Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

Although Amazon is certainly the most dominant player within this field, there are smaller firms which can offer attractive services to consumers and push traditional and slow adjusting retailers out of the market. All these are factors that many founders underestimate, especially in terms of time.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2012

Do I need a co-founder? These are some of the most frequent questions about co-founders that I have heard from entrepreneurs over the years. Do I need a co-founder? How many co-founders should I have? I have seen many successful companies with as few as 2 and as many of 11 co-founders.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

The way in which small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) approach online marketing is being revolutionized by SpeedyBrand, a cutting-edge startup that is a pioneer in the field of search engine optimization (SEO) content creation. This difficulty is something that Jatin Mehta, one of the co-founders of SpeedyBrand, is aware of.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Great marketing is required to generate revenue and grow every business, especially new businesses which have no brand recognition nor loyal customer base. I also look for a commensurate portion of the plan describing the specific innovative marketing deliverables, beyond the traditional marketing items.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

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. These are entrepreneurial skills you need to rapidly acquire or find a co-founder who already has them. Lessons Learned.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn what growth hacking in marketing is and what it’s not. The goal of growth hacking as marketing is rapid growth, using strategies and tactics that leverage (and even exploit) technology, platforms, and behavior to reach an end goal. Why do people think growth hacking in marketing is controversial?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2023

market while offering expanded educational opportunities and resources. market and partners with medical device dealers across the U.S. The enterprise focuses on bringing the best global medical partners to the U.S. IML’s leadership role as a resource for the U.S. who want to expand their product range and grow their business.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. They were bashing each other over the head in a non-existent market as the Internet bubble began collapsing. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. Fred Wilson was his lead investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As the idea went from innovating on software & systems to launching a company to rolling it out in the field brought on Rahul Gandhi as his co-founder to physically launch the company. What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? were more distributed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In fact, he had four development co-founders, built a relationship with Peter Thiel, a top VC who invested early, and enticed Sheryl Sandberg to fill the COO role he sorely needed. These are win-win arrangements leading to continuous innovation, early access to new markets, and a higher return.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. Ask former co-workers. New Web Order. 5th November 2010. #. Ideas alone are not worth a lot.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Although we had a busy summer, I was fortunate enough to take a bit of time off as well, and to step back for a moment and reflect on Nextview’s strategy and market position going forward. . The rest have been companies with some early market validation. Instead, it’s more of a Manifesto about the core beliefs that shape our strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Using Video at Every Stage of The Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ben Oliver. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Ben Oliver. Marketing Podcast with Ben Oliver. Learn more about Layr here.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

by Saumya Bhatnagar, CTO and Co-founder of InvolveSoft. According to Markets Insider, the number of enterprises run by women in the United States has doubled in the last 20 years. Saumya Bhatnagar is the CTO and Co-founder of InvolveSoft , a workplace community platform which helps employees volunteer in the community.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Union Square Ventures – one of our favorite co-investors – added to Top Hat’s existing investors and USV’s Albert Wenger joined their Board of Directors. They took an innovative approach to distribution. So Top Hat decided to flip their sales strategy and market/sell directly to university students and teachers. They hustle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

What’s Happening With AI Right Now written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Jeff Coyle. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jeff Coyle. Marketing Podcast with Jeff Coyle. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jeff Coyle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2016

Just like you don’t have to be a financial guru to recognize a good CFO, or a marketing genius to hire a VP of Marketing, you can find the right technical partner or team member by using the right evaluation and hiring steps, including the following: Engage a technical advisor to assist with recruiting and early interviews.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2024

Some of these folks are founders and CEOs, but not at high-growth tech startups. While they might be generally smart, they’re unsophisticated investors who don’t know what the market is for where you are. On the other hand, they could be the opposite—much more focused on near-term cash distributions than long-term equity appreciation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market. General Motors had 20%.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. pexels A war chest is virtually always a competitive edge in all aspects that count, including employing key staff, public relations, marketing, and sales. Hence they will miss the finish line.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Now, cofounders Paul Simpson and Dominic Sutton are sharing what they learned during the ups and downs of the journey. That’s where the founder thing comes in, whereas the Angels are more focused on growth projections and risk.”. A company is more than the CEO / founder, so tell your angel investors who’s in your team.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. Last night, I went to a local “find a co-founder” meetup for RE. It can be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff when you’re talking to a marketing person (‘Ah, you do internet marketing?

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Traveling around the world, I met startup founders, forex traders, marketers, online shop owners, travel bloggers, Instagram influencers and digital business entrepreneurs of all kinds. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. will be a great fit with the Salesforce marketing cloud.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

Marketing 121

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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. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

The most successful agencies are beginning to invest more time and money in content marketing to establish expertise in their industry and, more importantly, generate inbound appointments. Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Neil Blumenthal , the youthful cofounder of Warby Parker, a disruptive company that transformed the conservative eyewear industry by creating affordable, stylish glasses for people across the world, defined a startup as “ a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed. “

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

One explanation is that “growth hacking” is just a catchy way to rebrand marketers, but this begs the question as to why “growth hacking” went viral in the first place. Deloitte’s Shift Index , which tracks economic competitiveness, has shown a long-run decline in a firm’s ability to retain market leadership. Channel saturation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

Just like you don’t have to be a financial guru to recognize a good CFO, or a marketing genius to hire a VP of Marketing, you can find the right technical partner or team member by using the right evaluation and hiring steps, including the following: Engage a technical advisor to assist with recruiting and early interviews.

Non-Compete 435

Non-Compete Cofounder Social Media Partner 435

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. They were bashing each other over the head in a non-existent market as the Internet bubble began collapsing. The founders of each company talked and, in between efforts to decimate the other, agreed it might be worth merging to survive. Fred Wilson was his lead investor.

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Fractional CTO Cofounder Startup Lead Investor 70

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Depth in a specific business area, such as marketing or accounting, is important in understanding the internal and external processes of a business. Peers won’t be able to help you much in finding external investors, co-founders with prior experience and industry connections for distribution and marketing.

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