Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2016

Even the best products and solutions won’t go anywhere unless you sell them through the right channels. For example, if you watch the TV show “Shark Tank,” you will remember several entrepreneurs with specialty products doing well online who want money to move into big box retail. Resist the channel sales pitch for exclusivity.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2024

Here are a few key tips to enhance the productivity and effectiveness of your remote accounts team. Establish Clear Communication Channels Effective communication lies at the heart of remote team collaboration. Establishing clear communication channels is essential for keeping team members aligned and informed.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

They poured their hearts and souls into creating an innovative product fueled by the desire to make a difference in the lives of their target audience. Startup X reached out to a product design services provider, and with their help, they were able to turn their fortunes around. The good news is that there’s hope!

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2020

Have you ever looked for software development talent abroad? A small tip: if you have no tech expertise and need software to be developed, go with outsourcing. A popular mistake many business people make when turning to offshore software development talent providers is paying attention to price tags only. Source: Pixabay.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Every day, I channel my enthusiasm into creating exciting and engaging math lessons, leveraging my wealth of experience to motivate my students. Do you participate in professional development workshops, or perhaps enjoy problem-solving puzzles in your downtime? Are you a founder or CEO or head of product?

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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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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As Neal Schaffer points out: “…Companies still look at social media as a promotional and advertising channel rather than as a grand arena to collaborate with social media users, primarily customers and influencers, and work them through a relationship funnel to incite word of mouth marketing for your brand in social media.”

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. What channels will you use (e.g.,

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. What channels will you use (e.g., Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. What channels will you use (e.g., Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service?

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution. In addition, manufacturing and inventory levels will be reviewed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

This week they were testing their hypotheses about the sales “Channel” – how a company delivers its value proposition (i.e. its product or service) to its customers. There are two major channels: physical channels and virtual (web/mobile) channels. The Nine Teams Present. Relationships and trust are important.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2017

The way you do it is even easier, as you just need a sourcing company like [link] for example, which can put you in relations with the company that will be developing the app. By hiring a company to develop your app, you are ensuring its quality through the skilled developers which are assigned to work on it. Maintenance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Products that can be easily produced and sold via multiple channels, including the Internet, are more easily scaled world-wide. Develop a product line and add alternate channels. New channels, such as adding brick-and-mortar distributors to supplement your online sales, also can multiply your rate of growth.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

My goal at this very early stage wasn’t to figure out how to unlock growth but to create a product people loved. By being so close to users from the very beginning I was able to really understand what the “must have” experience of the product was, and I used that in my pitch. I woke up each morning at 5 a.m.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

The enterprise in company form offers a product, a process or service for sale or hires to professionals or individuals, contributing to a community’s overall economic development. Why Enterprise is the Driver of Economic Development. Entrepreneurship is known for the high risks involved in launching a startup.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 25, 2021

The quicker you can employ the quicker you can get new products or services up and running. It can affect the productivity of the staff and stain the reputation of your company. Developing a strong employer brand with a consistent mission, values, culture, and employee benefits will undoubtedly benefit your cause.

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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 ).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Do you need to invest in production services to create more creative rich media? It’s also ideal if you can find a virtual call center program that works across multiple communication channels, like social media. Video production is a worthy investment. What does the production process look like?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the interests of helping you work smarter and last longer, I would like to offer my top ten list of key resource drains to avoid in early businesses and startups, based on my years of advising entrepreneurs and my own business experience: Expanding your product line too quickly for scaling. Use multiple small orders at first.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

Keeping up with trends is the reality show of the e-commerce world, which is constantly developing, gaining a significant market share, and driving online sales. In contrast, it left several e-trends: augmented reality, zero coding, the marketplace boom, and product subscriptions are just a few of them.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It outlines four major growth strategies: market penetration , market development , product development , and diversification. The goal of market penetration is to leverage new tactics to increase product sales , including existing customers and new customers within existing markets. Market development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Cash is always hard to find, but in many cases it’s even harder to find access to needed distribution channels, government contract expertise, or the special skills required to deliver your solution. Finish the product before marketing begins. Marketing should start before product development.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

However, a crisis can also be a golden opportunity to launch a new product or service, as long as the startup at the origin applies specific methods. Frugal innovation has its roots in the developing world, where resource constraints have always necessitated a more creative approach to problem-solving. Here are just a few.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

Many shutdowns and market dry-ups resulted in domestic dependency that narrowed down where products could be found. There has been a Significant Interruption in Traditional Channels for Sales and Sourcing. As a result of the pandemic, there is a significant interruption in traditional channels for sales and sourcing. Regulatory.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As an investor in startups, I most often see entrepreneurs who are technologists, or at least have a real passion for a specific product. They rarely highlight their marketing and relationship skills , even though, in my experience, these are more often the key to success in business than product skills.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 26, 2019

SpdLoad is a startup development company focused on web and mobile development of Minimum Viable Products( MVP) for early-stage startups. To achieve these objectives, we focused on: enhancement of personnel policy and its follow-up positioning as a stand-alone salable product; determining EVP focal points ?—

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. Validation of product. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. If the product is in customer hands, expect some customers to be interviewed.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

8 Tips to keeping your freelancers happy and boosting their productivity and loyalty: 1. While this is understandable for jobs that require strict schedule adherence like customer support, sales, etc, it does not make sense for your freelance software developers, web designers, content writers, and so on. Not sure where to start?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Onboarding a new remote developer is arguably one of the most important things you can add to your core competencies if you want to assure your new hires’ success. Checkpoints to evaluate onboarding success have not been established in advance, and the developer doesn’t know what’s going to under evaluation. A copy of the org chart.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 26, 2022

Creating a well-designed product that’s a hit with users takes a lot of hard work, not to mention a little strategy and luck. Achieving longevity, it seems, is not as simple as creating one successful software product. The creation of a hit software is an impressive feat — especially because 21.5% Figuring Out Your Next Big Move.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 15, 2021

This rapid expansion of the VA industry inevitably gave birth to another interesting development – higher diversification amongst virtual assistants. Now that the volume of VA footwork has rapidly increased and jacks of all trades are no longer productive enough. Contacting new leads. Live chat on social media.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. We didnt think wed able to compete with that.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

You may have already known about the Shopify marketplace and how it is one of the best platforms to make money by selling your products and services online. Unarguably, Shopify has many difficult aspects in growing in the development industry and web design. What’s a Shopify Expert? The marketplace is known as Shopify Experts.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Iterating with intelligent editors – products that enable users to take an existing output and refine it (ex. Looking for startups solving practical use cases that go beyond gaming.

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