A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

You might have scratched and clawed inside your social network to get the first 10, but that doesn’t scale to 100 (though it might scale to another 10), and just because you were successful convincing customers one at a time to convert through hour-long Skype calls doesn’t mean you can convert 100 customers self-serve via Facebook ads.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2019

Partially due to the economy, 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 a USNews article, will likely dominate the labor market by 2024. 65 percent of online users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. We’re all socially connected (so great businesses spread faster). The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition).

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices.

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Security Technical Review Entrepreneur Social Network 251

TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

How will you be taking this to market? Ads, Viral/Social, SEO)? Often this ties to marketing support. Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks? Is it limited to login and Like buttons, or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

get the attention of the market they choose. For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Six out of 10 Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, and the growth rate continues to increase. Social networking penetration by Boomers has now caught up with the other age groups, reaching about 80% across the board. The immigrant rate of entrepreneurial activity seems to be declining each year (now about.5%),

Technical Review 296

Technical Review Entrepreneur United States America 296

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Small business owners are adopting trending techniques to avoid wasting their time on marketing schemes with no guarantees. Sales and Social Media. Social networks are a real breakthrough of the 21st century. According to Smart Insights, the number of social media users globally grew from 4.2

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

I’m guessing that means you … and if it doesn’t, you need to rethink your marketing and sales strategy. The majority of entrepreneurs market to their local area. Her articles have been published by the Hot in Social Media, Yahoo! It’s everything – or it should be – for the company that wants to get an edge on the competition.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Marketing is one of the essential sources to intensify the rate of consumers for any business. Marketing generally includes advertising a company or products via media and other sources. In the latest scenario, digital marketing is not an innately novel concept while considering it through a marketing prism.

Social Media 131

Social Media Technical Review Marketing Social Network 131

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2020

With the Internet and social networks, things you do in your personal life can affect your success in a big way. Your online social networks enable you to build your reputation, connect with people who have interests similar to yours, find educational opportunities, and put you in touch with people who can help your startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Now the real work begins – promotion, marketing, blogging, and all types of search engine marketing. Don’t expect that you can create a new social networking site in your garage, and steal all the users away from Facebook. Publish the site and now you are in business.

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Startup eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping 252

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

get the attention of the market they choose. For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. It’s very important.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2019

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. Young people naively enter their pictures and personal data for fun on social networking sites, ignoring constant feedback from the media that these are bad practices.

Security 195

Security Technical Review Social Network Software Review 195

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

get the attention of the market they choose. For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. You need to move to right location and get connected before you ask for help.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

This was obviously prior to the Internet and everything that led to: (mobile smartphones, social networks, new payment technologies, etc.). Not just in Silicon Valley but in LA, NY, Seattle and other major tech markets. The future certainly looks brighter to me. “ And my fear?

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Early Stage Cofounder 299

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2017

The second issue is a social network API. At first, it seems to be a piece of cake, but IRL it takes a week to develop such an integration because popular social networks servers follow their own principles. Choose only these social networks your target audience uses more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Sweat Equity CTO Hire 281

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2022

With today’s pervasive Internet and social networks, people can see how you act outside of work, as well as inside. I see too many otherwise smart professionals and leaders who see social media as a pulpit where they can attack other groups and causes. Manage your whole image, both private and public.

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Leadership Technical Review Social Media Global 304

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 22, 2017

Get it into the market quickly, because real learning occurs only when real customers are using a real product). No video, no filters, no social networking, no commenting and no storage — simple, yet Lovable and Complete, as evidenced by its massive adoption. We don’t build MVPs at WP Engine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2013

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and write a “white paper” on your technology. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

These are win-win arrangements leading to continuous innovation, early access to new markets, and a higher return. With the pervasive internet, and global social networks, it’s easy to be visible and connect to your customers, and they expect it. Connections across business domains are even better.

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Technical Review Software Review Cofounder Social Network 218

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2018

With the Internet and social networks, things you do in your personal life can affect your success in a big way. Your online social networks enable you to build your reputation, connect with people who have interests similar to yours, find educational opportunities, and put you in touch with people who can help your startup.

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Technical Review Marketing Social Network Reputation 148

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Ride Digital, a marketing agency in Kansas City , suggests that strong web design and graphic design can help develop your brand voice and show off your business’s story. Even if you have a small business, your company still has a unique story and point of view that you can show off with strong digital marketing and web design.

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Kansas City Kansas Social Media Flash 191

View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

These two marketing and publishing platforms, respectively, allow for a more intimate relationship between creators and their audience. Network Effect B2B. Most often, when people talk about “network effects,” they’re referring to consumer-facing startups. The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Building loyalty and awareness are top priorities for any social media marketer. More people than ever are using social sites, which is good news for social media marketers. To earn that trust, word-of-mouth marketing leads the way. Yoann Pavy, Head of Digital Marketing, Depop [via MarketingWeek ].

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Social Media Media Developer Marketing 142

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 7: How To Translate Your Brand Identity Into Actual Marketing. You may want your customers and prospects to see your brand as innovative, fresh, and socially conscious. brand awareness – the ability of customers to identify a brand in a crowded market. innovative, socially conscious, trustworthy, friendly).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Publish a regular blog, contribute to relevant social networks, and highlight several videos, podcasts, or eBooks of you and your technology. These are all minimal-cost survival marketing efforts. They will exit quickly. Show evidence of your expertise.

Affiliate 221

Affiliate Advertising Technical Review Social Network 221

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

And if you haven’t yet dabbled in influencer marketing, now’s the time to try it out. Keep reading for five tips for launching influencer marketing campaigns for your e-commerce business. Take a look at your social networks. If you want to launch an influencer campaign, you need to have social media accounts.

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Campaign Software Review Social Media Social Network 147

VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 Social commerce is a thing – Over 76M people in the US will make a purchase via a social network at least once this year (38.4% of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends.

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Technical Review Audio Forecast Social Media 207

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 22, 2024

When it comes to startups, the focus often gravitates toward acquiring new customers, expanding market reach, and chasing growth metrics. Market dynamics can swiftly shift, and customer preferences evolve rapidly. Repeat customers offer a consistent revenue stream, shielding the startup from the erratic fluctuations of the market.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2021

15 Chrome Extensions Every Marketing Consultant Should Employ written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Chrome extensions are incredibly useful (and often underrated) tools for marketers. As a marketing consultant, there are plugins out there that can help you, your clients, and potential prospects.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2020

The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects the job market for developers to grow by 13 percent from 2018 to 2028. A web developer created every website you read, social network you belong to, and web app you use. The job outlook for web developers is better than many occupations. The average job growth is only 5 percent.

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