Japan and PR - StartUpRoar

20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2020

Thanks to Steve Turner, Solomon Turner PR ! #4- For perspective, this was 13 years after the Samurai class stopped carrying swords in Japan. The firm is owned by eye doctors who are able to schedule these appointments online at the convenience of the patient. Photo Credit: Mike Charles. Have you guessed it yet? Think plump.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur St. Louis Technical Review Mobile

Twitter Link Roundup #184 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

They’re outrageous in Japan – [link]. Oxford English Dictionary Adds ‘Crowdsourcing,’ ‘Big Data’ – [link]. Stop complaining about fruit prices in the U.S. Marriott tries crowdsourcing hotel of the future – [link]. The Distinct, Positive Impact of a Good Dad | The Atlantic – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #89 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 8, 2011

Old People Line Up To Clean Radiation in Japan [Japan] – [link]. Collective intelligence and genetic structures of groups – [link]. Amazon May Soon Need to Collect Sales Tax – [link]. Windows 8: The Beginning of the End of Windows – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Is Google Letting Women In Business Down?

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Russia, Norway, Mexico and Japan were the only other countries to have no female representation in their respective top 25 Google Images results. Here, women represent 53% of senior managers – the highest proportion of any country analysed – but Google shows 0 females in its search results. What this means for business leaders.

Malta

Malta Canada Norway New Zealand

[Singapore] A Look Inside Facebook’s Singapore Office

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

A PR minder told us that prior to this tour visitors were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement form before being allowed into its offices, with photography strictly prohibited. Even the meeting rooms are named tongue-in-cheek.

Singapore

Singapore Non-disclosure Agreement South Korea Indonesia

Twitter Link Roundup #78 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Best photogallery I have seen so far of the earthquake in Japan – [link]. Oracle Integrates Crowdsourcing Into CRM – [link]. What If There Weren’t So Many White People? – [link]. Malawi Boy Builds Windmill Out of Junk – [link]. 20 most hilarious movie poster remakes – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

San Francisco

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Yes, you have good working knowledge of accounting, an idea of how to bring in sales leads, run a marketing and PR campaign, recruit people and build a great company culture, but that won’t help you build a product that customers want. Department of Justice reportedly planning antitrust suit against Apple. About & Staff. Privacy Policy.

Technical Cofounder

Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Antonio Europe

Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed. Later, I discovered you could get paid to program computers, and really never looked back. Thanks to the anonymity of the internet , I landed a few jobs, and did quite a bit of writing.

San Francisco

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO

Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." When we build products, we use a methodology. For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

Customer Development

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer

Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

The latest batch, sponsored by First Round, is available here. Thanks again to all of our amazing sponsors, volunteers and staff who are working very hard to make this event a reality. The latest batch, sponsored by First Round, is available here. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco

San Francisco Romania Cleveland South Africa

How to Calculate & Maintain a Healthy Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Cost of software/hardware used in sales and marketing Agency, PR, or any third-party costs involved in sales and marketing. For example, if you sell a product in America and Japan, churn in Japan may be traditionally lower because there are fewer Japanese language alternatives to your product.

Acquisition

Acquisition Churn Rate Cost Customer

Why College Is a Great Entrepreneurial Incubator

Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2016

Recent college graduates often knew the grunt work that went into working at a big PR firm, or the hustle required to sell their own apparel, and could communicate to me the transition from college to real-world better than a CEO could. See Also: How to Find a Mentor.

Incubator

Incubator Elevator Pitch Ireland Japan

Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure. Once startups and vendors really understand this dynamic, we can all get past these legacy arguments and start focusing on building partnerships that truly make it easier to create companies that matter. Great post!

Product Development

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. Their stories would not have been possible without access to sympathetic adults with the necessary equipment and knowledge to get started.

Programming

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Stop lying on stage

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. And companies crave positive PR and control over their message – all for rational reasons. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. It sells newspapers and magazines.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Metrics PR

15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

APRIL 24, 2016

BLND came to mind, meshing my initials with the idea that, as a PR agency, our services are to cultivate relationships with clients and media – “blending” them together to create positive brand awareness. To make it more unique, I dropped the E, and BLND PR was born. Miki is a boy’s nickname in Japan.

Naming

Naming Entrepreneur PR Spain

Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. But how do we know which metrics to look at?

Metrics

Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

San Francisco

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage

Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. In particular, Ive focused on the two channels of communication that were most commonly suggested in the first survey: conferences and books. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. My advice: dont launch big.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM

Twitter Link Roundup #116 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

PR to come to grips with Data (or not) – [link]. Of the 50 cities in the world with fastest Internet service, 38 are in Japan; only 3 in the US – [link]. It’s no secret that visitor data measured by Alexa, Compete and others is flat our wrong – [link]. Pinterest for Brands: 5 Hot Tips – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2009

Example of Early Warning Radar Coverage – Japan in WWII SAC needed intelligence to understand the components of the PVO Strany air defense system in order to shut them down and make them ineffective so our bombers with their nuclear payloads could reach their targets.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley RSS Europe Germany

14 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Amazing chefs and experts who want to share their cultural and culinary traditions with curious people – even if they can’t hop on a flight and visit Japan this year or Italy next year. I had a PR firm in midtown and was tired of being everyone’s Jewish mother. Thanks to Jenn Nicken, The Chef & The Dish ! #7-

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Social Media Liquidity Event Private Equity

Twitter Link Roundup #183 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

New 311mph maglev train in Japan passes initial tests – [link]. Beautiful Websites with Fixed Navigation – [link]. 12 usability flaws that are spoiling the mobile web | Econsultancy – [link]. 35 Mobile UI Examples for Inspiration – [link]. 600+ Free Outline Icons For Your Web or App. Projects – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Lessons Learned: The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of.

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. We actually lived this situation, and got to validate this answer: a process of rapid iteration can beat massive strategic investments from a big competitor. I especially enjoyed the discussion of the power of fact-based decision making.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC

50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When we were deciding what to call our new PR agency we started by writing down a bunch of words that describe what we do, that we felt passionate about. While we were working on the logo it dawned on us that PR was actually uPRoar’s middle name. Thanks to Michael Harris, Uproar PR ! #15 12 – A Friend Helped.

Naming

Naming Entrepreneur Haiti Nigeria

Twitter Link Roundup #49 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2010

Many in Japan Are Outsourcing Themselves – [link]. Be like the bamboo: 7 lessons from the Japanese forest – [link]. Language influences the way people see the world – [link]. Spending Our Cognitive Surplus – [link]. Anatomy of Interface Design – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #49 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2010

Many in Japan Are Outsourcing Themselves – [link]. Be like the bamboo: 7 lessons from the Japanese forest – [link]. Language influences the way people see the world – [link]. Spending Our Cognitive Surplus – [link]. Anatomy of Interface Design – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. Is it really worthwhile spending time and money trying to impress each other with our supposed successes, especially in a business where real feedback can take five or ten years? I think its wasteful. In time, success will come.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: Cash is not king

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. Some aspects of the vision remain, but often in a significantly modified form. But the story usually features visionary protagonists who had it figured out from the start.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Sweden Continuous Deployment

The Superbowl ad test

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. That’s what you pay PR firms for: to get an article written that is entirely factual and yet still provides positive spin for your company. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.)

San Francisco

San Francisco Metrics Lean PR

What Makes an Entrepreneur? (1/11) – Tenacity

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I had spent the previous 11 years in Europe and Japan. I got my friends over at Lewis PR to give me an introduction to Ismael, who kindly invited me to present at the conference. And frankly if you went to a state college in Florida you’re at no disadvantage in the tenacity column. Persistence will pay off. An example.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Florida

Twitter Link Roundup #135 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

Interview with a crowdSPRING designer – 12 Questions: Meet Naoki Haruyoshi (Japan) – [link]. Really Useful Resources and Tools for Responsive Web Design – [link]. 20 Eye-Catching and Artistic Business Card Designs – [link]. 40 Fresh and Colorful Patterns to Spice Up Your Designs: 2012 Edition – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. Unfortunately, startup success requires getting them all right.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Metrics Design

12 Questions: Meet Tiffany Reed (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2010

I’m a Navy brat that was born in Japan and has lived in various places along the East Coast. I meet with my Marketing/PR team every week to discuss our goals and throw around promotion ideas. So, most of the work I get is by word of mouth, but if I could afford a PR team, it would be on like Donkey Kong!! I’m living that now!

Virginia

Virginia Italy Design PR

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I was up at 3 AM Japan time applying these patches, twice. However, given that it is a well-understood norm, it gives you a bit of an edge in the PR battle should someone decide to just drop a 0-day on you.). Immediately means exactly that : right now, not during the next schedule code spring, not tomorrow, not in an hour.

Security

Security Software Review Ruby Startup

How To Identify What Makes YOU Newsworthy

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 19, 2011

Similarly, when Brisbane was flooded, and the tsunami rocked Japan, my client provided a comment on the effects on the local mining industry, in terms of projects being put on hold, and of a greater demand for Australia’s coal resources by international economies.

Public Relations

Public Relations Australia Channel Audience

Engagement loops: beyond viral

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You could try and drive home that positioning with an expensive PR campaign, superbowl ads, and whatnot. So you decide to try to reposition around a different value proposition, one that more closely matches what your product is best at. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Viral

Viral San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. Conduct constant focus groups and usability tests. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment

Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In most SaaS sub-markets, we find that Europe is roughly three years behind the US in adoption, and Asia is slightly behind Europe – although we have recently seen some interesting pockets of activity in Japan and India that may be accelerating. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ► 10/04 - 10/11. (2).

Software Review

Software Review North America Europe Metrics

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

Technical Review

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review

Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation

20 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Twitter Link Roundup #184 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

Trending Sources

Twitter Link Roundup #89 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Is Google Letting Women In Business Down?

[Singapore] A Look Inside Facebook’s Singapore Office

Twitter Link Roundup #78 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

Lessons Learned: About the author

Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

How to Calculate & Maintain a Healthy Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)

Why College Is a Great Entrepreneurial Incubator

Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Stop lying on stage

15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review)

Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Twitter Link Roundup #116 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VII: We Fought a War You.

14 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Twitter Link Roundup #183 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

Lessons Learned: The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of.

50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Twitter Link Roundup #49 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Twitter Link Roundup #49 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

10 years of entrepreneurship

Lessons Learned: Cash is not king

Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

The Superbowl ad test

What Makes an Entrepreneur? (1/11) – Tenacity

Twitter Link Roundup #135 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

12 Questions: Meet Tiffany Reed (USA)

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

How To Identify What Makes YOU Newsworthy

Engagement loops: beyond viral

Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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