VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Why us”/ “Team Slide” unclear or non-existent. So don’t be shy, and either reach out on social media or drop me a line (eze at remagineventures). Most of these can sound like common sense, but you’d be surprised how many founders skip this initial research. What would make an investor more interested in your pitch deck.

Technical Review 166

Technical Review Early Stage Cofounder Portfolio 166

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns. There have never been more brands competing for attention than there are right now. If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them. 70% of consumers feel more connected to a brand when its CEO is active on social media.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. People aren’t going to fundamentally change their media consumption patterns just as consumers don’t fundamentally change their diets.

Video 339

Video Technical Review Distribution Aggregator 339

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2023

In this age of interactive social media, your culture image quickly spreads to customers, and determines their loyalty. He cites eight leadership actions, which I also recommend, from a non-scientific perspective, as a mentor to entrepreneurs. It has a huge impact on productivity, as well as morale and loyalty to the company.

Non-Compete 252

Non-Compete Leadership Social Media Employee 252

YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

This process seems effective — but it turns out the non-conscious mental shortcuts we end up using in problem-solving and decision-making are greatly subject to bias, influenced by the worldview we are exposed to in our environment. The future shape of our workplace structures and systems may be uncertain.

Non-Compete 136

Non-Compete Leadership Employee Community 136

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2016

Compete against non-consumption and non-existing markets. Facebook built the social media market before customers even knew they needed it. Often entrepreneurs are more able to think outside the box and bring disruptive change to less-known business domains. Consider Apple’s move into music, telephones, and watches.

Non-Compete 120

Non-Compete Technical Review Forecast Social Media 120

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Adapt, adopt and extend is probably a better description. like WeChat.). Competition.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

It’s official: Email, texting, and social media are no longer just helpful supplemental business tools. Social media and technology do have their place, but they are not, and never will be, a substitute for in-person interaction. Letters on a screen can’t compete with the personal touch. They’ve taken over the whole game.

Social Media 254

Social Media Technical Review Non-Compete Email 254

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2015

Compete against non-consumption and non-existing markets. Facebook built the social media market before customers even knew they needed it. Often entrepreneurs are more able to think outside the box and bring disruptive change to less-known business domains. Consider Apple’s move into music, telephones, and watches.

Marketing 120

Marketing Non-Compete Technical Review Forecast 120

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In this age of interactive social media, your culture image quickly spreads to customers, and determines their loyalty. He cites eight leadership actions, which I also recommend, from a non-scientific perspective, as a mentor to entrepreneurs. It has a huge impact on productivity, as well as morale and loyalty to the company.

Leadership 431

Leadership Non-Compete Social Media Employee 431

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Startup Magazine recently caught up with teen author Alex Jimenez, 14, of Chicago, USA, a first-time author who launched his new book, “The Big Idea” by Fig Factor Media Publishing. TSM: Are you on social media and can your readers interact with you? TSM: What kind of company do you think you’ll have someday?

Social Media 115

Social Media Chicago Leadership Technical Review 115

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

This includes other non-competing agencies, as well as software and technology vendors. Let’s say you provide creative services to paid media specialists. There are plenty of non-competing brands with the same audience as you—partner with them to collaborate on a high quality piece of content together.

Audience 127

Audience Non-Compete Distribution Channel 127

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. The Rise of the Lean Startup.

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Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2013

You build a campaign by creating videos, telling your story, participating in social media promotion, and offering “perks”, which are goods or services that you offer in exchange for donations. If you’re a non-profit…. CrowdRise also has more celebrity endorsements and seems to get more media attention than other sites like it.

Kenya 119

Kenya Angel Investor Technical Review Software Review 119

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. What were those and how is that changing now given how things are changing in social media? and also to local advertisements.

Management 150

Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

13:51] What are some of the effective ways that you’ve seen people merging digital and non-digital? [16:30] But coupled with how are we doing, what's the ROI on our spend, how are we using media dollars, email, text, the messaging in our product to acquire, engage, and retain our customers. So let's say hybrid market.

Email 94

Email SMS Marketing Channel 94

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are feeling deeper and deeper in the hole. The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion, and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team.

Technology 217

Technology Non-Compete Cofounder Partner 217

Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2020

We attend all the major dermatology tradeshow events in hopes of growing our doctor referral program, but our biggest breakthroughs with networking have come via social media. With doctors offices closing and tradeshows being cancelled, we’ve looked to social media as our main networking channel. Photo Credit: Dan Weiss.

Networking 141

Networking Entrepreneur Social Media Channel 141

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. Thus you end up with Demand Media that booms until Google algorithm changes (Panda) changes send it off a cliff along with many other companies overly reliant upon one “place” and one “promotional” method.

SEM 379

SEM Viral Marketing Widget 379

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Alexandra Waldman, Co-Founder and CEO of Universal Standard told me about this non-traditional approach: “ We wanted to create a much more personal experience. to keep the experience seamless Create on-site signage that clearly directs customers where to go for curbside pickup. A different kind of store associate.

eCommerce 155

eCommerce Cofounder Community Channel 155

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

Digital media scales with ad spend and martech, but SEO takes man-hours. Publish now, see if Google likes it, then improve and optimize once it has the ability to compete for quality keywords. Ziptopic evaluates your content and analyzes competing pages in the same SERP to score your page for your core topic and multiple sub-topics.

SEO 121

SEO Technical Review Software Review XML 121

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

Nathalie Lussier , Nathalie Lussier Media. Understanding how to harness social media and being up to speed with the newest trending platforms allows us to be everywhere. One of the worst things I’ve seen are very non-technical VC’s teaming up and opening tech companies. Tech Knowledge Is Cost-Effective.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Cofounder Founder Software Review 131

mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO. Lisa Nicole Bell , Inspired Life Media Group.) As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off. Adam Witty , Advantage Media Group. ); // Welcome to Mashable!

CTO Hire 73

CTO Hire Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review 73

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 26, 2023

Get Your Toolkit Trying To Be All Things To All People Lack Of Competitive Edge Forced To Compete On Price Wasting Money And Resources Inconsistent Branding Low Customer Retention Poor Online Presence Untracked Performance Missed Opportunities Flat Sales And Profits 1. And as we all know, price is a terrible place to compete.

Non-Compete 78

Non-Compete Retention Marketing Differentiation 78

YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2011

It is nearly impossible to compete with a large company for the general public, and so a small business’ best chance to outperform a large company is by catering to a particular customer type. Blockbuster pretty much led the rental media industry for a couple of decades and now its stores are near extinction. Novel ideas are great.

Intellectual Property 224

Intellectual Property Non-Compete Technical Review Business Plan 224

Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. Centralised energy production will go the way of centralised news and media – and mostly be replaced by user generated content (but this time it’ll be energy). Fossil fuels will be replaced almost entirely by electricity, generated by renewables.

Software Review 91

Software Review Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Non-Compete 91

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

You can also use this time to review any non-performing revenue lines and exit them. This could be through face-to-face interaction, online surveys, phone calls or through monitoring any social media conversations about the business. Plus, sometimes through these discussions other solutions can surface.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Stock Non-Compete 52

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

He published revenue figures even when they were still pathetic , he pledged loudly and eagerly to give away lots of free copies to non-profits, and he revealed all his (remarkably effective) marketing strategies (updated here ) even though it meant competitors would learn them too. Making Oprah cry.

Software Review 261

Software Review Technical Review Viral Software Developers 261

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2020

It was already hard for entrepreneurs to compete in today’s crowded market and now, with consumer dollars stretched thin, getting your piece of the pie has become even harder. Automation is the process of using machines to carry out redundant, non-creative tasks. That has caused serious issues for business owners.

Small Business 183

Small Business Management Non-Compete B2C 183

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. If you can just execute competently , you will outperform a lot of people who might have a theoretically superior strategy. . – Network. – Thoughtful fund management.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. If you can just execute competently , you will outperform a lot of people who might have a theoretically superior strategy. . – Network. – Thoughtful fund management.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

However, this move alienated their current customer base, as they felt that Gap was moving away from the comfortable, non-trendy items and into a more fashion-forward brand. Is it increasing brand awareness on social media in the next six months? Avoiding social media marketing. This resulted in a massive, mainstream backlash.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Campaign Sales Cycle 109

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media. was the 2-way web.

Technical Review 286

Technical Review Advertising Early Stage Internet 286

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2014

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are falling deeper and deeper in the hole. The non-technical leadership attributes of excellent communication skills, high integrity, passion and perseverance are critical for the success of the whole team.

Partner 259

Partner Entrepreneur Non-Compete Cofounder 259

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. Users shared these posts across social media, convincing 8,000 people to sign up. When Canva noticed that Guy created his social media graphics with its tools, they reached out.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

While social entrepreneurship represents a strong example of the power of free-market innovation to deliver real public good to everyone, I think it's important to remember the importance of focusing on one's core competencies. 9- Giving to non-profits. Thanks to David Angotti, Hawaiian Islands ! #9- Photo Credit: Jean Gregoire.

Entrepreneur 128

Entrepreneur Africa Technical Review Green 128

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2017

Non-Disclosure Agreements – A non-disclosure agreement helps to protect your idea by committing all the parties you are working with to confidentiality. Non-compete agreement – If you’re pitching an idea to a potential client or investor, have them sign a non-compete agreement.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete Due Diligence Security 104