The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. As a startup, you’re working with limited resources and a lean business model. With an innovative product in the consumer payment space, the company had viral-ready content.

Social Media 158

Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

Yet there are big challenges to hyperlocal, at least for consumer-focused hyperlocal startups, according to Sean Barkulis, Founder of UPlanMe, whose initial consumer-focused business model was an early casualty, writing in Street Fight : Every site requires real curated local content to engage users. This is not just a fad.

Finder 361

Finder Startup Curation Seattle 361

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

Beyond basic business and technical credentials, here are some of the key startup team attributes that every investor is looking for: Team shows an appreciation and plan for marketing. Similarly, mentioning viral marketing without specifics won’t assure fundability. Plan includes a business model with good margins.

Technical Review 134

Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence Angel Investor 134

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2023

Funding for founder salaries at this stage is a red flag. These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Have backup charts for investors wanting more detail.

Elevator Pitch 228

Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 228

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.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

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. He's the founder of the clikk an email newsletter about digital marketing. I also look at sort of the virality. This is John Jantsch.

Revenue 78

Revenue Advertising Email ChatGPT 78

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

Technical Review 220

Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review Business Model 220

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

Technical Review 399

Technical Review Product Advisory Board Business Model 399

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Eric Ries in Times Square For any model to be useful it has to predict what happens in the real world – including the web. I realized the Customer Development model needs to be clearer in what exactly a startup is supposed to do, regardless of the business model. “What is the “Business Model” of your startup?&#

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2020

Funding for founder salaries at this stage is a red flag. These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Have backup charts for investors wanting more detail.

Elevator Pitch 336

Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 336

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2023

He’s the Founder of theCLIKK, an email newsletter about digital marketing. 09:42] Was there a point in time when you decided to use newsletters to fit your business model or you started it as a normal standard digital marketing tactic? [11:10] He's the founder of theCLIKK an email newsletter about digital marketing.

ChatGPT 92

ChatGPT Advertising Email Viral 92

Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

Different sources define freemium as a business model or a pricing strategy. 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. However, your pricing options go far beyond freemium and free trial. Youtube ads.

Startup 110

Startup Non-Compete Viral Software Review 110

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Consumer approach to software for business users. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

Business Model 120

Business Model Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review 120

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. It sounds interesting.

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Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

Austin Startup

AUGUST 3, 2017

Is this a big enough market to support a venture funded business? It might be a great idea with a solid business model but it still might not be a good fit for venture funding. We believe the risk of low consumer adoption will be addressed if we can show a Viral Coefficient of 1.5 with 95% Monthly Active Users.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Startup Texas Email 69

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Startups that are searching for a business model need to keep score differently than large companies that are executing a known business model. Yet most entrepreneurs and their VC’s make startups use financial models and spreadsheets that actually hinder their success. Managing the Business. Here’s why.

Balance Sheet 298

Balance Sheet Startup Burn Rate Metrics 298

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. Awareness of the service was clearly spreading virally through word of mouth. Dell’s product offering advantage, building to custom order, simultaneously created a business model advantage.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

We’ve all heard the anecdotes—the famous founder who pitched 1000 investors before any of them said yes. Most founders I know who are in this mode simply haven’t done enough homework and planning on the idea. 7) Does such a model get you to a long term size that makes sense for venture capital investors (north of $100mm in revenues)?

Startup 110

Startup Viral Venture Capital .Net 110

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Business customers, depending on the problem, are less price sensitive than consumers.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

Hippoland

AUGUST 8, 2018

At Hustle Fund, we back both first time founders as well as repeat founders. One thing I’ve noticed is that almost every repeat, previously-successful-founder focuses on the same thing for their respective startups: customer acquisition. Business customers, depending on the problem, are less price sensitive than consumers.

Founder 48

Founder Sales Cycle Affiliate Retention 48

View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2019

At this point, founders find themselves in a luxurious situation of being able to build the best possible syndicate. Some founders may end up getting a little paralyzed at this stage because they are trying to optimize too many things at once. It’s not necessary to nail down every element of your syndicate simultaneously.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Lead Investor 202

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

. - HT: don''t outsource communication b/c part of core UX even though APIs available - healthy dev environment around APIs, very important to get confidence you can build your platformon on top of them - APIs give you freedom, don''t have to invest both people and tech in maintain internal platforms - HT had to totally revamp their infra, to manage (..)

API 48

API Fractional CTO CTO Hire San Francisco 48

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

Funding for founder salaries at this stage is a red flag. These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Have backup charts for investors wanting more detail.

Elevator Pitch 285

Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 285

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2018

Funding for founder salaries at this stage is a red flag. These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Have backup charts for investors wanting more detail.

Elevator Pitch 139

Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 139

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the Udemy course, Alistair and Ben expand these basics into a description of how to create empathy, stickiness, virality, revenue, and scale. LSC: Tell us about the customer development you did for your book: Alistair: We''ve been thrilled at how Lean Analytics seemed to resonate with founders. Alistair: There are plenty.

Analytics 167

Analytics Lean Widget Metrics 167

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2013

Driven by the recent recession, smart entrepreneurs of all ages are jumping into the fray with new ideas, new recovery strategies, and discarding outmoded business models. But the insights I see from her book and elsewhere are equally applicable to startup founders of all ages, and businesses of all ages.

Startup 247

Startup Viral Revenue Distribution 247

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Over breakfast he got me up to date on his life since school (two non-CEO roles in startups,) but he wanted to talk about his third startup – the one he and two co-founders had started. In this first step, the goal of a startup is to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Startup 120

Startup Lean Venture Capital Advisory Board 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2012

Driven by the recent recession, smart entrepreneurs of all ages are jumping into the fray with new ideas, new recovery strategies, and discarding outmoded business models. But the insights I see from her book and elsewhere are equally applicable to startup founders of all ages, and businesses of all ages.

Entrepreneur 234

Entrepreneur Viral Revenue Distribution 234

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. In it we explicitly state: “The real value creation comes when innovative technology enables innovative products and services with innovative business models….What

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core. This kind of a simple model also helps: Define the early proof points for the company. Great stuff.

Metrics 225

Metrics Startup Retention Acquisition 225

Austin Startup

AUGUST 22, 2018

Co-owner and founder Michael Heyne said that people didn’t understand the original name, a reference to doner kebabs (which isn’t even available on the menu anymore). Design Typecasting IRL A very talented friend who designs brands took on a restaurant project that went a little viral. But Unimark was a failed business.

Design 48

Design New York City Cofounder Bankruptcy 48

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2016

Funding for founder salaries at this stage is a red flag. These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Professional investors always look for a proven business model and an existing revenue stream to minimize the risk. Have backup charts for investors wanting more detail.

Elevator Pitch 120

Elevator Pitch Salary Angel Investor Viral 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Yet there are big challenges to hyperlocal, at least for consumer-focused hyperlocal startups, according to Sean Barkulis , Founder of UPlanMe one of the early casualties in this space: Every site requires real curated local content to engage users. Much of this is still evolving, and I think it has great potential. This is not just a fad.

Finder 210

Finder Curation Seattle Community 210

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Two 28-year old founders, a friend they hired to come work for them fulltime and one intern in a nice but small office in Amsterdam. Automating processes with APIs, creating a large e-mail subscriber base, SEO and viral strategies are of course extremely valuable to any start-up. Find out how ‘light’ you can start your business model.

SEM 244

SEM Lean PR Startup 244

Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2020

After talking to entrepreneurs over the past two weeks, it seems most businesses are imploding or exploding, depending on how well their business model can adapt to a post-corona virus world. There are five general things you can do now to make your business coronable: survive and thrive in a viral world.

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Texas Viral eCommerce Equity 62