Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. Forecast sales-volume expectations.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

But wanting to materialize a product or service and sustaining its operations are two different things. also lets you chart your product roadmaps by setting a product strategy, collaborating with the product and engineering teams, and creating visual roadmaps. by Gaurav Gupta , Founder of Square Boat.

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Software Review Startup Azure SEO 113

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. Underbelly.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Ask your sales team: How do different product categories do throughout the year? Write out holidays or months of the year and have people shout out the first product or service related to your business for that time. Dig into the keywords in the Red Widget Group to find out which ones are generating impressions without clicks.

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PPC Widget Campaign Technical Review 111

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

For most companies to succeed, the goal is to deliver a quality product at a reasonable profit. Too many startups mistakenly believe that their “widget” comes from one source. In fact, there is likely a long line of suppliers that provide materials, processes, and services before a product is delivered.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2014

I also added a little Soundcloud widget on the sidebar (if you’re viewing on web – not on mobile or RSS reader) that you can listen to each episode with. In the first clip (42 seconds long), Joe discusses what makes a good product manager. In the most recent episode, I interviewed Joe Perez , Founder of Tastemade.

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Brandanew

AUGUST 19, 2016

Effective usage differentiates you from those who fail to get productive results. Multiple widgets and sidebars. Utilizing widgets makes the process of modifying the content of sidebars in PHP easier than it is. Here are few tips on how to use effectively use WordPress as a CMS. Initial settings after having installed WordPress.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Documents are their widget, the thing legal teams build. Certainly other AI products add value. However, it does represent a transition from making the raw materials of end products to making end products themselves. However, “finding stuff” is not a first-order problem in legal organizations. Pretty cool stuff.

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Technical Review Connecticut Algorithm Warrant 246

Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2014

You think about what it’ll cost to manufacture your widgets, how many widgets you can sell, and how much you can sell them for. If you buy a widget for $100 and sell it for $150, you should end up with $50 profit, and you have $150 in the bank. Sell a widget . And so on … sell three widgets . How does this happen?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 30, 2014

Your business plans are in place, perhaps you have sought out and won investors, and gotten a foothold in the market with your product. Like any good song, your product not only needs a hook, but a melody to provide the ear-worm and make your work a household name. Your company, your product, is your baby. Congratulations!

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Video Widget Software Review Entrepreneur 77

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

people on Twitter are asking for invites to the hottest new product, sharing their excitement (“Follow me”, “come to my session”, “I just posted”). I’ve had a chance to record a few sessions and enjoyed the simplicity of the product. Like in the early days of Web 2.0,

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Audio Software Review Open Source Social Network 139

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Yet every business requires revenue and volumes, as certainly as it requires a product to sell. Forecast sales-volume expectations.

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Forecast Burn Rate Startup Widget 369

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Design a product or service that you can sell. Of course, growth is implied in that equation, and is also required for maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage.

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Revenue Widget Angel Investor Early Stage 297

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

Traction can simply mean showing that you’re making progress with customers, product development, channel partners, initial revenue as a proof point, attracting well-known angel investors, winning industry awards / recognition. They tell you they’re going to ship product and they do. They hire key staff.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Venture Capital Revenue 309

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Does it help our clients sell more widgets or deliver with fewer headaches? Imagine your prototyping is over, and you're building a production system. For production systems, we contend it's often better to select a platform that saves you money in the long run even if it means a few more dollars spent up-front.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2011

Argentra developed an innovative print access management solution that empowers organizations with full control and visibility on every print job, inclusive of all print contents; Smoov developed a set of motivational widgets for smartphones to help marketers drive e-commerce and has been used by more than a million users.

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Singapore Asia Technical Review Widget 193

Eric Friedman

MARCH 2, 2008

Amazon quietly released video widgets this week… * Earn money when viewers follow links to Amazon and purchase products. Easily add product pop ups to your existing videos. Have price and product information pop up anywhere in your video. photo credit: Teo. photo credit: Teo.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2012

Most consumer products online or on mobile, require users to either learn something new (for example, edit photos using filters at Instagram) or acquire a new habit (for example RunKeeper logging). The payoff for the user’s ‘work’ is the functionality, or the USP of the product. What are you good at?

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Engineer Technical Review Software Review Startup 145

Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2017

Examples might include “remembering” a customer’s favorite stylist when they go online to book an appointment, putting their most recent services purchased at the top of the page for quick selection, or making recommendations for relevant products or services. But what about the negative news ?

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Software Review eCommerce Technical Review New York City 92

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

There is an unspoken rule: to launch a startup, you need to build a product, and to do that you need someone that can write code. Most importantly, unlike the majority of their peers, by the time they start building a product, they already have a humming business. Focus on serving customers instead of building a product.

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Up and Running

MAY 14, 2018

They think that their product is not yet ready, that it’s necessary to get traction and focus on expanding their customer base rather than on growing revenue. Deep inside, however, they often don’t just have enough faith in their product and are not sure if someone will buy it at all. Building a product should imply increasing revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

All sorts of businesses now run their own newsletters, updating their customers on promotions, limited time deals, sending out pictures of new stock or products, stock and whatever else they can possibly fit. People will not only be more incentivised to visit your site, but will see all the new deals you are advertising on it by result.

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Social Media Technical Review Widget Stock 100

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2023

Upword – An AI research assistant that helps you process information 10X faster, enhancing your productivity, and growing your knowledge. HelpHub – This is a GPT-Powered Chatbot that semantic searches across your help docs, instant answers to frequently asked questions via AI, and is an in-app widget for displaying it all.

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Semantic Widget Social Media Audience 59

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2013

Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results when users search words imply an interest in your products. If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the first page of search results for widgets. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Widgets and badges. Win with engaging contests.

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Widget Marketing Curation Audio 286

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 12, 2019

If you have a product or perform a service that no one else in the industry can provide or do, your business will be more valuable than your competitors’ and increase the value of your intangible assets. However, just because you can produce 200 widgets per minute doesn’t mean you should always produce 200 widgets per minute.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 20, 2021

So honestly, I'm almost driving for a widget type look where you have the photo of the person, you have the Google logo and then five stars you make it look like it's almost a widget and, and yes, you want these to be real Google reviews. plus stars, Hey, 4.9

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Minneapolis SEO Widget Technical Review 87

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2021

One easy way to do this is to avoid the social widgets on our website. This means the landing pages should be as such that the users are compelled to either sign up for the newsletter, buy the product, subscribe to an email newsletter, or download a whitepaper. Today, marketers are focusing on relevant and quality content.

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Widget Singapore Mobile Search 164

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

So if you’re using our Facebook Messenger website chat widget (see the MobileMonkey website for an example of this) the conversations are instantaneously being routed from your website, to the user, via Facebook Messenger. Bots can, among other tasks, help book sales appointments, track delivery, or make product suggestions.

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Marketing Software Review Campaign Widget 87

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Ideas that become projects, that evolve into the new services, products, methods, or processes that spell real world innovation. The organization evolves from an entrepreneurial state into a production state. An intrusion that prevents them from doing what they believe is their real job — cranking out the existing widget.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 28, 2011

He procrastinated for a few weeks because he was deep in product development, but surfaced a few days ago when he realized they had an investor meeting coming up and really should have at least a basic financial model ready in case the investor asked about it.

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Revenue Balance Sheet Forecast Software Review 127

ConversionXL

JANUARY 30, 2013

It’s even worse when you are just starting out, trying to get your product to the market. Social Media Examiner advises (Tip #4) to use decision making content that is designed to answer questions that are commonly being asked when purchasing your product. Seriously, who shares a product page anyway? Again, not good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Their computers then cleverly merge your ads with search results only when users search words imply an interest in your products. If you sell widgets, and a user is searching for widgets, your ad will appear on the same page as the search results for widgets. This is NOT the same as Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Search Engineer SEM Widget 225

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 8, 2022

Engineer profitable alliances: S o often competitive advantage focuses on having a better widget or happier customers. Notice, I’m not talking about the expense of wages here, and that’s because it is peanuts to the negative ripple effect a bad employee fit has on the productivity of an organization. This isn’t a mystery topic either.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2018

So, when we see someone we perceive as a trusted expert mention a company, product or service we’re 10 times more likely to buy it or at least click it to learn more. If they perceive a media story as favorable, your product or service as something they need, they will go to your website to learn more. Makes advertising more effective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2012

These days every new entrepreneur understands that an innovative product or service is necessary, but not sufficient, to start a business. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. Widgets and badges. Win with engaging contests.

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Widget Entrepreneur Marketing Curation 233

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2017

What that means is delivering content that is relevant to how the product or service makes them feel. You can have the best widget in the world or you can have a mediocre knockoff widget with fewer features. The notion that you sell the sizzle not the steak is also neither new nor obsolete.

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