ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Developing your company’s website is one of the most important investments you’re going to make. A catchy name goes a long way to cement your brand in people’s minds, but you’ll also need the help of brand differentiation to distinguish your company from others. . Are you going to grow vertically or horizontally? Dead Weight.

Startup 127

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

While thousands of B2B organizations struggle, plenty are able to develop long-term success. Our research showed that LTV was much higher compared to other verticals we have worked in the past which made the decision to change our approach a no-brainer. So what does it take?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback. image source.

Retention 112

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback. image source.

Retention 115

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Known as Don Estridge, he led development of the original IBM Personal Computer, and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC" He’s gone now, but I still remember him fondly. IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules.

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Software Review Startup Florida Technical Review 185

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback. image source.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback. image source.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

In fact, many are now household names?—?just Find your vertical and stick to it (for a few years at least). This includes the cost of a domain name, a logo, some development work. Marketplaces are big business! just look at the likes of Airbnb , Uber and Etsy. Marketplaces are also catching the eye of investors.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2012

We’d hazard a guess that his affinity with food was what prompted him to develop Opinioneated ( www.opinioneated.com ). “I think there’s still many opportunities in this vertical in South East Asia and it’s one that takes on multiple forms – local shopping, local eating, local jobs,” muses Yongfook.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 10, 2013

are what I’d categorize as “horizontal” – that’s to say, they don’t focus on a specific industry but rather try to help a group of startups generally advance their development. Now what DOES interest me? I root for any entrepreneur who brings drive, intelligence and integrity to their startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

I had written about Mike before but hadn’t disclosed his name. And anybody who read Danny’s transition letter to the company would note that he gave one shout out to Mike D ( Michael DiSanto ), who is now moving to the Bay Area to help run the tech practice for Bingham. “Without you none of this would be possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

It also attracted some big names from the Bay Area. In addition they are a platform (the OS part) where they’re encouraging developers to build third party apps on their platform. I’m a huge supporter of his initiative to help end this practice. The pro’s (for me) – the UI was simply beautiful.

San Francisco 254

San Francisco Technical Review Los Angeles Software Review 254

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Where are the charitable foundations, business schools, and hospitals named after the founder of GM? He also believed that to succeed the company needed to be vertically integrated and bought up 29 parts manufacturers and suppliers. Yet, you never hear who built GM to that size. What happened to him? The next year, 1910, trouble hit.

Michigan 291

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 291

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Muun found a market need but failed to compete with bigger names that provided customers with authoritative content and resources. During product development and before launch, product marketing responsibilities revolve around the GTM strategy, positioning, and developing messaging.

Marketing 110

Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

Hearpreneur

MARCH 14, 2019

How did you come up with your business name? Matt Shepperd from the Telegram Agency helped me put two and two together—and named the company Monogram Styling. . Being able to master each of those verticals while staying relatable to my clients is what makes me so successful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 20, 2014

I have been saying privately for years now that I believe online video will evolve into fragmented distribution (my next online video post) and vertical production. It turns out that when you develop strong vertical content you often find you have great collaboration opportunities and don’t have to consider everybody a competitor.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Most recently, he was named one of the 40 Under 40 Businessmen in China by Fortune magazine. I have always been interested in human-computer interaction based on AI, but as we use emerging technologies to develop new products, I have noticed that a great deal of output is papers and patents, but without real engineering and marketization.

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Artificial Inteligence China Technical Review Cofounder 56

ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2021

Initially, Uber launched its vertical in the food delivery services with the name UberFresh. Next, we shall head to the need to develop an app like UberEats for your food delivery services venture. In general, app development consumes time and money depending on the complexity of the app development project.

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Business Model Social Media Mobile Revenue 168

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2014

Forrester also found that 27% of consumers will sacrifice their shopping cart in the name of a better deal. Back in October 2013 Simon-Kucher & Partners , a global marketing & sales consultancy, published a survey that found 33% of shoppers did not name prices as the primary driver for online shopping. Shipping Costs.

Software Review 117

Software Review Social Media Vertical Algorithm 117

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. Our competitor was executing on hypotheses we had developed 9 months ago, and their strategy remained static.

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Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Startup 248

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

A Moz article offers an example of informational modifiers for products: [product name] what is [product name] how does [product name] work how do I use [product name]. Using search intent data for page design and development. Add content to answer active and passive intent. What else could you answer for users?

Search 126

Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to build a powerful ecommerce marketing strategy using customer research and messaging development, and how to use it to determine which marketing tactics will best reach your target audience. This is what drives growth for online stores like ASOS, despite existing in a saturated market.

eCommerce 129

eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Her name is Pamela Menges, and she’s President of a high-tech start up in Cincinnati. It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine. What I have seen is the American Physical Society (APS) does a much better job at development.

Technical Review 102

Technical Review Engineer United States Government 102

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. This subtle difference has been key to the success of companies like Groupon, Dropbox and Intuit to name a few. 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.

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Product Development Lean Developer Product 153

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

First off, most people in the world can't name any VCs. I suppose if you're reading this post, you can name at least one--but I'm not even active anymore, so even if you could name a few, you might quickly find you have a relevancy problem. Everyone starts their fundraising the same way: 1) Open a shared Google Sheet.

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ChatGPT Database Salary Naming 78

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. A few successful ones do all these things.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

KPCB, Sequoia) developed their core IT investment practices,” Ocko tells me, “It’s driving the same kind of multi-hundred-billion dollar economic transformation.” The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g, Crunchboard.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

These companies would take our computers and put their name on them and resell them to their customers. They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. He even remembered the names of their wives and kids and some details about schools or events. (I

Technology 142

Technology Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 142

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe 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. As a result, the standard product development model is not only useless, it is dangerous.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The way to both vertically and horizontally align an organization to engage in innovation with increased success rates is through Innovation Engineering — a reliable process, grounded in data, backed by academic theory and validated in real-world practice. Develop systems that enable instead of control.

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Intellectual Property Engineer Flash Vertical 174

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. The MQL (Marketing Qualified Lead) is a prospect that somehow expressed interest in your company/product and it’s ready to interact with a human, often Sales Development Reps.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For mobile app developers, the impressive figures are enticing. In this aspect, China’s huge market seems ripe for the taking — and which firms are better-placed to do so than homegrown startups, especially app developers looking to conquer the mobile market? China is the world’s largest country with more than 1.3 billion people.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Items like the size of your user community, network effects, brand name, strong team and so on can ultimately lead to better acquisition pricing. For Salesforce, the edge comes from the network effect, brand name, plethora of integration and the name recognition. Alpha generation. But doing it consistently is simply impossible.

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Founder Valuation Dividend Startup 148

Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2015

It might be worth taking a similar approach with your clients—particularly those who have developed reputations for being a little more hesitant to promptly settle their invoices. Devise new campaigns to boost sales. If sales are stagnating—or even if they’re not—from time to time, you might want to consider retooling your campaigns.

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Management Technical Review Software Review .Net 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

Do a SWOT analysis to develop a thorough understanding of your strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities. The new parents of your neighborhood are naming their new-born children after the Roman emperors! You recruit that marketing agency with the fancy name. Be honest! . Take a look at you and your team’s skills gaps.

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