Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Deferred payments start with stretching the payables period but, more importantly, include giving employee equity in lieu of a higher salaries and negotiating vendor deferred payments out of future revenues. Use social media for early marketing. Social media is not rocket science.

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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. Get support from credible industry groups and partners. Focus on a solution that is scalable world-wide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

All startups, including non-profits, need revenue to thrive, such as such as from subscriptions, retail, online, licensing, or services. They want to see revenue to share in the return. Here I recommend a 5-year projection of revenues, expenses, and funding requirements. Provide specifics on the customer business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Often the Boomer is more willing to work for equity, and easily convinced to step aside when revenues reach that next threshold. Member of the Advisory Board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Business agility is simply to ability and intent to make small changes, on a daily basis, to penetrate new markets, add new revenue streams, reduce costs, and prune out products that are no longer carrying their weight.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 billion in revenue last year. According to Ark Invest’s research , revenue from virtual worlds will compound 17% annually from roughly $180 billion today to $390 billion by 2025. social media. Fortnite alone made $1.8

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 19, 2025

It combines website development, search engine optimization, social media marketing, and online reputation management into one cohesive solution. We increased our revenue by 20% last year. The difference has been noticeable for clients who previously struggled with fragmented marketing efforts. .”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

With the best solutions, the customer gets value which exceeds your revenue. Through social media and customer interaction, you must convince customers that your culture matches theirs. Too many entrepreneurs, especially ones with work-at-home schemes and multi-level marketing, believe that someone has to lose to help them win.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

A recurring expense was turned into a recurring revenue. The Internet and social media are also a key knowledge source. Openly acknowledge current challenges in your business. Business leaders who see problems only as a burden tend to hide them from the team, or actually ignore them until a crisis hits.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2022

However, nonprofits can’t generate revenue through conventional means due to their nature. Social Media Marketing. Social media marketing is an excellent platform for nonprofits to run fundraising campaigns. Not only is social media cost-effective, but it allows organizations to target specific demographics.

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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. Have you noticed that more companies beg you to participate in their business today? They do it because engaged customers become loyal advocates and buyers.

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Rembrandt Communications

MARCH 1, 2022

And we all know what that leads to… negative reviews, lost revenue, bad press, and more! This is because your social interactions, press releases, web content, newsletters, etc. Start with brief training sessions on copywriting, search engine optimization, social media, financial operations, sales, and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Using new tools for recruiting key players and advisors.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

As long as your online presence is boosted, whether that’s website or social media, you’ll be able to be found by anyone who wants to know more about you. As the digital marketing world opens the doors to new customer segments and revenue streams, social media platforms are coming to the forefront.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” If you are in the almost 30 percent of all small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” You need to be there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

With social media and smart phone apps, real product information spreads at astounding speeds. Business agility is simply to ability and intent to make small changes, on a daily basis, to penetrate new markets, add new revenue streams, reduce costs, and prune out products that are no longer carrying their weight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2019

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. Have you noticed that more companies beg you to participate in their business today? They do it because engaged customers become loyal advocates and buyers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2020

Some analysts argue that revenue drives growth, while others say user growth drives revenue. Google reached $1B in revenue within five years of incorporation, and now has a market capitalization of over $1 trillion. Long-term stability requires revenue growth and profit. Both have worked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

In the short term you need customers to find you at any price, and in the longer term you need revenue, profit, and return loyalty. Even a million users on your social media site won’t pay the bills until you sell some advertising or a premium service.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 14, 2024

And more recently, we’ve attracted strategic capital that has either 1) experience building the brands in this space or 2) the ability to help us accelerate distribution and revenue gains. As people and culture evolves, so does Sanzo’s place in it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This is a whole new world for small businesses seeking enterprise application opportunities, as well social media trend challenges. The challenge is to increase response rates and propagate a single view of the customer, by integrating customer data from multiple Web and social media interactions.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2024

Create a detailed business plan where you must outline your financial goals, expenses, and revenue projections. Networking can help you find investors, talent, customers, and revenue opportunities. Don’t forget to establish your presence on social media channels. Invest in social media ads, too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Most startups, and many big businesses, still don’t have a clue on how to use social media productively for marketing their business. Social Marketology ,” outlined the best set of steps I have seen so far for this current world: Focus on desired outcomes first. Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

There are so many businesses around us, and to stay in the game, you need to think of ways to improve your small business revenue. As a small business owner, you need to do some research on industry practices for growing small business revenue. Today’s world is all about competition. Follow industry best practices. Final thoughts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For the rest of us, here is my prioritized list of key strategies that I believe every business leader can benefit from as a starting point in making the current inflation economy less of a negative impact on their business, or maybe even a pleasantly surprising positive: Solicit follow-on revenue from existing customers.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

Stacked Marketer turned a free newsletter into a six-figure revenue generator by staying actionable, convenient, and entertaining. This tells us its social media team, blog content writers, website copywriters, and everyone else, are aligned on their task execution. Consistency is equally critical for startups.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2024

Our deep dive into the world of email newsletters unveils tactical strategies for transforming subscribers into revenue-generating assets. Key Takeaways: Russell Henneberry provides the tactical strategies to transform subscribers into revenue. Russell shares invaluable insights on the resurgence of email newsletters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2021

If you are an entrepreneur these days, or trying to grow an existing business, everyone is telling you that you need to use social media. Social media is the realm of public opinion and customer conversations. With social media, it is also important to identify how many people see your message as remarkable.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2021

This trend is promising despite the rising usage of email, instant messaging applications, and social media platforms, . Promoting the benefits of the on-demand courier delivery app across online forums and social media platforms to get more business traction. Key features of the Uber for Courier app for Customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2019

Sizing the market, projecting revenue, and calculating break-even points are critical, even for a coffee shop. In today’s world of social media and the Internet, people want to know who you are, what makes you outstanding in your field, and relate to your vision. Don’t get too comfortable – take comfort in fear.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

You should also think about adding customer support features to your social media platforms. People frequently use social media to learn more about your brand and find answers to their questions, so make sure you can provide them with those answers. Rely on data. The key to improving customer experience is data.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2022

You’re still going to invest in a digital marketing agency and any related software such as MailChimp, HubSpot for inbound, Sprout or Buffer for scheduling organic social media content, and so on. Social media posts. Social Media Primes: Learn to Use It . Guest posts.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

Perhaps the most powerful content creation of all, which is growing in popularity is coding, catapulting companies like Lovable which hit $17M in annualised recurring revenue in February 2025, up from $7M at the end of 2024. These costs represent an ongoing tax on revenue, requiring careful consideration in business model design.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” Real contracts, testimonials, and even statements of intent are much more effective, if not real revenue and growth statistics. The best demos to investors are 30 seconds or less.

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