The Next Web

AUGUST 23, 2014

The Ghanian startup built a widget to replace contact forms and provide businesses with the kind of customer insights most consumers fail to fill out on websites. The post Startup founders in Southeast Asia, it’s time to step up appeared first on The Next Web. Dropifi is looking to streamline customer feedback.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Project based on your market size how many widgets you will sell in every channel. Controlling cash flow is critical as founders move from working “in” the business to working “on” the business. Forecast sales-volume expectations. This should always be a “bottoms-up” commitment from your sales team, not your own optimistic guess.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Finding a Technical Co-Founder. In the recent weeks, I have also had no less than three people email me and ask about finding a technical co-founder, which has also been a very frequent topic on the Hacker News forums. This can often lead to introductions to suitable people, or into networks where you can find a technical co-founder.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Tal Raviv is the co-founder of Ecquire. Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint. This post was originally published on OnStartups.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2012

This also applies to partners – whether it means co-founders or other businesses and partners you come in contact with. Kampyle – feedback collection form and management, widget on the corner of the web pages, Tenderapp – does public facing feedback, but more of a replacement for your support email address.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In this episode, the Founder of Hook Agency, Tim Brown, talks about what he’s learned from building over 100 websites and diving into testing and user data. So I almost think of it instead of testimonials more of a review widget and anything to do with awards, anything to do with other platforms where you have five stars or even 4.5

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2015

by Gaurav Sharma, a founder of Antipull and digital strategist at Nine Hertz. Infinite Monkeys uses the drag and drop feature to manage the location of the widgets on the screen and provides a dashboard facility to organize the analytics and messages. In this era, mobile applications have almost replaced the use of desktop versions.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

One thing to look out for, though: widgets in unfavorable locations (footer, sidebar) can skew these numbers (and, in fact, all others as well), this should be kept in mind during evaluation. % Personalized recommender widgets display different products to each user based on their past purchase and browsing history.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

First off, many founders don't really feel the need to have external accountability. Not only that, founders get a lot of warnings from other founders about “losing control” and to be careful about ceding too much power to investors. I find that the best meetings with my founders include other investors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

So if you’re using our Facebook Messenger website chat widget (see the MobileMonkey website for an example of this) the conversations are instantaneously being routed from your website, to the user, via Facebook Messenger. MobileMonkey’s founder and CEO, Larry Kim. You Can Remarket to Them – Using Facebook ads.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

For businesses, you can show off those marketing metrics with social media widgets. Andy Crestodina is the Co-Founder of Orbit Media Studios , a web development company in Chicago. “Hi, I’m a thought leader with 12,000 followers.” It’s better to let the listener find these metrics for themselves.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2017

Most themes allow you to add widgets to the sidebars or footers. Widgets range from visible site statistics to newsletter sign-up forms. Tag clouds, category lists and customized menus can be added as widgets to help visitors navigate your site and find the content they are looking for. Provide Social Links.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

LSC: Tell us about the customer development you did for your book: Alistair: We''ve been thrilled at how Lean Analytics seemed to resonate with founders. As operators of an accelerator—and founders in our own right—Ben and I had constantly struggled with what the “right” numbers are for a business. So you create a mobile widget MVP.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. So we actually got in touch with them through an Intercom widget, asking a simple question of how do we get on the homepage. Kim and his co-founder, Theo Lee, did the formal market research—including a thorough investigation of Kickstarter.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

by Jerry Nettuno, founder/CEO/ chairman of Schedulicity. Schedulicity pioneered a widget for appointment-dependent businesses to leverage Facebook, Twitter or their own business website as a business-building tool. Jerry Nettuno is Founder/CEO/Chairman for Schedulicity. No more missed appointments.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The service offers tools such as a web-based mixing console, a sound effects library and the ability to broadcast live audio through a widget that can be embedded across websites, social networks and blogs. Like what YouTube does for video, and Twitter does for text, Spreaker does for audio.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2018

That tip was all about passion, which many startup founders confuse with emotion. When you are creating your widget, you should put every bit of effort into the process—this is your passion at play. Realize that becoming a founder does not make you a master of business. What’s the difference? Passion is all about effort.

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www.greenhornconnect.com

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Forming a corporation or limited liability company not only protects founders by limiting personal liability for activities related to the business, it also defines the rights of founders relative to each other and to the business, which is important in case there is ever a falling-out among the founders. Blog Categories.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2011

These LumaScapes are quickly becoming a tool for M&A departments to make their picks and the graphs will keep evolving, says Terence Kawaja , the founder of LumaPartners and seasoned investment banker. Gigya – Social > Plug-ins/Widgets. Conduit – Social > Plug-ins/Widgets.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

If your vision was to make widgets, and you had a killer widget machine, wouldn’t you make sure it had fuel and was properly oiled? Michael Dermer is the founder/author of “ The Lonely Entrepreneur , a methodology to help entrepreneurs with the struggle. I know what you are saying to yourself, “Who has time to sleep?”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob looked wistful, “Our founders built a company known for taking risks and moving fast. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At At our company we have a culture that fears failure.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

This is one of the reasons that it's so important to have a good co-founder. Although you certainly can make the case for a single-person startup , it's so much easier to have a co-founder and we've covered in the past tips on finding a good one. In other words, say you have a widget that you think will take three days to build.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 4, 2019

My friend George, one of our co-founders at Return Path (according to him, the best looking of the three), has a wonderful and simple framing question for thinking about product strategy: what job is your customer hiring you to do? In a dynamic world of competition and feature parity, product roadmaps can easily get cluttered.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

“The Internet is the first place most people turn to find information and learn virtually anything, but there’s no sense of organization — you have to stumble through, often running into dead ends along the way,” says Kris Chinosorn, who started MentorMob with fellow University of Illinois graduate and co-founder Vince Leung. “At

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

by Fred Perrotta , freelance marketer and co-founder of Tortuga Backpacks. Being just be another widget maker won’t get you anywhere. Fred Perrotta is the co-founder of Tortuga Backpacks and a freelance marketer. Most market segments can only support one, maybe two, companies. Which segment are you going to embrace?

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Inspired in Zimbabwe The founders of Zimride were inspired by drivers in Zimbabwe, who pick up strangers and give them a lift for a few bucks. Thats real money."

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Jay Neely of Social Strategist and co-founder of EasyImpress. You can embed a widget in your blog which shows off your (live) Answers reputation, like I'm doing now in the sidebar: There's a few styles to choose from, or you can style it yourself, or you can really go nuts and use a web API to extract the live data programmatically.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Now of course there’s a lot more that goes into building a brand like the fact that the founders of Luma have long reputations in our industry and people respect them. It doesn’t talk about Luma’s strategic approach. But everybody knows that Luma produced it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Project based on your market size how many widgets you will sell in every channel. Controlling cash flow is critical as founders move from working “in” the business to working “on” the business. Forecast sales-volume expectations. This should always be a “bottoms-up” commitment from your sales team, not your own optimistic guess.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 27, 2012

That’s the path chosen by Mark Drake and Stephen Woodcock, the successful founders of imSMB , a Web hosting and design company. Small businesses want to give back - it’s rewarding and just feels right,” says imSMB co-founder Mark Drake. Gardening and Volunteering.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

I've also recently created a private email discussion list for technology company founders at FounderList.com to network, share, and learn from each other. Procter & Gamble Launches Widget to C. More Business Resources from Mashable: - Social Media Marketing 101: In-House Team, Agency or Consultant? -

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

According to co-founder Jameson Detweiler, "I look at it this way, you manage email marketing campaigns with tools such as Mailchimp and Constant Contact, and you manage support with tools such as GetSatisfaction and Zendesk. You'll get a unique URL to share as well as analytics about who and how much sharing is going on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 26, 2011

This gives us the runway to refine our platform and gain customer traction,” said Vamsi Mohun, the founder of Entreave. Entreave’s affiliate partner plug-in widget is designed to enable business and professional communities to provide their members with hiring solutions directly on the community website.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 18, 2018

I have a role at K9 Ventures, but I also am a co-founder of HiHello, and I am also a kid-parent, and I am also a dog-parent. Our iOS and Android widgets will let you pick which card you want to share right from the lock screen on your phone. Co-founder. Some of us have multiple roles and wear multiple hats. Manu Kumar.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. Example of how a live chat widget works with a regular document. Content management, sharing and tracking: Allow teams to manage, share and track engagement on their content (documents, videos, webpages, images etc.) Build and share dynamic documents.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2020

by Stephanie Fatta, founder of BeautyBrite.com. Loved by many bloggers, WordPress also offers a fantastic selection of widgets to help you further customize your website and make it even more engaging. Stephanie Fatta is the founder of the popular beauty & lifestyle blog, BeautyBrite.com. Promote Your Blog.

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