YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2019

That type of retirement planner is defined as a fiduciary, and according to a survey by Financial Engines , 93 percent of Americans think financial advisors who provide retirement advice should be fiduciaries — legally required to put their clients’ best interest first. It’s vital to have a tax plan that can fit into your portfolio.

Indianapolis 113

Indianapolis LLC Portfolio Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure.

New York City 254

New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 254

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I’m guessing the next wave will center around creating other sorts of open, permissionless businesses and human organizations, more commonly referred to as DAOs or Distributed Autonomous Organizations. Their biggest differentiators are 1) censorship resistance and 2) (theoretically) lower costs.

Web 193

Web Technical Review Software Review Social Network 193

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But I’ve seen little startups, mid-sized companies like WP Engine, and large companies struggle with complexity in decisions even in conditions of relative certainty. If we do feature X, we earn more deals (through differentiation). Also we gain some (less measurable) generic brand benefit from being differentiated.

Differentiation 120

Differentiation Framework Restful Software Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2016

On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. Huge investments are also required to ramp up manufacturing, build a distribution network, and provide the support infrastructure.

New York City 120

New York City Silicon Valley Startup Bootstrapping 120

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Most successful business plans entail launching a new product, service, or distribution outlet that attacks existing market competitors on what military planners would term an exposed flank. Look closely for other highly differentiated technology that may be hidden in the work you or your team have already completed.

Technical Review 80

Technical Review Development Team Review Differentiation Leadership 80

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Though Dollar Shave Club’s organic strategy appears to be growing their following, there is an opportunity to improve by differentiating content across social channels. Reverse engineer what already works and run experiments over the long-term. Search engine marketing: Driving ROI from searchers. Image source.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2020

When it comes to content marketing, all the branding and differentiation (and money) is in the latter. Should” content also tends to focus on the “what” and “why” components, which pad word counts (and appease search engines) but achieve little else. But being right doesn’t create value; empowering others to succeed does.

Analytics 161

Analytics Acquisition Channel B2C 161

ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

Further, you’ll never develop a brand that differentiates your products—your site will be just one more faceless ecommerce seller. Because blog content typically takes advantage of organic search—it’s a free distribution channel that can help get awareness efforts off the ground. Blog posts. Do original research. Interviews.

eCommerce 131

eCommerce Marketing Audience Non-Compete 131

Up and Running

JULY 19, 2014

Specifically, much of the plot revolved around their competing ventures in smuggling and distributing illegal contraband to other prison inmates. As you consider your new business idea and the market that it can reach, you will need to figure out how to differentiate yourself from the competition. Lock down a distribution strategy.

Distribution 77

Distribution Differentiation Reputation Audience 77

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2020

Over the past few months, many professional services firms have taken a hard look at what’s different and what they need to change to keep their revenue growth engines running strong: They’ve realized that without face-to-face meetings, it’s harder to understand their client’s current needs. Same Clients – New Behavior and Expectations.

Marketing 246

Marketing Agile Differentiation Social Media 246

Start Up Blog

APRIL 17, 2013

We’ll differentiate with a funny safety video and by not being a**holes. Palantir – we’ll build arcane analytics software, put the company in California, hire a bunch of new college grad engineers, many of them immigrants, hire no sales reps, and close giant deals with D.C.-based Let’s start one.

Social Network 108

Social Network Networking Detroit SMS 108

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. And you go back and look, there is not enough of a strong differentiator.

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. And you go back and look, there is not enough of a strong differentiator.

Cofounder 69

Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In terms of search engine optimization, volume-based link building is dead and unnatural link building is dying. In order to create and execute an effective content-driven SEO strategy and to succeed in the new age of search engine optimization, we SEOs need a better, more comprehensive understanding of small business marketing.

SEO 74

SEO Networking Kansas City Web Development 74

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Daniel Jacobson ( Twitter | LinkedIn ), is currently director of engineering for the Netflix API. Today, Netflix can be watched on more than 1,000 different device types, the vast majority of which are developed by Netflix-employed UI Engineers. He is also the co-author of APIs: A Strategy Guide.

API 135

API Audience Dividend Programming 135

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Building a successful investment franchise over the past few decades required finding a distribution advantage as products have been mostly undifferentiated. While traditional finance offers few options for product differentiation, decentralized finance (DeFI) is the opposite.

Finance 78

Finance Portfolio Open Source Differentiation 78

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I guess how do you talk about the benefits for that, uh, distributed team or if that work from home, uh, team, I mean, what's the benefit of adding this? So, you know, we have a fully remote and distributed team. And Jordan one of our new engineers, they're having a little conversation in Michael's office. Now we got it.

Audio 86

Audio Cofounder Jordan Video 86

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

They range from straightforward technical optimizations to complex, long-term efforts to differentiate through a superior consumer experience. Still, the queries that continue to shift from text to voice are not distributed evenly across all topics. How will voice search work given the human urge to shop around? This post has answers.

B2B 100

B2B eCommerce Search Technical Review 100

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Reverse engineering the origins of brand-owned terms is not a breakdown of the step-by-step planning that led from term identification to widespread acceptance. In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.”

Naming 119

Naming Conversion Flash Cofounder 119

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. That’s only important because, as part of the engineering degree there, you have to complete six four-month internships over your course,” Livingston tells TNW in an interview. “In Kik has simply become the browser done right for mobile,” Livingston says. Over the 4.5

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur CTO Hire Startup Mobile 167

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Content creation, the engine of inbound marketing, creates the draw (i.e. Building a cache of user data in a CRM that’s strong enough to inform demand gen campaigns—what content to produce, where to distribute it—can take years, according to Brandt Bogdanovich of MST Solutions. Create and distribute content to those segments.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. Specific benefits of global internet marketplaces: Increase wealth distribution (all examples). As a result, productivity naturally improves.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Vanguard decided that focusing on customer experience would help them differentiate from their competitors: Set up experimentation around customizing and personalizing the customer experience. recommendation engines, chatbots, automated suggestions for collaboration). Recruited a lead engineer and a designer. Conclusion.

Artificial Inteligence 114

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Metrics SEO 114

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." But because paid traffic is fundamentally a bidding war, its important that you have a differentiated ability to monetize customers better than other people who are bidding for the same traffic.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. In three month’s time, the team redesigned the site, introducing the queue, the rating system, and the recommendations engine all in support of Netflix being a subscription service.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The main differentiation between the two is that data mining is all about penetrating down into a dataset to find useful information that will further help any organization when analyzing the data. When a model is constructed, we need to examine it in order to compare it with another model. Machine Learning is not Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Startup Differentiation 113

The Next Web

AUGUST 21, 2013

All consumer application creators need to focus on three core challenges: A differentiated product experience. Building a differentiated product experience. There are near limitless novel ways to leverage the data in Gmail, call history, web history, and more into a differentiated product experience.

Mobile 137

Mobile Design Differentiation Startup 137

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. might have been a lot less differentiated. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

Lloyed explores the intricate art of harnessing the community’s strength as your ultimate acquisition channe l, brand differentiator, feedback source, retention lever, and catalyst for transformative change. I'm an engineer. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there.

Community 53

Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping 53

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By honing in on a specific vertical, founders can position themselves as experts, differentiate their services, and attract ideal clients. And as a result of that, that led to a lot of really almost frictionless introductions in the franchise space, which ended up being a big growth engine for us.

Vertical 67

Vertical Marketing Cofounder Campaign 67

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2012

Engineers always fight to take advantage of what they have built so far. When they find how expensive and time consuming this is, they need to use what they have learned from customers to consider a distribution channel, ecommerce, white-labeling the product, and strategic partners. Technology pivot. Product versus services pivot.

eCommerce 237

eCommerce Channel Differentiation Distribution 237

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

petrol-engined cars, people-carrier, and Ford, respectively). The introductory stage is rarely profitable : profits are negative or low because of the low sales and high distribution and promotion expenses [.] Identifies which stage you’re in to help you understand what you need to communicate and how to do so persuasively.

Product 124

Product Marketing Differentiation Harvest 124

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Discover whats in customers heads, and tackle problems where design is a differentiator. Beyond Apple, we can find examples of the Steve Jobs character at Toyota, in the form of the Chief Engineer. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota Product Development Book. August 2, 2009 9:50 AM Milton said.

San Francisco 166

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 166

YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2017

Often, engineers will talk about technology and won’t explain in layman’s’ terms what that means to the average person. How you make money, who pays you, your channels of distribution, and your gross margins. Address your competitors, and explain what differentiates you from them that helps you dominate in your market.

Cofounder 185

Cofounder Silicon Valley Forecast Business Plan 185

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This success was aided by the fact that it did just one thing extremely well – its lack of extra features emphasized its differentiation. But notice how many hypotheses are baked into this supposedly simple scenario: we believe we have already solved the distribution problem for our product (or else how could customers try it?).

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Software Review 167