www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The fleet of cars in Getaround has grown to 10,000 from 1,500 a year ago, and suburban customers make up about a quarter of its bookings. Airbnb has booked about 10 million nights since it was founded four years ago, and the average customer age has risen to 35. People are telling their parents," says CEO Brian Chesky.

San Francisco 105

San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2016

Seth Godin once said, “You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.” Friends into customers? Customers into salespeople? Curate and customize your shop’s product catalog. ” [Tweet It!]. Strangers into friends? Image Source.

Social Media 48

Social Media eCommerce Media Audience 48

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

In my experience, wealth managers often refer experts to their clients and Ankit could position his service through that channel. Lead Generation & Qualification With a Channel Partner. One of the members of the channel partner team was actually present in the room and shared his point of view as well. Discuss.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley New Jersey Entrepreneur Massachusetts 113

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

for the app and has 30,000 customers. He asked me if he should offer the app for free to get more customers. Michaeline is a 1M/1M premium member, trying to make decisions around fund-raising versus growing organically using channel partnerships. Richard is currently charging $1.99 I said, no. Photo by Gisela Giardano.

Business Model 122

Business Model New Hampshire Dallas Entrepreneur 122

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

This partnership speaks to a core philosophy of the program where we encourage entrepreneurs to get as much customer validation as possible before raising too much money, use other people's channels if you can get to them, don't burn too much cash, and all that good fiscal conservative stuff. Brainscape. Note, I said, validated.

Dilution 114

Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. She has, thus far, not done any other formal customer acquisition initiative. In February, he had about 200 customers. Today, he has over a thousand, and he has chosen to focus on the realtor vertical.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. In the Entrepreneur Journeys methodology, we focus on customer validation as early as possible.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Bhupendra has built a product and has started engaging a few customers. My key advice to him was to focus on acquiring customers, and getting a thorough positioning exercise done based on segmentation, competitive analysis and market sizing to identify a segment where competition is less active and the product is particularly effective.

Senegal 117

Senegal Nevada Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 117

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Distribution Channel for Product Companies. Then Amit Gurung pitched a business plan to create a distribution channel for product companies trying to cater to the rural base-of-the-pyramid (BPO) market in India. Detailed segmentation analysis and target customer definition at a fairly granular level. How does he mitigate that?

India 115

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

The company sells to the marketing departments of corporations, has 50 customers, and is already profitable. We discussed its growth strategy, and my advice is to build the ad agency and interactive marketing channels as the primary growth driver. global market a strong channel through Silicon Valley. A mistake, in my opinion.

Malaysia 114

Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

At today's roundtable we saw three very nice businesses, each with pilot customers, and each working on real problems. Antonio has 100 trial customers at the moment, and is looking to figure out exactly what his company positioning is going to be. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items.

Partner 117

Partner Belgium Portugal Bootstrapping 117

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Google PPC is a key channel for customer acquisition for many e-commerce and online businesses, yet keywords have become quite competitive, and the costs of campaigns for certain keywords tend to be extremely high. As such, Deepak hasn't really ventured out of his shell yet to incorporate the voice of the customer. Discuss.

PPC 114

PPC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Incubator 114

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

He needs to target a customer who could use all of the related services offered. an advertising and mobile services company that has subscribers and vendors as customers. We discussed marketing, advertising and direct marketing agencies as being the best channel partners for him. He discussed Bongo Live! ,

Tanzania 128

Tanzania Africa Entrepreneur Startup 128

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

We discussed a numbers of customer acquisition methods to do so. We also discussed Dan's options vis-à-vis channel partners. We discussed ways to acquire small business customers and how to recruit college students through internships. Social Pulse. You can register for the next roundtable here. Discuss.

San Jose 115

San Jose Entrepreneur United States Washington 115

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

OrangeScape positions itself as an Application Platform As A Service (APaaS) provider, and has some marquee customers in India including Unilever, Citibank, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Sterlite. They will now be leveraging the 1M/1M-Persistent channel to go to market in the United States. Building new apps is also not as simple.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley Massachusetts 114

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

Startup 113

Startup India Silicon Valley Incubator 113

www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

The breakdown: “Capturing conversation outside brand-owned channels is not a perfect science, but at the moment, Radian6 is leading the pack. It’s also simple to customize.” Case Studies in Custom Content. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. Tool: Radian6 (Salesforce) URL: Radian6.com Director of E-Media - Colorado.

Social Media 40

Social Media Rhode Island Media South Dakota 40

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The more that people pay you, the more influence customers feel they should have, but they don’t necessarily know what they want. Customers will try to be polite and tell you want you want to hear. Doing customer discovery isn’t the same as running a focus group. We had to figure out how to get honest feedback.

Cofounder 264

Cofounder Entrepreneur Hawaii Massachusetts 264

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems. 30 million market?

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems. 30 million market?

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents. Twenty four are in Dallas and 22 are in Houston.

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The more that people pay you, the more influence customers feel they should have, but they don’t necessarily know what they want. Customers will try to be polite and tell you want you want to hear. Doing customer discovery isn’t the same as running a focus group. We had to figure out how to get honest feedback.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Hawaii Massachusetts 120

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Nir is contemplating various different business models and channel options, all the way from Freemium B-to-C to white labeling the solution for universities and colleges. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He wants to penetrate the Indian market.

Brazil 115

Brazil India Entrepreneur 115

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Frankly I think Google, as we said, they always want to return the best for the searcher, that’s their customer. ” But then I go into their assisted conversions and I’m like, “Nope, it actually does if you look at first click,” because often times it’s the first discovery channel. Is that right?

SEO 39

SEO Marketing Search Artificial Inteligence 39

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. In creating that personality, you want to ensure it appeals to your ideal customer profile. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world.

Conversion 48

Conversion Audience Massachusetts Social Media 48

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Girish Mathrubootham, from Chennai, India, discussed FreshDesk , a full-featured social customer support SaaS offering targeted toward small businesses. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118