Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Since language and implication have changed a bit since then, I’ll restate Carnegie and Hill’s original principles here, with my own current-day commentary and recommendations added: Definiteness of purpose. This is still one of the most important competitive differentiators that you can offer. Applied faith.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

Learn how to create brand pillars that will differentiate your company from competitors and better showcase your brand. How you tell your brand story matters.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2011

I’d argue a much simpler, admittedly less technical, definition. By this definition, then, Apple has the biggest, ‘baddest’ mobile platform on the planet, at this moment in early 2011.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2023

With the advent of social media, and instant communication via the Internet, that definition has been expanded to include all aspects of the customer experience , from finding you and what they need, to the ease of completing the transaction, as well as all follow-on support.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 16, 2017

Brad Feld , one of my VC “true norths,” posted about VC Fund Differentiation the other day. Differentiation is one of them. It’s now part of a cliche, as in “how are you differentiated?” Why has “differentiation” been so watered down as to be meaningless? I no longer care about this. Is it overuse?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The most important factor for differentiation in CXL Live is its unique format. Definitely make #CXLLive a priority in 2023. (It Win beyond product : use a powerful narrative, positioning, messaging, content and differentiation strategy. Strong messaging, on the other hand, is differentiating and easier to sell and market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Many are reluctant to really “market” themselves, and have trouble differentiating their offerings to clients, except by price. In addition to relationships, today’s clients want to see you and your expertise on videos online, industry conferences, and social media to feel the trust for differentiation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

And again, just like in enterprise sales, this is all about differentiation ?—?what and even though by definition that means the majority of our dollars are invested outside the area, that still makes us meaningfully different from the ten other Sand Hill Road funds this LP might be speaking with. For Upfront, it’s about Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

You start out with vision, you must adapt and have intellectual honesty once you stare at your data and know where your true sources of differentiation and value are. During the Systematize phase you learn how to take true customer input into account, you learn what customers actually care about (vs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2012

It definitely works, but may be beyond your budget. Ask early candidates how they differentiate themselves from their peers. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Key Takeaway: A major challenge many businesses face is trying to find ways to differentiate and scale. Debbie Howard (07:32): I think for us is just trying to differentiate and then scale.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 11, 2011

It definitely works, but may be beyond your budget. Ask early candidates how they differentiate themselves from their peers. Yet the smart entrepreneur can still bootstrap the technical team, using one or all of the following evaluation and hiring approaches: Hire an expert consultant for initial interviews and recommendation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Since language and implication have changed a bit since then, I’ll restate Carnegie and Hill’s original rules here, with my own current-day commentary and recommendations added: Definiteness of purpose. This is still one of the most important competitive differentiators that you can offer. Applied faith.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Metz provides a good definition in his book as follows: “The customer owns the conversation now, so companies need to change the way they do business. Adopt a strategy canvas approach (ala Blue Ocean Strategy ) to differentiate your business from the “red oceans” of competitors. 2 Differentiate Social CRM from its components.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

3:43] How do you differentiate between a tactic and what you’re calling strategy? [4:41] 10:20] How do you differentiate between execution and planning? [12:00] 15:17] How do you help folks not just clarify a message, but clarify a message that matters and that differentiates them? [17:40] And the execution is the roadmap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2021

Identify new goals based on your own definition of career success and then take action. A qualified career coach can help you get totally clear on your objectives, differentiate you from the competition, market you effectively, get the offer, and negotiate the best compensation. Invest in career coaching.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2017

You don’t have to actually write the story —it’s definitely not included in the mission statement—but do think it through: Imagine a real person making the actual decision to buy what you sell. So what a company does for customers is often called vision, despite the formal definition. Start with a market-defining story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2021

As I work with aspiring you new venture leaders, I always wish I had a definitive checklist of all the right attributes that I could share with you, encourage you to develop and highlight in your efforts with potential investors, and guide your own actions in starting the next billion dollar company.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Marketing and public relations trends will most definitely move towards diversifying the image and representation of brands and businesses. Sure, every business may have their own world-changing differentiator but from the outside they all look the same at which point the main differentiator ends up becoming their brand.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

To understand what Social CRM is, let us first consider this definition by Metz: The customer owns the conversation now, so companies need to change the way they do business. They range from customer insights, marketing, sales, analytics, demand management, support, and customer experience, to mobile and location based services.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

2:48] Has design been a key differentiator for Typeform? [3:23] 8:26] What do you feel is your core differentiator? [10:50] John Jantsch (02:48): And we can get into the specifics, but I mean, that design aspect has really been a key differentiator for Typeform, hasn't. 3:23] As CMO, how do you look at the customer journey? [5:26]

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

People can definitely pick up the skills through education, getting advice from mentors, and just diving into real-world experiences. This is a debated topic of nature vs. nurture, where some argue that leaders are born with a genetic component that differentiates them from others.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2024

Questions I ask Rich Horwath : [00:51] What’s your definition of strategic thinking? [01:52] 04:53] How would you differentiate between strategic thinking and strategic planning? [06:31] What's your definition of strategy or strategic thinking? 03:37] How do you balance the reality of long term and short term planning? [04:53]

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2022

16:52] How do you use scarcity as a differentiator without turning off your true fans? [20:01] So he is definitely someone that I have talked with often. But yeah, definitely needs to be above board and ethical. And so those definitely fall into that. More About Mindy Weinstein: Powerofscarcity.com.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

These sorts of things are still applicable, but now with the advent of ai, we need to find ways to differentiate your website to make it seem like it's handcrafted, it's fact checked, it is authoritative and trustworthy. So that's where the experience of a human really differentiates. So you get masterful at those. John (22:05): Yeah.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

Look to build solutions with IPA when you need a highly tailored customer journey or process to differentiate from your competition. More generally, the RPA vendors are taking a bottom-up approach: “process definitions and context will emerge from the task automation work”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In essence, as a contractor, you are a consultant who is competing regularly for new work, and you constantly have to differentiate your offering from other candidates, including price. Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Route One: High LTV per user The exact definition of a “high” user LTV depends on the specific vertical, so it’s typically better to analyze the ratio between Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and the Life Time Value of the customer. As a VC, the biggest challenge in evaluating LTV models is that metrics can dramatically change at scale.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And it’s a definite win-win for the customers and the manufacturer. Even though there were several shoemakers at the time, Dassler was committed to differentiating his merchandise by asking athletes for their opinions on the options they wished in an exceeding shoe, and their impressions of his prototypes. 25- Vine and Periscope.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 14, 2019

If you have been self-employed, you probably have had episodes where you cannot clearly differentiate between work and personal finances or time. Savings are definitely a safer form of debt that a commercial loan because a bank will not be breathing down your neck each month for repayments. 1. Set obvious parameters.

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Board Effect

MAY 1, 2019

HIPAA is organized into separate titles to differentiate the various provisions within the Act. First, college board trustees should know the definition of protected health information, or PHI. Colleges that bill providers for services must abide by the HIPAA laws. This information can be in verbal, written or electronic form.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

and you can definitely use it for UX and conversion optimization , too. To create a value proposition that really differentiates your offer, you have to know how competitors position themselves. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. What is it on your website?

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

How many customers fit the definition? Carefully describe their strengths and weaknesses, as well as the key drivers of competitive differentiation in the marketplace. For example, it’s not adequate to say your company is targeting small businesses, since there are several million of these. Detail their demographics. market research).

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Laura Goldberg (04:58): Definitely not. It is the essential stuff that works, the timeless strategies that differentiate you, that make you become the authority in marketing and get noticed. It's definitely skewed to bigger brands. John Jantsch (04:55): So we're in agreement that every department should report to marketing then.

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