The Startup Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

Some of the most effective ways of re-engaging remote employees is through virtual events and team buildings. Not only do they get to know each other outside of work more, but a sense of community and work ethic can be built through these activities. It is advisable to try and steer a lot of the conversation away from shop talk though.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Crafting Unforgettable Experiences: The 3 M’s of Event Success written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Janstch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Phil Mershon. Questions I ask Phil Mershon: [00:57] What makes an event unforgettable? [02:50]

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Planning a corporate event as a startup can feel like a monumental task. A well-organized event, whether it’s a product launch, networking gathering, team-building retreat, or investor pitch, can significantly amplify your brand. Clearly Define The Goal Of Your Event Any corporate event needs a clear goal to be successful.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

It has uses in threat detection – airport security, banks, and sporting events. This can enable chatbots to have a conversation with people. AI can also be used to automate data conversion such as translations and decryptions, accelerating the ability to derive actionable insights. It can even identify faces.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

How to build regional entrepreneurial communities has just gotten it’s first “here’s how to do it” book. Feld’s thesis is that unlike the common wisdom, it is entrepreneurs that lead a startup community while everyone else feeds the community. Activities and Events. It may even be right. Incubators and Accelerators.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

In my mom’s case she lost a friend permanently that made it awkward in our social interactions in the small Jewish community in Sacramento. He felt that any time there were tech events, tech conferences or press it was always the CEO who got to attend and got his name in the press when it was supposed to a partnership.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2022

How To Connect, Converse, And Convert Through Social Media Listening written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. She’s also the author of a new book — Conversations That Connect: How to Connect, Converse, and Convert Through Social Media Listening and Social-Led Customer Care. BSquared.media. Like this show?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 16, 2020

It’s great for business owners looking for themes and templates for specific use cases such as online courses or sales pages for your nutrition site or upcoming event. This goes a long way to increasing your organic conversions. These include: Blogs. Lead generation forms. Advanced Design Tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. They’ll invite you out to events in which you’ll meet their other clients, you can get to know them socially and hopefully develop a real mentorship relationship where every conversation is not on the clock.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 15, 2021

traffic, engagement, conversion, sharing). It must align with the marketing funnel stages (awareness, consideration, conversion, retention) as well as the customer journey. Whether that’s to: Intrigue (awareness); Educate (consideration); Influence a purchase (conversion); Or inspire engagement (retention).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If angel investors are pressuring you to set up a board and if you don’t have the leverage to push back a little then I might suggest a 3-person board in which all 3 seats are appointed by the common stock and you agree to appoint one of these seats to the angel investor but perhaps make it either time based or event based. And importantly?—?replacing

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

In an effort to reduce miscommunications, this platform helps start a conversation by dropping a comment on anything seen on-screen, and sharing a private link to start a conversation – in the context of what is seen. Events and more in the Age of Video Revolution. Another virtual events platform, Hopin , has hit a 2.1

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you want to increase traffic, look at actions such as clicks, referral traffic, and conversions. Also, examine how they are talked about by the community. By going to More , and then clicking Community on a Facebook business page, you can read through public posts tagging them and posts shared to their page. Take Salesforce.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

The next day, the teaching team held a mandatory “ speed-dating ” event with the newly formed teams. Real-time conversations and dynamic curation of news stories empowers people to expand their social networks and personal expertise about topics important to them. is an ad-supported, web-based comment platform for daily news content.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2025

Were you already engaged in a sales process with multiple parties, or was it really more of an opportunistic conversation between your company and them? Go to Banker conferences, like Goldman Sachs’ PICC or AGCs annual event, where you can meet up with dozens of PEs, Bankers and some strategic buyers.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- To build a community. I wanted to be a part of a community of consultants that would provide me with the opportunity to build relationships with other practitioners, share lessons learned, and periodically collaborate. Photo Credit: Will Bachman.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2023

Most of all, they have a strong community of followers who are hungry for new information about apps, software, and new startups. They have a really active community, so you can easily connect with other bloggers and share your content with them. It also has an active and engaged community of young professionals. Best of all.

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Mucker Lab

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

When meeting with founders, we often find ourselves answering questions about what to expect with our diligence process and timeline between the first conversation and a term sheet. These events and publicized fundraising milestones are not goals, but rather the means to achieve the larger objective of building a market-defining business.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

I aim to speak at 30-50 events next year to motivate emerging leaders and subsequently obtain new potential clients. It’s a proven methodology, and I am rapidly acquiring the skills I need to ensure I book as many quality events as possible going into next year. The first event has already started – Agile and Management 3.0

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Reputation: Research and seek recommendations about the reputation of the tax professional within your local community or industry. Keep in mind your comfort with technology, the intricacy of your taxes, and any major life events when making this decision.

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VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Perhaps it’s boredom, or Zoom fatigue, but there’s something quite appealing these days about having social conversations without turning on a camera. Clubhouse was the trailblazer, but it sparked a huge interest in the category from established social networks, new startups and even the open source community.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2020

. #1- Begin conversations. He started by reaching out to 15 people in his network or individuals he wanted to get to know on a weekly basis — just to simply begin a conversation. I will call an individual if I am already connected to them or begin a LinkedIn conversation with them. 1 + 1 = 3! We are all in this together.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

Living and working in the SF Bay Area, I have been fortunate enough to be surrounded by people who are incredibly generous with their time and knowledge…Volley offers the chance to open this Silicon Valley dynamic to community after community after community.”. We led the Volley pre-Seed round. We love this story.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For conversion optimization , the main difference is the variability of Internet traffic. Results compare conversion rates among the variations based on a single change. Some 74% of optimizers with a structured approach to conversion also claim improved sales. Bugs—if they’re around—are a conversion killer. Probably not.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

The information needed to make decisions is all around them: in their communities, at events, and at the end of a Google search. More conversions? Look instead at measuring KPIs like close rate, cost per acquisition, cost per lead, conversion rates, average contract value, and lifetime customer value. The impact of this?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2013

” This event harnesses the power of youth, their cultural diversity, their domain expertise and their deep conversations about today’s world problems to accelerate them into ventures, ready to be taken to market and scaled,” says Dash Dhakshinamoorthy, entrepreneur and founder of StartupMalaysia. A Meeting Of Young Minds.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. I figured that telephonic conversations provide limited help to the victims, and physical intervention is required. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Gabriel Dungan, ViscoSoft !

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with It’s clear things have changed for good and the need for managing remote communities of employees, customers and partners has become ever more important. they are communities and tribes. this is classic community management.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Whether collecting new data points from archaic equipment, or monitoring events on a remote site in real-time, companies adopting IIoT can gain an unprecedented level of visibility into their operations by tapping into data from the physical world. This new information, when digested and indexed effectively, also translates into new insights.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Conversational marketing. Drift “conversational marketing” 0.70 Drift and “conversational marketing”. For Drift, founded in 2014, that was easier said than done: Drift didn’t go all-in on “conversational marketing” until 2018. Inbound marketing. The subscription economy. Growth hacking. The phrases have defined brands.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This disaster recovery plan needs to anticipate a range of potential threats and situations, from relatively likely eventualities to lower-likelihood events that could nevertheless pose an existential threat to your business. Use a Secure Email Suite (Preferably Encrypted) for Sensitive Communications .

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VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

The Tradeshows and events industries have also begun to incorporate AR and VR to enable participants to join large conferences virtually. The company’s digitization efforts have also led to other efficiencies, including a real estate database that precisely defines housing properties with 433 fields. This new medium has such a huge potential.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Yet digital marketers have only recently recognized that applying this decades-old research to online forms can generate more leads and sales—and upend the conversion optimization best practice of “shorter forms equal more conversions.”. Shorter forms increase conversions, right? 14% drop in conversion. The result?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

The conversation almost always turns to questions about where to find virtual assistants and how a startup can use one. In 2009, I launched the Micropreneur Academy , a private membership community for startup founders. For the launch event I wanted to contact several bloggers in the startup and microISV space.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 15, 2021

We've been hosting customer and prospect dinners for the past three years, where we handpick the guests and welcome them to an intimate night of deep conversation. Take a moment to listen to what the clients are saying right now in their conversations. 8- Communicate effectively. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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