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. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Finally, use customer feedback or promotions to attract more and more customers with less and less effort. Generate revenue around the clock.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

All are Horizon 1 or 2 projects – creating new features for existing products targeting existing customers or repurposing existing products, tools, or techniques to new customers. Allow teams to pivot to what they learned in customer discovery rather than blindly follow a plan they sold you on day one.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction. Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2022

You can have the best technology, but if customers don’t know you exist, or they don’t know how your technology solves a real problem for them, your startup will fail. How many customers will have any idea what this means to them? You need to clearly convey what makes your startup the only choice for your customers.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

The conversations are interesting and varied because they’re about new, exciting, different things. Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

You may feel good when that first burst of customers arrives, but don’t assume that “ word of mouth ” and those early adopters will grow your business to match your dreams of success. In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. They won’t find you.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. I am enjoying more discussions with startups about the ROI benefits for customers who use our products rather than the coolness of our products. Steve Jobs still walked from his house on Waverly to the Apple Store on University Ave.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2020

To answer some of your questions about general eCommerce marketing and why it is useful, we have several ways to drive more sales that take the stress out of trying to find your customers. Ecommerce marketing is a strategy that ultimately helps you push conversions. Upsell products to new and existing customers.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is one of the most powerful tools in the United Kingdom for driving desired traffic, lead generation, and increasing conversion rates for all businesses. High-Quality Ad Copy Advertising copy and language make the first impression on potential customers. Be specific. Be laser-focused.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. And we’re patient.

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

How does it meet customers’ needs? One way to approach that last question is to use this simple model: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) How will your business reach prospects? Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) How much money will your business generate from each converted customer? What does the business do?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How can businesses and marketing teams reach customers in the age of COVID-19, respond to lightning-fast changes in the marketplace, and keep up with new consumer demands? Here is some of our conversation: What is Agile marketing, and what makes it so different? Shift from an internal focus to a customer focus. .

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

Running an ecommerce business requires efficient order fulfillment processes to get products to customers quickly and cost-effectively. Streamlining your fulfillment workflows can help you ship orders faster, reduce costs, and provide better customer service. Just be sure to integrate new shipping services across your platforms.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

During their conversation, Jane explained how businesses can use archetypes to craft an engaging brand storytelling strategy, ensuring their messaging resonates deeply with their ideal customers. So it's thinking about the, you can think about the gifts that you want to bring to your customers through the brand experience.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Here is some of our conversation: Most of us are familiar with the term technical debt. As it relates to symptoms, firstly, I would say a likely sign is that your underlying business could be underperforming, whether financially, servicing customers, or not being able to grow or expand. What exactly do you mean by “Tech Debt 2.0”?

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2024

A startup’s web presence serves as its digital handshake, often being the first point of contact between the company and potential customers. This platform’s drag-and-drop functionality allows for the seamless creation and customization of web pages, enabling startups to realize their vision with precision and ease.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2019

They have a unique insight about the nature of interactions between customers and service providers I’ve never heard before. If they are correct, they’ve found a unique combination of customers and value proposition that made these customers want to immediately pay and repeatably engage. Why did those fail?

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

Personalization features enable the delivery of relevant and targeted content, enhancing customer engagement and driving conversions. CRM platforms also provide a shared space to store customer-related information, notes, and conversations. Social Media Management These platforms streamline social media activities.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 21, 2025

Forward-thinking companies champion models that facilitate open dialogue between employees and supervisors, ensuring that performance conversations align with personal career aspirations and the organization’s strategic goals.

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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

Conversely the VC is able to benchmark the maturity of your data and analytics function against other similarly staged companies as well. This includes things like: Making intros to portfolio companies that are potential customers. In a way, customer intros are always good, so this could also be done earlier in the process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Team members need to feel comfortable in the office conversing about less significant work concerns, and how they are feeling day to day, without fear of reprisals or judgement. A key to success is for you take the initiative and make the conversation about the other person. Develop metrics to monitor work intensity.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2020

Here are the steps you can take to get started: Use the customer discovery methodology to search for new careers. My advice in all of these conversations? How can you make it better and more effective? What are ways you might help to strengthen organizations that help those less able and less fortunate? Carpe Diem – seize the day.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For a startup, the first goal is to invest in the advertisement of your business to get customers. Your web page must have excellent customer service, making them satisfied. You can optimize your website pages to increase conversions. Make sure that your webpage loads faster so that the customers have no issue using your site.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Also, the use of a CRM system not only helps companies manage their customer base, but also makes it possible to keep up with the expectations of today’s home buyers and sellers. up to a 300 per cent boost in deal conversions. Consider a CRM Solution Customized for Your Company in Five Situations.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

We have adapted to a new normal, moving our watercooler conversations to text chats and trading conference rooms for virtual meetings. Discussions about performance, goals and challenges should be part of routine conversation so there are no surprises by the time the formal evaluation takes place. Encourage Self-Reflection.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 19, 2025

based digital marketing agency serving over 70,000 customers, offers relief through its integrated approach to online marketing. Our call volume has increased, and the number of leads leading to new customers has increased as well.” Hibu] has a different approach [and] listens to the customer and makes recommendations that fit.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2024

2 The Marketing Strategy Pyramid 3 Core Components of the Marketing Strategy Pyramid: 3 Business Strategy 4 Developing a Marketing Strategy 5 The Real Brand Strategy 6 Formulating a Growth Strategy 7 Building a Customer Strategy 8 Implementing a Team Strategy What is Marketing Strategy? We use something called the Marketing Hourglass.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 16, 2024

Businesses of all sizes and sectors are constantly seeking innovative strategies to capture the attention of potential customers. Focusing on Your Sales Funnel Understanding Your Ideal Customer The foundation of effective lead generation lies in a deep understanding of your ideal customer. But the key is to offer value.

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Rembrandt Communications

MARCH 1, 2021

This is important because it lets you plan all of your online posts, direct mail pieces, phone conversations, and other communications to focus on a core message. Simply have customers take a specific action when they see your message. Your content marketing strategy creates cohesive communications across your entire business.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Digiday reported conversations with media executives, with one publisher seeing a more than 50% decline in its search referral traffic since AI Overviews rolled out last year. In addition to search, shopping and customer support are changing too. Personalisation is increasing across the board. Gaming founders know this challenge well.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

So my only goal is to give you insights into the conversations we’ve been having in case you don’t have the same access or advice. They have regulations that dictate things like KYC (know your customer) and AML (anti money-laundering) and other regulations designed to avoid abuse of our financial institutions.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2024

The entire company (all of five of us) were out visiting the east coast to meet Prime Computer who would become our first major customer. My West Coast centric world of computing had been limited to custom bit-sliced computers , HP 2100 and 21MX , Interdata 8/32 minicomputers and Zilog microprocessors.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

As a versatile ERP system, Microsoft Dynamics caters to a variety of business needs, supporting everything from sales management to customer interactions. Its modular nature allows for customized setups that can grow with your business, providing an infrastructure that adapts to both current needs and future expansion.

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2018

Here’s what to keep in mind: I had a team of students working on an arcane customer problem. Finally, eight weeks later when they were about to fly across the country to meet the customer, I reminded them again. But how you choose to act on these recommendations can speed up your learning and make or break your career.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode and Eleven Labs are setting new benchmarks in conversational AI by enhancing voice quality and realism, NotebookLM’s natural voice podcast took the Internet by storm and new open source technologies are making high quality voice cloning easier than ever. Well, that future is now knocking on our door.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2021

New generations of customers respond better to the “ participative ” approach, where they get to provide input via social media and the Internet. Some call it a move from always “ hunting ” for new customers in the wild, to “gardening” or nurturing loyalty and value from the ones you already have.

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