The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Not sure how to account or tax the website development costs? New product development business concept on device screen. Before you can start determining the tax treatment for your website development costs, you need to determine what you use your website for. His customers don’t buy anything online – they all come to his shop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 341

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Are there customers for what you are building? How many are there? Can it scale?”

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many B2B companies are now looking to develop their own online B2B Marketplace with the potential of becoming industry leaders. This guide will introduce you to the basics of developing an online B2B marketplace. Then takes you through the various considerations for developing a highly successful online B2B marketplace.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Customer Development is a technique startups use to quickly iterate and test each part of their business model. How you execute Customer Development varies, depending on your type of business. Ash Maurya , the CEO of WiredReach, has extended my work by building a model of Customer Development for Web Startups.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 29, 2018

Without enough capital, entrepreneurs don’t have the means to invest in the development and growth of their brand. Though you may not have much to work with now, if your startup is to succeed, you must work consistently at finding and executing plans to increase your revenue. Here are a couple of suggestions. Add Something New.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

That means first conducting research to learn the truth about a company’s competitors and customers. Develop a Map to New Customers. It’s only natural—if a business is winning sales, and even growing on a regular basis—they think they understand what their customers value. Content is digital fuel.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Sales development is a nuanced blend of art and science, requiring a delicate balance for its effective implementation within a company. Drawing from substantial experience, Sally Duby from The Bridge Group provides valuable insights into the intricate realm of sales development. Sally's wisdom sheds light on this dilemma.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

“Customer experience” is now considered a marketing tool, if you will, by businesses attempting to oust their competition. After the client becomes a repeat customer, retention tactics enhancing the customer experience are implemented. Retaining a customer is much simpler than attracting leads and establishing a loyal base.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2022

There’s more to ecommerce customer acquisition than increasing checkout conversion rates. For long-term, sustainable success, you must attract the right customers. In this article, you’ll learn how to gauge the effectiveness of any customer acquisition strategy. What makes customer acquisition different from marketing?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator Bootstrapping 261

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2021

What Makes a Loyal Customer? Customer loyalty is something that businesses have been after for decades. Today’s customers – particularly younger consumers – are less brand loyal and tend to switch between brands they see as “basically the same.” 4 Tips for Increasing Customer Loyalty. Gather Feedback.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Three to six months after first customer ship, if Sales starts missing its numbers, the board gets concerned.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It’s that time of year when Startup CEOs are building their 2022 Revenue Plan. Each day, Sales leader’s teams sign new customers and track performance to target, so they have a good sense of how business is trending. This leaves less time for developing and training the existing team. Here are some areas to dig into.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

The giants in electronic industries have updated themselves in almost every aspect, be it operations, supply chain, repair and maintenance, or consumer-based research and development. Similarly, new product development with advanced features and specs is based largely on new research, making the old surveys redundant and useless.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Airline customers look for the best deals while the company looks to reward its most loyal customers. What Airline Revenue Management Does. Airline revenue must be managed on a daily basis due to changes affected by demand, pricing, scheduling and aircraft maintenance. Airline Revenue Management Benefits.

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Revenue Management Software Review Technical Review 61

Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2010

At times I’ll do what I consider an extension of teaching; a two-day Customer Discovery/Validation intensive session with a large corporation serious about Customer Development at my ranch on the California Coast. It reminded me of the differences in Customer Discovery between a scalable startup and a big company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2019

I’m more convinced that technology merely enables disruption, and changing customer interests and needs really causes it. Other companies keep the focus on their customers, and seem to thrive on disruption, much less survive. They make it their top business priority to understand, anticipate, and gratify customers’ needs.

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Customer Indiana Technical Review Revenue 136

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment. But ops & customer support is another 17-20% of revenue and arguably you couldn’t run the business if you took that away.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2020

Customer experience (CX) is defined by a person’s feelings and emotions, experienced at any stage with a brand. Great CX means happy, loyal customers who not only trust your brand, but are active advocates of it. . CX is an integral part of the wider Customer Relationship Management (CRM) concept.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2023

Often, despite your passion and expectation, customers don’t immediately see the value and need that you see, and you have no idea why the initiative is stuck , and what could be the real customer issue or fix. Customers won’t buy what they can’t find or don’t understand. Solution may require new category development time.

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Product Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Dividend 354

ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

Optimize each channel, and you’ll win new customers, enjoy higher order rates , and retain customers. In this post, we’ll explore lessons from brands that use omnichannel marketing to deliver a seamless customer experience. Omnichannel aligns branding, messaging , and customer service across every channel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. In this article we explore the unique challenges of a lean start-up and how Outsourced Product Development (OPD) can be used to overcome them. The primary focus of the management team is external – what does a customer think about this product/service?

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Product Development Lean Developer Product 132

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To any app development and business, there need to be proper measures for the app not to be another trend that dies off. There are more than a few factors to figure out before stepping into development. First, the app that will be developed needs to cater to the audience that will enjoy using it. Choose revenue stream.

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Audio Developer Social Media Technical Review 145

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). We were desperate to get a marquee customer.

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Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2022

One of the quickest ways to become an entrepreneur these days is to develop and publish a smartphone app. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there are over 34 million registered developers in 2022. We don’t hear about the remaining several million apps that are mostly free, and garnering only trivial revenue through advertising.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors (“RBI”) are emerging. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. Bigfoot Capital.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

By turning those fans into customers, you can create long-term advocates that spend more money and recommend you to others. Edelman’s Trust Barometer study shows that trust is second only to price in becoming a loyal customer. Because of this, it spans two objectives: Turning customers into advocates Improving customer retention.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2021

The future of healthcare mobile app development. Part of developing a business around a technology boom is understanding what is currently relevant and what technology is growing in the space. Below are some trends in mobile healthcare app development you should be aware of in 2021. Artificial intelligence. Market research.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Key Takeaway: In the world of customer experience, mishaps are inevitable. However, by approaching customer recovery with style, empathy, and exceptional ownership, businesses can turn these situations into opportunities to create raving fans. 15:10 What are the best strategies for fixing a poor customer experience? [17:56]

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? Pre-seed tends to be about developing an MVP and generating early traction. Therefore, software startups (it depends of course) need less money than ever before to build an MVP and get to first customers. A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Since, mobile phones are becoming more and more accessible, new ways to swoon your customers over pop up. It opens up a plethora of channels such as social media , email marketing campaigns, etc that can be utilized to make an ever-lasting impression and increase revenue. Exciting times for business owners! com” today. Social Media.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2019

by Suman Sarkar, author of “ Customer-Driven Disruption: Five Strategies to Stay Ahead of the Curve “ The rise of the smartphone, fast fashion, and ride-sharing. Disruption is, in fact, driven by changing customer needs – and that only those companies that truly understand their customers can succeed.

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