Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s up from 40 minutes in July 2014. Even by July 2014, Facebook’s core application had effectively saturated the US market, with more than 80% of US adults on Facebook. However, it’s premature to suggest that Snapchat will follow a similar usage model. What is a ladder-up strategy? Google Glass faced exactly this problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Of course we have to believe that there is a viable market, a differentiated product offering and a chance to build something defensible but if you do those basics right you still get crushed without an amazingly talented founder. Hardware + Software The world is filled with investors who will tell you, “We don’t do hardware.”

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Picking a term with a well-understood foil (“outbound marketing”) makes it easier to understand and differentiate. Historically, both terms had narrower definitions related to telemarketing, which differentiated outbound versus inbound calls.) Lessons: Quick identification of the term doesn’t translate into quick adoption.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

I didn’t feel we were differentiated enough and, at the same time, I was hearing all this buzz about social media. In 2014, I saw that influencer marketing was growing in importance but not getting more sophisticated. The model and the timing were good. Photo Credit: Ira S.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To get FDA clearance, Apple reportedly submitted two studies to the FDA (so far none of the data has been published or peer reviewed). Its purpose is to make sure that drugs, devices, diagnostics, and software products don’t harm thousands or even millions of people so the FDA wants a process to make sure they get it right.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A recent study of online physician reviews found that 96% of complaints relate to customer service, and only 4% to quality of care. From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Today, 77% of consumers say they use online reviews as the first step in finding a new physician.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

This essentially forces you to forgo 3PL’s due to the high cost of the logistics, and the technology behind recommendation engines aren’t reliable enough to automate the process. I add other differentiators by podcasting and creating expert-sourced ebooks or videos. We made sure to distinguish ourselves from there.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

Start with specific goals and make sure your web analytics software is tracking those goals. Research says 50% of purchases are not completed due to lack of information. Nest became so popular that Google bought it in 2014 for $3.2 Personal opinions do not matter (much). There’s no shortage of opinions in the world.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. 2014, Believing in me, I took a leap starting my own company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 28, 2020

Ethan Beute: We’re a software company. In helping people understand this back in like 2012, 2014, and even today, one of the lines that we draw is a line between marketing through video and relationships through video. ” And once we got them going on it, now it’s such a huge differentiator. Ethan Beute: Yeah.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

This is due to many reasons, mainly: a lack of credibility. plain old ‘ banner blindness ‘ Banner blindness is largely due to the fact that most people read in a F-shaped Pattern online: Image Source. Or desperate measures like Wired’s campaign where they requested that readers turn off their ad-blocking software: Image Source.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

Further, you’ll never develop a brand that differentiates your products—your site will be just one more faceless ecommerce seller. At their height of popularity, around 2014, they were seen as easy ways to earn links—engaging visuals that sites could embed to make a point and add interest. Infographics. Infographics aren’t dead.

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