Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

To keep you out of this statistic, I recommend the following steps to all aspiring business owners as they step into this new and exciting world of managing your own business: Solidify your funding plan before you start spending. These are necessary to attract customers, investors, and give you a line of defense with competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2021

What most people don’t realize is, according to recent statistics , despite top positioning, only a quarter of sites selected comes from paid search. For sites displaying the ads, this is called pay per click (PPC). Thus I recommend that you stick with organic search, and use SEO to raise your ranking. Cost per action (CPA).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Start by reviewing current statistics, like the recent Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report 2022 , to learn which social media sites are most popular, which features drive the most impact today, and how other social media marketers have maximized their efforts and seen the greatest ROI. Pick the ones that fit your desired outcome.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Instead, expeditiously pick a reasonable moniker and then get back to work delivering value to your customers. In all cases, these names were derived by the Founders, without the involvement of consultants, MBAs, focus groups, statistically valid surveys or other hindrances to a startup’s ability to make quick, sound decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Yet surprisingly, according to statistics on the Fundable crowdfunding site, friends and family are the major funding source for entrepreneurs, investing over $60 billion in new ventures per year, almost triple the amount coming from venture capital sources. Build a prototype first on your own time and money.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2012

end-of-the-year coverage, we've run through our web statistics and figured out which were the. Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. SpaceX Plans Launch Site In Texas - In April, SpaceX announced plans to set up a launch. As part of our. an article was accessed on our publication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2022

If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” We all know how to get friends and peers to pump up our story online, but investors want to see feedback from paying customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Both need to be clear and direct. Make every interview memorable.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 30, 2012

Given the statistics quoted above, you must find ways to have your consumers endorse your product publicly, and in a form that is divorced from looking like an advertisement. But it must be told about and by the customer, with your product as the tool of solution, not the focus of the story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet surprisingly, according to statistics on the Fundable crowdfunding site, friends and family are the major funding source for entrepreneurs, investing over $60 billion in new ventures per year, almost triple the amount coming from venture capital sources. Build a prototype first on your own time and money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2020

If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” We all know how to get friends and peers to pump up our story online, but investors want to see feedback from paying customers.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We''re not the company which tells athletes to jump on our site, and we''ll spam you to schools and find you a place. Brenton Sullivan: We really put the customer at the center of our business, something that many entrepreneurs miss out on. That''s the quantitative analysis of statistics to find players. It''s a big topic.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

It is the most viable way to not only get project funding but more importantly to get customer validation. Statistics show that 60% of projects on crowdfunding sites fail to reach their funding goals. This is because the project itself was poorly planned and companies failed to produce a good video.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with ecommerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Content is king of the road. like Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

The cost of entry is so low – you can create a web site for almost nothing - and you are on your way to riches with e-commerce, your latest invention, or personal services. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Having a web site is necessary, but not sufficient. Content is king of the road.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Contrary to popular opinion, viral marketing has not eliminated the need for old-fashioned lead generation to bring customers to a startup. Display ads on mobile devices, including video and audio, also offer a new opportunity to reach target customers. Social-media advertising. Email marketing. Yet it is more alive than ever before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2017

Statistics show that the failure rate for new businesses within the first four years is fifty percent or greater, even with companies that have a large startup budget. Having a website won’t help if customers can’t find it. Use social media to actively engage with your customers. Customer service is not just fixing problems.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Both need to be clear and direct. Make every interview memorable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. Identify customer executives who need your solution. Identify customer executives who need your solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s hard to be successful in any business when your customers can’t find you, or they find you and still can’t figure out whether your solution works for them. Use plain language (no acronyms) on the first page and every page, to emphasize customer benefits, as well as product features. A guarantee reduces the risk for the customer.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

Let me give you a few examples: SwingbySwing Golf created an iPhone/Android app that lets golfers use the GPS in their phone to measure distance to the hole and track statistics. TripTrotting recruited thousands of local travel guides for their site. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2009

We caught up with Ricardo Solar, the firm's CEO, to learn more about the site. There is an area on the web site, called the Simon Community, where the decisions you post are public. What's the business model behind the site? What's your background, and why did you start the site? What's the idea behind LetSimonDecide?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Statistics from 2008 show that digital couponing has rapidly grown but has yet to outpace paper coupons. But subsequent statistics have also shown that “online coupon access [has] increased 92 percent and redemption of Internet deals [has] leapt up 360 percent;” with more growth predicted in 2012. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” We all know how to get friends and peers to pump up our story online, but investors want to see feedback from paying customers.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

Can tapping the power of the crowd not only help you find customers and help fund your project, but also help you shape your startup idea and find funding? We offer up those ideas and patents to any user on the Internet, and they can sign up on the site to work with the entrepreneur on the idea. and NASA, as well as universities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” We all know how to get friends and peers to pump up our story online, but investors want to see feedback from paying customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

If you haven’t yet finalized the business model, cost projections, and customer segments, you aren’t ready for investors. Look how many social media ‘likes’ my site has generated.” We all know how to get friends and peers to pump up our story online, but investors want to see feedback from paying customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2015

Yet surprisingly, according to statistics on the Fundable crowdfunding site, friends and family are the major funding source for all entrepreneurs, investing over $60 billion in new ventures last year, almost triple the amount coming from venture capital sources. Build a prototype first on your own time and money.

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socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2013

I don''t know if you''ve heard, but it''s actually tough for music teachers, tutors, and others to truly find enough customers to pay their bills and keep them involved in their passions. Who''s your ideal customer for this? Steven Cox: We consider the teacher our customer, and that''s who the software is built for.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for. It''s about as complicated as Google Adwords.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Both need to be clear and direct. Make every interview memorable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Both need to be clear and direct. Make every interview memorable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. Social media includes blogs, social networks, and video-sharing sites. It could be a product quality problem, or a major customer complaint on Twitter. Both need to be clear and direct. Make every interview memorable.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. People can come to the site, pay you directly, and we provide them with access to your genie, and away they go. a month for two Genies, and unlimited users or customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The term “Articles” can be misleading, as articles on exploreB2B can take many forms: industry insights, expert experience, customer stories or questions and business needs – even a detailed product description. Confirmed experts are given more options on the site and achieve higher visibility for themselves and their content.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The next company up was Storitz , operating as an online reservation system for storage units (think Orbitz), the company helps consumers not only search for available listings, but also make reservations with real time feedback on availability and customer reviews. Looking for twitter trends on #TZSpotlight?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Golfers won’t have as many injuries and for golf courses, it gets people through the course earlier resulting in more customers. If you’ve ever worked for an executive and had to track multiple statistics, financial sheets and web pages, it can be very frustrating. The site launched a few months ago.

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