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. 4 Don’t Forget to Differentiate. .” – William Shakespeare. But, some do.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 2, 2018

And , 35% of small businesses without a website feel their operation is too small to warrant a website. 35% of small businesses without a website feel their operation is too small to warrant a website. ” Also, remember to differentiate your products through smart packaging design. Customers will beg to differ.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

By the time you launch your buzz word feature we’ll be on to the next fad and everybody will be offering your buzz product so it won’t be differentiated. I call this “the puck at your feet&# because it’s not where the industry is heading but rather where the industry is today.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Here are a few tips on how to differentiate yourself from the pack when bad weather strikes: 1. Go to extreme measures if (but only if) the situation warrants it. Besides, just like you had to make up those missed school days, the work you didn’t do won’t melt away when the sun comes out. It’s still there waiting on you.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

The trend of funding anything from the first $25k to funding $50 million at a billion+ valuation is unlikely to last as the skills and style to be effective at all stages are diverse enough to warrant focus. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

7:30] Would you say self-publishing is seen as a differentiator for businesses? [11:42] And in many cases, that was warranted. And then our greatest feature right now, and our biggest differentiator on what's making the biggest waves is that you can now connect it to your own website and sell it directly and keep all the properties.

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Up and Running

JUNE 15, 2017

There were some common design trends in olive oil packaging the company wanted to differentiate from. Are they good enough to warrant it? Packaging case study: Enios, a Greek olive oil. Enios is a Greek virgin olive oil brand that wanted to stand out from the crowd. If they are overcharging, ask yourself why.

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ConversionXL

JULY 14, 2020

These subtle aesthetic tweaks help provide a differentiation in rows, columns, and cells so that users can skim data faster. These solutions are warranted only in special use cases, but they certainly provide a better UX specific to mobile tables. The key to a great table is that information is easy to take in. Mobile table typography.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I do not endorse raising $5 million for a business that doesn’t yet warrant it. I think many entrepreneurs under-estimate the benefit that capital early helps in being able to produce product and differentiate yourself in a nascent marketplace. . &# In other words, if optimizing around a $1 million fund raise or a $1.5

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

To make preferred shares more marketable, different companies issuing the shares include several characteristics that differentiate them from common stock. Warrants are a kind of equity that are often attached to a corporate bond issuance or preferred stock to make the transaction more appealing to investors.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

To differentiate it from typical “Series A&# preferred stock, which comes with certain expectations with regard to rights. As a practical matter, investors don’t sue companies for a breach of reps and warranties, so reps and warrants basically serve to flush out diligence issues. Why is it called Series Seed?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Picking a term with a well-understood foil (“outbound marketing”) makes it easier to understand and differentiate. Historically, both terms had narrower definitions related to telemarketing, which differentiated outbound versus inbound calls.) Lessons: Quick identification of the term doesn’t translate into quick adoption.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

In a nutshell, a value proposition is a clear statement that: Explains how your product solves customers’ problems or improves their situation (relevance); Delivers specific benefits (value); Tells the ideal customer why they should buy from you and not the competition (differentiation). The first group is pretty much hopeless.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

We don’t mind investing earlier if the situation warrants and we don’t mind leading a B-Round if we know the team well or the market. We believe this isn’t just a market statement — it is where we will drive huge and differentiated returns. 88% of the deals we do are Seed or A-Round investments and our median check size is $2.8

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2019

Some of the best-selling products warrant a half-page or full-page coverage. When you maintain the required amount of white space, it makes it easier for customers to differentiate between pictures and paragraphs. It is not necessary to follow the same layout on every single page of your catalog.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

” Be sure to differentiate your company from ones that the journalist has already covered, however. In fact, an interesting study, infographic or other data sometimes warrants its own pitch. This gives them time to interview sources at your company, for example, while still getting the story out right when everyone else does.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 7, 2015

Efficiently communicating your strategy, business model, and competitive differentiation is required for many critical things you will do as a company. There is one situation where meeting without a presentation deck is warranted. Investors are not solely evaluating your company’s story.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Next, I would push ‘anti-pattern’ entrepreneurs to remove the convenient (and often true) excuses for not warranting investment. That point of differentiation is a plus not a minus, because it means that he has access to networks you don’t. Don recommends: Don’t just do startups “for us”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

As we wrote , Ocasio-Cortez’s used purple, yellow, and other bold choices to visually differentiate her campaign from her opponent. ” Heineken’s apology was warranted, as this ad’s design and slogan are a clear failure. Her political branding strategy was to sound different and to look different.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2017

JA: We understand the legacy feelings and, to some extent, they are warranted. There are a few things that differentiate us: We pair people with technology – we’re building tech infrastructure that can be rapidly deployed to campaigns, but we don’t just hand them technology. Several organizations have failed.

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