Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

Your strategy today should be to define and excellently prepare the absolute minimum product that will excite a selected small segment of your intended customers, and roll it out to them – as a Beta, early promotion, or even a give-away. Find customers, partners and channels early. Use social networking to start the wave.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The growth of social networking, the spread of mobile devices, and the advances in the use of cloud computing have changed how people consume content from the news and media industry. It has also made it easy for them to deliver content to different devices, hence reaching a large number of customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

Your strategy today should be to define and excellently prepare the absolute minimum product that will excite a selected small segment of your intended customers, and roll it out to them – as a Beta, early promotion, or even a give-away. Find customers, partners and channels early. Use social networking to start the wave.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

by Keith Tully , a partner at business rescue specialists Real Business Rescue. Without customers, no commercial organisation can survive. It can be a struggle initially to attract new customers to your organization, but once you have done this, how do you keep them? Standard of customer service during the transaction process.

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View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

Two weeks ago, my partners and I here at NextView Ventures announced our second fund. As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Network Effect B2B. But network effects can be an integral component of business-focused services as well.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Your strategy today should be to define and excellently prepare the absolute minimum product that will excite a selected small segment of your intended customers, and roll it out to them – as a Beta, early promotion, or even a give-away. Find customers, partners and channels early. Use social networking to start the wave.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2022

To attract new customers and profit, the company needs to grow and develop constantly. All you have to do is partner with wholesalers and manufacturers to sell their products under your brand name. The supplier packs the product and sends it to the customer. Investments.If Personal interests. billion in 2021.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In fact, the focus on social networking platforms, starting with Facebook, has destroyed the meaning of the word friend and even changed it from a noun to a verb. You need business partners, investors and customers. More professional connections means more credibility, more insight into the market and more customer clout.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Administrators?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

You may develop your online business reputation using social media platforms, website content, news releases, and other remarks. External users, such as customers, media publications, and influencers then contribute to your reputation through reviews, articles, forum posts, comments, journalistic investigations, and interviews.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Administrators?

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 31, 2023

We will go through seven tactics and methods that are the cornerstone of effective online marketing and without which other improvements to build customer trust would be somewhat pointless. However, it is irrelevant whether you, your partner, your neighbor or we like something. Invest, it will pay you off to build customer trust!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

You may develop your online business reputation using social media platforms, website content, news releases, and other remarks. External users, such as customers, media publications, and influencers then contribute to your reputation through reviews, articles, forum posts, comments, journalistic investigations, and interviews.

Reputation 115

Reputation Management Small Business Software Review 115

VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Crypto projects like BAYC have successfully created a new social network, transportable to any other social platform, yet exclusive with real-life benefits. Students cannot easily network with other students and we have all experienced how much fun these zoom sessions can be. Picture: nftculture.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

You need to have business relationships with team members, investors, customers, and a myriad of other support people. That doesn’t mean you have to be a social butterfly to succeed, or introverts need not apply. See my article from way back “ Entrepreneurs Learn Best From Business Networking ” on how and where to get started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter? Its cloud platform lets sales and marketing teams connect and share information about customers and prospects, and developers have enriched the value of the platform with a host of applications that integrate to the platform and add to its functionality. Leveraging network effects.

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Austin Startup

JULY 13, 2010

LiveOffice, the number-one provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving, email compliance and email continuity solutions and Socialware , the leader in helping companies manage, embrace and leverage public social networks, today announced a partnership. CrunchBase Information. Socialware. LiveOffice.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Social commerce is a thing – Over 76M people in the US will make a purchase via a social network at least once this year (38.4% of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends. Snap and Tiktok fighting for users (source: eMarketer ). Immersive ar/vr/xr.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2012

Those of you who viewed the movie The Social Network , saw some examples of entrepreneurs dealing with conflict poorly, almost leading to the demise of Facebook. Think of the risk taken by CEO Todd Davis of LifeLock when he posted his Social Security number online, to assure customers the he could protect them from identity theft.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2013

Those of you who viewed the movie The Social Network , saw some examples of entrepreneurs dealing with conflict poorly, almost leading to the demise of Facebook. Think of the risk taken by CEO Todd Davis of LifeLock when he posted his Social Security number online, to assure customers the he could protect them from identity theft.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Kentucky Due Diligence 278

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Your strategy today should be to define and excellently prepare the absolute minimum product that will excite a selected small segment of your intended customers, and roll it out to them – as a Beta, early promotion, or even a give-away. Find customers, partners and channels early. Use social networking to start the wave.

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Agile Startup Social Network Software Developers 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

Things like winning startup competitions, getting selected to a startup incubator, partnering with a large company, are all good ways to show traction and some proof that you’re creating value. Social networking is so last year. Good examples include: Ycombinator, Techstars, Startup health and Rock health. Kickstarter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Make sure your plan answers every relevant question that you could possibly imagine from your business partners, spouse, and potential investors. For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Get a real customer and real revenue.

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Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 253

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Use friends, family, and angels, if possible, to get a product, revenue, and customers first before the VC connection. Investment firms specialize by business sectors, and each partner within the firm has a specialty. Identify the right people in the right venture firms.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 10, 2022

No matter how much heart and hard work you throw into something, no matter how good your intentions, no matter how strong your convictions—if real customers don’t want what you’re offering, you’ll go out of business. They’re firmly grounded in what customers will pay for right now. Make Market Realities Work for You.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2021

Explore finding a business partner. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Offer to help a couple of customers free, just to get your act together and your presence known. Unless you are a true loner, you need someone like-minded but complementary in skills to help you with the startup plans.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

That’s over half a million new startups every month, all fighting for customers’ attention. If you’re starting a business and hope to reach those customers, you’ll need a killer digital marketing plan to get noticed. Become their customer so you can see what they’re doing from the inside.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Get Out of the Building and test the Business Model.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

As the former CEO of a professional expert network , I’m a firm believer in the value of speedy access to relevant experts. I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). We three partners are working hard. Thanks from switzerland, Nice story!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

The simple solution I recommend to inventors is to find a partner who can focus on business and marketing, while you focus on technology. Here are some of the key entrepreneur characteristics most often overlooked by inventors: Driven by customer-centric view of needs, rather than technology.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

While the Wi-Fi phone capabilities will relieve some of the burden on cellular networks, the higher resolution screens, which are also available on the new phones from competitors like Samsung and Lenovo, will create more demand for cellular bandwidth. This is the kind of user interface detail that Apple specializes in, delighting customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

We have enough social network startups. In the same way, win-win performance agreements make for effective team members, partners, and investors. With today’s interactive social media, there is no reason to assume that you know what customers want, or they know what you have. Keep commitments, with no excuses.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Using branded corporate and customer gifts is a great way to firstly build brand awareness and secondly to pique customer and client interest in the startup’s offerings. It’s important to use quality, useful gifts that potential customers can both use, but will also serve to improve awareness among their social networks.

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