Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Paul Greenberg recently wrote about the phenomena of companies declaring themselves to be focused on customer experience, and graciously giving them the opportunity to put up or shut up. He is right, and to his credit Paul saw the importance of customer experience and wrote about this in 2001.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 17, 2021

1- Who find what customers need. 2- Who solve customers' issues. An entrepreneur who first develops and tests a value hypothesis for the core product value (a useful customer issue solution) is at the core. To establish and operate your own business, you must have courage, enthusiasm, hard work, and a sense of community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which In the U.S. Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. contributes more than $25 billion to fund 70,000 startups every year.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

ConnecTeen Minds is about creating a community of teenagers that were disconnected from their lives but by coming to my platform they were now part of a greater community. When opening up my men’s clothing shop, I wanted to replicate the feeling of home and for my customers to walk out feeling better than when they walked in.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. One state — one Accelerator When Capital Factory opened our space in Austin in 2012, we were able to create a true center of gravity and then use that to connect together entrepreneurs, investors, customers, talent and press in meaningful ways.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

Exclusive to new customers—upgrade and grow your business with ActiveCampaign today! So what that means is your customers are searching for your product or service, but they don't actually click anywhere, including clicking to your website. Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab Speaker 1 (00:00): I was like, I found it.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. 0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn?

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 30, 2012

As you volunteer your time whether painting fences for a community park or serving pizza to school kids, look around at the other generous givers. is within volunteer communities. Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. Customers Know Best. Hire your customers. The perfect way to find a great recruit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. Next Annette McClellan presented DaisyClip , a non-surgical contraception device for women that she is in the process of syndicating a $1.8 David is also struggling with the notion of his community taking the transactions offline.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

Any Digital Marketer living in today’s age will tell you that Content Marketing is a must, for not only promoting your brand to new prospects, but also to maintain a relationship with your existing customers. billion Unique Visitors, on 3 million discussion communities. Gemini is the self-service platform Yahoo!

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Get Satisfaction has developed a private label social network platform for businesses to use to communicate with their customers, and to help customers communicate with each other. This helps companies bond with customers and provide customer service, and is a much easier and faster solution than building your own system.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Take your existing customer testimonials and put them on your brand channel. The unique thing about these efforts is not only that they will be for YouTube primarily (though you can syndicate them all over the place), the differentiator will be that you'll create them with your specific YouTube audience in mind.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. These typically have a larger support ecosystem and greater assurance of long-term stability than the custom vendors. 1) Manage the firm .

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. They may also contribute code to the community that comprises the backbone of their technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

You need to effectively market your products or services so that potential customers actually know about them. Without leads, you have no customers. Without customers… you have no business. Although some of our marketing pages are common across customer segments, we regularly create dedicated landing pages.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Here are the most common ones, share by the entrepreneurial community. Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. They think they can do it all, they do not need help or a community to support them. The TPE community is a good place to start! After all we have the sole control over what we think of things.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . Mostly smartphones + restaurateurs attitude towards viewing the internet as a customer acquisition tool. We’ve had a supportive board and encouraging metrics and a helpful climate for our community news notion (now 51 sites in 3 states).

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

However, the Mac community was also very vocal, with passionate fans of their platform, and is also important to note that this community had very little love for Microsoft. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2021

Duct Tape Marketing is a brand partner – We are often called upon to produce sponsored content, syndicated and cobranded eBooks, training, channel marketing programs, and consulting – for brands such as HP, Dell, UPS, FedEx Office, Sage Software, and Microsoft.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Leading up to the event, they published an article listing questions VCs never answer , as submitted by the community. I was recently asked to sit on panel with my fellow VC peers and some top entrepreneurs from the Boston tech community. VCs also love businesses with a high degree of customer referral activity.

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mashable.com

JUNE 30, 2012

Commerce: eBay alone has a developer community of more than 800,000 members using its APIs. From these examples we can see the following: An API may expose business data such as customer data in apps only intended for internal sales staff use. Global Syndication Partners. As businesses ask “What’s our mobile strategy?”

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Chris Andrasick, CEO of Tacit Knowledge , believes that the mom-and-pop advantage extends beyond customer loyalty, and that there is in fact a logistical advantage, as well. “Ads and offers will appear on other pages the potential customer is viewing.”. Image courtesy of iStockphoto , iPandastudio , logorilla. Flag this comment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. If you post on industry sites, or get syndicated to popular sites, your scores and visibility will go up even more. Start today.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. From there, podcatchers (i.e.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

My hypothesis is that there will be a real shake up in how deals are done in startups, and you’ll see turnover as some of these new brands overtake older well-established VC firms. (This is an aside for another blogpost) And then there are also syndicates. From there, you can find various syndicates.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

My hypothesis is that there will be a real shake up in how deals are done in startups, and you’ll see turnover as some of these new brands overtake older well-established VC firms. (This is an aside for another blogpost) And then there are also syndicates. From there, you can find various syndicates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

With more than 50 million monthly pageviews and 4 million followers across social media, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which actually funds more startups then all other venture sources combined (over $25 billion annually). Angels need to see a proven business model, with a working prototype and preferably a real customer or two.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

In either case, corporations have to set up their investment vehicles so that the venture capital community sees them as serious players. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. They invest alongside financial VCs.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. are using AngelMob.co

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

AngelList is an online community that matches startups with investors to streamline the fundraising process. If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive. How many customers have signed up to your service? Global Syndication Partners. Include numbers. Focus on traction.

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