YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

by Hannah Sieber, co-founder and COO of EcoFlow Tech. Kickstarter companies alone have raised more than $786 million in funds ( Forbes ) and while many companies still use this method for raising money for production, others are recognizing the marketing value running a campaign can have. Know what you need in the end.

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Campaign San Francisco Technical Review Flash 145

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 25, 2011

Maybe that means a big new advertising campaign, or hiring another WordPress expert for our staff. “Yes&# if it means one of the co-founders can quit her day-job. “Yes&# if this extends the runway of our startup by at least three months. “Yes&# if it will completely pay for three new marketing efforts.

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Java Software Review Technical Review Salary 311

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

3 Biggest Mistakes When Choosing a Cofounder – [link]. Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. Don’t Use Social to Generate Sales; Make Selling Social | Advertising Age – [link]. What is the best time to send email campaigns? ” – [link].

Social Media 90

Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” This is where paid advertising comes in. Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is another essential digital marketing tool. And he’s right.

Technical Review 148

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 148

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2013

We speak to the founders of Imaginary Friends Studios (IFS) team – 28-year old Kai Lim, 39-year old Stanley Artgerm Lau, and 31-year old Kendrick Lim (pictured above)- about hitting the big eight. Stanley Artgerm Lau: I am a co-founder and creative director of IFS. Tell us a little about yourself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. We finally settled on a $1.99 Nothing made any difference.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc.

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Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO 150

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2020

by Lamar Tyler, founder of Traffic Sales & Profit. Begin by launching engagement and awareness campaigns both through organic and paid media channels. This can be paid advertising like Facebook or Google ads leading to blog content on your business website. You should be selling during the holidays.

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Cofounder Marketing Audience Technical Review 165

David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

Simple, Actionable, Data-Driven Insight for Improving Digital Advertising. Pricing Engine provides a simple, unified place for SMBs to manage their digital advertising. Smaller advertisers can buy ads, benchmark themselves against their peers, improve and expand their campaigns – all in one place. Pricing Engine Inc.

Curation 114

Curation Japan Technical Review Artificial Inteligence 114

techcrunch.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author.

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Antonio Europe 49

YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

If you and your co-founder(s) are friends, why not work on your home instead? Your shared marketing campaign should benefit both of you in equal ways. A simple example of this is having a shared advertising space or advertising each other in their respective social media accounts. Stay online.

Software Review 191

Software Review Entrepreneur Cost Cofounder 191

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail I had the privilege of volunteering for the Obama campaign in swing states for a few weekends during the final push towards victory. Im quite confident I got more out of the experience than the campaign got from me.

Campaign 84

Campaign San Francisco Lean Agile 84

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2013

You’d be much better served to use what you know about your customers to create highly targeted and personalized direct marketing campaigns. And good news: This tailored approach is vastly more effective than general media campaigns, too! That’s where word-of-mouth advertising begins. Risk stepping out from behind technology.

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Customer Technical Review Florida Cofounder 170

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. 10 adjustments to make when working for a Big Co. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. How Small Businesses Can Compete with Big Business – [link].

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Central African Republic Design 100

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

The Rise of AI in Advertising written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Mike Rhodes In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Mike Rhodes. AI plays a big role in advertising, particularly in messaging and content creation. And you can listen to it all on your lunch break.

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Advertising Analytics San Diego Networking 93

The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

This is a guest post by Chris Hollindale, co-founder and CTO of Hasty. It could be anything: over the last few days I’ve had ideas for new product features, potential advertising campaigns, strategies for hiring the right type of people to fit into our team, and ways of creating the company culture we want to build.

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Entrepreneur Fractional CTO CTO Hire Stealth 140

The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. Its social media and editorial advertising strategy clearly put the product first. Starting out, you can’t hit every network and outlet full-force.

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Social Media Media Viral Startup 158

Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Too many founders try to do huge advertising bursts at the end of the year in a lazy attempt to hit sales numbers. Instead, founders should be focusing on developing a content strategy for 2015 that allows them to educate, engage, nurture, and close sales throughout the entire year. – Kelsey Meyer, Influence & Co.

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Founder B2C Cofounder B2B 124

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. 9 in 10 young adults trust advertising (aieee!) – [link]. 40 Extremely Shocking Advertisements – [link]. 100 Creative Modern Advertisements – [link]. 40 Extremely Shocking Advertisements – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Costa Rica Small Business Design 92

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. My first AdWords campaign was limited to five dollars a day, and we were buying clicks at five cents a click. SEM is a simple idea. That yields 100 clicks a day, every day.

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SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 164

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Outstanding post on qualities that Paul Graham (Y Combinator) looks for in startup founders – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Raising Angel Funding [Part 1] – [link]. The marketing challenge for startups (by @Scobleizer – interview with founder of Indinero) – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

Paul is also a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the MIT Sloan School of Management and the co-founder of Oceanworks. And that might be in a startup, it might be as a founder of a startup, it might be as an early employee, as a startup. It might also be in Big Co.

Entrepreneur 78

Entrepreneur Cofounder Early Stage Artificial Inteligence 78

The Startup Magazine

JULY 21, 2021

Kevin Wu, co-founder and CEO of job search optimization program Pathrise , says “Digital marketer roles are some of the most in-demand positions in the tech industry.” This is where paid advertising comes in. Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is another essential digital marketing tool. And he’s right.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review PPC SEM Marketing 78

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund.

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Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Five UX Research Pitfalls from cofounder of Meebo – [link]. 20 Effective and Amazing Ad Campaigns | PelFusion – [link]. Five UX Research Pitfalls from cofounder of Meebo – [link]. Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link].

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Andrew Ellis, one of the co-founders of SignNow.com, was so enthusiastic about his company, I’m going to let him do most the talking on this one: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother? The best advertisement is happy customers. Tell us a crazy story from starting your own business.

Small Business 105

Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This attention is valuable to yet another set of people: namely, the traditional businesses (see above) who are using marketing to grow, and are looking to advertise to new prospects. In the old days, these media companies would then themselves plow this profit back into marketing and advertising, and grow.

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2016

by Keith Smith, co-founder and CEO of Payability. Like most app developers and publishers, it had to prepay for most of the advertising, but it received payment from its ad network 30 days after the month’s end. The Pebble watch was one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns in history.

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Venture Capital Securities and Exchange Commission New York City Cofounder 100

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

As an advertising executive, I had to come up with the names of a number of companies. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. ParamountQuote. Thanks to Timothy Connon, Paramount Quote ! #4- 4- Easy to say and spell.

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Naming Entrepreneur Jordan Merger 161

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

As we talk to marketers about how they generate leads and fill the top of their sales funnel, most say they rely on quite number of different tactics: Trade shows, seminars, email blasts to purchased lists, internal cold calls, outsourced telemarketing, and advertising. According to the report, traditional paid ads are highly overrated.

Asia 100

Asia Las Vegas Marketing Technical Review 100

VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Eyeblaster , an Israeli company headquartered in New York, develops several media-rich advertising formats (see examples here and here ) and interactive ad features , as well as MediaMind , campaign management software for agencies and online advertisers. percent) and co-founder Osfer Zadikario (6.2 percent). —

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IPO SEC Initial Public Offering Stock 68

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders. Testing the resellers channel and direct sales is the manual work that should be undertaken by at least one of the founders.

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Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

I've also recently created a private email discussion list for technology company founders at FounderList.com to network, share, and learn from each other. Twitter is more about advertising these days instead of about connecting. price comparison Wednesday 27, 2010 @ 8:49 am Guys somebody know Irish sites like this?

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Social Media Technical Review Social Network 94

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. For example, a growth marketer at Grammarly might begin with the hypothesis that a promotional email campaign targeted at millennials will result in a 10% increase in new subscriptions. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win. Image source.

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Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102