Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. Don’t just join the conversation, spark it. Want control?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Read Business Model Generation pages 1-72, and The Four Steps to the Epiphany Chapter 3. Use Skype or Google+ Hangouts for team conversations. Write down your 9- business model canvas hypothesis. List key features/ Minimal Viable product plan. Create a “ viral ” landing page, with LaunchRock or KickoffLabs.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2012

If you’re starting a new business, do not take one more sip of coffee, one more step and spend one penny before you write your business plan. The executive summary is the first and most important part of your business plan. Here you can discuss plans to franchise. Executive Summary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2023

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Conversely, a huge marketing budget implies an intent to “spray and pray,” in hopes that something works. They will look to your business plan for cash flows and specific return on investment projections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2020

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Conversely, a huge marketing budget implies an intent to “spray and pray,” in hopes that something works. They will look to your business plan for cash flows and specific return on investment projections.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2015

Business is actually a network of interrelated conversations. Her principal message is this: If you want an organization that produces breakthrough results, you must confidently lead the conversations that will bring connectedness to your company and give real meaning to the work your employees are doing.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 23, 2016

“If you have fewer posts but of a higher quality, it’s much more likely one of those posts will go viral and reach an exponentially larger group than you would reach if you had focused on quantity,” he says. In other words, if there’s any one way to control whether a post goes viral, quality is it.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

As I ask questions to understand the thinking, what usually comes out is something vague along the lines of web marketing, and/or viral growth with no numbers attached. A quick look around all the B2C startups shows that, although viral growth is often hoped for, in reality it is extremely rare.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. Don’t just join the conversation, spark it. Want control?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

I believe that rather than losing the human element from your relationship with your customers, digital solutions help you to make conversations more personal. Specifically, I plan on putting out one study per quarter that I'll send out to reporters and hopefully get viral coverage on social media. 19- Outsource for growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. Don’t just join the conversation, spark it. Want control?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. Don’t just join the conversation, spark it. Want control?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2020

When writing such posts, be sure that your tone and style of writing is helpful, descriptive, fun and conversational. Incorporating referral links into your communications and incentivizing folks to share them facilitates “viral lopping” and organic growth. Advice for starting a cannabis business . Referral links.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 24, 2018

This is great provided you already have in place a strategic thinking business plan where you have clearly identified your ideal customers; know your market and have established key metrics. believe many businesses are being brainwashed into thinking they can’t. Avoid Trying To Go Viral. Avoid The YouTube Craze.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Conversely, a huge marketing budget implies an intent to “spray and pray,” in hopes that something works. They will look to your business plan for cash flows and specific return on investment projections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2018

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Conversely, a huge marketing budget implies an intent to “spray and pray,” in hopes that something works. They will look to your business plan for cash flows and specific return on investment projections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2016

These days, even viral marketing requires real money, for events and promotions. Conversely, a huge marketing budget implies an intent to “spray and pray,” in hopes that something works. They will look to your business plan for cash flows and specific return on investment projections.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2013

This is great provided you already have in place a strategic thinking business plan where you have clearly identified your ideal customers; know your market and have established key metrics. believe many businesses are being brainwashed into thinking they can’t. Avoid Trying To Go Viral. Avoid The YouTube Craze.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2010

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. Don’t just join the conversation, spark it. Want control?

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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. To help turn the conversation specifically to non-tech companies—the topic of our webcast this week —we asked Alistair to answer a few questions. Alistair: There are plenty.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

So be sure to make a free user account and participate in the offline conversation there. As we wait for our first callers to come on board, I wanted to start with a question from a conversation that Bob and I with Merck Coulbrougiff [sounds like] from Beta List [SP]. You have to log in to chat, I’ll think you’ll see there.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

When it comes to the right time to go after funding, Kashyap says, “Founders should raise money after they have developed a solid business plan and require additional capital to develop or expand their business.&# Passion was certainly a recurring topic of conversation amongst the investors we interviewed.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. The self-assessment methodology, pioneered by Village Capital, is called VIRAL, for “Venture Investment Readiness and Awareness Levels.” .

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

We’re testing a viral loop, direct sales, and affiliate marketing.&# If I can steal your idea by just hearing it, there is no defensible business model there. But starting a conversation with, "Just sign here" is simply unrealistic. I think the only misunderstanding here is the scope of that first conversation.

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www.buzzfeed.com

AUGUST 16, 2012

Viral On The Web. Viral Dashboard. Share This & Help It Go Viral. Facebook Conversations. × It'd be nice, but the business plan for at least half of them is to get bought out by Google. Viral on Facebook. Synchronized Swimming Faces Are Terrifyingly… Viral on Facebook.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Jokes aside, the top-down approach has its place in business plans and pitch decks commonly used to ask people for money. It then crunches those numbers together with an expected conversion rate and expected price to give you an idea of expected monthly revenue. But it worked for a lot of the dot com’s in the early 2000s.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

And, the better and more useful the content you create, the more likely it will be to go viral. For example, a search for the term “LivePlan” reveals that search volume for our business planning software and business management dashboard has more than tripled in the last three years. Crazy, right?

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Gather your market research, your business plan, and your prototype and make your presentation to potential CTOs. Check out our most recent business articles and resources. Here are our most popular and useful business articles. Sign that person to an NDA if necessary. Test your prototype in your target market.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2016

See Also: How to Write About Sourcing and Fulfillment in Your Business Plan. They’re going to make launching your business easy. Your product listings should already be optimized for conversions, if you’ve followed step one close enough. It’s a time-proven process to help you start generating sales as quickly as possible.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The knowledge that you need 10,000 hours to master a subject, that certain trends become viral after the 412th person adopts it, or that you should make your product remarkable, is not going to help you launch. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. Or Proctor and Gamble. Or Panasonic.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" you can steal an idea just from hearing it, it is not really a good defensible business idea. Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

God forbid, it’s not virtual or in the clouds, so who knew but I trusted that this was something that was needed and it just went viral. Not only an individual goal planning, I think it’s a tremendous … maybe you ought to have a sub freedom journal and created as a business planning too.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Conversely, plenty of folks who write code in more “acceptable” languages/platforms are lazy bastards who have no concept of the underlying complexities of their chosen tools. Startups need to be nimble, because your business plan will never completely be what you set out to do. March 27, 2011 at 9:56 pm.

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