YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2019

by Jesmane Boggenpoel , author of “ My Blood Divides and Unites: Race, Identity, Reconciliation “ As the world becomes more globalized and advancement in technology continues to evolve, diversity in the workplace will continue to grow, making it more common to deal with clients, customers, and employees from all over the world.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

What the Switzerland Structure is, and what it has to do with identifying your business’s valuation. Intercom is the only business messenger that starts with real-time chat, then keeps growing your business with conversational bots and guided product tours. How important is finding your key differentiator in attracting buyers?

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Switzerland Entrepreneur Valuation Differentiation 65

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. Thanks from switzerland, Nice story! But keep in mind at this point Reid’s a first-time CEO. link] leehower.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? what’s the product? what distribution channel?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2017

billion a year when taken into account the mix of direct and indirect causes, ranging from treatment costs to lost productivity in the workplace, as consequences of a lack of sleep. Though the startup was founded in Switzerland, the clothes were featured on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2015

How Working Collectively Can Create a Better Customer Experience written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. We frequently work together and share experience to provide added value to our customers. via PhotoPin. Leverage collective knowledge. Form a collective network.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Last summer, Etihad Airways, the United Arab Emirates’ national carrier, joined the many airlines and hotels that have partnered with Switzerland-based Winding Tree to bypass intermediaries using distributed ledger technology. If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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United Arab Emirates Switzerland Cofounder France 63

Occam's Razor

MAY 4, 2010

You and I are poor proxies for the customer. Based on this my hypothesis is that reducing the size of the header will reduce bounce rate and increase click-through rate to key pages/products." You might think the purpose is: Facebook followers, Brand Perception Lift, Product Reviews. " See the difference? Surprise me.

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Web Non-Compete Analytics SEO 112

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Joel has one anchor customer right now and has validated his assumptions based on that case study.

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Poland Argentina Oakland Entrepreneur 126

The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Claudia: At EAL, we believe that there is a better way to solve two seemingly disconnected issues: the problem of too many products being destroyed or landfilled and the life-disempowering barrier of prospective students not having the money to afford college. In 2021, EAL helped corporate partners keep 5,056 mt of products out of landfills.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2017

As we wrote previously : Brand awareness reflects the degree to which customers or potential customers can recognize or recall a brand and correctly associate that brand with a specific product or service. Creating brand awareness is one of the key components in promoting a product or service. An added bonus?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. We came up with a positioning strategy that helps them sell value-added when recession-pinched customers are squeezing them for low rates.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 23, 2017

To oversimplify, I’ll call it pre-customer and post-customer domination. It’s pretty hard to create a new system of record these days as Salesforce, Marketo, Gainsight and the like are building tighter lock-in around their products. The Race for the Customer – Owning the Central Repository for Customer Data.

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blog.startupsquare.com

APRIL 13, 2010

2 Comments Tags: Customer Development , lean startup , pivot , Strategy. Having gone through 51 iterations of my mockups and gathered as much as feedback as I could with our primitive alpha, I feel confident about our basic customer problem hypothesis. Market Pivots: - Can we apply the same product / tech to a different market?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I know that’s something you talk a lot about with your customers. John Warrillow: It’s called The Automatic Customer. John Jantsch: The Automatic Customer , [crosstalk] but that was the basis of it really, right? They can simply grow quite quickly by winning new customers. Take Intercom customer, Unity.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

What matters the most for checkout experience isn’t the number of steps in a checkout process, but rather what the customer has to do at each step. 81% Think Their Newsletter Is A “Must Have” (And Don’t Value Customer Privacy). Grainger ( 9 ). Large view. Large view.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This “gut feeling” reaction is unlikely to change over time not because the company has not improved its service or product, but because the person subconsciously instils a belief that they are right and support it by following their original decision. To sell a product? We are terribly stubborn as a species! To watch a video?

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Analytics Switzerland Design Retention 135

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

As an early employee I worked all hours of the day, never hesitated to jump on a “ red-eye ” plane to see a customer at the drop of a hat, and did what was necessary to make the company a winner. The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2018

At the age of 50, Samira Buchi left her small town Switzerland home to pursue her American dream. I was born in Switzerland but raised by a Mediterranean family. Tell us about your products and services. Made in New York, in my studio in Long Island City – each product meets the highest standards of workmanship.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

and that starts with collaboration and nurturing productive partnerships. it will create breakthroughs that change lives as products move from experimentation to mainstream applications. As the world faces a global health and economic crisis, now, more than ever, is the time to double down on innovation strategies?—?and

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

parent company while providing technical services for foreign customers. They improved their penetration of local and regional markets by adapting their products to the country or region. They let companies develop products to launch in world markets simultaneously.

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Where to Play

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Remember that this is a learning process: you will need to discover different types of customers and understand their motivation, you will need to set your strategic focus wisely, and you will need to set your assumptions for each market and to validate them in order to assess and compare your options.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

The occasion was F.ounders , a networking event that has been dubbed the " Davos for Geeks ", after the elite conference of power brokers held in Switzerland each year. Too many companies value shareholders over customers and that leads to corporate senescence, which is very bad for shareholders. (By BlueContrast. June 19, 2012.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The way it works is that you compute the total cost of your Social Media program: SM employee salaries and benefits, agency fees, content acquisition/production costs, analyst salaries, executive time invested etc. Their email marketing programs are, literally, leaving money and customer love on the table. Maybe the problem is B2B.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Intuitive customer profiles make finding your fit and style easy. Rhythmo: (Austin, Texas): Rhythmo aims to provide a cost-effective, fun, and educational way for teenagers to start music production and STEM learning. including potential investors and customers, MassChallenge mentors, and VIP community leaders?—?will

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