Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Start simple. Download free website tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Start simple. Look for simple and free tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

Recently — in the name of censoring pornography — China blocked access to Google and demanded that computers sold in China come supplied with an Internet nanny filter called Green Dam Youth Escort, starting July 1. That means the established firms created no new net jobs during that period. That is about 40 million jobs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

My estimate is that the top 5 YouTube networks will do > $200 million net revenue in 2013 (after Google’s share). I had written about Mike before but hadn’t disclosed his name. Distribution costs have, too. This is classic “Innovator’s Dilemma” market conditions. ” It’s true.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Start simple. Download free website tools.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2020

A liquidation asset-based approach determines the value as confirmed by the net amount the company would be worth if all assets were sold and all liabilities paid off immediately. Namely, you should never associate asset value with business value. We are looking for net profits here, so all expenses must be accounted for. .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. We were all at each other’s weddings, brit milah / baby namings and unfortunately a funeral.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Here you should consider the Four Actions Framework , namely to eliminate factors your industry take for granted, raise factors of social customer management above industry norms, reduce areas that are less valuable to social customers, and create new factors of value. b) Brand Reputation (usually provided by social sentiment firms).

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

It’s a table that lists all of your revenue streams and all of your expenses—typically for a three-month period—and lists at the very bottom the total amount of net profit or loss. This is also called your “profit before interest and taxes,” gross profit, and “contribution to overhead”—many names, but they all refer to the same number.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2021

I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once by not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. Who owns all of these names, and should you ever buy one for a premium? For instance, BMW now owns all domain names ending in.BMW. Yet people still pay big money to get the name they want.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly Banner or AdSense style ads placed either at the top of the page or down the right hand side (often called a skyscraper) would only net Twitter money for users that log into Twitter.com. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2014

First things first – your startup needs a name! The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. Here are some key things I look for in the name, with some expert help from Alex Frankel and others: Unique and unforgettable.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

In her well-regarded (but boringly named) book “ Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages ” Carlota Perez outlines the history of many of our great leaps forward in innovation. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Just take a look at one of the most impressive examples: in 2018, Amazon’s net profit exceeded $10 billion , which is twice as much as in 2017. Think of your domain name and get hosting. Have you already thought about your brand’s name? Well-thought and unique eCommerce business is a bottomless source of profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2011

First things first – your startup needs a name! The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. Here are some key things I look for in the name, with some help from Alex Frankel and others: Unique and unforgettable. Give a clue.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 7, 2025

They take their business elsewhere, and suddenly, your names mud. Its like the safety net every business needs. One day, a hacker locks you out of your system and steals sensitive client info. Without cyber insurance, youre scrambling to fix the mess on your dime and your clients? Theyre furious. Then a hurricane hit. Youre covered.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2013

First things first – your startup needs a name! The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. Here are some key things I look for in the name, with some help from Alex Frankel and others: Unique and unforgettable. Give a clue.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Often companies think their Rock Star customers are the biggest spenders, or the most loyal customers, or perhaps the marquee names or brands. He describes a hypothetical Rock Star named “Catie” who is a composite of the sorts of customer advocates used by Salesforce.com, SAS Canada, and others. Not necessarily.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Apparently, the technique worked as the deal is said to net everyone at Color, including investors, a return on the initial funding. Those apps were then abandoned after he showed them off. An entirely new version of the Color broadcasting app was built and never released. Yes, we know, it seems crazy.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I then ran a crowdsourced contest on crowdSpring to come up with ideas for the name. CrownTV is a spinoff of that name.

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Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

When sharing workplace experiences on a no-name basis, my friend – relatively new at her role – found herself holding on to a specific team member who was giving her a tremendous amount of headache. I recently had an interesting discussion with a friend about this. You can’t get rid of the bad apples fast enough.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Pam is best known for her book Escape from Cubicle Nation, and she recently wrote a new book called – The Widest Net: Unlock Untapped Markets and Discover New Customers Right in Front of You – launching in November 2021. 3:16] Your book The Widest Net seems to go against a little bit of conventional wisdom. [3:16] Like this show?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

First things first – your startup needs a name! The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. Here are some key things I look for in the name, with some help from Alex Frankel and others: Unique and unforgettable. Give a clue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2013

I’m sure you have all been frustrated at least once by not being able to get the Internet domain name you want for your company. Who owns all of these names, and should you ever buy one for a premium? I suggest following these steps to get the name you need for your business: First pick the right company and matching domain name.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2021

Domain names — the focal point of the internet. Most entrepreneurs have spent hours, days, or weeks brainstorming new business names. For example, a new fictitious accounting group called Billiton Accountants would likely opt for the domain names, billiton.com or billitonaccountants.com, but both are, of course, taken.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2015

They are namely: monitoring, mapping, middleware, management and measurement. Create a holistic way of measuring your Social CRM activities through dashboards monitoring KPIs such as the following: Net Promoter Scores – how likely are your customers to recommend you to others? 2 Differentiate Social CRM from its components.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Airbnb and Dropbox are textbook examples of how growth hacking can transform a business from a niche offering into a household name and market leader. Don’t cast your net too far and wide. Use qualitative customer surveys and gather Net Promoter Score feedback to understand user intent and friction. What are their desires?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

Will you need a big net (full-page ads in the WSJ) to catch lots of small sardines? If you pre-order The Lean Entrepreneur from them, they'll list your name as a co-creator in the book and share material with you as they write. The Lean Entrepreneur will be published by Wiley this Fall. You can order it on Amazon.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

In order to get through this, you might want to pick a niche instead of aiming for the whole industry and casting your net too wide. Namely, your income needs to be greater than your outflows in order for your company to create a profit, however, a simple surplus is not enough. 5. Managing your finances.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Acceptance of multiple payment methods – Customers can easily pay for their courier services availed of through debit cards, credit cards, cash, e-wallets, net banking, and wire transfers. It would need to display its brand name, color theme, and logo. . Further, it adds a lot of certainty and peace for them.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

How did Outreach grow in just a few years to 50,000 monthly active users , $10 million in new bookings, and net revenue retention (NRR) of more than 140%? Rather than measuring annual revenue or monthly active users, Loom gets super narrow, naming the videos with a view as its NSM. Take video platform Loom. Image Source ).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

What’s the name of the company? Dan: The name of the company is Member Desk. 10 a month, $50 a month, whatever, and then they get the user name and password to access their membership site; Then they get access to all the content that you allow them access to based on how long they’ve been a member. Jason: Hey.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2014

With an estimated net worth of US$4.6 Naturally, the most asked question of Branson is how the name “Virgin” came about. Everybody knows Sir Richard Branson , founder of the Virgin Group. billion, Branson is financially successful beyond anybody’s wildest dreams.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Where lead generation casts a wide net, ABM uses a spear to target and catch the best fish. GumGum now also lists similar clients, including Vodafone and Sprint, a sign of how one big-name client can attract others. To return to our earlier analogy, it’s using a net to catch large schools of fish. Competitive environment.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

But it’s not as simple as reaching out to a company you want to collaborate with and putting their name on your website in exchange for cash. If your audience isn’t interested in a sponsor’s product or service, then putting their name to your offer won’t deliver the ROI they’re looking for, ruining any chance of a long-term partnership.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

I apply visual thinking for nearly everything I do: preparing for important phone calls (I imagine my opening lines, I imagine the responses), writing keynote presentations, deciding whether or not to invest in a company, preparing for board meetings – you name it. I have a high fear of failure that acts as my safety net.

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Gust

MARCH 30, 2014

First things first – your startup needs a name! The name of your business has a tremendous impact on how customers and investors view you, and in today’s small world, it’s a world-wide decision. Here are some key things I look for in the name, with some expert help from Alex Frankel and others: Unique and unforgettable.

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