ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2019

In case you aren’t familiar, they posit that there are two types of market opportunities when you create a startup from scratch. Blue oceans, by contrast, are all but free from competition, giving you more flexibility, lower costs, and domination over nearly 100 percent of the market share. For example: Specific product features.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

I expect that should seem intuitive to all entrepreneurs, but every investor I know has many stories about startup funding requests with major business model elements missing. The most common failures are solutions looking for a problem, lack of a defined market, and giving away the product. Target market. Production.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

If the elements of your business aren't expertly developed and aligned, even the best dream will be in jeopardy. Such failures ignore the essential business elements investors look for before committing to a startup. A large and growing market opportunity. A focus on a specific market segment.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As we prepared for the new Hacking for Defense class at Stanford, we had to stop and ask ourselves: How do we use the Business Model Canvas if the primary goal is not to earn money, but to fulfill a mission? In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 7, 2019

For the vast majority of products—whatever your target market — people are willing to wait about two days. Your business’s operations have changed. Incorporate Amazon sales into a subscription box business model. Ecommerce businesses of all sizes must find a way to demonstrate and provide value to the shopping audience.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Researching the market and competition. Launching your app in the market. You then find out ways how to become a differentiator amongst all of those. Now comes the most critical stage of your app development process – RESEARCHING THE MARKET AND COMPETITION. First you determine the need of your product in the market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

How To Maximize The Power Of Newsletters written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Russell Henneberry In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Russell Heneberry. He’s the Founder of theCLIKK, an email newsletter about digital marketing. Like this show?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. The company already has paying customers and a validated business model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2024

As the founder of The Clikk, Russell has witnessed the evolving landscape of newsletters, recognizing them as a powerful intersection of content marketing and direct response promotion. Discover the resurgence of email newsletters as a dynamic tool for content marketing and direct response promotion.

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

For a startup, this will probably mean more funding rounds, longer go to market time and potentially unhappy customers and investors. Initially, it will be your processes and product development road map that will require attention, to be followed by your product development roadmap and go to market strategy.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2023

Protect your business from going under by managing debts proactively to stay mobile during the recession. Approach your investment conservatively to best handle market fluctuations. If you take on too much risk, your business may take the brunt of your decisions. Thanks to Zach Goldstein, Public Rec ! #4-

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Unlocking the Power of Data: Transforming Metrics into Actionable Insights written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Peter Caputa, CEO of Databox, an innovative player in the realm of marketing analytics.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2020

by Meredith Blechman, Head of Marketing for ARTA. Branding is one of the most important investments you can make in your business, and developing your brand before going to market is an essential component to a successful launch. Your business model, target audience, or goals have changed.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. But the key is to ensure your product has a strong differentiator, which is exactly how Ramaswamy and his Neeva co-founders positioned the search engine company when it launched last year.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

What are you actually selling and how are you solving a problem (or “need”) for your market? Target Market. If there are multiple market segments for your business, this is where you flesh out the details. Marketing and Sales Plan. How are you going to reach your target market? Target market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: I have seen the future of marketing, and it is killing me. Hello and welcome to another episode of The Duct Tape Marketing podcast. Tell us all about Content Marketing Institute. Transcript.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 12, 2019

Transcript of How Small Businesses Can Compete in the Online Marketplace written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Klaviyo. He is a senior manager of strategic alliances for Yahoo Small Business , so Dan, thanks for joining us.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

We believe that it’s good to be contrarian to the rest of the market and other investors, but not to be conflicted in a partnership where alignment should be more important. In a deep ocean of early stage investors, it’s important to signal to the market that you have specific areas of interest, even if you look to invest in everything.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 12, 2023

The 7 Deadly Marketing Mistakes written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I’m doing a solo show, and I’m gonna talk about 7 martketing mistakes that business owner usually make and I give you some tips on how to avoid them.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2022

Key areas of differentiation are: Ownership of in-game assets. Blockchain games channel mod culture and empower third-party developers to customize their own gameplay experiences through plug-ins and third-party clients. With new games come new in-game mechanics and business models. Opaque markets are now transparent.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Even with his excellent health at age 85, has he aged out of relevance to the mass market and therefore high value ad serving? What seems to be the best way to create customers and revenue may result in a business model that is out of vogue with the investment world and shortchanges you on enterprise valuation. He has over 1.2M

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

One of the confusing things to entrepreneurs, investors and educators is the relationship between customer development and business model design and business planning and execution. When does a new venture focus on customer development and business models ? Here’s an attempt to put this all in context.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 23, 2014

Perhaps Facebook hasn’t turned on its marketing channels yet but I’m surprised reaction has been this weak off the bat. Maybe I shouldn’t be since large percentage of their target market is already addicted to Instagram, Snapchat and other messaging apps. Slingshot (Facebook’s temporal messaging product).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2013

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Economies of scale also apply to marketing, distribution, and sales. Economies of scale.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

The customer experience is the customer’s perception of their interaction with your business. Vanguard decided that focusing on customer experience would help them differentiate from their competitors: Set up experimentation around customizing and personalizing the customer experience. digital analytics, market research).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Innovation doesn’t always make you a winner in business. In my role as an angel investor in startups, almost every pitch I see highlights some real innovation in technology, business model, or market opportunity. You may attract early adopters, who love everything new, but the mainstream market will be elusive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Economies of scale also apply to marketing, distribution, and sales. Economies of scale.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

It’s important to differentiate between ideas that have been or can be patented and ideas thought up late night in a dorm-room. A couple of caveats about founders with “ideas.” One of the hardest concepts for my students to grasp is that “ an idea is not a company.” This is the group who will build the company.

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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2016

So, you’re in the market to start a cleaning business? The thing is, you’re not quite sure what, exactly, is involved in starting a cleaning a business. Market research and business idea validation. To do really well, you need business smarts and you need to stand out from the crowd.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Economies of scale also apply to marketing, distribution, and sales. Economies of scale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2015

Image via Pixabay.com Startups are usually so focused on selling more of their branded product or service to their own customer base (organic growth) that they don’t consider the more indirect methods (non-organic growth) of increasing revenue and market share. Economies of scale also apply to marketing, distribution, and sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2012

The pivot can be applied to any element of the business model, without changing the underlying vision. Market segment pivot. Sometimes this is more a marketing change than a product change. Sales channel pivot. Here are some of the most common pivot elements that Eric and others have noted: Customer problem pivot.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

in the snack food market. Jon’s big vision was to build a company that disrupted the meat snacks business. He believed that he could use the “go-to-market” strategies of other food/beverage disrupters– companies like Pete’s Brewing Company, Boston Beer and Kettle Chips. There was an opportunity for a new company “Jerky 2.0.”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

But there’s a huge difference between a small, traditional company and the digitally native powerhouses we consider models of this digital age. The key is looking at your own business — and finding the business model that fits — to chart the best course. And then in the middle 2000’s Domino’s began a sharp decline.

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