The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Gili Golander is a co-founder and CMO at Bazaart. Here are some tips and tricks that helped me grow the downloads for our app Bazaart from 0 to 500,000 organically, spending very little to no money at all. This is how we generated our first wave of downloads and it had cost us nothing at all. We didn’t invent this approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

if you want to download the deck it’s here on SlideShare ) Why Did The Seed Market Emerge in the First Place? The reality is that as a result of two major trends the costs of starting a technology startup went down massively. So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC? Why Has Seed Investing Declined?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is a question startup founders ask themselves multiple times a week. It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. You can get a downloadable version here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Making of GreenPal with founder Bryan Clayton written by Kyndall Ramirez read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He’s the CEO and co-founder of GreenPal. Would you say that the technology aspect of making GreenPal totally seamless was a real challenge? Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 14, 2012

So many tech startups begin the same way: One founder, one dream and a plan to make it happen. To learn more about how your startup can find, hire and keep the top talent and quality workers it needs to succeed, download this free ReadWriteWeb Report: The Talent Wars: Today’s Toughest Startup Challenge. Rachel Blankstein.

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Board Effect

JULY 20, 2023

Both staff and board members should be responsible for defined tasks, such as preparing financial data or reviewing the budget draft.   Preparation starts with the collection and distribution of financials, reports and any other materials that should be reviewed prior to your higher education board meeting.

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Board Effect

JULY 18, 2023

Both staff and board members should be responsible for defined tasks, such as preparing financial data or reviewing the budget draft.  Preparation starts with the collection and distribution of financials, reports and any other materials that should be reviewed prior to your healthcare board meeting.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

In fact, according to Founders Forum’s survey of 400+ startup owners, 94% of the respondents were already working from home before the pandemic. Although there are many collaboration tools (like Slack and Trello) available, they do have a learning curve that can be hard for non-technical folks. Technical Challenges.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

It’s that time of year, time to look back and reflect on the most significant storylines in the tech, startup, and VC world. Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

When you start with an honest and diligent effort to determine the truth of your situation, the right decisions often become self-evident.” — Jim Collins , author of Good to Great. In this post I’ll focus on benchmarking resources for seed and series A in the following three categories: SaaS B2C / Consumer apps Deep tech.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2018

by Collins Brown, CEO & co-founder of MARKET Protocol. However, since they download the entire blockchain, with data containing about every historical transaction, core wallets are heavy and slow. Avoid using public Wi-Fi connections, clicking unknown/phishing links, and downloading suspicious files. Mobile Wallets.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

by Paul Mayne, founder and CEO of Day One Journal. Unfortunately, in our current zeitgeist of founder burnout as a benchmark of entrepreneurial excellence, such has not been the case.”. We look in the mirror and only see “founder.” Paul Mayne is the founder and CEO of the award-winning Day One Journal app. A bad year?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

Do you want them to download a demo, schedule a sales call, visit a physical store location or a website, download an app, click for more information, give you their email address, etc.? Both Apple and Intel were selling complicated technology but did so by simplifying the message so it had broad emotional appeal. they’ll win.).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2020

Rosenstrauch, Founder and CEO of FUEL Partnerships. In particular, we think the post-COVID world will see a permanent shift in the way people shop for groceries, personal goods, and other essentials; the retailers that provide a tech-enabled, multi-channel approach will gain a larger share. Post COVID-19 Behavior.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This shift from Big Tech to NFT as an authenticator will have all kinds of interesting consequences for user experiences. The project has sparked its fair share of confusion and controversy due to a controversial founder, uber-nerd technical specs, and a naming convention that seems borrowed from Magic: The Gathering.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2019

However, as a founder of a small business or startup, you’re juggling many things. KPIs Every Founder Should Track. Depending on the nature of your business, it could be the number of clicks, time on the website, pages viewed, downloads, email/blog subscription, or trial signup. “What gets measured gets done.” .

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Habit based marketing, download, nudge, wherever you get your podcasts. (00:48): Marketing Podcast with Mike Evans. More About Mike Evans: Hangry: A Startup Journey.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

We can pass lead information manually from one platform to another by downloading and uploading CSV files, copy-and-pasting email addresses from one tool to another, etc. However, it’s difficult to measure the impact of a new tool or technology if you don’t have a clear goal. Consideration. Conversion & retention.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Here is what their founder Leo Mirsky told us in the early beginning of the collaboration: Marketing was a mystery to us.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

” Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global research program that decodes the factors that enable startup founders to succeed. 10:03] Would you say that a lack of leadership training is a blindspot for most founders? [12:31] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 3, 2021

Founder’s announcement. Arguably, the most powerful piece of content that can be written is by you, the founder. For example, one of our portfolio companies delayed their announcement due to the inauguration. Most popular tech publication = TechCrunch. National/Global tech/business sections = e.g. WSJ, Bloomberg.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In fact, JW Player was the technology that ran the earliest version of YouTube. It has continued to offer technical capabilities at the forefront of online video. The platform also hosts video using HTML5, which promises superfast download speed. Implementation is technical (i.e. developers required) but scalable.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 22, 2023

Watch the video interview now A network of more than 140 entrepreneurial businesses and organisations warns New Zealand is in danger of being left behind due to a lack of resources and insufficient policies to progress entrepreneurship. Like all entrepreneurs, he looks for and takes advantage of opportunities while managing risk.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. 18:05] How does the Founder Space operate? [20:21] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 21, 2024

By leveraging technology while maintaining a human touch, businesses can optimize their SEO efforts and achieve sustained growth in today’s competitive digital landscape. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Questions I ask Tim Brown : [00:33] What are the big things that have changed in SEO? [18:16]

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 16, 2022

Rune is the co-founder and CEO of Mentorcam, a marketplace where people can access high-profile mentors for 1:1 advice. In this episode, I talk with the co-founder and CEO of Mentorcam, Rune Hauge, about how he’s redefining mentorship by making it easier for entrepreneurs to gain access to expert advice and support.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 27, 2011

If you can’t tell by now, running a tech start-up is by no means easy, but there is also no better time in your life to risk everything than when you’re in your twenties. As a co-founder of a start-up there, is no single job that is ever above or beneath you. For me, it was like the stars were perfectly aligned.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “ 57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.”. 90 Things I’ve Learned Founding 4 Tech Companies: Find your company’s One Thing. ?? Founders need to personally own something big themselves.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2019

The community can jump start products through votes and (honest) reviews, which are essential in the early stages of campaigns. They can contribute to the final development of their favorite apps and tools via reviews and comments, engage actively with makers, and learn technical details. Do you want 10,000 new users?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The initial marketing channel was sustainable for a while , but got wiped away due to external forces. ” A technological example makes this clear. ” This is a component of why founders are almost always sad and sometimes permanently depressed even after a successful sale of a company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Growth will slow, partly due to internal limits and partly because the company is starting to bump up against the limits of the markets it serves.” “Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? Fooling us into downloading an app to watch a video and afterward feeling duped. Growth, again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

And three, I was an early employee of Swell Radio, a “Pandora for podcast” app which personalized spoken-word audio streams for users — Swell was ultimately acquired by a “large consumer technology company” and eventually retired as an app. 2/ Big Consumer Tech Cares About Audio. Remember Amazon bought Audible, for audiobooks?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. Brad Feld is a fountain of knowledge & wisdom.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

And while the NextView partners served as the editors and directors of the project to ensure its usefulness to founders, I wanted to share a few of the more surprising or alarming lessons and trends I witnessed after spending weeks of my life staring at actual pitch decks from dozens of startups to inform our templates. Why do you care?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 9, 2022

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat).

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