View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel Hodes (RH): What problem exists in the market that your business is trying to solve? . On the other side of the market, traditional creative industries like these exploit emerging talent and pay them pennies for their labor. This is an untapped market of “gig-focused creators”. ” – Melody Koh.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan. Pre-infinite information on the Internet about colleges, I picked Michigan because I saw them play football on TV, but I ended up applying to the wrong school in Michigan – my first time around I ended up in Michigan State not the University of Michigan.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

You struggle to get budget to hire Analysts or Marketers. The effort you invest in measuring offline impact will finally help your company understand how valuable the online channel is (or not!). So on your website use a unique phone number that is not available through any other channel. Two words: Primary Key. Not that hard.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

Or how many different channels they’re selling through, and what eCommerce solutions they’re utilizing? It’s important to know who your current and future competitors are and how they’re operating within the market. Research and Assess Competitors – How are your competitors differentiating themselves in the market?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2016

Somehow I figured out how to apply to school in Michigan. Pre-infinite information on the Internet about colleges, I picked Michigan because I saw them play football on TV, but I ended up applying to the wrong school in Michigan – my first time around I ended up in Michigan State not the University of Michigan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 6, 2018

It was my pleasure to talk with Henry about what he and Heimans have learned about how power structures are changing, how people can get started making the shift from old to new power, how the principles of new power are related to the principles of lean startup, and the responsibilities that come with all the amazing energy being channeled.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

Therefore, the teaching objectives of the I-Corps class are: 1) Help each team understand that a successful company was more than just their technology/invention by introducing all the parts of a business model (customers, channel, get/keep/grow, revenue models, partners, resources, activities and costs.). They left with very deep knowledge.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

What it was like to get out of the research lab to build a startup was the focus of interviews with two of the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). The technology was working, but finding that market fit was challenging. …. …We

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

what distribution channel? Give us an estimate of market size). Channel : Mowing and agricultural equipment dealers. Fred Ford (MSME, Mar 2011) Senior Eng for Mechanical Systems on Military Satellites, BS Aerospace Eng (U of Michigan). The market is large enough for a scalable business. what’s the product?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 20, 2011

There are maybe 10 universities that could pull this off and a few of them are already involved with cable programming — As a Michigan grad, I love the Big Ten Channel.). said would be split equally between athletics and academic interests.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners. Jason: So another thing is that whatever you decide to do, maybe it’s a bridge, it sounds like maybe you need to do a little more market research.

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Brandanew

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Share the same stories consistently on all your channels from social media to blogs to emails to physical retail (YES!) brandanew #branddesign Found while shopping in #LuckyStore in #annarbor #winebrands #localshop #michigan. Be consistent. No product story deserves to stay ONLY at some random back page of your website.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2017

5 Myths About Your Clients and Social Media That You Should Forget Right Now written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When it comes to social media marketing, any small business can utilize their online presence for lead generation. It’s because many businesses aren’t using social media to its full potential.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

When you are done reading the post, you'll be super mad that your marketing strategy is not more influenced by your competitor's data! Note to NSA reviewer of this blog post: I'm a harmless digital marketer, totally not worth your attention.]. Identify changes in your marketing mix/strategy. More on that below.).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is MaryAnn Bekkedahl. To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. Email is getting pretty good as a marketing channel. – Enjoy!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 6, 2023

The 4 Commitments To Grow Your Reach Online written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Becky Robinson In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Becky Robinson. 01:14): Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. Like this show?

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VC Cafe

JULY 13, 2011

It was very useful because we are in the process of deciding which markets to enter, and we needed him to do a lot of legwork and a lot of research to make sense of the information out there.”. There is so much benefit to channeling all of that talent and energy towards Israel.”. The TAMID Fellows on a day off at Ein Gedi.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

The Rust Belt – (Skip this Section if I’m Boring You) Out of the Air Force, my first job out of school was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the mid-1970’s installing broadband process control systems in automotive and manufacturing plants throughout the Midwest. They have learned to function in a permanent state of chaos.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Bruno’s Barkin’ Biscuits, LLC is a small, home-based company in Michigan specializing in all-natural, preservative free, and healthy dog treats. The ingredients used are all human grade, and we strive to use organic and local farmer’s market/CSA ingredients when possible. The over-the-counter acne treatment market in the US is huge.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Other awesome resources worth looking at: The Expert Village Industrial Design YouTube channel. This channel is part of eHow. The Michigan Institute of Technology (MIT) Game Design course from their open courseware series. It has a lot of hands-on information aimed at helping you learn to draw your designs.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. Here, digital audience marketers chime in on the ones they’re using now, and why. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h.

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