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Why Some Startups Win

Steve Blank

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and customer discovery findings. The same was true for PR. I couldn’t care less about those.

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24 Entrepreneur Explain How They Come Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When I had the idea for the company nearly 8 years ago, I told a former manager of mine at a different PR firm who was a bit of a mentor to me. I said I want to call it FischHook PR, like ‘hook' for a story' or something like that. She responded that it was a terrible name. Thanks to Eric Fischgrund, FischTank PR ! #15-

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. The same was true for PR. I couldn’t care less about those.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The name of our company came from the name of our flagship product. Since we’re a mobile app company we wanted a product name that was short, easily remembered, non-controversial and at least somewhat descriptive of the service. Thanks to Hilary Reiter, Redhead Marketing & PR. #5

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I had three goals: match the name for the intended industry and make the name easy to remember. Most important, knowing this product was first of its kind in the industry, the goal was to make the products name as important as Klennex is to any tissue. We could of added Babies into our name but it just didn’t flow.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

With that brief, we pulled together a shortlist and Cherish stood out above the rest – I wanted my clients to feel so happy with our product that they would cherish their relationship with my agency. Thanks to Rebecca Oatley, Cherish PR ! #6- 18- Translating common PR-related word. Cherish was born. Photo Credit: Larry Pino.

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

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For example I’ve seen folks track branded organic searches (where the person came to the site by searching on your company or product name) against a “pr&# lead source. There are also other thing to think about. It all depends on what programs you are running and how you want to measure the overlap.

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