Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

While these investors, and early customers, will always argue that they found you, I’m convinced that there is no substitute for aggressive networking on your part. Ability to relate aspirations to customer needs. You need to show insights to real customers and their needs, that get beyond your passions and projections.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Print-On-Demand (POD) indicates that things are printed just when required or requested, and that’s exactly what it means. Custom prints can be made in small batches and sent directly to customers, so there is no need for storage or inventory. On-demand printing is as simple as it seems. No Investigation.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

An empty textbox, demanding to be filled with a concise, compelling summary to impress potential employers is daunting. So instead, we fill it with a completely custom blurb, written just for him: Hello! Now that AI is here to help, every textbox is an opportunity to help a customer through the challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2021

Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Yet the average perception of customer experience has not improved. You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 31, 2023

Whether it’s marketing yourself as an expert, writing Shopify-specific content, or partnering with other Shopify Partners, fitting into the Shopify Partners and Ecosystem is one of the crucial steps. Shopify is an ecommerce platform where you can sell products and services to customers and store owners.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Rather, the challenge is this – how can we transform fans and followers on social networks into actual money paying customers? Enter “ The Social Customer: How Brands Can Use Social CRM to Acquire, Monetize, and Retain Fans, Friends, and Followers “ by Adam Metz. P = People and your relationships with them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2021

Sometimes entrepreneurs are so focused on making change happen for customers that they forget that continually changing themselves and their company is equally important. Seek out customer trends before they become an avalanche. Don’t stop doing the in-depth communication with customers that brought you initial success.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Businesses may benefit from India’s talent pool and technical advances by partnering with them. These businesses are well-known for their quality, customer-focused approach and new software solutions. Their top priorities are quality, timely delivery, and customer satisfaction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

For example, I believe Bill Gates would have failed without his partners Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen. Look for validation from your mainstream customers. You need the funding and support, but venture capitalists can be very demanding, and set high targets. It takes the right team to build a great business.

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Rembrandt Communications

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Your phone rings, online purchases flood your inbox, and you hire more people to keep up with the growing demand. When was the last time you reviewed everything going on at your business including your website content, sales funnels, customer service processes, delivery materials, social media, online analytics, and more? Money flows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2020

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Know your partner well before you get married. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Most leaders agree that poor customer service is a business killer today, in terms of lost customers, reduced profits, and low morale. Yet the average perception of customer experience continues to decline. You have to start with hiring only people who are willing and able to make serious customer service happen.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 13, 2023

With this new round of funding, Simbe will be able to reach out to more retail partners around the world and spread its message of how AI and robotics can improve the shopping experience for consumers. million hours of data capture operations without any help from store employees or customers. Finished more than 1.7

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. But customers didn’t agree. This made me believe deeply in the extreme importance of talking to customers before investing time and money, something I took to my next startup. ————-.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2014

When I was going through the co-founder “dating” process, I’d found a potential partner through my network who seemed to be perfect. Though my potential partner was performing well by the numbers, my own productivity was dwindling as I spent more and more time on managing our relationship. I could hustle.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It’s paramount to comprehend the demand for plumbing services in your targeted geographic area and delve into the intricate intricacies of your potential customer base. It is imperative that your team aligns with your business values and customer service expectations.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

This week they were testing who the customer, user, payer for the product will be (and discovering if they have a multi-sided business model , one with both buyers and sellers.) The news from customers was not good. talk to more customers? Which value added services do public clouds want to attract customers for?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I was having breakfast with Radhika, an ex-grad student of mine who wanted to share her Customer Discovery progress for her consumer hardware startup. Activities define the unique expertise your company needs to deliver the value proposition, customers, channels, customer relationships and/or revenue. (If ——-.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

Many of the business plans I see are built around a dream, with idealistic costs, margins, and customer demand. Every successful business requires a focus on providing solutions, business management, and customer service. Successful businesses are built around solutions that work, have a market, and are scalable.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

For those companies operating in a dynamic market driven by user behavior, for example, retail and eCommerce, staying trends-aware equals staying competitive by tailoring their offers to the specific demands and expectations. Consider Fayrix Your Trusted Partner. Gather and analyze up-to-date data. Attract top talents. Increase income.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

A vital aspect of supply chain management is demand planning — identifying and forecasting trends in the demand for products or services based on past data, surveys, market research, etc. Businesses must implement effective demand planning to stay competitive in the modern market, as customer demand is more volatile than ever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

Partner with experts who share the risk. Most business partners I know take little or no salary in the early years. In fact, finding the right partners requires building the right relationships, more than negotiating a contract. Thus finding a complementary partner or two will dramatically increase your chances of success.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2018

Stojanovic had an important observation on the successful implementation of innovative technologies in the EV marketplace: “you need three things: policy, innovation and customer demand” in order to be successful, he said. Extend your Customer Reach with Partnerships. One way to do this is through partnerships.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

To steal customers away from competitors without throwing endless amounts of money at major advertising platforms, work smarter, not harder. Detail the customer demographics that purchase certain products or services. The other option is to partner with a PR agency. Advertising in the current landscape.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2022

The support currently provided by product service can become inadequate to satisfy new customers, as your growth and image becomes better known. Be prepared to create and train a dedicated support group that can keep up with your now larger and growing install base of demanding customers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. So how do our students get out of the building to talk to customers to do Customer Discovery when they can’t get out of the building? Reminder: What’s the Point of Talking to Customers ?

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Transformify

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

They identify young women with the potential to learn programming and give them access to a comprehensive training program that gets them ready to work in just 6 months, covering the technical and soft skills highly demanded in the web development world such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, self-education, communication, etc.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 27, 2021

There are many ways in which you can show appreciation to your business partners, but one of the most effective ones is to get them a gift they would like. To help you choose gifts for your business partners, we have compiled a list of suggestions based on the type of person your business partner is. Professional type.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2020

Your website is the heart of your ecommerce business, so it should be a top priority to ensure that it functions seamlessly, regardless of the device that each customer is using to browse it. You might think that you have a great product to share with the world, but is there actually a demand for it? Does it solve a problem?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

by Joseph Michelli, author of “ Driven to Delight: Delivering World-Class Customer Experience the Mercedes-Benz Way “. Today’s consumers expect (no, demand ) an extraordinary service experience. Customer-driven compensation makes people uncomfortable. Providing it is no longer optional. Indeed, in healthcare, the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2020

Of course, most of you expect that raising money will be difficult, as well as staving off competitors, and handling that occasional toxic customer. What you don’t expect is to feel out of control , or to always be fighting the many demands for your time. Cheaper in the beginning can be more costly in the long run.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2022

To attract new customers and profit, the company needs to grow and develop constantly. To be successful, you need to deal with products in strong demand. All you have to do is partner with wholesalers and manufacturers to sell their products under your brand name. The supplier packs the product and sends it to the customer.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2024

Over years catering to demanding enthusiasts and commercial clients, top-tier brands including DJI, Parrot and Yuneec established themselves as consistent innovators focusing on performance and safety. One benefit of specialized stores is their targeted customer service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2018

These days you can create a C-corp or LLC online quickly at a low cost, to serve you well in signing partners, intellectual property, investors, and revenue. Validate your solution with a prototype and real customers. You need something real that investors and customers can touch and feel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Most of these scenarios involve attracting outside investors, strategic partners, or key team members: You are the team and you don’t need outside funding. There is no substitute for knowing your customers first hand, and iterating on a minimum viable product to find the most marketable solution.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

They encompass the effectiveness of marketing (the startup’s ability to reach and resonate with target customers) and stickiness (the product’s ability to deliver value to customers over time). I previously wrote about startup benchmarks in the context of funding readiness, so it was time to give it a re-fresh.

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