Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Scalable startups are on a trajectory for a billion dollar market cap. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. has a large enough market that most U.S. ———-.

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Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The daily deal and group buying market has really heated up, with numerous sites offering variations on the basic value proposition. Gnosis India. Next Anuj Mishra with Gnosis India presented an idea of doing highly technical workshops (CAD, Robotics) for students all around India, including rural India.

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Channel India Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 115

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Impact of Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Lloyed Lobo In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Lloyed Lobo. 00:30): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. Would you support that idea? [10:39]

Community 51

Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 51

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2012

miiCard supports the UK, North America, Western Europe, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. This offline stage, responding to Anti Money Laundering, Know Your Customer Regulations and the Proceeds of Crime Act, is a massive barrier to global trade and the market demands its elimination. What made you use crowdSPRING?

Small Business 75

Small Business South Africa North America New Zealand 75

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. Why or why not?

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

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. million in revenue. Not just assumptions.

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Dilution Revenue Finance Entrepreneur 114

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Everyone on my team is obsessed with the products, so it’s been fun managing the social media channels. For example, a big accomplishment this summer was joining Instagram, being a visual company Instagram had been missing out of our marketing strategy. Thanks to Trina Albus, MAGENTA ! Image credit: Shel Horowitz.

Los Angeles 48

Los Angeles Las Vegas Entrepreneur Phoenix 48

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Whether you’re a freelancer, content outlet, or brand of product/service, email marketing can prove to be an effective means of reaching your audience of stakeholders, customers or media contacts. Email marketing: for your eyes only. When should you use email marketing?

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Email Social Media Marketing Audience 135

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2018

It also throws light on how to enhance the supply chain management and trends that could channelize your operation in a synchronised way with better understanding. The least the time duration between an order and its fulfilment the happier the customer will be, the more tasks you will do and the more revenue you will generate.

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Demand Cofounder India Mobile 100

ReadWriteStart

MAY 4, 2011

Pune has become a hotbed of product entrepreneurship in India, and I was curious to see what kinds of ventures are cooking there. Manoj has deep domain knowledge in the CCS market segment and has designed a solution that addresses the missing real-time data dashboard functionality of the industry.

India 116

India Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Well, you can't really go "global" without a go-to-market strategy that evaluates different markets, and assesses the competitive positioning in each of them. This strategy needs to be developed for ISA, and they have to pick a specific market to go after, rather than going global. Math-Quest.

Malaysia 114

Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 9, 2011

Ankit has done a nice job of segmenting his market and focusing on two cities in New Jersey. I suggested offering a discounted service to the members of the investment clubs and going to market with them. In addition, I also suggested testing the wealth manager market. We also had a discussion on market sizing.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley New Jersey Entrepreneur Massachusetts 113

ReadWriteStart

MAY 12, 2011

First up, Vrushali Humnabadkar from Pune, India, presented Penworks, a technical documentation outsourcing service. Vrushali is moderator of a forum for technical documentation professionals and gets a lot of her clients through that channel. and a systematic affiliate marketing program. Happy Grasshopper. Very cool, indeed!

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India 125

Transformify

AUGUST 16, 2020

Transformify , a UK-based Freelancer Management System (FMS), has partnered up with Xoxoday , an HR Software company based in India that has offices in Singapore, Australia, the US, Ireland and the Philippines, to boost its expansion across Asia. During the last few months, Transformify has seen a 500% increase in demand in India alone.

Asia 98

Asia Partner Management India 98

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

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. Bhupendra's questions were largely around competition. GotProduce.com.

Senegal 117

Senegal Nevada Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 117

Cracking the Code

APRIL 15, 2014

Six secular trends will shape the future of ecommerce in the coming decade: mobile becoming a dominant channel, emergence of one click services, rise of the sharing economy, deep personalization, instant delivery and Asia becoming a major market. market globally. revenues in 2014) expected to go public in the US in 2014.

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eCommerce North America Asia Mobile 75

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Hyper-local, flash marketing platform connecting consumers with local business offers; super majority of offers are restaurant and personal services; competitor to Groupon. the funding and market coverage. LivingSocial.

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IPO .Net Venture Capital Strategic Investors 236

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Whatever background they have is more suited to IT consulting, and I suggested that they become a value-added-reseller of a major card technology vendor and represent them in the South Asian market. Distribution Channel for Product Companies. Gemalto, the smart card world leader comes to mind as a possible vendor. Photo by designkryt.

India 115

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 115

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. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses.

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Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

They market and they sell. Well, at the very heart of the marketing and selling problem is the concept of lead generation. As the Internet became mainstream, this was largely replaced (at least in the universe we live in) by email marketing campaigns, so the key information was the email address of a lead. Social Contacts.

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Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

It is that kind of precision that will drive a focused go-to-market strategy. Then Greg Snead, also from Tacoma, discussed Orbiter , an RFID venture that is moving along quite nicely, having clocked more than $700,000 in revenue last year. We also discussed Dan's options vis-à-vis channel partners. Happy Grasshopper.

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. Multi Angular Force Generator.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley Massachusetts 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

IDES is an analytics enhancement for fraud prevention systems addressing the credit card fraud market. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. IDES Technologies. Then Cristina Soviany presented IDES Technologies from Belgium. If possible, of course.

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Partner Belgium Portugal Bootstrapping 117

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

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. Also, Kimbra Orr with Kimbra Studios presented an interesting business selling photo jewelry that is already at $750k revenue.

PPC 114

PPC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Incubator 114

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You have heard, I am sure, that venture capitalists only invest in very large market opportunities - $500 million to $1 billion. But there are others - many others - who are looking for smaller opportunities, playing in the sweet spot of $50-$100 million market opportunities. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market?

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2017

Affordable Tools to Help Maximize Your Social Media Presence written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Social media has tilted the marketing landscape, with close to 90 percent of marketers believing in the importance of social media marketing—a practice that saw a spending of close to $10 billion in 2015.

Social Media 63

Social Media Media Artificial Inteligence Analytics 63

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

There are a couple of good reasons a company should consider bootstrapping its market entry. Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity.

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The ingredients used are all human grade, and we strive to use organic and local farmer’s market/CSA ingredients when possible. I started a career in real estate in 2008 (when the market was crashing). I would love logging in to Second Life to sell marketing and advertising to businesses trying to make it in a virtual setting.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

At today's roundtable, we had entrepreneurs presenting from Brazil, Israel and India. In fact, I was pleased to even see an entrepreneur from Kolkata, India, the city in which I was born and raised. He wants to penetrate the Indian market. Estate Lister. ServiceSutra. Overall, I saw several promising businesses.

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Brazil India Entrepreneur 115

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

As a kid I used to trek down to the “electronics bazaar” in New Delhi, known as Lajpat Rai Market , and go store to store to try and find the components I needed for whatever I was building. Almost all the iconic startup hardware products that you see on the market are designed by professional industrial designers.

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2017

Other channels also enjoy unparalleled traction with their niche focus and audience. With social media playing such robust presence for everything in our life, it plays now a leading role in digital marketing and promotions. When it comes to marketing your new app cannot do without social media. Choose your channels.

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Social Media Media Audience Campaign 195

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

." In honor of that spirit, I'll take a step away from our mutual obsession with marketing and analytics and share with you the philosophies and values that guide me when I go to work every day. My professional career spans three countries: India, Saudi Arabia and the United States. 70/30 people will rule the world.

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Saudi Arabia Green Leadership Framework 166

Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

It saddens me deeply that they are not being able to take full advantage of all the new product, marketing, customer relationship opportunities in front of them. I love the shift to intent-based targeting (I cannot stress how massively important to the future of advertising and marketing). These are non-trivial questions to answer.

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Analytics Marketing Mobile Audience 60

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Take the market and break it down into smaller chunks. I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

IT team members working on the core product, sales and customer support, marketing, etc. Speaking of non-compliance, there 2 common cases: Paying Below the Local Market Rate. Some of them invest money and effort to familiarize themselves with the median market salary and the best practices locally. Slave Labor.

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Bangladesh Philippines Salary Cofounder 98