Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

We’re tired of hearing how small software companies usually fail. But what about the companies that die even though they did sell some copies of software, and where the early team isn’t dysfunctional? The initial marketing channel was sustainable for a while , but got wiped away due to external forces.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Why Email Marketing Is (Still) Important In 2022 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Laura Goldberg. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Laura Goldberg. Laura is the Chief Marketing Officer at Constant Contact. ConstantContact.com.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". We're going to get reviews on blogs.". That's compelling.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

an image) and are frequently referred to as NFTs or non-fungible tokens. The first major product market fit is in building an open, permissionless financial system (commonly referred to as DeFi). And manual migration is non-trivial for most users. These addresses could optionally be appended with additional information (e.g.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2022

Thanks to Ray Leon, Pet Insurance Review ! #3- Even non-tech enterprises will make the switch to digital. Advertisements, search engines, and social media all give businesses the chance to increase brand awareness and market influence. Thanks to Christen Costa, Gadget Review ! #16- Photo Credit: Rachel Roff.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve Google tries to cover a variety of topics, from the bare minimum, “Can you code?”

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Photo by DeclanTM This article is #7 in a series about startup marketing. I’ve gone on and on about the subject of pre-launch marketing on my podcast , made mention of it in my book , went into detail on TechZing , and again on a recent Micropreneur Academy conference call. Far more important is marketing execution.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

However, it continues to poison marketing campaigns—and find its way into more and more courtrooms. This article explains what click fraud is, shows how it can impact your campaigns, and shares ways to reduce its impact on your marketing. Competing businesses. Low or non-existent conversions. How click fraud works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. Cross endorsement.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. In this article, you’ll learn what growth hacking in marketing is and what it’s not. Why do people think growth hacking in marketing is controversial?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? How profitable is my product or service?

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ConversionXL

MAY 25, 2016

User generated reviews in general are tremendously influential in persuading people to buy. One study found that 88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations and 72% of consumers say positive reviews make them trust businesses more. How Do People Consume Product Reviews?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 Game streaming continues to grow in 2021 – According to StreamElements 2020 year in review , game streaming broke new records in 2020. of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

It does not create new markets or value markets, but develops existing ones with better value , allowing companies to compete against each other’s sustaining improvements. A disruptive innovation helps create a new market and value network. The innovation eventually disrupts an existing market and value network.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. This will be further enabled by automation and manufacturing where the low-cost labour market trading advantage evaporates. Global e-commerce, lower living costs and higher living standards will create a renaissance for non-city places of great beauty.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. The dashboard is just a plain list of tests on a white background.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

As an example, a few years ago I worked for small software company selling an expensive enterprise workflow product. We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. Cross endorsement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! why did that code get written? Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day. Best of luck, Your Software." (OK,

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

Users and Google can reward only what’s in-market. We keep it to simple “t-shirt sizing” for effort and use the scientific WAG method to take a stab at how it impacts our New Leads and Marketing Qualified Leads (MQL) KPIs with three tiers of impact (10/100/1,000). I compare it to parts of Market Muse—but at 1% the cost.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

Ecommerce marketing often focuses on the bottom of the funnel—remarketing ads for abandoned carts, time-limited email discounts, etc. The overwhelming majority of ecommerce site visitors are non-purchasers. Content marketing can do it long before potential buyers click “Add to Cart.”. Linear funnels are relics of the past.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

#2- Competitive Photo Credit: Denise Hemke Over the past decade, entrepreneurship has become huge that the market has become quite saturated. The market is super competitive and if you don't offer what the consumer needs, you won't stand a chance. Thanks to Matt Bowman, Thrive Internet Marketing Agency ! #9-

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

TheLadders is an eight-year-old company based out of New York City focusing on the $100k+ employment market (both jobseekers and recruiters). The low-fidelity nature of the deliverable also encourages non-designers to join the discussion. Demos have become our design reviews.” For example, software engineering write code.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That’s okay, if the point of departure is about defending our values internationally, as opposed to better competing internationally, which was the Trump administration’s core focus in the national security strategy. And you’re going to see efforts to selectively decouple when it comes to our capital markets.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

When starting a new business you should consider the potential industries your company may have the best opportunity to compete in. The ride-sharing market is expected to achieve a growth rate of more than 20 percent between 2018-2025. The global on-demand transportation market is expected to reach USD $304.97 Technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/1lphhyB. Betting on the Ponies: non-Unicorn Investing – crowdspring.co/1jqLtKQ.

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Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

Gathering your team to plot out your next marketing campaign can seem daunting, especially for a new business. Here are the most common slip-ups when you’re trying to build effective marketing campaigns—and how you can address them: 1. Lack of a marketing plan. You need to have a solid marketing plan in place.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 23, 2019

And Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo, discussed code quality. Chelsea started her first business when she was 12, and her first non-profit when she was 13. Unlike “traditional” departments such as Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, BD, Customer Support/Success, People is a relatively new leadership function.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 25, 2010

You begin to do this almost without thinking (unconscious competence for those in know). Well…I’ve hit that point reviewing websites. I’ve recorded stacks of site review screencasts over the past four years, and I’m ready to take it to a whole ‘notha level. Any non-personal website will work.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Ask anyone about the top brands in regards to tools for your home and in the construction world and DeWalt comes to mind because of their innovation, both with their products and how they’ve marketed themselves. They have a really cool business model where they summarize non-fiction books into 15-minute read or listen. 11- Blinkist.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The most common question entrepreneurs ask me, is “how can I improve my marketing with no or little money?’ Just one of these ideas may trigger a marketing opportunity that you never considered before. Just one of these ideas may trigger a marketing opportunity that you never considered before. Leverage Linked-In.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The reality of CAC is both the when you scale your acquisition “channel” costs usually go up plus when you find a great channel others notice it and drive up the costs as they compete with you in that channel. That’s because CAC needs to take into account all of your marketing spend to truly understand how much each customer costs you.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2019

No other marketing channel builds lifelong relationships like email. It’s a prime reason that email marketing is the preferred marketing channel for customer acquisition and customer retention ( 80% and 81% , respectively). Gmail is notorious for clipping email messages if the underlying code has a file size greater than 102 KB.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 6, 2017

As digital marketers, we know this intuitively. Despite this evidence, a majority of marketing efforts still focus on making logical appeals to a rational mind. That’s why marketers should be ruthless with removing clutter on a website and create an intuitive design. Using the Beyond Reason Implicit Motivations for Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. And for my own good I vowed to have relationships in China and knowledge of the local markets. This company is back on the market raising money again. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. And so on.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

It’s the one thing I miss having switched from player to manager – I love the joy of winning and of competing. And for my own good I vowed to have relationships in China and knowledge of the local markets. This company is back on the market raising money again. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. And so on.

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