Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Tech startups are at the other extreme. The gulf has widened with the proliferation of social Internet / user-generated content and mobile application startups. Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most products out there suck so mom gets stuck with angst of wanting to have decorations, activities and chatzkies for other kids to take home. The honest truth is that we took on a little bit too much and so while we launched this beautiful experience we found ourselves without a broad enough set of products (skus) to drive repeat purchases.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. with demands for new products and services. Reinforce your brand in international markets.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” Great product names help and bad product names hurt.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2021

Most small businesses, growing startups , and individual entrepreneurs do not have ready access to legal counsel. Ideally, the trademark registration process should begin as soon as you’ve narrowed down a selection of possible marks, including business or product names, logos , and slogans.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Here we are today, Spouse-ly is an online marketplace to shop a wide variety of handmade products and services created by military & first responder families. Our name derives from the word Kaizen, After I suffered a back injury I followed a physical therapy treatment. Thanks to Monica Fullerton, Spouse-ly ! #2- 4- Brainstorming.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2012

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. with demands for new products and services. Reinforce your brand in international markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. with demands for new products and services. Reinforce your brand in international markets.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2013

You want the starting market you have chosen to be narrow enough to allow your product/service to be easily differentiated, but not so narrow that there isn’t enough market for the business to be viable. Can a competitor’s product name be easily substituted for my company’s brand?

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 30, 2018

Achieving the type of conversion rates enjoyed by today’s leading companies requires, among other things, using the right mix of ingredients for your brand’s product pages. Here are four best practices for e-commerce product pages you need to follow in order for your e-commerce efforts to succeed. Product Image.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Establishing an e-commerce entails more than selecting some of your products and services and listing them on your website. Starting an e-commerce does not make your product strong to compete with Amazon or Flipkart. Once you have selected your niche, avoid rushing into product ideas. Naming your company. Choose vendors.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 29, 2014

Wanted: Medium for Product Reviews. Whether it’s a startup or Medium adding a product review-style template choice, I’d like to see Medium for Product Reviews. What would Medium for Product Reviews look like? Would you want to publish on a Medium for Product Reviews? What do you think?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2014

I’ve been advising and mentoring startups and growth companies for years, and find myself always pushing them to try something new, for the sake of growth and survival. It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. It’s not that hard to change later to a C-Corp.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Here are a few examples from my personal experience: You need to translate/localize your products. I was once asked by a top executive of a major software company why we were not selling more products in Finland. Thus, we did not translate the product and sales remained at an insignificant level. Watch your product naming.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Hot off the press, hear the hosts of the Startup Success Podcast interview Mike Taber and I about the Micropreneur Academy. October 28th, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews , Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2010

Entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, popularly known as “glocalization.” What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. with demands for new products and services. Find global sources now.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. By the way, this is why TechCrunch traffic is not profitable for startups. It’s completely un-targeted (unless your niche market is other startups) and you have no relationship with that audience. For more info on setting up goals check out this link.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Use the information you learn to refine your product, approach, and pitch. Rick Kiessig – Cofounder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. with demands for new products and services. Reinforce your brand in international markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. with demands for new products and services. Reinforce your brand in international markets.

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Gust

DECEMBER 29, 2013

I’ve been advising and mentoring startups and growth companies for years, and find myself always pushing them to try something new, for the sake of growth and survival. It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. Image via HealthyBodyLife.com. Do not delegate this task.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

The other departments in marketing gave the same answers; the product-marketing department said their job was to write data sheets. If these sound like reasonable answers to you, and you are in a startup/small company, update your resume. What I was actually hearing was a failure of management.

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Transformify

AUGUST 29, 2017

For all but the newest startups, which have basically no precedents to abide at all, there’s usually some sort of protocol in place. If all your product managers come from Google, they’re accustomed to a certain set of business models and a certain set of tools. YOU’RE NEVER JUST HIRING FOR RIGHT NOW.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2013

First some AdWords ads: #1 Startup Weekend. But the landing page says “What is Startup Weekend?” 5 is overkill, 3 could work – but since the product is complicated (and probably not cheap), collecting emails would be a better idea than asking to read more. Landing page has no copy except for the product name.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Great product packaging design is the first tangible experience your customer has with your product. In many cases, it’s what draws them to your product in the first place. Product packaging can make or break product sales. How important is packaging design? trillion annually. trillion annually.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2012

Most startup founders know exactly what they want to design and sell, and they are personally convinced that everyone will buy one. Yet most startup teams have no idea where to start, and what kinds of data to look for, in building this key section of their business plan. Absence of these raises a big red flag.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. with demands for new products and services. Reinforce your brand in international markets.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Coming up with an idea or inventing a product is a process that takes commitment, dedication, and self-belief. Ultimately, inventing a product or coming up with an idea means one thing: solving a problem, whether it’s your own or someone else’s. What product doesn’t function like people wish it would? Step 5: Protect your idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. What all this doesn’t mean is that you should roll out your product in every country at the same time. with demands for new products and services. Reinforce your brand in international markets.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2016

First impressions are everything for a startup. When offering a new product or service it is important for a business to quickly demonstrate value to prospective customers and differentiate itself from the competition. Who (statement of need or opportunity) , (Product name) is a (product category). Well, a lot.

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www.volkside.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Great ramp-up experience on the new Flickr photo page » < Blog < Home How to name your product, service, or startup. Great ramp-up experience on the new Flickr photo page » < Blog < Home How to name your product, service, or startup. Photo credit: No Name Street © 2009 Electropod.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

If you need help or simply don’t have the time (it took us nearly 50 hours to name “crowdSPRING&# ), you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 64,000 designers and writers to come up with your company name or a product name. Think about what you want your company name to convey.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2012

By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. With a massive leap of creativity we decided that it should it should have our company name and the letter “E” with a swoop over it. Given that the name of my company and the name of your.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Most startup founders know exactly what they want to design and sell, and they are personally convinced that everyone will buy one. Yet most startup teams have no idea where to start, and what kinds of data to look for, in building this key section of their business plan. Absence of these raises a big red flag.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

I’ve been advising and mentoring startups and growth companies for years, and find myself always pushing them to try something new, for the sake of growth and survival. It also forces you to pick a name for your company and put other intellectual property stakes in the ground. It’s not that hard to change later to a C-Corp.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. November 2nd, 2009 | About this Blog Building your startup? Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. If youre trying to grow your startup youve come to the right place. Thanks Phil Hollows Founder Feedblitz Leave a Comment Building Your Startup?

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