Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2015

Passionate entrepreneurs tend to talk on and on about their disruptive technology, their intent to change the world and free services, but if a business can’t provide quantifiable value to real customers, the dream will likely turn into a nightmare. Highlight features rather than differentiators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2021

Shy introverts may be great technologists, but they won’t be entrepreneurs until they learn to nurture relationships with friends and family, practice their elevator pitch and respectfully ask for funding. Friends and family are quick to differentiate between a passionate hobby and a sincere effort to change the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In essence, as a contractor, you are a consultant who is competing regularly for new work, and you constantly have to differentiate your offering from other candidates, including price. Here are some key strategies that I recommend to every worker today: Develop and highlight your competitive differentiation.

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Gust

OCTOBER 11, 2011

An “ elevator pitch ” is a concise, well-practiced description of your startup and your plan, delivered with conviction and enthusiasm, that your mother should be able to understand in the time it would take to ride up an elevator. A good elevator pitch is not just for an elevator discussion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Shy introverts may be great technologists, but they won’t be entrepreneurs until they learn to nurture relationships with friends and family, practice their elevator pitch and respectfully ask for funding. Friends and family are quick to differentiate between a passionate hobby and a sincere effort to change the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Intellectual property is also a clear differentiator from your competitors, and indicates a serious commitment rather than testing the water. This pitch will be required by every platform, and it needs your effort and focus before the crush of all the other fundraising tasks. Collect target customer testimonials and advocacy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

It will be much easier to differentiate yourself from all of those other generalized consultants if you specialize. Perceived value is the amount that a customer thinks a service (or product) is worth. As we explained previously : Today, it’s impossible to reach most customers without a website. But, so do a lot of other folks.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Even if your idea gets in the wrong hands, they will probably just get the high level “elevator pitch” which isn’t worth much anyways. Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing. I agree completely.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Your Executive Summary is your verbal elevator pitch. Be specific about key differentiating functionality. Be clear about how you foresee your product or service being uniquely valuable to future customers. But, crafting a good Exec Summary is very hard. Understand Your Audience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2016

By profit, I simply mean offering a product or service to customers for a price that exceeds the total costs associated with the solution, thus providing some basis for recovering sunk costs and generating a return for stakeholders. Solve a painful problem for customers who have money to spend.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

What's been the challenge of getting, of changing people's thinking that oh no, it's 50 tools and it's, you know, it's a, in fact, I think you even called it an online visibility platform as, as a differentiator. You know, it's, but how do you actually get through all of that noise and reach a prospective customer? Has that been.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Shy introverts may be great technologists, but they won’t be entrepreneurs until they learn to respectfully ask for funding, after nurturing relationships, and practicing their elevator pitch. Pitch your personal investment and commitment to date. Be prepared with a formal agreement and a thank you.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 4, 2014

When you’re first considering a new business idea, skip the formal business plan and start with a one-page business plan or a simple elevator pitch to jot down the basic components of your idea. What are the core differentiators of your business that set you apart from the next person trying to build a similar business?

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Up and Running

JULY 13, 2022

In today’s market, most networking and customer interaction occur digitally which means there’s less opportunity to impress a potential investor face-to-face. Here are the four key things potential investors, as well as your ideal customers, will want to see. The more quality and customized your design is, the better.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2015

Shy introverts may be great technologists, but they won’t be entrepreneurs until they learn to nurture relationships with friends and family, practice their elevator pitch and respectfully ask for funding. Friends and family are quick to differentiate between a passionate hobby and a sincere effort to change the world.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

If you employ these nine tips for taking a good pitch and making it great, you’re going to give the kind of pitch that stands out to investors, too. Tell a real customer story. When possible, open your pitch by telling a real customer story that addresses the problem your product or service solves in the marketplace.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Here’s how to present our unique point of differentiation. This is your core marketing message packaged in an elevator pitch kind of way. Here’s how we educate and serve our customers. Have You Sold Your Internal Customers? Here’s how to refer a prospective client or employee.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? Johnson & Johnson , for example, makes hundreds of highly differentiated products that serve doctors, nurses and patients. User Class refers to a specific set of users.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The way that I define PR, basically, is that it’s raising your visibility to your awareness, to your target market, in a unique and differentiating manner. As a result, it has higher credibility, and it has the opportunity to influence and attract more customers. Also, what differentiates that is critical.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects in the habit of buying from you or listening to you or following you habit based marketing, download, nudge, wherever you get your podcasts. As, as a differentiator, is that Mo moving the definition of what your company is? Her recent issue. That's okay.

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