Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2010

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Stretch” goals in early-stage are not advised. Instead, you need to undertake an aggressive campaign in the new media, with creative selling messages and promotions.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Bellroy has built a consistent identity across social media that evokes feelings of adventure, durability, and uniqueness. Here’s a video on Twitter featuring their products being packed away onto airplanes and put through trials: Image source. In the early stages: Use product marketing to execute the GTM strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2019

Image via Wikipedia As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. The other four are: new product development, writing, time management, and sales/marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2017

As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. In her book, Jan devotes a whole chapter to speaking to the media, as a key aspect of public speaking.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2021

Social media – while a lot of the social media exposure to apps is done via targeted advertising, with over 2.5 billion users for Facebook and Instagram app startups cannot afford NOT to be discovered on social media. Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook, Snap and Twitter are the top destinations. If you build it, will they come?

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Up and Running

MARCH 15, 2012

However, it’s also beneficial to replace water cooler conversations by connecting through social media. He writes, “This ensures that the product, development, marketing, partner, sales and management team all have full visibility of what is going on across the business (and what the people they’re working with actually look like!)

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. In her book, Jan devotes a whole chapter to speaking to the media, as a key aspect of public speaking.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. Early stage idea validation can be accomplished without building an application. Almost on a weekly basis, I meet new aspiring entrepreneurs looking to execute on their ideas.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Transcript of Bringing Marketing and Product Development Together written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: A lot of, I mean, you see it in the media occasionally. Somebody has an idea, creates a product, it’s a huge hit and they cash out, and exit do. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 29, 2013

As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. In her book, Jan devotes a whole chapter to speaking to the media, as a key aspect of public speaking.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I run an early stage-startup called Smarthome NX that helps consumers discover Smart home technologies through content, collaborative partnerships and commerce. Due to the need of having to market myself, I learned social media and SEO. Thanks to Cynthia Brown, Only Top Reviews ! #4- 4- Home technologies.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 1, 2021

A simple way to do this is to post your item for rent on local advertising or on social media. You will find that many entrepreneurs and investors work building prototypes of their products when their product development is in its early stages. Use It to Build Prototypes.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. I knew that OATV had invested in the company and I typically like to look harder at stuff that they do since I consider them to be very savvy with early stage trends.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

Nic Brisbourne is Managing Partner at Forward Partners, the UK’s leading early-stage VC, currently supporting the UK’s next generation of AI, e-commerce and marketplace businesses. I think we differ a little from the rest of the industry, though, particularly with our focus on early stage companies.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Early stage startups have to survive one day at a time and are often presented with limited choices of the moment that enable them to continue. At early stages you probably don’t have an assembly line and can’t clearly define any particular job. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2018

Earlier this year at the FUND Conference in Austin, Texas, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. That is where all of our focus now lies in terms of product development and fundraising. Why do you do what you do? CEO Name : Angela Smith.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2014

For a few months, a team of mentors with expertise in sales, financing, business planning, marketing, product development, website design and many other fields will coach an entrepreneur to help create a successful launch and structured plan for future growth. Has the accelerator graduated successful companies in your field?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Though most founders would agree culture is important in an organization’s success, it often takes a back seat to product development and generating a profit in the early stages of an organization’s life.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Their story, market positioning, products, etc. At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. Pyramid Power. John Greathouse.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

We spoke with the head of innovation at one Fortune 500 company who told us his only metric for early-stage innovation is “how many assumptions have you tested this week?” That''s why the most critical attribute of early-stage product development is the ability to learn quickly.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

Other ways to validate that you’re building suspense effectively include: Earning increased engagement or interest on social media from your target audience The number of sign-ups for relevant lead generation efforts Achieving a certain waitlist goal or securing a number of pre-orders Success with test-launching smaller or related products.

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Product Social Media Audience Software Review 96

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

1x hacker in charge of product/development. 1x hipster working with both product and growth. Especially in the early stages, keeping a relationship with your customers can be paid off exponentially, not only in overall engagement but with extremely valuable word of mouth marketing. Masterful onboarding (cheap).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. The customer is known, the product is known, and all we have to do is act. He believes that many early stage startups are labors of learning. IMVU learned to learn.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. My answer is almost always the same: dont.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Design, development, and digital media shops, sometimes just a few years old, are doing bigger and bigger projects and come bearing cash flow and that scarcest resource, talent. I recently joined CoVenture , an early-stage venture capital firm that develops products and invests cash in exchange for equity.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc., Teams were savvy enough to know that fully formed, completed descriptions of users are an impossibility at the early stages of design.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Do we believe “startup-driven” innovation (innovation that comes from relationships with external, early-stage companies) should be part of the corporate innovation portfolio? Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., Development teams couldn’t use marketing personas to make design decisions, so they decided personas weren’t that useful. (It

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

enabling you to expand on an already working business model), and if you’re in the extremely early stages of building your company, you still need to develop your product. Product development. When it comes to product development and marketing in the early stages of your tech startup, funding is optional.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2019

Product Hunt is a community-based website that allows makers and marketers to launch their products or services and get in touch with their first real users. The community can jump start products through votes and (honest) reviews, which are essential in the early stages of campaigns.

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Campaign Product Technical Review Social Media 127

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. It became very hard to get businesses to adopt new stuff. Stick a fork in it.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Notwithstanding examples like Plentyofish, people respond to well designed, well branded products, and that can be important in getting traction early on.

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