The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This blog will discuss several seemingly straightforward tasks that startups often find more complicated than expected such as securing funding, building their brand and achieving market traction. This requires having an in-depth knowledge of your market and strategy as an entrepreneur.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2016

By Bryan Miles, CEO and co-founder, Miles Advisory Group, Inc. As your business thrives, the providers who support you with banking, marketing and other services should change as your demands change. This top-of-mind awareness and intentionality with our cash keep us agile and enable us to take on new opportunities.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2017

by Bill Lewis, co-founder at Temasys Communications. Books that were read, and movies that were shown in movie theatres and on CDs’, are now streamed for consumption on demand, massively lowering the marginal cost of production and delivery to zero. Today, even the smallest firms can compete with the largest multinationals.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2017

It is a free, volunteer run conference to help participants build skills and expand product management and product marketing knowledge. Upgrade From This Old Unnecessary Process David Hawks , CEO, Agile Velocity Main take-away — focus on discovery, not as much delivery. Most of the Agile world is in the perspective of delivery focus.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Most startups’ founding mythologies are full of the same phrases : “hard work,” “agile strategy,” “smart scaling.” Arrive to the market too soon and there’s no demand for the product. Take this article my co-founder Shane Snow wrote for Mashable a few months after we founded Contently.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thanks to Richard Burner, Goals Marketing ! #2- Your investment can be worth it since micro-influencers are prone to being more engaged with their smaller following, which helps them build more personal interactions and connections that can be more influential than other marketing strategies. 2- Means investing in micro-influencers.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2012

Pair Customer Development with Agile Development. Success Begins with Buy-In from Investors and Co-Founders. Agree on Market Type – It Changes Everything. Startups Demand Comfort with Chaos and Uncertainty. So by popular demand, here’s a poster of the Customer Development Manifesto.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. Eric, love the blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way. a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit." Theory of market types.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market. Agile software development.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

We decided to start something we felt would have the greatest positive impact on fellow business owners, an Agile Methodology consulting company. We quit our jobs, pooled our money, and set out to help companies implement Agile – a highly efficient, organized, and empowering way to run your business. 8 – Work-Life Balance.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Much of the COVID-era survival strategy has relied on technological infrastructure, and has demanded new digital literacy across all segments of the organization. It’s cause for consternation on two ends. First, employers are bringing new challenges into this next normal. Naturally, this is easier said than done.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Startups are agile. Today’s business environment demands that we move faster – make decisions faster, identify trends faster, and get products to market faster. However, the demand for speed isn’t enough to make a team more agile, it involves enhancing autonomy, by first putting the right people in place.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). All three probably make attempts at world-of-mouth marketing - its just that for Viral, its life-or-death. Labels: search engine marketing 0comments: New comments are not allowed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. Some companies and founders refuse to serve existing customers, and are always lurching from one great idea to the next. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Her packaging class was so good that we sent every new marketer at SuperMac to take it. Yet when I saw our retail package, I was confused.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

A first order filter is whether the founders are aiming for a scalable startup. The question was: what did the founders want to do? Will Harvey , Eric Ries and the other founders were unequivocal – “Screw the buy-out, we’re here to build a company. One founder quit and joined Google.) Go For Broke. The Scalable Startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? By delegating and training, we create a corps of leaders who could step in to provide CTO-like services on demand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They had their own private forum, and a company founder (aka me) personally ran the group in its early days. Customers kept demanding that we add this or that IM feature, and we were routinely refusing. They had their own private forum, and a company founder (aka me) personally ran the group in its early days.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. The class has been updated to cover the key elements of the Lean Startup (customer development, customer segments & value propositions, product/market fit, and minimal viable products)!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Now, helping potential customers discover new things they might like is the job of the discipline of marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Are all the same names despite market and moral turbulence. Fixing inefficiencies, technology, self-exploration and improvement, entrepreneurial collaboration, reading about studies in psychology, and the agility to move around physically and between projects. The corporate “holy grail” jobs are often inversely correlated to happiness.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. Another is used by marketing to refer to what customers see.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

In the end, I believe they co-created our product with us. Many complex apps can now be prototyped as a simple mashup in order to prove market viability - and this is true beyond just software apps. It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Because of the extreme unknowns inherent in startup situations, we are all blind – to the realities of what customers what, market dynamics, and competitive threats. Periodic or on-demand reports are one possibility, but we can do much better. I suddenly lose my ability to judge if our marketing programs are being effective.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

After starting two companies of his own, he now heads the NYCDOE’s Markets initiative, which works on fostering smart demand for innovative solutions to the most urgent problems in New York’s public schools. Steven came to the NYCDOE via NASA, where he built the U.S. government’s first public website.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But it occurred to me we haven’t talked publicly a great deal about our view of hardware businesses.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But it occurred to me we haven’t talked publicly a great deal about our view of hardware businesses.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

I like the quote, because it’s true… Any entrepreneur can that can apply the business principles of supply and demand to this quote, sprinkle in some business fundamentals, like accounting and marketing, can be a success! Sometimes your marketing is targeted and working perfectly, and then it needs to be tweaked.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand. High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 7: How To Translate Your Brand Identity Into Actual Marketing. brand awareness – the ability of customers to identify a brand in a crowded market. Poor design, ineffective marketing, inconsistent messaging, and bad partnerships can all tarnish a brand. Conduct market research and perform a competitor analysis.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2019

He was voted one of the Top 10 Organizational Culture Gurus in the world and is CEO and founder of the Best Practice Institute. The highest CEO-level must demand it, live it, and show he or she is getting involved. As co-founder of Rackspace, he got deeply involved. What is the Best Practice Institute?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Many journalists and conference organizers attempt to fill this demand by giving successful entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their stories: in magazines, on blogs, and on stage. It makes successful founders famous. It makes successful founders famous. It sells newspapers and magazines. It helps companies with PR.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May.

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