YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

The founders of Benkheim&Co , an online brand which seeks to change the traditional luxury watch concept, explains how motivated entrepreneurs benefit from globalisation, efficient fulfilment services and new technologies. What helped him was his passion for the product and an excellent business partner.

Cofounder 113

Cofounder Technical Review Technology Netherlands 113

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Josh Porter is the founder of What to Wear Daily , a service that helps you prepare for your day. He is best-known as the creator of 52 Weeks of UX and was also head of UX at HubSpot, by way of being co-founder of Performable (acquired in 2011). But Twitter was another channel I used during that time.

Design 330

Design Product Cofounder Boston 330

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

How you decide to invest in marketing channels can make or break your business. Okay, so it’s important to capitalize on effective channels that are conducive to growth at scale. An Overview of Common Digital Marketing Channels. That sounds like an obvious statement, but not a lot of people think about it critically.

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Channel Marketing Viral SEO 118

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Yet while product launches are a risk, they’re not as risky as you think. Image source ).

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We’re looking to triple the size of our engineering and product team within the next year,” said Sandy Jen, co-founder and chief technology officer for Honor. “We In the coming years, this technology will open a channel to allow seniors more streamlined access to the products and services they need at home?—?creating

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Engineer Finance Technology 62

Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Nonprofit – An organization whose mission primarily isn’t to make profits for the owners but to channel revenue it generates to fund a social mission or cause. When starting a business, consider if your product/service has a unique invention that needs to be protected from being copied by others. Develop a founders agreement.

Small Business 167

Small Business Intellectual Property Cofounder Software Review 167

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Aaron is the CEO and Co-founder of Leadferno, a business and text messaging platform to close more leads faster. Aaron is a digital marketing veteran of over 20 years founding and growing both digital marketing agencies and marketing software products. 20:59] Where can people find out more about you and Leadferno?

SMS 101

SMS Marketing Cofounder Software Review 101

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

To succeed in today’s crowded market, you need to harmonize product marketing and brand marketing. In this article, you’ll learn the difference between brand marketing and product marketing, and how to balance both to stand out above the crowd. Brand vs product marketing: Friends or foe? They rely on each other for success.

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Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

You are a “digital native” with a strong interest in new technology and have hands-on proficiency with many online tools for managing social media interactions, event production, and project management. Formulating and executing on NextView’s social media strategy and managing multiple social media presences and communication channels.

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Operations Hiring Seed Stage Software Review 227

Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2020

Here’s what they have to say about setting up a productive home office environment. For John Rood, the founder and President of Next Step Test Preparation, keeping more regimented work hours is key to staying on track. If the intersection between lighting and productivity interests you, be sure to read this article.

Product 120

Product Video Phoenix Cofounder 120

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2023

Strategies For Successful Product Launches written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Mary Sheehan In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Mary Sheehan. She is an accomplished product marketing leader who has held marketing leadership roles at Adobe, Google, and many startups.

Product 60

Product Framework Technical Review Cofounder 60

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

by Lamar Tyler, founder of Traffic Sales & Profit. When I say selling, I mean you should really be selling a lot of your products and services because people are ready to buy! Begin by launching engagement and awareness campaigns both through organic and paid media channels. You should be selling during the holidays.

Cofounder 165

Cofounder Marketing Audience Technical Review 165

Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Until we start giving grades for resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition, tenacity and having a passion for products and customers, great grades and successful entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.). Lessons Learned.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 334

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We want to see and touch and smell and try on and (sometimes) taste the products we’re buying, and the eCommerce experience can only go so far. We have a lot of SKUs, and Shopify made it really easy to set up products and inventory counts. Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. Shopping is multi-dimensional. We did them.

eCommerce 155

eCommerce Cofounder Community Channel 155

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Luke Campbell – Cofounder. Startup founders should connect with other founders at similar stages to them, and ones who are a few steps ahead.”. ” Abbe Hyde – Founder.

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Founder Cofounder New Zealand B2C 101

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Technical Review Software Review 40

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Ask former co-workers. New Web Order. 5th November 2010. #. are full of smart tech people).

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Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. He co-founded it in partnership with High Alpha (we are LPs) and SVB. I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Fred Wilson was his lead investor.

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Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 195

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. Growth hacking is about caring for and optimizing the user experience to build trust and keep customers using your product. The skills and mindsets of world-class growth hackers. The result?

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

Therefore we needed them to think and learn about two parts of a startup; 1) ideation - how to create new ideas and 2) customer development – how do they test the validity of their idea (is it the right product, customer, channel, pricing, etc.). Customer Discovery in the Real World. That’s when everything changed.

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Lean Customer Development Startup Silicon Valley 334

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

When researching a new product, buyers use 10 or more channels to interact with companies. Each channel presents a chance to make a good impression. Optimize each channel, and you’ll win new customers, enjoy higher order rates , and retain customers. Each channel is a piece of the same puzzle.

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Customer Marketing Channel Audience 118

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Ben is a co-founder and executive producer of Storyboard Media, a B2B marketing, and video production firm in North Carolina. Why can’t you just turn on the camera and produce videos so that you can post them to all channels? Marketing Podcast with Ben Oliver. Can you expand on what you mean by this?

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North Carolina Video Customer Technical Review 98

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Peep mentioned three ways to get inside the limited consideration set : Innovation : create an objectively better product and you’ll achieve a transient advantage, just the way other category kings such as Tinder or Tesla did. Marketing : get a larger share of voice.

B2B 94

B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Successful founders have a laser-like focus and commitment; a keen understanding of customers’ needs; and a tenacious spirit, said the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Even though there was a real need in the market it wasn’t right (the right time) for a wearable (product).

Cofounder 120

Cofounder India Entrepreneur Maryland 120

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

Management 85

Management Product Technical Review Software Review 85

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The audience size identified is encouragingly large, and the frequently used phrases and words (brick mortar, retail, founder) align directly with our target audience. Take SparkToro’s Co-founder, Rand Fishkin. Compare that to SparkToro’s account, which is more mostly product-focused. Developing a social media following.

Reputation 134

Reputation Audience Management Social Media 134

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Arif Bhalwani is the co-founder and CEO of Third Eye Capital (TEC) in Toronto, Canada. We recently worked with a retailer who was struggling due to operational inefficiencies, an overly broad and outdated product line, and a burdensome debt structure. The firm has made more than $4.5 ARIF BHALWANI: Sure.

Technical Review 138

Technical Review Due Diligence Bankruptcy Intellectual Property 138

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. The criteria change after a company reaches the growth stage when it is deemed to have attained product market fit. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses.

Seed Stage 131

Seed Stage Technical Review Early Stage Due Diligence 131

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

This difficulty is something that Jatin Mehta, one of the co-founders of SpeedyBrand, is aware of. Before being distributed through a variety of channels, the automatically generated content can undergo additional personalization via SpeedyBrand’s user-friendly dashboard and be edited.

Generative AI 127

Generative AI SEO Artificial Inteligence Forecast 127

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 11, 2022

Husband and wife co-founders, Todd and Laure Fisher founded CallTrackingMetrics in 2011 in their basement and together have grown it into an Inc. Key Takeaway: Today, it seems as though there’s a never-ending list of channels and ways in which your customers can communicate with you and your business.

Metrics 85

Metrics Marketing Software Review Cofounder 85

View from Seed

AUGUST 22, 2016

Today is Part 2, in which I play the role of skeptic and Reboot’s Chief Product Officer, Dan Putt, shares how to push through that mentality that “the soft stuff matters less.” In the end, the biggest reason startups fail is due to cofounder conflict. (We That’s here. That’s here.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Startup Hosting Channel 120

YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

by Mike Bird, CEO and co-founder of Social Garden. Plus, you’ll irritate those loyal audience members who follow you across multiple channels. Say it’s a new product announcement. In a recent HubSpot survey , 68% of respondents said that a short explainer video was their preferred way to learn about new products.

Social Media 113

Social Media Media Technical Review Algorithm 113

The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Growth hacking has resonated in the startup community due to today’s growth challenges: new channel creation, channel saturation, the “best product” fallacy and “product-growth” fit. Channel instability. The creation and destruction of channels is a common occurrence today. Channel saturation.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Software Review Distribution San Francisco 150

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Using a tool like SparkToro , you can uncover the channels and influencers that your audience is most engaged with. Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Your existing clients are your most significant source of insights.

Audience 127

Audience Non-Compete Distribution Channel 127

Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

Cofounder 142

Cofounder Entrepreneur Africa Sales Cycle 142

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. 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.

Technical Review 399

Technical Review Product Advisory Board Business Model 399