Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Recognizing the evolving needs of our community, we're focusing on integrating cutting-edge AI algorithms to personalize content delivery. Just picture this: a potential customer, through their mobile device, virtually placing my client’s product in their living space, interacting with it before making a purchase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Business accelerator.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Transcript of How to Build a Community Around Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker. He is a community and collaboration strategy consultant, advisor and speaker. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This is John Jantsch.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. For a startup founder, this stage is when the “big idea” has become a passion for him, but he hasn’t written anything down yet. Business accelerator.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

I was publishing quite a bit of original research about bias in workplace documents like performance reviews and job posts, a bunch of it went viral, and I got to know a lot of people who eventually became Textio customers. I love working with customers to support them in meeting their goals. The first one is simply focus.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The expansion of e-commerce should also bring about seeing returns as a strategic lever, similar to how companies used faster delivery to drive customer experience and revenue. Think of it from the customer's perspective – Why should this customer shop from your store instead of the other stores selling this product?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Relevancy for an early-stage company is the discovery and understanding of the real addressable market for a product or service. This is not the total opportunity out there, and not the total target market, but the subset of customers who have and will spend the money you need to cure their pain.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

In order to gain recognition, you must establish great local visibility during the early stages. Once you’ve identified it, weave it into every customer touchpoint. Provide Exceptional Customer Service Once your business does capture the eye of potential customers, your level of service is incredibly important.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

The portion of women who play games has increased (+5%), with almost as many women playing games as men – 85% vs 81%, respectively ( source ) Gaming is expanding – companies who didn’t traditionally do gaming (like Netflix ) have understood that it’s a key activity for their customers time spent outside of work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

The challenge of every business is to create a win-win relationship between business owners, partners, team members, customers, and the community at large. Delight and deliver value to your customers. Without customers, there is no business. When the customer is put first, the team will rally around that focus.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

India for the world” has traditionally focused on outsourcing and leveraging cost advantages, from customer service to product development. There is definitely an enthusiastic community to build on and I met some very smart crypto founders during my trip! But I am hopeful that crypto will see a broader set-up in India over time.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. Within a decade, the rise of venture capital in Silicon Valley enabled startups to find commercial customers rather than military ones. This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks. There was a time when much of U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2020

Why Startup Communities are Essential written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Brad Feld, c0-author of a new book The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth. Why do I Like the term Growth Hacking?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Customer interviews allow you to uncover: Why they decided to do business with you; Why they love working with you; What other challenges they have in their business; Where they go for new information. Your customers can provide you with pain-points to write about, as well as success stories to attract new clients.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The challenge of every business is to create a win-win relationship between business owners, partners, team members, customers, and the community at large. Delight and deliver value to your customers. Without customers, there is no business. When the customer is put first, the team will rally around that focus.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. Leadership brand development.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

And especially if you are dealing with early stage firms where partners might have different areas of specialization but they might have a lot of connective tissue across things. And that’s very different than a firm where you have an IT team and a Clean Tech Team and a Bio Team or an early stage team and a late stage team.”.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. In this article, we will discuss why it is important to understand the whole startup stages concept before you start a business to get the most benefit. Early Stage. This startup stage starts from the day you decide to work on a startup idea. Commitment.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. The next step in our research was talking to customers of our company Fullfunnel.io

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When entrepreneurs silently disengage from their ventures, it can result in missed opportunities for innovation, loss of valuable expertise, and a chilling effect on the entrepreneurial spirit within communities. Our business is not just about meeting customer expectations; it's about consistently exceeding them.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When entrepreneurs silently disengage from their ventures, it can result in missed opportunities for innovation, loss of valuable expertise, and a chilling effect on the entrepreneurial spirit within communities. Our business is not just about meeting customer expectations; it's about consistently exceeding them.

Entrepreneur 111

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. The two companies had been working together for a while, especially as both are deeply embedded within the Ruby on Rails developer community, with a strong following for their respective offerings.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. Customer Development.

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David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

I’ve just launched a new Meetup and online community I’m heading up with David. As one of the lead engineers at ff Venture Capital , I spend most of my day building custom software solutions that enhance our firm’s process–tools that range from portfolio investment management to co-investor and cap table tracking and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. that’s where the customers are. But if you ask anyone in the ecosystem of customer acquisition?—?founders, no surprise?—?that’s founders, marketers, investors?—?and

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

One of the biggest myths I have found in the entrepreneur community is that every startup needs one or more outside investors for credibility and success, and perhaps is even entitled to at least one. Identify customer executives who need your solution. The right investor also changes as you move through the different startup stages.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. The Grand-daddy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2023

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which In the U.S. Early stage research and development won’t excite angels. Angels need to see a proven business model, with a working prototype and preferably a real customer or two.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Now as projects are developing, it is clear that blockchain technology is still in the early stages. Lolli : gives customers bitcoin when they shop online (n.b. Some say that we are in “crypto winter.” Lots of ICOs and capital poured into the frenzy of this market in 2017.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Over the years, the Truss team has worked with several early-stage startups, and noticed a consistency in inter-series problems (regardless of the industry). Specifically, there are five challenges that emerging business typically put on the backburner between funding rounds: Seed to Series A: Customer Testing. At Women 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

One of the biggest myths I have found in the entrepreneur community is that every startup needs one or more outside investors for credibility and success, and perhaps is even entitled to at least one. Identify customer executives who need your solution. The right investor also changes as you move through the different startup stages.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2018

It’s something the financial community – along with government resources, for that matter – needs to think about as it works to help young business leaders consider their financing options. The smarter they are, the better risk they will pose, making money easier for them to secure and cheaper, too.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2024

As a respected thought leader in the tech community, she provides funding to early-stage startups that are ready to share their vision with the world. Representing the Underrepresented Series A funding is a major hurdle for women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and immigrants.

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