Up and Running

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Has worked in certain aspects you seek guidance with (PR, marketing, social media). include Anil Dash, who blogs at Dashes.com, and co-founded ThinkUp and Activate, as well as Nick Taranto from Plated. Ideaswatch may have more newbie startup founders testing the waters than mentors and gurus, but you’ll never know who’s lurking about!

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

To grow a business, most entrepreneurs know that they should be implementing PR strategies. For this webinar, we were joined by Jennefer Witter, CEO and founder of the Boreland Group, and author of the new book, “The Little Book of Big PR: 100+ Quick Tips to Get Your Small Business Noticed.” The first one is define.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

data.world is the sixth startup that I’ve co-founded and led. I’ve given advice in this area to many entrepreneurs, and I pose this lesson to you as food for thought (the right answer very much depends on the unique nature of the startup and its co-founders). SXSW is the place of startup launches?—?Twitter when we had strength.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2014

Jackson Bond is the co-founder of Relayr , the team behind the WunderBar - a set of wireless detachable sensors and smart modules, all of which can be monitored and controlled from your phone and web apps. Things to do: constant interactions and conversations on social media (all platforms). 4) Listing what we had to prepare.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Laura Blue of LaunchLink PR corroborates Gerhardt’s message : It is during these times that brands need to be especially considerate about what and how they are communicating to customers, partners and stakeholders. Survey design. But you can do better than slightly editing the copy your lawyers would write. Here are some things you can do.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The Ultimate Tutorial to Add Inbound Marketing Into Your PR Strategy written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Inbound marketing has become a popular strategy for a number of things including for being the best startup PR strategy. photo credit: Gavin Llewellyn via photopin.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

They are tasked with “getting deals done” so they race around talking to tons of potential partners inking anything from channel sale deals , product integration, international distribution agreements, co-marketing arrangements, M&A discussions, etc. If you aren’t careful every PR team will measure inches over impact.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

At the time, I wanted to focus more on targeting new clients with branding projects and PR covers a lot of areas including social media, so the name was created purely for SEO purposes: Brand Branding PR LLC. Am I happy to start conversations with, Hi. #18- Based on SEO. Photo Credit: Sophie Bowman. 25- What we provide.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

2 – Advertising Agency & Boutique PR and Advertising Agencies. Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3 Image Credit: Natalie Harper.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yoav Vilner is the CEO and co-founder of Ranky.co , a growth hacking and online marketing team. If you think about it, most homepages aren’t conversions oriented so that kind of makes no sense. If you are one of TNW’s many readers, there’s a good chance you might be a product owner, creator, or the marketer of one.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Important Questions Startup Co-Founders Should Ask Each Other - [link]. Intelligently automate online conversations – [link]. CrowdSourcing Repetitive Tasks: CrowdFlower Founder Lukas Biewald - [link]. New Business Plan Format is Concise and Personal - [link]. Steve Jobs In His Own Words - [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

If a conversation happens between the CEO and each director then each side knows what we’re trying to achieve with the in-person meeting. A director who hasn’t had a pre-conversation with management will not be as effective in the board meeting. I always try to establish my sense of “founder psychology” between board meetings.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

I’m Hannah, founder and CEO at Babbler. We change the way PR gets done by connecting companies with relevant reporters. We are simplifying the process of getting featured (for companies) and curate PR content (for reporters). As Uber’s founder Travis Kalanick is fond of quoting: “Uber is efficiency with elegance on top.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). Andy Sack, Dave McClure, Brad Feld & Jason Nazar (photo by Jolie Odell). In the afternoon we had a corker of panel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model – here’s why – [link]. Increase Conversion by Decreasing Engagement, Even with Video – [link]. Increase Conversion by Decreasing Engagement, Even with Video – [link]. Startup Tips: Ask Your Customers For Feedback. Then Act | crowdSPRING Blog - [link].

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

The conversations usually go down the same path, ending with a you’re how old? I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2012

They connect with people whose content they’re interested in: family and friends, co-workers, fellow hobbyists, groups with shared interests or causes. One strategy I use for our clients is generating “third-party conversations.” The article prompted conversations and I stayed involved in the discussion.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

. (this post was originally published in Harvard Business Review and is co-authored with Nadav Benbarak of Okta.). Effective Growth Managers are conversant with data analysis and the best tools for retrieving, manipulating, and visualizing data including tools like MySQL, Excel, R, and Tableau. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

. (this post was originally published in Harvard Business Review and is co-authored with Nadav Benbarak of Okta.). Effective Growth Managers are conversant with data analysis and the best tools for retrieving, manipulating, and visualizing data including tools like MySQL, Excel, R, and Tableau. Earned Media: SEO, PR, Word of Mouth.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

If you look at the top 3 online retailers by conversion rate, none of these are award-winning designs : [link] [link] [link] However, they convert ~25% of visitors to customers. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) That’s 10x what many websites convert.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. Average of 3 chat conversations per user through RockMelt each day. As a result, things work the way modern people expect them to.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2013

Follow reporters (not just tech reporters, but anyone you want press from), and then conversate when they ask for something on social media. Tattooing My Co-Founder. At SXSW 2013, I got us in The Wall Street Journal by making my co-founder get our logo tattooed on his back side. Moore , RJMetrics.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 28, 2010

Are you a business co-founder who just suddenly realized that just setting up a company Twitter account isn’t driving as much traffic as you had hoped? How do I improve my conversion funnels? Feel like you need some meat on the bones the customer acquisition strategy investors have been asking about? What’s an affiliate network?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2011

You may even have your HR or PR department provide brief scripts for employees who have trouble keeping their messages short. Talk through conversations. Now that you’ve tackled emails and recorded messages, it’s time to move on to something a little less predictable: conversations. Then supervise the shortening process.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. I started Pressed PR to serve a niche that I was a part of myself – independent musicians. Thanks to Dawn Jones, Pressed PR ! #9- 10- During a random conversation. Thanks to David Tile, Article-Writing Co ! #23-

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Jason: Yeah, one percent conversion rate is pretty normal. I’ve had some very good conversations with a large insurance company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. Paul quotes one of his founders like this: “Thats the actual beauty in the off-the-record-ness: you hear just how screwed up most of these successful startups were on the way up.&# It helps companies with PR. It makes successful founders famous.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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Rob Go

MAY 28, 2015

One of my recent interviews was with Ken Chen, the co-founder and CMO at Naturebox. There were a couple interesting tidbits that I learned from our conversation that is particularly relevant to early stage companies, and I thought I’d try to crystallize a few learnings on my blog as a companion to the podcast.

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Rob Go

MAY 28, 2015

One of my recent interviews was with Ken Chen, the co-founder and CMO at Naturebox. There were a couple interesting tidbits that I learned from our conversation that is particularly relevant to early stage companies, and I thought I’d try to crystallize a few learnings on my blog as a companion to the podcast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review : The idea is simple. Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. For more, read on.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 10, 2017

When you’re truly bootstrapped, you don’t have the couple of hundred dollars to shell out to someone to do your companies taxes, or go to that pitch event, or hire someone to help you get PR. When you’re scraping together cash to get by, offering people money just isn’t an option.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. I chose DevBev Co. Thanks to Devin Beverage, DevBev Co. ! #6- My co-founder and I came up with our company name by getting really drunk one night. Basically we charge 1% per side on a transaction instead of the normal 2.5%

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

How I’m Treated Differently Than My Male Cofounder | Fast Company | Business + Innovation crowdspring.co/1FfuQL4. How to Improve Conversion Rate crowdspring.co/1L24yMW. Negative Ways of Thinking You Need to Stop Today crowdspring.co/1MNJR9n. Make Enterprise Software People Actually Love – HBR crowdspring.co/1zXwSME.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. Most incubators take common stock and sit “side-by-side&# with the founders, but some may want some (weak) preferred stock and/or dilution protection.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. It’s a very cool vibe at Founder’s Coop. That’s natural.

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