The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2025

For example, startups might find they are paying for unused software subscriptions or can renegotiate vendor contracts to save costs. Offer Early Payment Incentives Late payments from customers are one of the most common reasons startups struggle with cash flow. Begin by categorizing all expenses into essential and non-essential items.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Furniture stores encounter obstacles such as inventory management and ensuring top-notch customer service. Incorporating tailor-made software can transform business practices and offer benefits. This piece delves into how furniture retail software improves effectiveness.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

And they figure out how they could digitally enable their business – supply chain, customer interactions, etc. But they herald a sea change in what computers are capable of doing, how they do it, and what hardware and software is needed to do it. Classic Computers – Software Updates, New Features. They’d steamroll everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Startups must tackle challenges from scarce resources to changing customer needs proactively. This helps prevent excess inventory and shortages, boosting operational effectiveness and customer happiness. Startups must perform thorough market research to identify their ideal customers and discover new market niches.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 4, 2025

The company, led by CEO Charlie Sander, is a provider of Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 cybersecurity, student safety, and compliance for K-12 school districts aiming to address the pressing need for affordable yet powerful IT software products for educators.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2021

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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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

Key Functions with High Impact Generative AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling dynamic pricing and personalized customer interactions, boosting conversion rates and customer satisfaction. Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

If one of your core values is exceeding your customer expectations for quality and service, and your potential partner ascribes to the low cost, high profit mantra, a successful partnership is highly unlikely over the long-term. Is your project seen by both as an end in itself, or a means to another end? Conflicting visions won’t work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

I like the summary of the competitive reality in a new book, “ Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age ,” by Ram Charan, who relates a wealth of current experience from global clients: Customers expect a personalized experience. Features, availability, and brand are just the price of entry.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Whether it’s a logo, product design, software, or a unique business process, safeguarding your IP is essential to maintaining a competitive edge and protecting your business from theft or unauthorized use. Copyrights: Protect original works of authorship, such as writings, artwork, and software, from unauthorized copying or distribution.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 21, 2025

The arrival of sophisticated software for performance review has been crucial in this change, offering robust tools that enable continuous feedback and real-time performance analysis, setting the stage for more dynamic workplace environments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

I suggest looking for painful problems to solve, rather than “easier to use” or “nice to have” solutions, for customers with money. Customers line up to believe and buy from people who are viewed as leaders or experts relative to a specific solution. Collaborate with customers to tune your solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Take advantage of software tools to automate routine business functions, like taking and delivering orders. Provide website forums to help customers solve their own problems. Use free e-commerce software and services like PayPal before building an expensive customized solution. Automate to the max.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

AI Agents & Software Personalised AI Agent Development: Create AI agents that can understand user intent, plan actions, and improve through continuous learning, with a focus on specific verticals like travel, healthcare, or finance. They want to fund startups that enable generalist software developers to manage these teams of agents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

I was with IBM in the early PC days when Bill worked with us to provide PC DOS and other software. For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Customer retention. More customers are lost to apathy after the sale than poor service or quality. Investor negotiations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2025

With the constantly changing landscape of the economy and societal trends, staying ahead demands strategic planning, excellent customer service, and operational efficiency. Investing in state-of-the-art moving equipment not only enhances operational efficiency but also improves customer satisfaction.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2021

Ross Morel, CEO of Frogslayer - a custom software development and digital innovation firm - shares his experience of building his company around people. The post Putting People First Can Help You Discover What’s Possible appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Put yourself in the shoes of Mark Liu, chairman of TSMC: Do you view China as more of a competitor or customer – and why? They heard from a professor that the ratio of Stanford students taking software versus hardware courses was 10-to-1 software, a complete reversal from decades ago. Why or why not? Discussion Questions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2023

Design the full stack, not just a new software element. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Since all enterprises wanted to survive in the Covid circumstances, they were looking for their own ways to hit customers and profits. The audience became whimsical, and the companies had to fight for each potential customer. Business Software Development . Software is essential for those who want to grow and develop.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

Software Development Professional. Investors don’t fund entrepreneurs offering services, since these don’t scale, don’t have large margins, and need just a customer contract to start. This world changes rapidly, and needs a professional with experience in digital and conventional media to keep up.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2025

When operations run smoothly wit these HVAC business tips, it becomes easier to deliver high-quality service and respond to customer needs quickly. Efficiency doesnt just reduce internal stressit also contributes to better customer experiences. According to Service Business Evolution, the HVAC industry employs over 1.5

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

Customer engagement strategies encourage businesses to provide a positive experience that will encourage buyers to return by focusing on how you interact with your customers online and offline. Building an effective customer engagement strategy can create a substantial impact on your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2020

Most people don’t remember that Bill Gates first software venture, called Traf-O-Data , was a dismal failure. The customer culture today responds best to a greater vision for improving society and the planet, which can easily sustain a constant stream of new products. Rally people behind a higher purpose, not just a product.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Does your customer service department need additional tools? Prioritize the customer experience. Whether you’re running a virtual call center or you have a traditional contact center model, it’s important to put your clients and customers first. Here’s how to better utilize your capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2020

Design the full stack, not just a new software element. The distributed model draws on a diverse pool, helps manage costs, and captures regional insights and focus necessary to win local customers. Competition is not always a bad thing, and the real purpose is often to make the world a better place.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

However, this the first time ever that a software program has become human-competitive at multiple general tasks. On the business side that turns the product from an incredibly powerful application into an even more incredibly powerful platform that other software developers can plug into and build upon.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How can businesses and marketing teams reach customers in the age of COVID-19, respond to lightning-fast changes in the marketplace, and keep up with new consumer demands? Agile marketing takes its inspiration from Agile software development, which is how 90% of companies develop software today.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 11, 2024

With all the fierce competition in the hospitality industry, running a restaurant or takeaway now requires more than just excellent food and customer service. By tracking sales data, hospitality businesses can quickly identify which food and drink items are selling well and which are less popular with their customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

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Advisory Board Startup Dividend Angel Investor 312

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

So instead, we fill it with a completely custom blurb, written just for him: Hello! Thanks to his custom blurb, instead of closing his browser and feeling inadequate for the rest of the day, Mark completes his bio and becomes a happy customer. Which means better conversions and happier customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2021

Look for validation from your mainstream customers. No matter how passionately you believe that everyone needs one, and positive feedback from friends and early adopters (false positives), before you invest in scaling the business, make sure you set and meet good metrics in cost of customer acquisition, recurring sales, and margin.

Technical Review 329

Technical Review Merger Software Review Acquisition 329

Steve Blank

JUNE 20, 2022

He previously cofounded several enterprise software startups, and his previous job was building a new innovation organization from scratch inside another large company. Had a continuous customer discovery to create products that customers need and want. But this is the first time he was the CTO of a company this size.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2020

Here are the steps you can take to get started: Use the customer discovery methodology to search for new careers. News sources for Digital Health and Life Sciences are different from software/hardware blogs such as Hacker News, TechCrunch, etc. If you’re thinking of starting a company, get to know the VC’s.

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