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. The Wal-Mart home page is customized for each shopper based on location, local weather, and the customer search and purchase history. Algorithms and data are required to compete.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Others schedule exhaustive training sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone paints a consistent picture. Due diligence always involves on-site visits, informal discussions with any or all members of the team, vendors, and good customers as well as bad. Traction in the marketplace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. You can’t isolate your customers from language idiosyncrasies and culture issues, per reduced customer engagement highlighted a while back by the The Globe and Mail. But customers are not looking yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful.

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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

MAY 17, 2020

Offer free solutions to bring in more customers. Don’t get caught in the myth that you shouldn’t worry about monetization until after you have a large customer base. Social causes are great, but your ability to sustain your value contribution is directly linked to your ability to find paying customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. You can’t isolate your customers from language idiosyncrasies and culture issues, per reduced customer engagement highlighted a while back by the The Globe and Mail. But customers are not looking yet another homogeneous product or service, so be careful.

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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

JUNE 12, 2022

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This can essentially be between the business and the customers or the business and the employees. Responsibilities are distributed. The responsibilities can then easily be distributed. Customer support is something which also makes or breaks booking systems. Customer reviews must be read as well. The bottom line.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

If they select a business model that targets industry incumbents, they don’t have to worry about upsetting existing customers, partners or distribution channels. Existing companies also use network effects of monopolies/duopolies, distribution channel kickbacks, etc., to stifle competition.). What can a company do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2021

Contact key vendors and existing customers. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. If the product is in customer hands, expect some customers to be interviewed. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 3, 2018

But I remind them that customers don’t ask for your transcript. It does mean that success in building a company that scales depends on finding product/market fit, enough customers, enough financing, enough great employees, distribution channels, etc. Lessons Learned. Entrepreneurship is a calling, not a job.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

Most business plans aiming for seed funding, or any sort of initial support, or even for recruitment needs, are distributing the efforts and planning the projections over the business over the course of several years. Or is it customer support? How is a business plan usually structured? For instance, what is it that you need the most?

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Copyrights: Protect original works of authorship, such as writings, artwork, and software, from unauthorized copying or distribution. Trade Secrets: Implement measures to safeguard confidential business information, such as customer lists, marketing strategies, or manufacturing processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. Focus on collecting customer references.

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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. Focus is the art of limiting your scope to the key function that really matters for the majority of customers.

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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. For Upfront Ventures, across > 25 years of investing in any given fund 5–8 investments will return more than 80% of all distributions and it’s generally out of 30–40 investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it. As companies get this initial customer feedback on their product they start to have to ask harder questions about unit economics: How much does it cost us to acquire a new customer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Offer free solutions to bring in more customers. Don’t get caught in the myth that you shouldn’t worry about monetization until after you have a large customer base. Social causes are great, but your ability to sustain your value contribution is directly linked to your ability to find paying customers.

Intellectual Property 312

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Investor Viral 312

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2022

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. Fortunately these skills can be learned, and the barriers to communication can be overcome one by one. Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Of course, every risk level can be mitigated by a good plan that addresses the issue, offers a credible action plan, and will convince you, as well as investors and customers, that what looks like a risk to many is actually a sustainable competitive advantage for your startup. Niche or low growth-rate businesses opportunities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Build connections with key customers and competitors. With the pervasive internet, and global social networks, it’s easy to be visible and connect to your customers, and they expect it. Oprah Winfrey was clearly helped in her career by her relationship with the famous Barbara Walters.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 25, 2024

On top of visiting competitor websites, you can watch product demo videos, download product instructions and read customer reviews. Online surveys Surveys can be a great way to understand the wants and needs of customers. There are several applications and websites you can use to create and distribute surveys digitally.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Having only a large capital base and distribution channels, with no innovation, is not a sustainable business model. The new corporate model is a distributed entrepreneurial model. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services.

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Rembrandt Communications

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Is Cupid’s arrow missing your customers right now? Do customers love the way you communicate? Before you publish or distribute any type of messaging, your content needs to have three things: A goal. Then, you can exceed customer expectations and stop wasting time and money on content that doesn’t work… immediately.

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View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2020

Part of this is due to factors that will continue to persist or even accelerate, like more experience managing remote or distributed teams, a more rapid flow of information, and multiple large successes outside of Silicon Valley. In the last several years, you’ve seen more investors engaging with companies in non-core geographies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Steve Blank via Flickr by jdlasica 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.

Startup 245

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2023

With content automation capabilities, businesses can efficiently produce and distribute content aligned with their board-level objectives. Multi-Channel Publishing: Businesses can easily distribute content across various platforms and channels, including websites, social media, email marketing, and mobile applications.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2020

It is considered to be an extremely personal way of reaching target customers. Your message can be tailored to customer actions so that every communication is relevant to their interest. There is practically no other distribution channel that drives engagement and builds customer relations better than email marketing.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Check customer reviews or testimonials for insights into their user experience and overall satisfaction levels. Analyzing Feed Customization Options: Every business has its own unique requirements when it comes to integrating news article feeds into its platform or application.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2024

Exporting allows you to reach new customers, diversify your market, and enhance your brand’s reputation. Key components of an effective export plan include market analysis, target customers, competitive analysis, pricing strategy, and marketing plan. It should also cover logistics, distribution, and risk management.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

In addition to search, shopping and customer support are changing too. Conversational commerce is rising with AI chatbots and voice assistants becoming integral to customer journeys. Get creative with distribution, have a content strategy: a deep understanding of growth, including A/B testing and constant iteration, is essential.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

With the help of these applications, project managers or team leaders keep track of the budget, dates, and deadlines; they distribute the tasks in the team and can create reports and analyses on the progress of the project. For example, a customer follows the progress of the project. Monday is available by subscription.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To be fair, many businesses had distributed teams even before COVID-19 blindsided us. In distributed teams, employee engagement is critical. Using the platform, you can build custom apps for your employees to download. fact, the above survey found that fully-distributed teams hire 33% faster than their local counterparts.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

We discuss best practices for system hardening, managing security in a distributed workforce, and the significance of password management and compliance standards. Managing security in a distributed workforce requires clear policies. Exclusive to new customers—upgrade and grow your business with ActiveCampaign today! I found it.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The mass worry of the pandemic, paired with the subpar security systems that many remote workers are burdened with, has resulted in a myriad of easy targets for those who profit off of the distribution of malware. However, channels of seamless communication, between both customers and colleagues, can be easily set up by an IT support team.

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