Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2021

I’m a very logical guy, so I still fondly remember when new solutions and technologies started trends on the basis of their logical strengths. In today’s world, it seems that emotion, not logic, sparks the new trends that become culture, and drives our devotion or disappointment in new products and brands. Timing is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers. It’s hard to recover from a tarnished image.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Limit the features and complexity.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Yet while product launches are a risk, they’re not as risky as you think. Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2020

Make sure you integrate video production into your company’s marketing plan. If you manage to get your video production and marketing right, you can dramatically boost your conversion rate. You can’t expect someone who has no idea about your offer to immediately purchase your product or service. Helps In Building Trust.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Trade shows.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs. In short — how the hell did we raise $30 million?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

It becomes even more interesting in the world of emerging technologies and the IoT. In contrast, it left several e-trends: augmented reality, zero coding, the marketplace boom, and product subscriptions are just a few of them. Subscriptions, but on Products Some businesses introduced subscriptions for their products.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2020

and a full-fledged production crew. Film productions, businesses that were aiming to spend big bucks on live advertising are now turning to various animated video styles to get the job done. Thanks to tremendous advancements in technology, it is now possible to render animated scenes that are indistinguishable from the real thing.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

We've also seen extensive use of technology and increased remote working. Consumers are becoming increasingly health-conscious and seeking to understand their options for treatments and healthcare products. It is a big technological trend right now since we all yearn to escape the purported physical limitations of the globe.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2019

This strategy of IBM started to fail once the market was filled with clones and fakes of their products. Kodak is a classic example of a huge brand that collapsed when it failed to keep up with the evolving technology of the photography world. Embrace Technology. If it doesn’t work anymore, change it.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As soon as you have 2-3 months' worth of sales data to work with, use a formula to calculate stock reorder levels to ensure you always have stock ready to go, especially if you're promoting your products on platforms known for viral content, like TikTok. Thanks to Dani Mechlowitz, Delta Fulfilment ! #6-

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I covered various definitions previously on VC Cafe in “ A very short peek into the Metaverse “ The term metaverse doesn’t describe one specific technology, but rather the way we interact with technology. This adds up to substantial potential economic value for the metaverse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Trade shows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Trade shows.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2013

Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks. More features than anyone.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2023

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Limit the features and complexity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Limit the features and complexity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2014

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers. It’s hard to recover from a tarnished image.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Investors hate technology solutions looking for a problem, due to the high risk of no customers. It’s hard to recover from a tarnished image.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

90 Things I’ve Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies. It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. It’s all about the product. Always has been.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 28, 2022

I intend to release one study every three months, which I'll send to journalists in the hopes of generating viral attention on social media. I believe that if I can have one piece of content go viral every three months, not only will I be able to develop more links but also raise my brand's recognition. Photo Credit: Bozlur Rehman.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

Even big companies I know find it hard to keep their in-house programmers up to speed on the latest technologies, including mobile devices, the latest Web technologies, and multi-tenant applications in the Cloud. They know how to capitalize on social media, viral marketing, events, and the new tools of the trade.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

If you don’t know, Ring offers home security products that started with a video doorbell, then video floodlights, outdoor stickup cams and now in-home security features that innovate in-home security alongside outside protection. We were CONVINCED Dropcam (then Nest) wouldn’t mobilize a competing product quickly if it did sell?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2023

She describes a new generation of entrepreneurs that is highly collaborative, quick and alert when it comes to new technologies, and hell-bent on changing the world in general. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Focus on your core competency. Examine every cost center in your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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SVPG

JANUARY 12, 2011

” He’s actually done it already: build a great product customers love. Building a great product worthy of conversation is generally thought to be the product manager’s job. But if you’re in product marketing, you should contribute as well. My partner, Marty, writes extensively on how. Take Dropbox.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

Even big companies I know find it hard to keep their in-house programmers up to speed on the latest technologies, including mobile devices, the latest Web technologies, and multi-tenant applications in the Cloud. They know how to capitalize on social media, viral marketing, events, and the new tools of the trade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. Another variation on this theme is the person who creates a “solution” from technology, and then makes up a “problem” that it will solve. At the other extreme, too much confidence or arrogance can kill you just as fast.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Yet, as a business consultant, I still find many of you business leaders relying primarily on your technology, word-of-mouth , or location to attract necessary customers. In this age of instant communication through the Internet and social media, people remember personal images more than a product or service name.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Enhance customer experience by incorporating different creative and trendy products that you know they’ll enjoy. And if you get viral content that spreads like wildfire, that is a sure-fire way to get an immense boost in sales. Be responsive and try to solve their problems quickly. Go ahead and spoil the customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2020

She describes a new generation of entrepreneurs that is highly collaborative, quick and alert when it comes to new technologies, and hell-bent on changing the world in general. Viral marketing campaigns to lure new customers will cost you big money. Focus on your core competency. Examine every cost center in your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2022

There are no “overrides” – for example, businesses don’t thrive just because they offer the latest technology, or because everyone wants to be “green,” or because their goal is to reduce world hunger. A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

Brands need influencers working on their behalf because they provide the third-party credibility and social proof that validates their products. If you can figure out why people care about your product, you’ll have success regardless of the platform du jour. It’s the principle underlying “viral marketing.” This part isn’t new.

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