The Next Web

AUGUST 8, 2014

Erik Torenberg is Product Hunts first hire. Ive been thinking about building online and offline communities for the past few years. Community isat the center of what I do, from planning in-person events (rap cyphers, book clubs, happy hours) to creating online and scalable communities (rapt.fm,Product Hunt).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

To succeed in today’s crowded market, you need to harmonize product marketing and brand marketing. In this article, you’ll learn the difference between brand marketing and product marketing, and how to balance both to stand out above the crowd. Brand vs product marketing: Friends or foe? They rely on each other for success.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust, which today has announced a $9 million financing (Upfront is an investor), is a platform designed to help make the most of marketing investment by providing both analytics and a community of likeminded executives to share what’s working, and what’s not, across platforms. Founders, marketers and growth leaders?—?join

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Ai-Product Reviews recognizes the importance of personalized interactions, so we’re investing in new machine-learning algorithms that will enable us to personalize our product recommendations based on user preferences. Thanks to Max Maybury, Ai-Product Reviews ! #2- Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. Business accelerator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors was only legalized via the SEC in 2016, so its impact is still in the early stages. Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

GV (formerly Google Ventures) – Started in 2009, GV is Alphabet’s venture capital fund, focused primarily on early stage in diverse fields: from life sciences and healthcare to robotics and entereprise tech. Gradient Ventures – an early stage fund backed by Alphabet, investing exclusively in AI first companies.

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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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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. Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. Early-stage startup.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Ada is the most notable AI company in the V1 family, but many others – like Dabble , Jam and Pickle Robot – are creatively using AI in their products. It’s still in the very early stages there, but there is definitely an enthusiastic community to build on. Please reach out.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

Textio brought this vision to market with our first product, designed to help people write job posts that attracted diverse and qualified candidates. HW: This was your first CEO run after a successful product management career. Customers know what they’re getting when they first use the product and can make an informed choice.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. Business accelerator.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. While these activities shape and build culture, they don’t win wars, and rarely deliver shippable or deployable products. This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks. There was a time when much of U.S.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

With the right product or service for the Indian market and strong execution, an “India for India” start-up can see incredible growth. India for the world” has traditionally focused on outsourcing and leveraging cost advantages, from customer service to product development.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I think you have to listen to the queue’s.” “…if you look at a lot of the early stage investors, whether it be Union Square Ventures or First Round or Jeff Clavier at Softtech or Dave McClure – we want to try the product, we want to experience the product, we want to get a sense of how the entrepreneur is thinking about it.

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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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Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 120

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Before making the decision to join ff Venture Capital , I did some research on early-stage tech investing as an asset class and how it’s evolving. Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. They’re also inflation-hedged.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In the past decade or so, for every startup in Israel that failed, two more launched to take its place, and in terms of startup production, Israel is second only to Silicon Valley, with the highest density of tech startups in the world. Communities are powerful for entrepreneurs. This attitude is ideal for developing new tech startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

I hear tons of ideas for early-stage apps. 12m on a $60m for an early-stage business is a not a bet that most LA firms could or would take. Snapchat truly built an amazing product and an amazing community and anybody who knows me knows that I’m very active on it. I simply couldn’t see it. I should have.

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community? When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea. We would have loved to have it when we were getting started.”

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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. That clearly reduces productivity and velocity. Here are the responses. #1- Thanks to Valev Laube, The VL Studios !

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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. That clearly reduces productivity and velocity. Here are the responses. #1- Thanks to Valev Laube, The VL Studios !

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Entrepreneur Employee Revenue LLC 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

Product research and prototype development. Early-stage funding. Don’t look for formal venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage Kaufmann grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. Connections to a mentor.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

The term “early-stage” covers a lot of territory in venture investing, from incubating a brand-new idea, to investing in a Series A. Sarah Guo: “We have to make technical and product calls – and figure out if your particular architecture is going to win a particular set of use cases. You can listen to the podcast here.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Data sources include the publications, competitors, influencers, podcasts, and communities that your audience engages with the most. With industry trends identified, your next step is to identify relevant communities and conversations. Collect data sources for quantitative insights. Conduct content-driven client interviews.

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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. These days, you have to foster a community of support for your business. Selling too early triggers customer defenses and drives them away. A startup must gain balanced traction.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok. And that can make or break your customer retention, especially in the early stages.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Climate Pledge Fund – This dedicated investment program — with an initial $2 billion in funding — will invest in visionary companies whose products and solutions will facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy. The Alexa Fund also provides up to $200 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Earlier this year, I was on a panel with Guy Podjarny, Snyk’s founder, at SaaStock Remote to discuss how the team’s community-driven freemium approach led to the company’s stellar growth. How can a product-led sales motion help in the current environment, and how important is a freemium model to drive product-led growth?

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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. If you can’t do this, nothing else really matters. .”

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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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. The best marketing strategies for startup visibility will depend on the services and products you are providing. From supporting charities to participating in community events – you’ll show that you actively care about your town.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

by Arsalan Sajid, startup community manager at Cloudways. They make money by starting a product from scratch and then selling it in thousands of dollars. In most cases, they hit the jackpot when their products are sold for millions. Early Stage. Here is the complete list of points available in early stage startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. Is your concept worthy of a company, a product, or a feature? The same hold true for venture capital investors. Scalability.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

Patagonia , a successful outdoor products company, combines building safe high-quality products with philanthropic efforts to help the environment. The challenge of every business is to create a win-win relationship between business owners, partners, team members, customers, and the community at large.

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