Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers. The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Creating remixable outputs – allowing creators to expose their prompts and make their work instantly remixable Enabling consumers to build content creation apps – products that help users “chain” together models and prompts behind the scenes – and then save these workflows and / or publish them for others to use.

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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 We are aggressively recruiting product hires, from designers to developers who want to solve real-world problems and build with purpose to solve a massive societal need. “In

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Some of these world-class innovators get recruited by large companies like professional athletes, with paychecks to match. It does mean that success in building a company that scales depends on finding product/market fit, enough customers, enough financing, enough great employees, distribution channels, etc. Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

With more money flowing into digital marketing, the digital channel mix continues to grow in complexity. Are you simply looking for more people to buy your product (raw traffic)? Or, do you want to motivate your current consumers to buy more of your product (higher net per sales)? Brand Awareness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile. Find customers, partners and channels early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile. Find customers, partners and channels early.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. The other departments gave the same type of logistical answers; the product-marketing department, for example, said their job was to get the product specs from engineering and write data sheets.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Maybe they will get there, but I think that the experiential nature of the category — both in terms of the actual products and the brand experience — mean that this will play out very differently from other categories like media or consumer electronics. The old brands and distribution channels are dead or dying.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

While I have some sympathy with not investing too heavily in sales people until the product has properly been tested and commercialized in the enterprise environment, in the end it’s a fact that it takes sales people to move product through large organizations. I believe it’s flawed. Let me explain why: 1.

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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. Shopify is an ecommerce platform where you can sell products and services to customers and store owners. What’s a Shopify Expert?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok. The first step is to have a domain name that matches your business name.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 25, 2012

Customers love having the ability to learn more about a company or a product or a house for sale simply by pointing their smart phone at a sign or a poster and learning more right there on the spot.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But, as Sean Ellis notes, it isn’t about manipulating customers—it’s about helping them: “Sustainable growth is about understanding the value people get from your product and helping people realize this value. Growth hacking is about caring for and optimizing the user experience to build trust and keep customers using your product.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Affiliate marketing can be a great channel for business growth. The beauty of the channel has always been that enterprises only pay for performance. Brands lost $23 billion dollars to ad fraud last year and this has resulted in wasted investment in non-productive or non-existent traffic. By Stephanie Harris.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Which terms are people using to search for your products? Detail the customer demographics that purchase certain products or services. Next, look at the current state of your market: Who’s interested in your product or services? Where do visitors spend the most time? Which actions do visitors take? Dig into your sales data too.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Once things get off-track, you will lose hours of productive time for your team and the person you’re onboarding. We want to make sure that every time we match an engineer with a company, individuals get up to speed and seamlessly integrate into their new team as quickly as possible. The mission & core values of the company.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We arranged vetted and curated groups for roundtable discussions , and matched everyone with other like-minded people. Win beyond product : use a powerful narrative, positioning, messaging, content and differentiation strategy. In order to have this positioning, make sure you answer three questions: What does your product do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

Your strategy today should be to define and excellently prepare the absolute minimum product that will excite a selected small segment of your intended customers, and roll it out to them – as a Beta, early promotion, or even a give-away. Find customers, partners and channels early. Get out there personally and find that first customer.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume you won’t get it right the first time, so you launch with a minimum viable product (MVP). With a minimum viable product, your startup remains much more agile. Find customers, partners and channels early.

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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.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

YouTube elevates videos (and channels) that prove meaningful engagement, which is exactly what AVD and CTR do. Select Analytics: There are four Channel Analytics tabs in your dashboard (five if you have a Revenue option). Use these metrics to identify average trends and get a quick snapshot of channel performance.

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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. The in-person shopping experience can’t be replicated online, and that’s good news for retailers.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2020

Email marketing is one of the most popular channels of communication and information exchange. This is where email automation can come in handy to increase your productivity while assisting you with smooth task management. Take a look at how Uncommon Goods nails its personalized product recommendation email.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

This is very hard to do, we now have a proven seven-step experimentation process, with one of the coolest algorithms to pick matched-markets (normally the kiss of death of any large-scale geo experiment). The repeated mention of the product (hopefully). Matched market tests. Product/regions/channels. Ad unit types.

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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.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

While most of the early attention in a startup is paid to finding product market fit ( the match between value proposition and customer segment on the right-side of the canvas) it’s the left side of the canvas that will tell you what your founding team should look like. If you’re a startup it’s easy to get confused on this step.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Marketing generally includes advertising a company or products via media and other sources. However, the procedures vary from time to time, depending upon the latest practiced marketing strategies, the audience, and the products’ specifications. You may also introduce eco-friendly products.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

Last week the teams were testing their hypotheses about their Value Proposition (their company’s product or service.) This week they were testing who the customer, user, payer for the product will be (and discovering if they have a multi-sided business model , one with both buyers and sellers.) The news from customers was not good.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

When developing agile innovation methods for your team, consider the following: Are the requirements of the product or project uncertain? — Agile methods work well when the requirements are uncertain. Agile provides tools such as prototyping and feedback (both are essential) for a successful and efficient product or project development.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

I foresee a shift in the way products are marketed. For skin and body care companies, our products can be seen as wellness supplies that can provide comfort during these stressful times. 9-More precise algorithms to match couples. 17- Employee burnout and productivity loss. Thanks to Deborah Sweeney, MyCorporation.com !

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2019

Nowadays, as we all know that the world is moving so fast and mobile devices are the most prominent object for increasing the interest of consumers to your product. Despite the contrary, now mobile phones are the most cherished and close channel for marketers. Buyers and consumers never want to get pounded with annoying marketing ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2014

For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers. The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2017

To keep things interesting you can share content that isn’t always about your business or product; for instance, a how-to video. and we stay first and foremost in their mind for our product”. You can offer multiple contact channels such email addresses, web address, phone numbers, etc. Offer exclusives. Cross promote.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2023

Smart Shark Tank presenters have done their homework on each investor, and customize their sample product or anecdote for each. In a more general sense, find out as much as you can about every group and person you address, and tune your pitch ahead of time to match. There is no substitute for knowing your business.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

MeUndies has had multiple shipment delays recently and took to Twitter to share how they’re working to make things right: With shipping delays almost inevitable this holiday season, create an action plan for how you’ll keep customers informed across all your communication channels. Give guidance on gift-giving. What should I get instead?”

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