Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

So why is online video such an attractive market to build a startup? These markets represent about $600 billion of total spend between them, leaving tons of opportunities for startups to disrupt and grow large. The number of channels grew with cable & satellite TV but we still have limitations that makes distributing content high.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. However, they have been sending VCs far more investment checks in the last ten years than they’ve gotten back as distributions.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. IPOs dried up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Dont count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Its hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. Marty Zwilling.

Intellectual Property 238

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Software Review Offshore 238

ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

Ecommerce marketing often focuses on the bottom of the funnel—remarketing ads for abandoned carts, time-limited email discounts, etc. The overwhelming majority of ecommerce site visitors are non-purchasers. Content marketing can do it long before potential buyers click “Add to Cart.”. Linear funnels are relics of the past.

eCommerce 131

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. In this article, you’ll learn what growth hacking in marketing is and what it’s not. Why do people think growth hacking in marketing is controversial?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The “classic” idea of content marketing—cranking out SEO-focused articles, ranking for hundreds of keywords, generating visitors, leads, and paying customers—doesn’t work in all industries. Set up in 2003, the website has a strong network-effect moat that makes it harder for other blogs and publications to compete.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

an image) and are frequently referred to as NFTs or non-fungible tokens. The first major product market fit is in building an open, permissionless financial system (commonly referred to as DeFi). And manual migration is non-trivial for most users. These addresses could optionally be appended with additional information (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As a result, we shared in capturing a new high-end market, without major new marketing or development. Here is a summary of each: Complementary strengths allows extended market penetration. It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

The most successful agencies are beginning to invest more time and money in content marketing to establish expertise in their industry and, more importantly, generate inbound appointments. Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels.

Audience 127

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

What neither group seems to fully comprehend is that retail needs to fundamentally change to succeed, far beyond the addition of an online component, to meet the experience expectations of today’s generation, an oversupplied global marketplace, and technology for instant pricing and distribution.

Customer 130

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2021

The challenge of a creating a new product or service is tough enough, without insisting on a new supply chain, and a new distribution channel. The most effective startups focus on their core competency, and work hard to pick the best of the rest for partners. Choose a large market in a growth industry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Since I am a techie at heart, I always get excited when founders pitch their new innovation as “disruptive,” meaning that it is so unique that it will create a new market and disrupt the existing value network, displacing established products and markets. Continually expand your team competency into new areas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Software Review Technical Review 120

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s true that I have a functional focus on three areas: Performance-based marketing, digital television and mobile computing. I have other areas of interest & competence such as cloud computing and document management given my background. We still won large customers but over time it became harder to compete.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

When starting a new business you should consider the potential industries your company may have the best opportunity to compete in. The ride-sharing market is expected to achieve a growth rate of more than 20 percent between 2018-2025. The global on-demand transportation market is expected to reach USD $304.97 Technology.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Matt Briel In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Matt Briel. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. (00:50): Great episode.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? But expanding beyond our core customers was going to take more effort than simply launching in new markets. We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s going to take time for the technology to reach a stage that is 1) widely distributed 2) ready for prime time. From tools for content creation, distribution and monetisation, to the ability to transact directly with their community, we’re just getting started. Where do we go from here in Metaverse and Web3 investing.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

More specifically, you asked the hard questions, like: How can ecommerce companies compete with Alexa? Voice search will make some companies less competitive, like non-Amazon sellers of commodity goods. Still, the queries that continue to shift from text to voice are not distributed evenly across all topics. Yes, we’re sure.

B2B 100

B2B eCommerce Search Technical Review 100

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

If you stop working for the company, how will that impact your voting and distribution rights? In a nightmare scenario, an employee can start up a competing company, and leave with customers, employees and intellectual property, demolishing everything you’ve worked hard to build. Think about your employee and ownership hats.

Partner 208

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That’s okay, if the point of departure is about defending our values internationally, as opposed to better competing internationally, which was the Trump administration’s core focus in the national security strategy. And you’re going to see efforts to selectively decouple when it comes to our capital markets.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. An aspiring entrant would need to build a network of railways to compete independently. And why is it so difficult for others to compete? Followers are non-transferable capital that users store on the platform.

Non-Compete 122

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Finally, all TMS systems will include business management features, such as payment distribution, analytics dashboards, and rate sheets. It’s helpful to seek customer referrals from non-competing organizations. For instance, various solutions will provide features for access management, task automation, and workflow setup.

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Management Non-Compete Technical Support Software 109

Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The most common question entrepreneurs ask me, is “how can I improve my marketing with no or little money?’ Just one of these ideas may trigger a marketing opportunity that you never considered before. Just one of these ideas may trigger a marketing opportunity that you never considered before. Facebook It!

Small Business 167

Small Business Marketing PR Social Media 167

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It wins through better distribution, logistics, inventory management, warehousing, customer support, merchandising, cross-selling and ultimately on price & scale. Thus Amazon’s market cap is $200 billion. Many, many markets use storage and in totally different use-cases than you’d imagine.

Technical Review 150

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Most technical entrepreneurs cringe when they finally realize that marketing is still king, despite the power of technology, and they are up against competitors who have a hundred times their spending power. The cost of entry to market on these is low, and marketing leverage has very little to do with the size of your budget.

Marketing 253

Marketing Startup Non-Compete B2C 253

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy. He didn't just "tell it like it is," he gave up his marketing secrets and opened his company books. you have to truly bare your soul if you want to compete on the transparency front.

Software Review 261

Software Review Technical Review Viral Software Developers 261

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Building A People-Centric Culture: From Employees To Contributors written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Kai Anderson, a seasoned strategist and the leader of workforce transformation at Mercer.

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Start Up Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

While some non-luxuries become luxuries as we evolve in other areas. A non exhaustive list of the evolution of luxury: Settlement: Becoming masters of our domain to the point where we didn’t need to be a species of nomads. Conspicuous consumption: Hello 1980′s, competing with the Joneses.

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Non-Compete Widget Technical Review Salary 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Here’s an email I got last week: Hello Jason, I am a big fan of your advice and wanted to see if you could offer any advice for marketing my start-up XYZ. Marketing, advertising, positioning — they’re all forms of persuasive writing, just like an op-ed in the New York Times. Any advice will help. I bought ads for $0.05/click

Customer 279

Customer Software Review SEM Technical Review 279

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team.

Technology 217

Technology Non-Compete Cofounder Partner 217

Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. The Energy Internet Emerges: We will be trading energy with each other through a new type of distributed energy grid. This will be further enabled by automation and manufacturing where the low-cost labour market trading advantage evaporates.

Software Review 91

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Non-Compete 91

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And when you launch your SaaS marketing agency , you will be in one of the most exciting industries around right now. Content Marketing. Every article that talks about marketing should have content marketing in there somewhere. Every article that talks about marketing should have content marketing in there somewhere.

SEO 147

SEO Non-Compete PPC B2B 147

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 19, 2015

Image via Flickr by socialautomotive Most technical entrepreneurs cringe when they finally realize that marketing is still king, despite the power of technology, and they are up against competitors who have a hundred times their spending power. The first step is to create the perfect online marketing message.

Marketing 120

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