Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In reality, more features will more likely make the product confusing and less usable to all. Broad product offerings require too much infrastructure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. Influencers are recognized experts and pseudo celebrities who can pick favorite products or start new trends. Produce marketing events to get visibility and attention. They won’t find you.

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Technical Review Social Media Channel Flash 355

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In the interests of helping you work smarter and last longer, I would like to offer my top ten list of key resource drains to avoid in early businesses and startups, based on my years of advising entrepreneurs and my own business experience: Expanding your product line too quickly for scaling. Ineffective and expensive marketing campaigns.

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Technical Review Metrics Social Media Channel 306

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

The novel coronavirus disease has led to many businesses embracing digital transformations to accommodate the ever-growing online market. The social distancing needs and huge traffic online has led companies to upgrade their online selling channels to meet the digital demand. Benefits of having a CMS.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Architecture Software Review Demand 246

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2020

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Finish the product before marketing begins. Marketing should start before product development.

Intellectual Property 436

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Viral Distribution 436

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

The old approaches of controlling distribution channels, saturating retail, and methodically scaling your brand awareness don’t protect you anymore. As a simple example, the Wal-Mart website now shows shoppers more products that they may like, based on previous purchases.

Software Review 355

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2021

Every entrepreneur with a new technology tells me that his innovation will be industry-disrupting, meaning that it will render the existing technology obsolete, and create a new market. Entrepreneurs tend to look for big changes and big markets when seeking disruptive opportunities, when the opposite may be more effective.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Senior Living Marketing Boom and How to Get Smart(er) with Your Strategy written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Debbie Howard In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Debbie Howard.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Schools, like any other organization, need to engage in marketing efforts. Successful educational organizations spend a lot of money on marketing strategies. Social media marketing. A large number of students can be found using a variety of social media channels. Benefits of Proper and Effective Marketing.

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Marketing Social Media Channel Audience 158

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2022

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). Mr. Everhart distills his leadership insights from many decades in one of the largest business-to-business marketing agencies, working with companies across the country. Don’t forget it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution. In addition, manufacturing and inventory levels will be reviewed.

Technical Review 379

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Bankruptcy 379

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2021

For example, my dictate that entrepreneurs need to find a “ painful ” problem to solve (such as high cost, low productivity) to attract customers, doesn’t really account for many successful startup businesses today, including top social media platforms, dating sites, and new fashions. I see this even extending into business-to-business.

Customer 432

Customer Social Media Dividend Technical Review 432

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Explain that they may be called, and use the opportunity to check their satisfaction with your company and your product. Validation of product. If the product is in customer hands, expect some customers to be interviewed. If the product is in customer hands, expect some customers to be interviewed. Size of the market.

Technical Review 380

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Angel Investor 380

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). 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. Don’t worry about scaling just yet.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The scope of digital marketing has grown massively today. Compare 2024 with 2014 and you’ll find that digital marketing, SEO, strategy, isation, and keywords were all still quite new. Finding the right digital marketing for home service companies is as vital as a large IT enterprise looking for digital marketing support.

Marketing 166

Marketing Social Media Reputation Audience 166

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Do you need to invest in production services to create more creative rich media? It’s also ideal if you can find a virtual call center program that works across multiple communication channels, like social media. Video production is a worthy investment. What does the production process look like?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. 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.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Disruption today is more than just changes in technology, or channel, or competitors – it’s all of them, all at once. If they were a commercial company, they figured out product/market fit; or if a government organization, it focused on solution/mission fit. Process Versus Product.

Government 322

Government Technical Review Acquisition Metrics 322

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 7, 2022

Whether you’re managing a digital business or a brick-and-mortar storefront, marketing is a practical necessity. Marketing is the way to raise visibility and awareness of your brand, and the only reliable path toward multiplying your audience overall. Marketing Difficulty Is Growing. What makes marketing difficult or easy?

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. Background Questions Let’s start with some background questions about the business and product. How will you be taking this to market? What channels will you use (e.g.,

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

For example, early adopters may be easily sold, but new technology product success really hinges on adoption by certain demographics, perhaps more influenced by celebrities or mommy bloggers. The last thing you need in a startup is a false start, where you can’t deliver on a product change deadline, or a new marketing channel.

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Metrics Technical Review Leadership Framework 387

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In reality, based on my experience as a startup advisor and investor, these constraints lead the best entrepreneurs to the most innovative solutions and new markets otherwise overlooked by their peers and competitors. In fact, that feeling of autonomy makes everyone more productive, more loyal, and feel valued.

Technical Review 277

Technical Review Partner Matching Channel 277

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. A hard look will be taken at the technology maturity, the current development progress, and customer satisfaction with early product shipments. Status of the solution. In addition, manufacturing and inventory levels will be reviewed.

Technical Review 296

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Bankruptcy 296

Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

Until we start giving grades for resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition, tenacity and having a passion for products and customers, great grades and successful entrepreneurs have at best a zero correlation (and anecdotal evidence suggests that the correlation may actually be negative.). Lessons Learned.

Technical Review 335

Technical Review Entrepreneur Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 335

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Yet I find, as a mentor and outside consultant, that many of you focus only on working conditions and compensation as the key factors determining team engagement , health, and productivity. In my experience, a healthy team is a prerequisite for a thriving business, innovation to meet market needs, and high customer loyalty.

Technical Review 353

Technical Review Cofounder Employee Global 353

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In reality, more features will more likely make the product confusing and less usable to all. Broad product offerings require too much infrastructure.

Startup 287

Startup Bandwidth Distribution Agile 287

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Viral marketing costs real money, and your support staff and hosting systems cost even more. There is no substitute for market research to confirm that your passion matches a real need in the market. Finish the product before marketing begins. Marketing should start before product development.

Intellectual Property 312

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 312

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Remember that people make a business, more often than a product. Starting a new business is all about establishing relationships with investors, suppliers, channels, and future customers. Learn how to budget your time and select productive relationships. Key board members multiply your networking efforts.

Advisory Board 356

Advisory Board Bandwidth Cofounder Technical Review 356

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 7, 2025

After paying R&D costs, product development, packaging, staff costs, and more, start-ups often look for ways to market and scale on a relatively tight budget. Below are five effective marketing tips to help launch your new business: 1. Influencers fall into a similar category, but they are often more of a niche market.

Marketing 52

Marketing Software Review Houston Social Media 52

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Every day, I channel my enthusiasm into creating exciting and engaging math lessons, leveraging my wealth of experience to motivate my students. Product descriptions and listings require tedious editing to make them engaging - especially after the fortieth one. Are you a founder or CEO or head of product?

Generative AI 297

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Houston America 297

YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

In fact, the last few weeks have been particularly devastating for the market. Plus, according to the Harvard Business Review, working from home increases productivity by at least 4.4% The opportunity here is in improving communication channels through the plethora of tools that technology and the internet offer.

Small Business 227

Small Business SBA Small Business Administration SEO 227

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model.

Artificial Inteligence 315

Artificial Inteligence Offshore Merger Technical Review 315

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

As an investor in startups, I most often see entrepreneurs who are technologists, or at least have a real passion for a specific product. They rarely highlight their marketing and relationship skills , even though, in my experience, these are more often the key to success in business than product skills.

Silicon Valley 284

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, small businesses face the ongoing challenge of streamlining operations, maximizing productivity, and staying competitive. This centralization improves content discoverability, eliminates duplication, and enables efficient content reuse across multiple channels.

Software Review 158

Software Review Software Small Business Social Media 158

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2020

If you’re a retail company that gains the majority of your business from people walking into your storefront and walking out with your product, then this puts you into a tough spot. This time period can provide you with the motivation to move more of your product online and create more of a digital presence. Through Retail 4.0

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