YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Blogging is your gateway to communicating with the outside world and reaching out to potential customers. Not only can you brag about your product or service, but you can also make yourself accessible to that perspective customer by sharing your views and proving that you actually understand the business you’re in. How to start?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

If I’m interested I get to spend more time with them, if I’m not I don’t have to – A few companies per month come in that have fascinating business ideas that warrant my spending more time trying to understand their people, company, technology and market. I get paid to network – I love meeting people.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

Focus on your customers and don’t obsess about deals or keeping up with your competitors releases.&#. I’m doing due diligence on a company of another entrepreneur in LA whose company was apparently doing very well. I know, I know … technically they can be structured as mergers. Me: “Zero dilution.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

I wrote a version of this post four years ago but given the hectic nature of today’s tech markets I thought it was worth revisiting and updating. I wrote directly to his assistant asking why he had cancelled and made it clear that I had not attended a conference in town due to my having accepted this meeting.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop?

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

Below is a marketing email sent around by one of the participating investment banks after the recent nCino IPO (which was underpriced in record-setting fashion, 195% first day “pop” – “the biggest first-day surge since the 2000 tech bubble”). as well as the Sponsor warrant coverage. As a result the conflict is real.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Done right, both can help attract the kind of high-quality leads that become long-term customers and advocates. You’ll also learn how to approach ABM and lead generation to engage your ideal customer. It’s proven to drive more revenue , improve customer experience , and power growth. Snowflake achieved over 300% growth with ABM.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Now, according to the Sustainability Management School , by the year 2030, it is expected that as many as 700 million people may end up having to move due to scarcity of water where they live if the current climate change issues continue. This has caused businesses to lose money and customers to experience hardships and losses.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Most recently, Target was a victim of a data breach that potentially exposed millions of customer credit cards to international thieves. Perhaps Musk was more technical than he needed to be, but that kind of transparency reassures his tech-savvy consumers that he has the problem under control. Here’s why. Stay on brand.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2018

As a result of growing their customer base quickly, they were invited to participate in an analyst evaluation. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that the analyst conducting the review simply didn’t understand the problem being solved or why this company’s solution was so disruptive to the other vendors.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2018

A great business name identifies your business, tells your customers and prospects something meaningful about your brand , and helps to differentiate your business from your competition. Not all changes warrant a new business name. And if it’s hard to spell, your customers may end up finding one of your competitors instead.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

You are particularly vulnerable if: You have revenue concentration (few customers each providing a large total of percentage of your revenue). You have a large number of startup customers (because when markets crash they have a funny way of going bankrupt quickly or cutting burn precipitously).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2018

Much of your focus as a business owner is directed towards the activities that form the basis of your enterprise and marketing them to potential customers. If your expenses are higher than you budgeted for, you need to know how much of that is due to a higher than expected income. Staff costs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. But it wasn’t to be.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

These can be research tasks, like finding every tech blogger who blogs about cats, repetitive tasks like creating 100 affiliate links for products in a Word document, or ongoing tasks like monitoring a handful of job boards and posting new jobs to your website. If customers decide to use it, then you can automate it. So we tossed it.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

I always have to prove myself to customers, and I get many men who don’t know the first thing about taking care of their cars. I am a session singer and producer, and I wish clients and peers would give me more of an opportunity to work in the technical side of the business (such as mixing and editing).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 25, 2010

Resistance Isn’t Futile: Don’t Assimilate Your Customers – [link]. Has Your Startup Given Performance-Based Warrants? Want to Start a Technology Company in LA? Dealing With Customer Resistance To Change (useful for startups and small business) – [link]. What is Your Core Business? – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 25, 2010

Resistance Isn’t Futile: Don’t Assimilate Your Customers – [link]. Has Your Startup Given Performance-Based Warrants? Want to Start a Technology Company in LA? Dealing With Customer Resistance To Change (useful for startups and small business) – [link]. What is Your Core Business? – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And now I think it's definitely through technology, through, you know, a lot of advances in opportunities. And in many cases, that was warranted. So when Lulu started in 2002, so about 20 years ago, we just celebrated our 20th anniversary. So there's a large buried entry.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. Customers are choices made by your startup.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Factoring, MCA and receivables-based solutions are also typically tied to a customer contract, invoice, credit card throughput or some other specific collateral or cash-collection mechanism, while RBI is not involved with monetizing individual receivables or credit card payments. He said, . “[W]e All term sheets are a negotiation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

year old boy and another one due in 1 months. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. But it is clearly not warranted in all cases. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

For those moments when you have smaller tasks that don’t warrant a new hire but that you just can’t add to your already full plate, Simon Slade of Affilorama.com suggests microcontracting. Review your operating expenses. Invest in new technology. Have you ever looked into it? Stay on top of your accounting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. How upset will those customers be?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Account-based marketing is an approach where marketing and sales work together to nurture target accounts and convert or retain customers. Sales finds aligned accounts and works with marketing to create customized journeys. Sales and marketing collaborate until a deal is closed and beyond to secure long-term customer retention.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

It’s much easier to sell a standalone product like a WordPress plugin or a Magento add-on – they’re relatively inexpensive and the customers “owns” them forever, so they don’t have to worry about mounting costs over time or “throwing money away” on something they can’t keep. Getting those initial early sales is a big win. all at once.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Erica Swallow is a technology and lifestyle writer. As a tech journalist, I’ve been pitched by hundreds of companies and have developed a taste for what works and what doesn’t. Customize Your Pitches. Instead, stick with custom emails. Facebook’s iPad App Finally Arrives [PICS]. Just stay away from them.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 28, 2017

Why in my areas of expertise, marketing, sales, customer service and analytics, the impact will be deep and wide. Literally millions upon millions of people at risk of blindness will have access to AI-Powered technology that can create a different outcome for their life – and their families. Yes, totally.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

It’s much easier to sell an add-on to an existing ecosystem like a WordPress plugin, a Shopify app, a Heroku add-on – they’re usually small things to build, relatively inexpensive for customers to purchase, and you have built in discovery through the plugin repository or app store. Getting those initial early sales is a big win.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Like a venture capitalist reviewing business plans, he now weighs the potential of every company Arizona Bay works with. Join our community. Login using: Use your Inc.com account: Forgot login ?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 9, 2018

A strong business name identifies your business, tells your customers and prospects something meaningful about your brand , and helps to differentiate your business from your competition. Not all changes warrant a new business name. If your business name is confusing or hard to spell, customers may not be able to find you.

Naming 56

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Some of my favorite tools and services have gone through some pretty big changes recently – enough so that felt it warranted a post just to point the changes out. You can now customize that by size as well as completely hide your chat area. It automatically updates for those customers who are where the business is located.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 9, 2018

A strong business name identifies your business, tells your customers and prospects something meaningful about your brand , and helps to differentiate your business from your competition. Not all changes warrant a new business name. If your business name is confusing or hard to spell, customers may not be able to find you.

Naming 52

Naming Differentiation Warrant Search 52

Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

It’s much easier to sell a standalone product like a WordPress plugin or a Magento add-on – they’re relatively inexpensive and the customers “owns” them forever, so they don’t have to worry about mounting costs over time or “throwing money away” on something they can’t keep. Getting those initial early sales is a big win. all at once.

Bootstrapping 27

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

There are many articles by many experts ( myself included ) extolling the virtues of listening to customers. In fact, there are so many of these propaganda pieces that this question might naturally cross your mind: if listening to customers is so great, why do we need so much propaganda? We did not take this step lightly.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business. Not close enough to the customer. We focused too much on technology.

Software Review 79

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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