Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Fight the urge do more things, to attract more customers in a broader market. In reality, too many choices actually dilutes customer interest in your existing market, and makes your job of production, marketing, and support much more complex. The company has since gone public, and is still a market leader.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2022

Many of you don’t like to think of it this way, but penetrating a target market with your startup is a lot like a military invasion. Too many entrepreneurs push their product out without the proper scouting on high return or weak points in the existing market. This always means targeted marketing and special programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This distrust for the scripted message has led to a new demand for unfiltered marketing, and the emergence of business credibility heroes, like Elon Musk, with his bold statements about space travel, and sometime villains, such as Mark Zuckerberg defending Facebook privacy practices. Real-time in-process updates vs after-the-fact stories.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In reality, more features will more likely make the product confusing and less usable to all. Broad product offerings require too much infrastructure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself. The timing of cash flow is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Offering one more social media site (over 200 already exist on Wikipedia) probably won’t work. Don’t forget to market yourself before, during, and after your initial idea, through social media, websites, and events. Develop a product line and add alternate channels. Prioritize mergers and acquisitions early.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The scope of digital marketing has grown massively today. Compare 2024 with 2014 and you’ll find that digital marketing, SEO, strategy, isation, and keywords were all still quite new. Finding the right digital marketing for home service companies is as vital as a large IT enterprise looking for digital marketing support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Customers today quickly get beyond these, and put a competitive priority on the experience of others, reflected in reviews and social media, and their own total experience with your sales process, delivery, returns, and support on their schedule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2022

In these days of global competition via multiple channels, you need continuous marketing to find more customers. I continue to be amazed that more than a quarter of new businesses don’t even have a website , and many more don’t pay attention to social media, or monitor feedback on sites like Yelp. They won’t find you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. Communicate what is happening and why to everyone. Don’t let the due diligence process be a surprise to the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2021

Every entrepreneur with a new technology tells me that his innovation will be industry-disrupting, meaning that it will render the existing technology obsolete, and create a new market. Entrepreneurs tend to look for big changes and big markets when seeking disruptive opportunities, when the opposite may be more effective.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Juggling multiple responsibilities and ensuring productivity can be challenging without effective time management strategies. Goals should be revisited regularly to adjust to changes in business dynamics or market conditions, ensuring they remain aligned with overall business strategies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 30, 2024

Scale Your Business with Precision: A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing the Marketing Strategy Pyramid written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Want to stay ahead of your competition and keep your business growing? A solid marketing strategy and understanding the Marketing Strategy Pyramid are key.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans. Here are some examples: Marketing Professional. They are always ready to move on to the next big opportunity as markets change.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2023

We’ve seen this effect in social media when it was people who were manipulating beliefs. 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. But that’s not all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You may think that patents and copyrights are not required, since your products are so innovative, but you will find that competitors are quick to copy your idea if you don’t protect it. In addition to locking in his leadership position in electric vehicles, he has also used his patents to negotiate faster growth in his market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science. Tackling most of the support tasks yourself. The timing of cash flow is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Partially due to the pandemic, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force longer, and according to projections , could actually dominate the labor market by 2024. 83 percent of online users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2020

Every business, especially startups, needs all guns blazing quickly on every opportunity or insight into the market. I recommend that every entrepreneur and small business investigate and implement as many as possible of his seven new business force multipliers that I will paraphrase here: Information sharing through social media networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. It is required today for new innovation strategies, analyzing markets for new opportunities, and organizational changes. For a business, volatile markets are a source of great opportunities, as well as great risks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Investors are showing an increased appetite for new stocks, with a good percentage of deals pricing above the marketed share price range. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2022

It started with an email survey on your last stay at their hotel, but now includes requests for online product reviews, to social media input on the design of future products. Welcome to the “Participation Age” of marketing. Motivate people, including your customers, to do something to improve your marketing today.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 7, 2025

After paying R&D costs, product development, packaging, staff costs, and more, start-ups often look for ways to market and scale on a relatively tight budget. Below are five effective marketing tips to help launch your new business: 1. Influencers fall into a similar category, but they are often more of a niche market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Here investors are looking for feature problems or quality issues on the current product. Communicate what is happening and why to everyone. Don’t let the due diligence process be a surprise to the team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2022

Yet I find, as a mentor and outside consultant, that many of you focus only on working conditions and compensation as the key factors determining team engagement , health, and productivity. In my experience, a healthy team is a prerequisite for a thriving business, innovation to meet market needs, and high customer loyalty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2023

Every business, especially startups, needs all guns blazing quickly on every opportunity or insight into the market. I recommend that every entrepreneur and small business investigate and implement as many as possible of his seven new business force multipliers that I will paraphrase here: Information sharing through social media networks.

Silicon Valley 265

Silicon Valley Flash Social Media Software Review 265

Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2020

Pre-pandemic these coffees were usually about what startup to join or how to find product/market fit. Perhaps instead of working for the latest social media or ecommerce company or in retail or travel or hospitality, you might want to make people live healthier, longer and more productive lives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. In reality, more features will more likely make the product confusing and less usable to all. Broad product offerings require too much infrastructure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. It is required today for new innovation strategies, analyzing markets for new opportunities, and organizational changes. For a business, volatile markets are a source of great opportunities, as well as great risks.

Agile 315

Agile Technical Review Leadership Social Media 315

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The Impact of Delays on Startups Delays go beyond being inconvenient; they create tangible harm to startups trying to establish themselves in competitive markets. Dissatisfied customers often voice their frustrations publicly through reviews or social media, which can deter potential customers from engaging with your brand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

A strategy of learning and willingness to pivot, based on market feedback, is a great survival skill and attitude, cherished by investors. Rather than hide seemingly non-productive gaps in your work to-date, investors look for logical actions, and iterative small steps that could be quick to market or quick to fail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low.

Intellectual Property 261

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Rembrandt Communications

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

When was the last time you reviewed everything going on at your business including your website content, sales funnels, customer service processes, delivery materials, social media, online analytics, and more? Take the time to review all of the messaging, products and services you provide potential and current customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2022

For an inventor , the product is everything, and managing cash flow in a business may be the least satisfying part. Working for a well-funded existing company, or pursuing your dream as a hobby, may be more satisfying and productive. I recommend that you look for new or emerging opportunities in new markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

They have become a by-product of innovation rather than the cause of it: Conglomerates grew from industrialization, not innovation. Many countries have learned to make products cheaper and better. Customers today demand products and services personalized or tailored to local needs with embedded quality of life services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Customers set value based on similar products found. Too many entrepreneurs, especially ones with work-at-home schemes and multi-level marketing, believe that someone has to lose to help them win. Push marketing doesn’t work well today, in the age of interactive networking and peer reviews.

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