Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. From an entrepreneur perspective, here are the barrier to understanding categories: Unclear frame of reference. Fortunately these skills can be learned, and the barriers to communication can be overcome one by one.

Semantic 261

Semantic Technical Review Retention Distribution 261

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2013

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. From an entrepreneur perspective, here are the understanding barrier categories: Unclear frame of reference. Fortunately these skills can be learned, and the barriers to communication can be overcome one by one.

Entrepreneur 254

Entrepreneur Semantic Technical Review Retention 254

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and maintenance. A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels.

Technical Review 220

Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review Business Model 220

View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2020

I think VCs will gravitate even more towards repeat founders with prior success, and will be more gun shy about backing someone that is difficult to reference within their networks. This gets really challenging if it remains difficult to meet in person or to travel.

Early Stage 374

Early Stage Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence 374

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2019

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. From an entrepreneur perspective, here are the key barrier-to-understanding elements: Unclear frame of reference. Stereotyping and biases.

Semantic 235

Semantic Technical Review Retention Distribution 235

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. Fully remote distributed companies used to be a rarity. Companies Must Build a Process for Managing Distributed Engineering Teams. Here is remote work in the time of COVID-19.

Silicon Valley 198

Silicon Valley Distribution Engineer Technical Review 198

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2012

Ask everyone to update their resume, and personally call probable references, so there are no surprises. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy. Don’t surprise the team.

Technical Review 245

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Startup 245

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2013

Ask everyone to update their resume, and personally call probable references, so there are no surprises. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy. Don’t surprise the team.

Technical Review 242

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Term Sheet 242

TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

channels (search, social, viral, new media), cost-efficient distribution We often reference Dave’s work when talking to innovators. Be sure to check out the entire presentation. Conclusion Startup metrics are an invaluable tool for founders and innovators.

Metrics 260

Metrics Startup Retention Acquisition 260

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Ask everyone to update their resume, and personally call probable references, so there are no surprises. That means questioning each of these key players, and calling references or prior associates. This will involve an analysis of the company’s distribution channels, advertising, and pricing strategy. Don’t surprise the team.

Technical Review 229

Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Angel Investor 229

ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

Business to Business (B2B) – Also referred to as Enterprise to Enterprise, it is typically utilized to transport documents, equipment, reports, and raw materials from one place to another. An integrated referral program – where existing customers get points and rewards for referring the courier service app to new users.

Technical Review 163

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Demand Social Media 163

Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Their value proposition had now changed from a wind turbine supplier to homes, to a distributed power supplier to cities and utilities. The Nine Teams Present. The first team up was Autonomow , the robotic mower farm weeder. Two weeks to go.

Channel 234

Channel Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Business Model 234

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Help somebody negotiate their compensation package, introduce someone to your favorite startup CEO, agree proactively to be a reference client for somebody who didn’t ask. years where I developed skills building distributed systems over networks. Create an internship at your company where one doesn’t exist.

Europe 352

Europe France San Francisco Chicago 352

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2020

There is practically no other distribution channel that drives engagement and builds customer relations better than email marketing. Email marketing deliverability refers to the ability of an email to land in a subscriber’s inbox, rather than ending up in the junk mail folder where they are unlikely to be read. With more than 2.5

Email 232

Email Sales Marketing Campaign 232

Board Effect

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Time limits work well for certain items, and the chair can refer them to a committee if discussions are bound to be lengthy. Technology can help make the setting and distributing the agenda easier. The board chair prioritizes each agenda item to make sure the most important or pressing items get covered first.

Technical Review 92

Technical Review Jacksonville Software Review Florida 92

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Term Sheet 120

ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

A marketing playbook is a reference guide that outlines how a business will manage its marketing on a particular channel or campaign. Each person in the content team will refer to this section to find out their role and responsibilities in the overall workflow. A marketing playbook gets everyone on the same page.

Campaign 149

Campaign CTO Marketing Social Media 149

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

When people refer to a strategic investor they are usually talking about an investor that comes from the industry you serve as opposed to an independent venture capital investor. When they promise to help you with marketing, sales, distribution, integrated product development, etc. it sure is tempting.

Strategic Investors 279

Strategic Investors Venture Capital Due Diligence Early Stage 279

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? Apply the right model and you will not only distribute conversions across multiple touch points, but you can also look at the impact on the CPA (this really is OMG, I peed in my pants a little cool). Multi-channel attribution across digital channels.

Channel 162

Channel Analytics Campaign Conversion 162

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2017

Then, hopefully, come customers, distribution channels, and going public or merging with an attractive buy-out candidate. From an entrepreneur perspective, here are the barrier to understanding categories: Unclear frame of reference. Fortunately these skills can be learned, and the barriers to communication can be overcome one by one.

Semantic 154

Semantic Technical Review Retention Distribution 154

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2020

So, what are the in demand products during this time of pandemic that both budding and seasoned entrepreneurs may want to consider manufacturing or distributing? Category design refers to an innovative business strategy that can help your company dominate a new product category. These are some of those: 1. Medical Products.

Demand 173

Demand Product Artificial Inteligence Software Review 173

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. So let's say there is a distributor distributed network, BYOD devices. What can we do?

Software Review 79

Software Review Security Distribution IP 79

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Technically speaking this basically just refers to using your resources efficiently. You have to focus on designing it around your business’s needs and the information structures / geographical distribution of those processes. Efficiency. An application’s efficiency is defined by how well it works.

Framework 167

Framework Cloud Security Technical Review 167

Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

This graphic shows that the distribution of funding is not uniform across the spectrum of rounds size in dollars. There are several important sources of capital for entrepreneurs starting their businesses, depending on the stage of development of the company. The following table shows these sources: CAPITAL SOURCES. ANNUAL US $$$. 50 billion.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Venture Capital Valuation Software Engineering 179

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

I continually hear this reference to Internet scale, and I’m trying to get an idea of what people like Mark and other Vcs, when it comes to mind, when you’re looking at products and you say Internet scale, what does that really mean to you? or an MSN or an AOL in terms of portal distribution.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

This is not just a product pitch, but must include all elements of your pricing, marketing, distribution and maintenance. A small advisory board of outside people with experience in your domain can give you the unbiased feedback you need, as well as connections for setting up distribution and sales channels.

Business Model 120

Business Model Technical Review Advisory Board Software Review 120

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2020

Documentation management focuses on creating, reviewing, modifying, certifying, issuing, and distributing the documents that validate your project approach. Documentation management does not only focus on creating and storing them but also aims at using them as a reference for the ongoing project as well as future ventures.

Management 165

Management Software Review Technical Review Later Stage 165

Agile VC

JANUARY 13, 2016

Potential for instant global distribution (mobile app stores, Facebook, etc). For reference, Aileen Lee’s original article on TechCrunch which helped bring “unicorn” into the parlance of our times was published in Nov 2013. Technology leverage inherent in a world of ubiquitous connected computing.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review .Net Revenue Software Review 157

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 4, 2022

One of the most effective ways to secure a network is through what is called network segmentation, referring to the division of the networks into a number of different segments. When it comes to networks, security is all-important.

Security 187

Security Networking United States Architecture 187

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This post is an update of what we learned about life science distribution channels. Life Science/Health Care distribution channels differ by Category. This weeks topic was distribution channels ; how your product gets from your company to your potential customer segments. Diagnostics. Week 3 Todd Morrill Instructor .

Distribution 232

Distribution Channel Lean Intellectual Property 232

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Go for Justified as your primary document format to maintain a consistent edge to edge text distribution. Address them appropriately and include references if common nouns or shortened names would be used. For example: “XYZ company, also referred to as “company” in this contract.” Reference Laws.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Naming Distribution Global 127

Occam's Razor

JULY 5, 2021

Attribution is simply the science (sometimes, wrongly, art) of distributing credit for Conversions. Paid Media Marketers (sometimes referred to as Direct Response Team or Performance Marketing) love doing attribution analysis across only paid media channels becuase it allows them to distribute credit only across their work.

Analytics 148

Analytics Marketing Channel Conversion 148

YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2013

Also known as haptics, one’s sense of touch is distributed across one’s skin and mouth (via the cutaneous system) unlike other more focused senses.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Customer Michigan Framework 159

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan. Distribution is how you will get your product into the hands of your customers. Here are a few common distribution models that you may consider for your business: Direct. Retail Distribution. Use of Funds.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Learning could be about product features, customer needs, the right pricing and distribution channel, etc.) The “build” step refers to building a minimal viable product (an MVP.) distribution channels to reach customers and offer them the value proposition. customer segments, such as users and payers or moms or teens.

Lean 120

Lean Agile Business Model Customer Development 120

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Depending on the business model, some hire providers as full-time W2 workers and some assemble a network of part-time providers with disperse distribution of available hours. Either way, you’re bound to face a challenging balancing between scaling supply too slowly and having ample providers ready-trained to match geo-specific demand. .

Vertical 156

Vertical Software Review Portfolio Demand 156

YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2018

The profit collected from the efficient working of the organization is distributed among the members in the form of the dividends. Trading in reference to the countries increases your knowledge about the financial position of every country. The use of latest tools and technology is the major component of this industries.

Software Review 124

Software Review Technical Review Dividend Demand 124