Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Expand the market for both. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone. Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Benchmark your practices against a true peer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

During the 1990’s large corporations had bought different software applications to automate each part of their enterprise – finance, customer support, manufacturing, sales, etc. The finance system didn’t talk to the sales system which didn’t know the manufacturing system even existed. An Epiphany. Founder Too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2014

Expand the market for both. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone. Where your competitor isn''t really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Benchmark your practices against a true peer.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 23, 2018

Agam Berry is an Indian entrepreneur whose expertise lies in digital marketing. Know your market and your competition well. Know your finances. Be smart with your finances. Direct marketing. He graduated from Punjab University. He credits a great deal of his success to his negotiation skills.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Triggered marketing is a promotion trend that uses data analytics and the target clients’ emotions to guide them into making a purchase that fits into a business’ plan. And many businesses today are jumping on the triggered marketing bandwagon to achieve marketing success. Using collected data to make a difference in marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Expand the market for both. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone. Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Benchmark your practices against a true peer.

Partner 147

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2018

You may have been solely focused on the finances of your emerging business, but your personal credit rating can have a detrimental effect on your business. Is your marketing strategy up to scratch? So, don’t discredit these ‘older’ ways of direct marketing. Your personal credit rating. Look the part.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2016

Expand the market for both. Typically, there are market opportunities that neither of your core competencies can win alone. Where your competitor isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Benchmark your practices against a true peer.

Partner 120

Partner Non-Compete Intellectual Property Merger 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2010

Best of both creates a new market. If your "competitor" isn't really competing with your direct market, you can refer business to each other without anyone losing customers. Affiliate marketing might actually be one of the more effective (and easier) ways to partner with someone else in the industry.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

For instance, how many cold calls have lead to conversions vs. direct marketing sales letters? Kevin Faber has been in the commercial finance and banking industry for most of his professional life. His experience in credit analysis, finance, and management led him to be the founder of Silver Summit Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2012

We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. As a result of our increased coverage and wider range of solutions, we both gained revenue and credibility, while reducing marketing and development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2011

We were both losing in the lucrative high-end market segment. We finally decided set up a strategic partnership with a joint product to capture this elusive segment of the market. As a result of our increased coverage and wider range of solutions, we both gained revenue and credibility, while reducing marketing and development.

Partner 225

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2016

written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing has become a very data-driven discipline. Marketers spend a lot of time and energy looking at the metrics that illuminate the costs of finding new customers and keeping current customers. An Important Marketing Metric That’s Often Overlooked. Do you know?

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. … We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy. It is intentional.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Step 3: Get financed. Step 5: Marketing your farm and products. We do a farmers market each Saturday during the summer so have met other farmers that way,” Cindy says. If you’d taken the time to do your market research, you would have learned there was no demand for passion fruit in Florida. Step 1: Identify your niche.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Finance the dream yourself. Innovation, an external change, brings a new competitive edge to your business by introducing products or services that increase the value of a customer’s experience with your organization and is announced in the marketplace through branding and marketing. Spend money on marketing.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

When it comes to the most famous company that got away, Groupon — which was offered and turned down $6 billion in 2010, and recently fell below that market cap — Lawee refuses to speculate about whether it would have fared better inside the Googleplex.). Business & Marketing. Money and Finance Lists. GoogleClique.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

So it looks like the market leaders are trading closer to recession multiples than bubble multiples. This has to do with adoption rates; this period seems about right for the oldest cohorts (less likely to adopt new technologies) to die off and for younger cohorts (quickest to use new technologies) to enter the market. What is next?

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