YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Marcelino Lopez, Colombia. Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. He now serves upwards of 100 customers a day and has done well enough to start “Gumbo Under the Bridge,” a program to feed the homeless. Likelesh Gebru, Ethiopia.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2015

While certain processes and strategies may have worked for a business early on, a rapidly increasing customer base and the increased bandwidth needed in response will often bring those very same process to their natural breaking point. Prioritize Customer Satisfaction. Externally – Focus on keeping customers happy.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are a great number of options – be sure to broaden outside of your own industry groups to reach your customer base. They may involve attending industry events, acting as a key speaker in a conference, a member in a professional association. Naturally, I’m an introvert.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

By initiating a dialogue through your blog, you begin to understand your customers better. This way our customers are better educated, and they come to us as a source of information.”. The goal here is to attract the attention of potential customers, and also media attention. A great blog incites a conversation.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2018

With my years of experience from the textile and plastics industry in Venezuela and Colombia; I knew that my team and I were resourceful and could to transform the traditional dry-cleaning system and generate a distinctive and better offering. Caring for our customers time, we have an automated 24 hr.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

New suppliers and customers can be found much further afield, and even internationally, literally with the click of a mouse. Its custom-built market analysis tools have over 340,000 users worldwide and it ran almost 450 capacity-building workshops in 20135. Serving the community by looking beyond it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

We = my father is from Colombia, South America, immigrated to the U.S. This isn’t your grandmother’s Univision or telenovelas. We* are now the mainstream market and we’re bringing more to your mobile phones and living rooms. (We His son then went on to raise more than $1.1 billion to finance US startups.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

First we looked at our flagship offerings and what they were trying to achieve for our customers. I launched my company, Coffee Shift, after visiting Colombia, being blown away by the quality of coffee I tasted in the country's Coffee Axis region, and then learning that coffee farmers there often operate at a loss when they sell their beans.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

As a SaaS company, we have had pretty good success in acquiring new customers for our business using various techniques: organic traffic, paid ads, email marketing, etc. This is one of the biggest problems in SaaS – churn is essentially the number of customers you lose every month because they cancel their subscription.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

He grew up in Colombia, South America. You worry about all of your staff, you worry about their reputations, you worry about your own reputation, you worry about the people who gave you money, you worry about the customers who entrusted you. Well, for starters, I was born in Philadelphia, so I’m a lifelong Eagles fan.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

The Internet has resources for all these items but I also use custom illustration the old-fashioned way, when the budget allows. We lived in Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, and Colombia. It’s also possible where the budget allows, to consider imagery and illustration in a very rapid-fire way.

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