Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Ask everyone to update their resume, and personally call probable references, so there are no surprises. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy.

Technical Review 380

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Angel Investor 380

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Test your channel and support strategy. This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and maintenance.

Technical Review 220

Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review Business Model 220

TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Look at different customer acquisition channels, how they are converting, and the expected lifetime value of customers acquired through those channels. Apply costs to each channel. Another thing that Dave has done well is to look at the value of different marketing channels: There’s a lot of value in this presentation.

Metrics 260

Metrics Startup Retention Acquisition 260

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. From an entrepreneur perspective, here are the barrier to understanding categories: Unclear frame of reference. Stereotyping and biases.

Semantic 261

Semantic Technical Review Retention Distribution 261

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2013

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. From an entrepreneur perspective, here are the understanding barrier categories: Unclear frame of reference. Stereotyping and biases.

Entrepreneur 254

Entrepreneur Semantic Technical Review Retention 254

The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Growth hacking has resonated in the startup community due to today’s growth challenges: new channel creation, channel saturation, the “best product” fallacy and “product-growth” fit. Channel instability. The creation and destruction of channels is a common occurrence today. Channel saturation.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review San Francisco Software Review Distribution 150

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2019

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. From an entrepreneur perspective, here are the key barrier-to-understanding elements: Unclear frame of reference. Stereotyping and biases.

Semantic 235

Semantic Technical Review Retention Distribution 235

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2012

Ask everyone to update their resume, and personally call probable references, so there are no surprises. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy.

Technical Review 245

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Startup 245

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

A marketing playbook helps you achieve brand consistency across channels and campaigns. A marketing playbook is a reference guide that outlines how a business will manage its marketing on a particular channel or campaign. What’s inside will differ depending on the channel or marketing campaign. Content channels.

Campaign 149

Campaign CTO Marketing Social Media 149

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2013

Ask everyone to update their resume, and personally call probable references, so there are no surprises. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy.

Technical Review 242

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Term Sheet 242

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2020

There is practically no other distribution channel that drives engagement and builds customer relations better than email marketing. Email marketing deliverability refers to the ability of an email to land in a subscriber’s inbox, rather than ending up in the junk mail folder where they are unlikely to be read. With more than 2.5

Email 232

Email Sales Marketing Campaign 232

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Ask everyone to update their resume, and personally call probable references, so there are no surprises. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy.

Technical Review 229

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Angel Investor 229

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

So, what are the in demand products during this time of pandemic that both budding and seasoned entrepreneurs may want to consider manufacturing or distributing? These apps are used by teams to collaborate and pitch sales through digital channels. These are some of those: 1. Medical Products. Stay Unique With Category Design.

Demand 173

Demand Product Artificial Inteligence Software Review 173

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This post is an update of what we learned about life science distribution channels. Life Science/Health Care distribution channels differ by Category. It turns out that for commercialization, the business model (Customers, Channel, Revenue Model, etc.) Channel Cost = $350-400,000 per sales team.

Distribution 232

Distribution Channel Lean Intellectual Property 232

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Business to Business (B2B) – Also referred to as Enterprise to Enterprise, it is typically utilized to transport documents, equipment, reports, and raw materials from one place to another. An integrated referral program – where existing customers get points and rewards for referring the courier service app to new users.

Technical Review 163

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Demand Social Media 163

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Term Sheet 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Test your channel and support strategy. This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and maintenance.

Business Model 120

Business Model Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2017

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. From an entrepreneur perspective, here are the barrier to understanding categories: Unclear frame of reference. Stereotyping and biases.

Semantic 154

Semantic Technical Review Retention Distribution 154

Occam's Razor

JULY 5, 2021

Attribution is simply the science (sometimes, wrongly, art) of distributing credit for Conversions. An introduction to multi-channel digital attribution analysis. As you do digital attribution analysis, watch out for Paid Marketers who say they do attribution analysis but only count paid media channels. Chalk and cheese.

Analytics 148

Analytics Marketing Channel Conversion 148

Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

A medical device company, on the other hand, may need cash resources to pay for FDA testing, designing the prototype, manufacturing the product, establishing an inventory of the devices and establishing marketing and sales channels for the products. Most high-impact companies need substantial cash resources to sustain their rapid grow.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Venture Capital Valuation Software Engineering 179

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Depending on the business model, some hire providers as full-time W2 workers and some assemble a network of part-time providers with disperse distribution of available hours. Another possible growth channel is through employers, though competing with other benefits is never easy.

Vertical 156

Vertical Software Review Portfolio Demand 156

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

You don’t need to be on every social media channel, but you do need to be on the ones that your customers are on. Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan. Distribution is how you will get your product into the hands of your customers. Retail Distribution.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

We discuss best practices for system hardening, managing security in a distributed workforce, and the significance of password management and compliance standards. Managing security in a distributed workforce requires clear policies. So let's say there is a distributor distributed network, BYOD devices. What can we do?

Software Review 79

Software Review Security Distribution IP 79

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) The “build” step refers to building a minimal viable product (an MVP.) distribution channels to reach customers and offer them the value proposition. customer relationships to create demand.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million, indicating a somewhat normal distribution. Marketing/Sales Channels/Partnerships 0-10%. The company needs some additional work on building sales channels and partnerships (80% of norm). Sales channels, sales and marketing partners. — Haven’t even discussed sales channels. ++.

Valuation 146

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Channel-level expertise: An understanding of how the channels work (e.g., Where Airbnb recognized the value in another platform, Dropbox doubled down on the strength of its product as a distribution channel. Use this information to identify the channels to reach customers and the type of content that they’ll relate to.

Retention 113

Retention Marketing Acquisition Channel 113

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

Embracing Social Media for Real-Time Engagement Social media channels such as Instagram, LinkedIn, and X, formerly known as Twitter, have become essential components of financial PR strategies. They allow instantaneous communication with stakeholders as well as swift reactions to changes in the market or rumors.

PR 147

PR Public Relations Social Media Audience 147

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

Prioritize using a mix of bounce and page value, analyze details using referring keywords and referring urls (drilldowns are already built into above custom report!). Or just apply the top paid search referring keyword to the funnel report… Do you see differences in abandonment rates? Look at all others. Goals Report.

Analytics 160

Analytics Search Campaign eCommerce 160

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Understanding CAC by each channel helps you identify areas of opportunity and streamline operations for better ROI. Let’s say you spent $2,000 on email marketing and $5,000 on webinar production and distribution. Which marketing channels are performing best? Refer again to your customer research and analytics.

Acquisition 22

Acquisition eCommerce Cost Customer 22

ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Assign content & channels for each experience. Identify your channels. Email & ads are the 2 big communication channels. Messenger will become the biggest channel over the near years. more activity and engagement than any marketing channel, better than email, paid, physical mail. Friends referring friends.

Retention 106

Retention Artificial Inteligence Channel Email 106

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

Using a tool like SparkToro , you can uncover the channels and influencers that your audience is most engaged with. Interviewing them will provide you with their wants and needs from a messaging perspective and uncover topic ideas and distribution channels. Select your content distribution channels.

Audience 127

Audience Non-Compete Distribution Channel 127

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Usually it’s starvation — can’t get enough customers (distribution) to pay enough money for long enough (product/market fit). But none of the examples above make reference to any organizational structure. Risk-mitigation. For a small company, the most likely cause of death is suicide. It’s a different thing.

Government 223

Government Startup Cofounder Technical Support 223

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

My first goal was to establish a strong distribution channel here in the US. I tried very hard to make the right decisions about distribution agreements, partners and employees, so we would not have a lot of backward movement. Check references. If it is for an employee or new business partner, ask for references.

Los Angeles 82

Los Angeles Sales Atlanta New York 82

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

For more on the topic of Viral Growth, refer to my blog post on that topic here.) Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. For more info on this topic refer to The power of Free.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

You’ll also learn how to apply growth marketing to five key channels and how to plan and execute experimentation. It’s about identifying the channels and tactics that work best for your organization and then maximizing marketing efforts by confirming the best moves through experimentation. What is growth marketing? And what it isn’t).

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

It’s hard to do, which is why most demand generation advice merely advocates adding another channel or tool to the heap. At a bare minimum, correct goal tracking in Google Analytics identifies the most valuable on-site user behaviors and attributes them to a marketing channel. Create and distribute content to those segments.

Demand 132

Demand Vertical Campaign Channel 132

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

The company has distribution through about 50 retailers in Chennai, and is looking for ways to market their product through online channels. Janardhan Swahar from Salem, India, presented Swayam Foods , a health food company that is focused on the Indian palette across snacks, quick-to-prepare items, etc. We discussed guerilla p.r.,

India 119

India Guerilla Entrepreneur New Zealand 119