Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

get the attention of the market they choose. Having a great idea in the wrong place won’t get you the funding you need, the experienced domain experts you want, or the pilot market results you need for survival. You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help. It’s very important.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 19, 2024

Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology indicates that aggressive driving behaviors, such as speeding, rapid acceleration, and abrupt braking, can significantly reduce fuel efficiency. As per GlobeNewswire , the fleet management software market was valued at $22.38 billion in 2022. billion by 2030.

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VC Adventure

JULY 1, 2021

Sweet Grace was born in 2008, as the Great Recession ripped through the United States, particularly affecting working-class communities like Lawrence, Massachusetts where Danaris lives. One of our biggest inspirations and favorite New Builders is Danaris Mazara of Sweet Grace Heavenly Cakes. She had $37 in food stamps to her name.

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Transformify

JUNE 9, 2023

Settling in Switzerland as a digital nomad may be challenging as the country has strict regulations one needs to abide to when planning to enter the Swiss labor market. Massachusetts, home to more than 110 universities and colleges including Harvard and MIT, has the highest average salary at $72,940 (£58,320).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Take, for instance, the remarkable 2014 events at Market Basket, a 73-store grocery chain based in Massachusetts. Relationships with employees need to be richer. Relationships are central to cooperation, collaboration, and successful outcomes. When the board of directors ousted the company’s CEO and steward, Arthur T.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Founded in 2010, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based PowerInbox is an email technology company that hopes to do exactly that by enabling live, interactive email inside of most popular email services, such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Outlook. . We’ve all heard that clarion call more than a few times.

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VC Adventure

MAY 1, 2012

California, Massachusetts, New York, Colorado. I’ve written extensively on why Boulder specifically, and Colorado in general, are great start-up markets (see here , for example). 290M invested in 41 companies based in Colorado in 2011. And these data show that the work and effort of many people in our state is paying off.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Satya is evaluating various go-to-market models such as franchising, and I advised him to focus on direct selling to major builders and working with industry value-added resellers (VARs) that already operate in the smart home segment in India. We can derive GeoInvenio's business model and pricing model based on that. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

My advice was to keep doing the SharePoint solution development and consulting work the company does today and develop the store project as a side effort until the market is ready. He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. Discuss.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But when it comes to marketing your business, there might be a few (or more than a few) gaps in your formal education or training. Currently, the online world is full of information, almost any topic you wish to learn about you can find the tools instantly- marketing is no exception. Internet Marketing. The Basics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2014

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Other common previous roles were executives in Sales, Marketing, and Product Management, all suggesting that VCs back experience. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2016

by Stephen Wunker, David Farber, and Jessica Wattman, authors of “ Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation “ This past August, Mass Innovation Nights launched its 11 th MIN FOODIE event in Somerville, Massachusetts. Segment the market to find under-satisfied customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

Massachusetts is a distant #3 but in terms of the rate of follow-on financing, Massachusetts has the highest rate. California (Silicon Valley), Massachusetts (Boston), NY, Washington, and Texas held as the top 5 states for venture capital in 2012, but overall, 38 states got in on the action. Top five states for venture capital.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. But there's also a real lack of understanding of what it takes to bring a venture to market. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain. Kolkata and Hyderabad are behind.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

At today's session, first up, Ramkumar RS from Chennai, India, presented Mango DVM , an innovative solution to turn vendors of illegal, grey market music to legal distributors using a combination of mobile apps and media server technology. However, only the market can tell to what extent those assumptions will hold true. 3gSimplified.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. Additional work in figuring out the precise go-to-market consumer, academic institution, or enterprise - each is a different business), and consequent business model and pricing model will help enhance the company's valuation. I like these two strategies.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Today James Hickey from San Diego, California, pitched Parallel6 , a company that does social media marketing services for brands and also has a white label mobile app that can be customized and branded for their clients' mobile and social marketing needs. Now, on to today's roundtable: Parallel6. I had invited her to come and pitch.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

To do a solid holiday season he will need to balance the inventory and marketing budgets, and getting stuck in a complex situation with inventory being stuffed in the retail channels with bad terms will be a kiss of death. Now, the Web self-service software market is very crowded with major players like RightNow already deeply entrenched.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Today, it’s one of the most valuable companies in the world, with a market capitalization of more than $550 billion, directly employing 47,000 and supporting a far larger economy , from contractors and suppliers to iOS application developers. Granted most startups will never become another Apple or Google. Intellectual Property.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Her market penetration plan is to start with India, and she wanted to know what kinds of options/connections we could provide. Marketing Green Products and Services to Indian Consumers. Then Tarini Kinkar discussed a media concept for marketing green products and services to Indian consumers. million financing round for.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

It was a call to arms for all who want Massachusetts to remain a competitive environment for entrepreneurs to build ventures that change the world. Interestingly, most of these companies did not even exist 30 years ago — they grew out of our start-up ecosystem that is so central to Massachusetts’ economy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Other common previous roles were executives in Sales, Marketing, and Product Management, all suggesting that VCs back experience. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

We discussed various segments for John's go-to-market strategy and pricing model options. Interesting technology, and I will be working with him to build a comprehensive go-to-market strategy as part of the premium program. The answer to that question, I believe, is the 1M/1M Premium Lounge. Photo by duchesssa. Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Girish and his team are former Zoho employees and bring to their entrepreneurial efforts the perspective and learnings of Zoho, which has been successful in drastically undercutting high-end competitors in a major market, namely CRM, the office suite, and so on. I am very glad to see Girish and his team going after one such opportunity.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

For the uninitiated, Zoho introduced a CRM system that was one-tenth the price of Salesforce.com and penetrated the lower end of the market using an Indian cost structure. In 1M/1M, we are committed to supporting businesses that are not only focusing on billion dollar market opportunities, but also those that focus on $5M, $10M, $20M niches.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

As I said to an entrepreneur from Hong Kong at a previous roundtable: whether you are building a startup in Silicon Valley or Timbuktu, the methodology of bringing a product or service to market is not that much different. Adarsh really needs to do some thorough competitive analysis and decide which market may have room for him to enter.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

LatinxInTech  —  @CFDiversity Localizing to a Latin American Market Joshua Baer , Founder and CEO of Capital Factory, led a fireside chat with Pamela Esteva Valdés , CEO and Founder of Beek , on her entrepreneurial journey. " Hector Ruiz last remarks during his Keynote.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. Why or why not? Discuss.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

First up was Siobhan O'Brien with OnTrack Imaging , a medical diagnostic imaging venture catering to the horse owners and trainers market. The equine diagnostic equipment market adds up to over a billion dollars, and Siobhan wants a piece of it. I asked her to call up 50-100 from that list and ask for feedback from those customers.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2014

California (Silicon Valley), New York (NYC), and Massachusetts (Boston) are the places to be in the US for venture capital attention. Other common previous roles were executives in Sales, Marketing, and Product Management, all suggesting that VCs back experience. No surprises here. Whites and Asians lead the race.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The brewery has experienced a high level of success in the regional market, with a wide distribution in Wyoming and a satellite brewpub in Bellingham, Washington. They have also begun to test the waters for distribution in Massachusetts. Denver has been a fertile market for the brewery, and they plan to start making sour beers there.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

As for language, only me with my thick Massachusetts accent spoke anything but perfect English. Each year, Growthink reviews hundreds of startup and emerging company opportunities and selects those with the best management teams, market opportunities, and financial prospects. Happy Thanksgiving to all. Looking for Opportunities Now?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

ShopTranslated is a mass-market online retailer of plus-sized women's clothing, with merchandise in the $59-$99 range. And we already know that this is a very large market from working with La Grande Dame. Vin proposes to build a restaurant search, reviews and ratings site for the Malaysian market catering both to tourists and locals.

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Brandanew

JULY 17, 2015

Or someone who is setting foot in the marketing world because they found social media to be their calling? The conference aims at providing a networking platform for entrepreneurs, marketers and other business professionals; as well share what is new in the field – lessons in creativity, collaboration and analytics for marketing.

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Up and Running

JUNE 8, 2016

In a saturated market, you may be wondering how to stand out from the crowd. In fact, one hair salon has used this marketing technique to immense success. Davis Hairdressing, a Massachusetts-based hair salon, offers a free visit to clients who prepay for a certain number of visits. Do you dream of owning your own hair salon?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

In that same original blog post, we also outlined the unfortunate phenomenon that occurs when the market collapses: capital tends to flow towards founders with established VC relationships and away from folks who may be equally talented but are several steps removed from investor networks. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts . Who we are.

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