Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

One of the biggest myths in the business world is that startups are no place for Baby Boomers, that aging generation born between 1945 and 1964. They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Member of the Advisory Board.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: Give Thanks (and Coupons) | crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1gjvtHz. Web Design Trends That Will Disappear in 2014 – crowdspring.co/1gkIWyH.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Empower Your Small Business: 4 keys to success, 2014 trends, content marketing – crowdspring.co/19PV71E. 3 Early Fails That Nearly Killed Our Startup - crowdspring.co/16EQKG0.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II) - crowdspring.co/1atXci8. Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II) - crowdspring.co/1atXci8.

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Social Media. Social Media. Sites Jobs Events Social Good Summit Media Summit. Want to Work for a Startup? By Scott Gerber 2014-03-20 10:10:23 UTC. In startups especially, job interviews are just as much for the interviewee as they are for the interviewer. Follow @mashable. see more > Search. Must Reads.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 22, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! College Students Bring Targeted Media to Doctors’ Waiting Rooms – [link]. Corporations Will Emulate Collaborative Economy Startups | by Jeremiah Owyang – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Reviewing financial & operational performance. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup. And I’ve also been convinced that it can be quite useful to have another startup company CEO on your board.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

See Also: How Traveling Helped Me Prepare for Startup Life. The first few were media businesses, which I had some experience with as a former reporter. But I thought it was important to establish that the company owned the software, not the developer, and sheepishly told him I needed a contract signed that stated such.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2014

For savvy startup marketing, look no further than Lori Cheek. The growth of her startup is all due to her own efforts: “I wasn’t able to afford a PR firm. ” “I’m getting tons of hits from the codes on those cards — it’s working as planned and driving traffic to my website.”

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. What would a startup team look like based on this data only? Java EE, Java SE, Javascript, PHP, Software, Development, Software Testing, SQL.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

I’ve been reviewing my notepad from 2013 and thought I’d share my insights into what’s changed and the big issues from my perspective in startups, business and technology. Social media just is: It’s becoming a bit like general chit chat between any group of friends. Here’s hoping for 2014.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

As a CEO of a technological startup, I often need to find trustworthy information as quickly as possible. They have completely changed the social network space, managing to innovate new ways to monetize creativity while competing against popular social media platforms. Thanks to Deaver Brown, Simply Media ! #16- 4- Wikipedia.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Rarely does it regain its former glory. Here’s why.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For web services, we write use cases, including code snippets, which describe ways you can imagine people using the product. startups want to launch their products without at least trying to language-market fit. I see this happen far too often when people submit products to me for review to post on Product Hunt. His solution?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

He is the author of The Marketing Performance Blueprint (Wiley, 2014) and The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley, 2012); and the creator of the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON). Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Listen to the female startup club, wherever you get your podcasts. Duct Tape Transcript.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 6, 2019

Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have thus far dominated the market in video ad spend on social media. Hard-code subtitles to get your message across without the audio. BambooHR ran LinkedIn ads explicitly targeting those who, perhaps, felt burnt out at their current startup. But LinkedIn owns the lucrative B2B audience.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 25, 2014

By using a mix of these four strategies for great digital marketing: search advertising, webSite, search engine optimization, and social media. The 2014 Local Search Study results indicate that nearly 80% of local mobile searches end in a purchase. Social Media. Here are 30 tips to get you going. Search Advertising Tips.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 13, 2015

According to TFM&A’s 2014 marketing automation report , the top three reasons marketers use automation is: It takes repetitive tasks out of their hands (36%). To get this content in front of eyeballs, SEO and social media marketing play a huge part. It helps improve customer targeting (30%). Social is a powerful thing.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Startups need to survive and thrive on a shoestring budget, which is why it’s based on rapid experimentation. 500 Startups founder and entrepreneur Dave McClure created this model as a way for growth hackers to optimize the speed of their sales and marketing efforts in generating results. Growth marketing was born out of necessity.

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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2016

As of May 2014, there were 2,137,730 janitors and cleaners in the U.S.; Diligence, or the ability to get a job done. You know what your startup costs are and what you have to purchase to start. At Palo Alto Software, we use a lean planning process to determine whether or not an idea is likely to succeed or to fail.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Amir Elaguizy pitching Cratejoy on stage at SXSW 2014 I know lots of investors from Texas and from around the world who are visiting Austin for SXSW and want to know where to go and how to plug in. The SXSW Startup Crawl! Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

Id reached out to him not because I was looking for information on how to pitch an investor, but because of the nature of his investment portfolio: of the six startups Boris invested in thoughout 2014, three are led by women. Were they down to him being a more open-minded investor? And why had this led them to invest in more women?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It’s a robust online market place, with more than a million active sellers and over a billion dollars in sales in 2014. Think SEO and social media strategy. Once you’ve done that, sign up for all of the pertinent social media platforms that you can regularly use and update. Tips from Etsy sellers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

If you don’t have a dedicated website for your startup or small business, you are not alone. Here are our top 10 tips to help you create an awesome website design in 2014: 1. Other 2014 design trends include blurred backgrounds, simple animations, more scrolling, and bigger fonts. Keep the design simple, fresh, and unique.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 12 indispensable digital tools for startups | Blue Sky Innovation – crowdspring.co/1vm5ncs. Ruthlessness and Grit in Startups | by @ttunguz – crowdspring.co/1odycDT.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Beauty brands relay on social media strategy as much as traditional PR! Also, I had the opportunity to present my “Organic Reach is Dead: Learn to Pay to Play Like a Pro” Masterclass to a standing room only (or sold out) crowd on the main stage at the Social Media Week Los Angeles conference. Image Credit: Trina Albus.

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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. The Massive Market Opportunity For Spectacles Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told the media : “I regard [augmented reality] as a big idea like the smartphone.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! I’m sure you’ve noticed the proliferation of social click-bait media designed to get people to click the latest story on silly topics. – crowdspring.co/Uo7qiz.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 12, 2015

According to a 2014 survey, 61% of small business owners generate over 51% of their annual revenue from repeat customers. via 500 Startups). In 2014, a Huzzah Media survey found that referrals were the most successful marketing tool (52%). via 500 Startups). via 500 Startups). Why Is Retention Important?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 20, 2023

06:38] Are there technologies, specific tools, or software that you recommend to businesses these days? [07:34] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So I was a speaker 2014 a long time ago. Are there some technologies, specifics, tools, software, things like that, that you recommend to, to businesses these days?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: 5 Tips For Keeping the Books – crowdspring.co/1f1zOfD. A special report from The Economist on Tech Startups. What’s up with the Series A?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you have a small budget, BuzzSumo has a good product (cheapest option is $99 per month) that can help you identify the content most shared on social media. Their product can also help you track how your content is shared on social media. You can read more about this in a good post by Orbit Media Studios. This can take time.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2016

This approach is a recipe for failure in an industry that relies on word of mouth and social media recommendations. Step 2: Consider your startup financing. If these costs are not factored into the startup financing, you can find yourself in an operational bind before you know it. Estimating Realistic Startup Costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2013

Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. This is a whole new world for startups seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. Schools need the same analysis to provide more effective teaching media and techniques.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

2014 is almost here. Here are my 10 rules for #winning in 2014. This is nothing compared to 2014 and beyond. So yes – companies spend ALL that money to get traffic to their site via SEO, PPC, social media and what not. Please stop being stupid in 2014. Are you familiar with the Lean Startup methodology?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 10, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! New Years Resolutions For Small Businesses and Startups – crowdspring.co/1cC7HmZ. New Years Resolutions For Small Businesses and Startups – crowdspring.co/1cC7HmZ.

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