Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. The best place to learn is by scouting around the Internet today. Use the Internet to outsource staff.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Obviously, the internet has become a crucial platform for activities like this. Of course, the Internet is not an exception. Modern internet users have a powerful Internet connection that allows them to stream high-quality videos without any problems. ASL uses the latest software related to visual effects and animation.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Along with lack of oversight, outdated software or hardware, inadequate cybersecurity, or one bad tech investment could seal the demise of a small enterprise. Here is some of our conversation: Most of us are familiar with the term technical debt. Yet, unlike large companies, most SMBs lack the resources to staff an IT department.

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Technical Review Small Business Software Review Security 246

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2018

Of course, Niantic tried to stop such cheating, devoting months of effort diligently programing an update, only to discover the internet was able to find a work around in less than an hour. The problem isn’t that multimillion dollar gaming companies or the United States government lack the talent to create robust code.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2019

Many aspiring entrepreneurs are looking to the Internet as an opportunity to get rich quick, instead of a place where you can start a business you love, for very little capital and minimal technical expertise. The best place to learn is by scouting around the Internet today. Use the Internet to outsource staff.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. That's what you sound like when you claim that getting a software patent will protect you from competition. Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. Leave a comment and join the conversation.

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Intellectual Property Bootstrapping Software Review Open Source 319

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There were startups and a software industry but barely. The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. There was no money train. It was 1991. We still loved every moment. People were building.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 Conversely if you’re burning $600,000 per month (yes, some companies do) then you only have 5 months of cash left. In startup world low GM almost always equals death which is why many Internet retailers have failed or are failing (many operated at 35% gross margins).

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

If you have been noticing that despite getting substantial traffic to your website, not enough visitors are converting, it could well be due to them abandoning your site. It is also very important that the mobile site is optimized for loading time since currently more than half of the internet traffic is generated by mobile users.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. Our software wasn’t fully baked. We had one of the largest US software companies talk about buying us. Having a conversation. Keep your conversations confidential. We were hot.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

However, there’s a big challenge that faces most employers who are unfamiliar with the remote work setup: what software tools do your staff need in order to stay in the game and run your day to day operations with minimal business impact? Work offline when you don’t have an Internet and it syncs automatically when you’re online.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

Identifying specific pain points and explaining how your software addresses those is easier than trying to tap into a general malaise and promising a better world. In retrospect we say that Google transformed how people find information, and further, how advertising works on the Internet. The disruptors often don't make the money.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2020

They have a great internet presence; thus, a blogger’s content about any product influences the user’s decisions. For this purpose, you can hire a famous blogger to advertise your products with discount codes. For example, you may have seen a beauty blogger on Instagram advertising any makeup or skincare products with discount codes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

(for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2019

This can translate to bad news for businesses that underperform or, conversely, great news for those that exceed expectations. Millennials scour the internet to learn about a brand or product before making a purchase. They check websites, blogs, or peer reviews that they trust. Big purchases can happen virtually.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). They are professionals with full-time jobs, who often don’t have time for due diligence (and may not even know how to do it) and often make decisions through trusted referrals or based on gut feelings (more on gut feelings later).

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 5, 2020

And indeed, as more and more people rely on the internet when it comes to shopping for the solutions they need, businesses will have to focus on building an effective content marketing strategy. It is an ongoing process where you need to keep constant tabs on important numbers such as organic visits, conversions, and lead acquisition rates.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 17, 2010

Of the 3,204,523 pub conversations where someone said "Have you heard him speak ?" This last line of questioning is exactly how Smart Bear came to be a company about peer code review and not "version control data mining." Leave a comment and join the conversation. It's like Kermit the Frog got kicked in the balls. (Oh,

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Robert has been working in software since 2005. Additional interactions or elements on a landing page will often curb your conversion rate. When I reviewed my notes from the early calls, I found I usually forgot to ask certain questions or I failed to collect information I really wanted to get. (Powered by LaunchBit ).

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Campaign Software Review Brazil Conversion 272

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

1 – Time Tracking Software. Another significant way that you can improve your business savvy is to take advantage of powerful software alternatives that go beyond the mainstream. A few choice software changes such as this one could shave hours off your workweek and help relieve the hassle of client communications. #3

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

New enterprise resource planning software (ERPs) – new startups that build software that helps businesses run. AI to build enterprise software – In the future, every enterprise could have their own custom ERP, CRM or HRIS that is continually updating itself as the company itself is changing.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Generative AI 176

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2019

Now, PDF conversion is a critical capability in any startup’s document management system. However, it has become editable with updates in some software. Originally it could take hours to download PDF documents over slow internet connections without a hyperlink and it usually required a paid subscription to Adobe.

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Conversion Software Review Operations Software 98

Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

She was an academic on leave from Stanford now selling SAAS software to large companies, but was being inundated with marketing communications advice. “My For example, to outflank a competitor who had faster products, Intel moved the conversation about microprocessors away from speed and technology to create a valued brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

For me this dates back to pre-Internet days of bulletin boards, CompuServe , Prodigy and the like. What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). Pre Quora – AVC & Answers OnStartups. I rarely only read the post. articles and leaves.

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Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Software Review 301

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Here’s my take: 1. Others will, too.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2013

In my first enterprise software company we developed a methodology for sales that we called PUCCKA. I’ve also seen the converse too many times – sales reps who walk into a meeting and spout out, “so, tell us what’s not working in your manufacturing process!”. This article initially appeared on Inc. Click here. But it is so true.

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Sales Software Review Social Media Customer 367

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

When most beginners start with conversion rate optimization, they get carried away by the rosy picture of A/B testing. There are three areas specifically that I’ve found beginning conversion rate optimizers completely miss the mark on. Thing is, you can’t have a conversation without actually talking to your customers.

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Conversion Software Review Mobile Community 116

ConversionXL

MAY 25, 2016

User generated reviews in general are tremendously influential in persuading people to buy. One study found that 88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations and 72% of consumers say positive reviews make them trust businesses more. How Do People Consume Product Reviews?

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Software Review Conversion Video SEO 80

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due. Yet there is one silver lining when it does happen: we wind up throwing out working code , debt-riddled and elegantly designed alike.

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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Gartner predicted in 2024 that traditional search engine volume could drop 25% by 2026 due to users favoring AI chatbots and virtual agents. 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.

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Technical Review B2C Generative AI IPO 78

Up and Running

JULY 22, 2020

Whether you are selling goods, a subscription service, or online tools, finding ways to maximize your conversions is an ongoing task that you can’t afford to ignore. Any of these aspects, if not optimized, can mean the difference between conversions and lost sales. Optimize wording to increase conversions.

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eCommerce Conversion Caching Technical Review 98

Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Think about it — your customers will likely showcase your products to their friends and family, and your brand name will come up in conversations and recommendations. Now, since all of this happens organically, tracking referral purchases gets pretty difficult (if not impossible) without having referral marketing software in place.

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eCommerce Sales Software Review Canada 152

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 12, 2011

On the other hand, if during the interview she asks how often you do performance reviews, that means she doesn’t understand the startup culture. You already live by this Code of Turmoil because you’re the entrepreneur; you have no choice. Or therapy. Potential earnings (e.g. salary, benefits). Writing skills are required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2017

A classic article in the Harvard Business Review “ The Truth About Customer Experience ” defines it as your customer’s end-to-end journey with you, not just the key touchpoints or critical moments when customers interact with your organization. Now all we hear about is providing the best “customer experience.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The conversation also touches on the risks AI poses in cybersecurity and the necessity of implementing two-factor authentication and VPNs. Google Workspace users should regularly review linked accounts. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a must for all software. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please!

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Software Review Security Distribution IP 79

Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I recently was having one of these conversations with an entrepreneur I’ve known for a couple years. In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies. I often tell these entrepreneurs that I genuinely hope they prove us wrong, and are wildly successful with their startup.

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