YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Despite putting in the work, you’re not seeing the profits. No matter how much you scour profit-and-loss statements, analyze your data, tweak your advertising, encourage your employees, or suck up to potential clients, you can’t move the needle. It feels hopeless, like the Universe is conspiring against you. Here’s a newsflash.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Jon Picoult (00:52): Hey, John, it's good to be here with you. Jon Picoult (01:05): Just lucky, I guess John Jantsch (01:07): I should have said, how does somebody choose to as well now, not doubting it, I just mean I always love hearing what story backs somebody into what they're doing now. So Jon, welcome to the show.

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Customer Technical Review Employee Artificial Inteligence 77

ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2012

This method works across all categories, it doesn’t really matter what business you’re in. I’ve turned it into a checklist. So the way to use it is you take your website, compare it to any item on the list, make improvements, and your online sales will increase. Here it is: Create buyer personas.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

It has the kind of culture in which people embrace plain suits and sincere handshakes, take pride in wearing achievement ribbons, kick off conferences with patriotic music. It might not be hip to be square, but it’s very good for business. You need to proactively fight it. Most of us can agree that cynicism is ugly.

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Employee Balance Sheet Leadership Chicago 189

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. Somewhere in this period the word “blitzscaling” enters our lexicon, via Reid Hoffman’s class at Stanford and subsequent book. 2019: Profitability Rears Its Ugly Head.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

It has the kind of culture in which people embrace plain suits and sincere handshakes, take pride in wearing achievement ribbons, kick off conferences with patriotic music. It might not be hip to be square, but it’s very good for business. You need to proactively fight it. Most of us can agree that cynicism is ugly.

Employee 160

Employee Leadership Balance Sheet Chicago 160

ConversionXL

MAY 24, 2012

Even if you mean well, people find it hard to believe you. When you praise yourself, it’s not very believable. This makes it much more believable: Principle #3: Use simple language. MailChimp gets it: Complicated language confuses and frustrates people, and neither one helps your sales. We’re all skeptics.

Software Review 119

Software Review Non-Compete Technical Review Campaign 119

Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Sadly still, negative data to the person/team receiving it. Add on top of that, where P&G could sell soap, the purposes it could sell soap for, and imagine both of those things now. It is a lot of stuff! It is that we are able to analyze and identify bad performance with greater accuracy. Negative data.

Leadership 79

Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 79

The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

That’s how “the early days” look for a lot of founders and I believe if you rent a space in the center of a startup hub, you will find it much easier to connect with likeminded people and share ideas. It’s inspiring and motivating. It’s an amazing city, full of people working at tech businesses, and ready to start the next big thing.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Cofounder Germany Europe 125

Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. It’s a big idea.) release of the product.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 238

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. Somewhere in this period the word “blitzscaling” enters our lexicon, via Reid Hoffman’s class at Stanford and subsequent book. 2019: Profitability Rears Its Ugly Head.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

If so, I hate to break it to you, but theres a good chance it will fail. But hard as it may be, dont let that statistic discourage you. Whatever your companys "fatal flaw" may be, you can likely avoid it in your own venture if you take some advice from people whove gone through the early startup phase before.

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Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Transcript of Increase Profits Through Specialization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. Check it out. It’s great to be here.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

At the moment it is not clear whether Bing, Baidu, Yandex and others will move to similarly protect users’ search privacy; if and when they do, the result will be loss of even more keyword-level user behavior data. But it is difficult to not look at the wider picture. Logged-in users were switched to using httpS from http.

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Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In his recent bankruptcy proceeding filing, John Ray III, the new CEO and Chief Restructuring Officer at FTX, minced no words: I have over 40 years of legal and restructuring experience. The odds are quite low, but it is possible. Corporate malfeasance is an ugly game that is best avoided. . Letting the Good Times Roll” .

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Government Delaware 113

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This has served me well in some instances, for example it has forced me to find elegant and simple solutions that require minimal effort and complexity to set up and function. It can lead to poor decisions that result in inefficiencies. It’s called Ninja Affiliate Plugin by Max Blog Press. I’m lazy.

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Affiliate Software Review Marketing HTML 81

Up and Running

MARCH 17, 2020

Writing a traditional business plan can seem like a daunting task, and lots of entrepreneurs avoid it for this reason. But it doesn’t have to be. While it may be a shorter business plan, it still follows the structure of a standard business plan template and serves as a beefed-up pitch document. .

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Business Plan Balance Sheet Lean Forecast 86

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 16, 2019

What’s its job? Chris Martinez: I think that there’re several jobs, but overall, if you’re looking big picture, it’s got to be a revenue generator for you. Chris Martinez: I think it’s very, very accurate. I think it’s very accurate for the majority of people who have websites.

Design 69

Design Mexico Hiring Web Development 69

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 2, 2010

Often it's the first source of good-natured strife between co-founders. It's an exhilarating, scary combination of having to decide who you are — what you do, the persona you expose — combined with the technical issues of being memorable, spell-able, and available as a domain name. It sounds like shareware.".

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Naming New Hampshire Cofounder Viral 252

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2017

Last week I sat down with the owner of a multi-million dollar, profitable information services company and discussed his business growth and exit plan. For him, it was the “best of times” in many ways. Unfortunately there is that pesky little word “obvious.” He was living the American dream.

Revenue 48

Revenue Cloud Hosting Business Plan 48

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Maybe it makes it better. In Germany there is a big e-commerce shop, it’s called Zalando. I also do a conference in Germany it’s called Conversion Summit. We have all these words. Butterfly is such a nice animal, it’s beautiful, that’s why it’s called butterfly.

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Video Germany Conversion Cost 48

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore. The businesses, it seems, vastly over-estimate their ability to raise funds.

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Software By Rob

JULY 24, 2009

But it takes more than a technician to run a successful business. It’s critical to look ahead into the near-term and determine which features or marketing efforts will provide the best ROI (manager), and to think out a year or more to determine the long-term direction of your business (entrepreneur). Every time.

Software Review 76

Software Review Software Developer Entrepreneur 76

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 22, 2017

On this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, I’m going to visit with sales trainer Phil Jones, where he talk about his magic words and this is not just for salespeople, in fact this is for non-sales people. Check it out. This week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is brought to you by Klaviyo.

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Sales Conversion Campaign Lean 31

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

What we didn’t account for was the magnitude of the current correction and the effect that it would have on discretionary luxury spending even within a population that financially could still afford our product. 19 – Not working on it full time. As far as nothing bad was happening with the servers and the application it was all fine.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. A name like 500 Startups says it all.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

When I hear a VC say “I’m an active board member” it gives me the same nauseous feeling I get when someone says “I’m a value added investor.” He was willing – it follows. ” I’ve been on some awesome boards, some terrible boards, and everything in between. They do their homework.

Operations 171

Operations Management Email Startup 171

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the end, they reject the strategy, because as Campbell’s boss puts it, they have “no interest in becoming a “colored” television company.” ” The plot was fictional, but it was an echo of things that were actually happening during that time period. Talk about ugly. And thank goodness.

Marketing 48

Marketing Community Campaign Hiring 48

Growthink Blog

MARCH 6, 2012

Because to do it right, you need to break down all of your big goals into parts (more on this below). It's one of those "Geez, I should probably get around to this" items that no one else knows about, so it's easy to keep on the perpetual back burner. And Scrabble has points and Triple Word Scores to shoot for along the way.

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Metrics Revenue Advertising Campaign 97

Jason Ball

DECEMBER 4, 2012

It still applies, so I thought I'd repost it here]. ” It has to be one of hardest, yet most frequent words an investor says…. It’s not easy for us to say, and many times, not easy for an entrepreneur to hear. It turns out No has many meanings…. It’s going to be a specific milestone or proof point.

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Early Stage Seed Stage Bandwidth Operations 45

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Why do I do it? It’s also a great way to get inspiration for blogging. Take the market and break it down into smaller chunks. Much like Facebook did with Harvard initially, and opened it up one school at a time – you could use that same approach. I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. I love startups.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

ConversionXL

JULY 13, 2016

It works for things other than attractiveness, though. The research goes on and on , in all sorts of different areas and industries, but it all spells out a simple truth: we don’t evaluate things as they objectively are, but through lenses that we may not even be aware of. Image Source. Halo Effect as a Persuasion Strategy.

Advertising 48

Advertising Restful Design Houston 48

Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? 50 doesn’t seem like the smart money decision it once was. Absolutely.

Open Source 62

Open Source Software Review Non-Compete Software 62

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

It says the same thing, but less offensively. (Or, Indeed, I spend about half my time on it, while Lisa spends about all hers. All it takes is time. You either have it, or you don’t. The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. Sunday edit : Still going!

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Spencer Fry

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

It's always a painful process that you put off to the last minute because you just don't want to deal with it. For the most part, everyone who has ever dealt with HR as only part of his or her job has little more than a surface understanding of it. Paperwork is distracting. PEOs have emerged recently to tackle this problem.

Employee 69

Employee Sales Government Web 69

Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

It’s never too early to start thinking about how to prepare for your business taxes. It’s a decision that too often gets made by new business owners based on whatever’s easiest to file for, but it’s a decision that really should be motivated by tax planning. How would they like to be paid, and how much?

.Net 85

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

It is really 88%. : ). It is conventional wisdom that PowerPoint sucks. You can cut yourself with it and embarrass yourself, or you can look the very best you ever have by using it optimally. " (No, it was not. Do you see how far away a Reporting Squirrel's job is from that of an Analysis Ninja?

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