk To A Lawyer Now SkimKing, Inc. The Clubhouse is Now On-Demand | Partake.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode or the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the Nudge Podcast, hosted by Phil Agnew and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network and Semrush. Karrie Sanderson (01:20): Right. powered by.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Over the past two decades, she has led large revenue producing divisions at businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500. It's a podcast hosted by Dr. JJ Peterson and is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. So consumers are, and B2B and B2C are starting to make decisions beyond the normal brand. with Tiffani Bova.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

We’ve built (and continue to grow) a network of journalists and a corresponding publisher network. This is common in B2C apps (Facebook, for example), but it’s still new in B2B apps like Wave Accounting. Giving it away at Contently. “At At Contently, our core monetization strategy is through marketplace transactions.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

Through all of those posts, we’ve received one common question from founders: Are all Everyday Economy startups consumer-facing? We think there are two main categories of Everyday Economy B2B startups: enabling layers and pervasive tools. Startups also can become extremely habitual for a smaller subset of business end-users.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2017

Similarly, there are bases that you need to cover before you actually launch your startup in the market amidst steady competition. In this post we take you through the series of steps that you need to keep in mind before your startup goes live: Invest time studying your competitors. For B2C your metrics are: Signups.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. Whether it is advertisement model, B2C (Business to Consumer) ecommerce, affiliate or subscription, picking the right choice could determine the rise or fall of your business. Don’t forget to choose a sound business model.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

4 Steps to Leveraging Your Network to Build Your Business written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Networking doesn’t have to be about luck, but most people I work with treat it that way. Like any marketing endeavor, some simple planning can greatly increase your chances of success.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Hila Qu joined Mucker’s Tony Yang for an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) conversation about Product-Led Growth (PLG) for Startups to kickoff the 2023 Mucker Growth Series. Hila Qu has been the Head of Growth or VP of Growth at a number of different companies and startups, most notably Acorns and GitLab. But does that mean free trial is better?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, here’s how we’d describe a segment of the app development agency’s audience: Existing Startup Founder: Sometimes, founders will already have an MVP or prototype. The discussion also allowed us to see the most upvoted comments from members giving advice advocated by the broader community.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2012

Organized by technology startup accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator – better known locally as JFDI Asia – the recent JFDI-Innov8 Bootcamp saw some 11 local and regional technology startups undergo a tough 100-day program that saw them attempt to turn a prospective idea into a potentially sustainable digital business.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Here are Richard’s insights and startup advice he shared with us about his entrepreneurial journey…. TSM: Taxfyle is really no longer a startup, it is a “scaleup”.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 23, 2021

If these people start engaging with your content, their network will get notified, and if they start engaging, they will notify their network. So, therefore, the bigger your first-degree network, the bigger the potential of reaching many people on LinkedIn, so that’s a crucial one. [2.TIP] This is how my network reacts.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2012

But connecting with consumers and brand advocates directly, in active online communities, is the real secret sauce, especially for B2C startups with an online presence. It provides a wealth of high-quality articles and resources related to non-profits, and members can literally build their own network through this website.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 30, 2016

This is a guest post by Alignable CMO Dan Slagen about the missed opportunity the company has identified in social networking, and why they’ve chosen to build the business on the East Coast. For those of us that have been working in the startup and technology space for at least the past 10 years, these addresses mean two things.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The only problem that faces startup investors now is how to mine this new data layer efficiently to increase returns.”. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ).

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2020

The relationship between a founder and their startup is a unique one?—?we’re Our revenue was consistently correlated to marketing spend, which to us indicated that it was unsustainable and there was low product/market fit, and we knew that lack of fit was the most commonly cited reason for why startups failed.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 11, 2013

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. read more at The Next Web.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 11, 2013

This is in part because these businesses are unencumbered by legacy constraints that had previously been hardwired into the companies and industries these startups are trying to disrupt. By the end, 99 percent of the B2B marketplaces had cratered and only B2C eBay was left standing and thriving. read more at The Next Web.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

We will open our network of successful entrepreneurs and investors to offer invaluable experiences to you. Specialists” have deep experience in some area of startup practice, like law, bookkeeping, growth hacking, or platform strategy. In the US, seed accelerators offer more than $100,000 to startups. Fundraising isn’t easy.

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Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

The interesting thing is that while many entrepreneurs, tech executives, and investors are short-term nervous about the fate of internet-enabled startups, most are incredibly long-term bullish. This creates implied social graphs, driven by actual behavior outside of social networks, based on data from emails, sms, etc.

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entrepreMusings

MARCH 18, 2012

Great networking for my consulting business where I’m focusing on operations and partner/client management projects. I really enjoy networking and connecting people to each other. I even made some almost random connections for the very cool 1 Semester Startup team I’m mentoring called beDJ. All productive.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

Gil Eyal, CEO, HYPR , recommended, “The “commercial” world of influencer marketing is centered in Instagram and Youtube (with some spillage towards smaller networks like Snap, TikTok and Twitch). I have a tiny audience compared with the B2C influencers, but my audience are overwhelming businesspeople in tech and finance.

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Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2017

Arguably, you shouldn’t spend your hard-earned startup funding on $1000 office chairs. In traditional wisdom, branding was only seen as important in business-to-consumer (B2C) business models. Find out what networks your target market uses most. Finally, businesses may wish to save startup money by skimping on building culture.

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