Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

We’ve tested 18 alternatives that might be a better fit for your email marketing needs. 5 (1000+ reviews) Mailchimp Small businesses All-in-one marketing platform Free plan; paid from $13/month 4.4/5 5 (2000+ reviews) Klaviyo Ecommerce businesses Advanced product recommendations Free plan; paid from $45/month 4.6/5

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

Ready to discover which email marketing solution might be a better fit for your needs? 5 (2000+ reviews) Klaviyo E-commerce businesses Deep e-commerce integration and predictive analytics Free (paid from $45/month) 4.6/5 Let’s go. (TL;DR) 5 100+ reviews) What’s “wrong” with GetResponse? (TL;DR)

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

you're managing a handful of vendors, the next, your finance team is playing Whac-A-Mole with overdue notices, drowning in an inbox full of emails with the subject line "bumping this." That's because every business has different objectives. Getting paid is great, but paying others? One minute.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

Scope creep is like that friend who shows up to your low-key game night with their roommate, their roommate's boyfriend, and their roommate's boyfriend's beer league hockey teammates. And that's often your timeline. " We've all been there. " We've all been there.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

As a database and spreadsheet (respectively), Airtable and Google Sheets are a lot like this, but with way less vitamin C. Whether your device has the juice to handle all that potential is a whole other story.) Your database—automated Store, edit, share, and automate data all in one tool.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. He then brought her to board meetings so nobody could accuse him of not having a business model. I see many companies these days just race to raise capital.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2021

While the pandemic has created numerous obstacles for entrepreneurs, some of the best and most inventive ideas have been born out of adverse circumstances. January is the perfect time to re-evaluate what worked and what didn’t work over the course of the past 12 months in order to set new intentions for your business.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2021

Twenty-seven years into her career at Accenture, she’s with Accenture Ventures , the venture capital firm of the global business. That’s both in terms of what the pandemic has brought and how businesses have adapted. This includes getting a business plan together. What do you think of less than 1%? she tells Ramon.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

To build successful businesses, entrepreneurs must fall in love with solving customer problems more than their own ideas. Entrepreneurs often rush to build and test their ideas using the lean startup methodology. As such, successful innovators are committed to solving customer problems rather than simply proving their own ideas.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We first met at Harvard Business School as young students in 1989. When we decided to invest in a startup, it was because we saw a unique combination of a strong idea with a solid team. When we decided to invest in a startup, it was because we saw a unique combination of a strong idea with a solid team. It is a process.

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A Smart Bear

AUGUST 22, 2017

The motivation behind the MVP is still valid: Build something small, because small things are predictable and inexpensive to test. MVPs are great for startups and product teams because they maximize validated learning about customers as quickly as possible. Fortunately, there’s a better way to build and validate new products.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

I always start my answer to this question with, “you’d have to be a pretty big baby to complain about being a VC.&# It is the equivalent of going to a coffee shop every day and having intellectual debates. I get to do a deep dive on their business model, product roadmap and competitive positioning.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Software consultants come in many forms, but if you cannot write your own code, finding a developer who meets your needs can be a stressful process that involves much trial and error. TechCrunch: As a developer for hire, how involved do you get when helping clients validate ideas before they bring their apps to market?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 26, 2022

A smarter approach is to test your ideas before even creating something. In this article, I’m going to show you how to ethically create a Minimum Viable Course so that you can test your course ideas before wasting time on creating something that’s not going to sell. Then let’s get started. So pick your poison.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. By analyzing the feedback and sign-ups, you can gauge the demand for your product.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Starting a business is very difficult. This Guide is for the aspiring business owner and entrepreneur for the purpose of spuring thinking and investigation that will lead to the creation of a business plan followed by the business launch. Request situations where they had an opportunity to observe your actions.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

That means they spend a lot less time actively seeking out new deals than they do responding to inbound deal flow. No matter what you may have heard or read in the blogosphere, there is simply no platform in the world where you can post a profile and expect money to start flowing.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When we found product-market fit later that year and started bringing on lots of new customers, instead of spending engineering resources on re-architecturing our platform to scale, we were able to double down on product engineering to accelerate the growth. And good people follow good people, helping you grow your team down the road.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

It basically talks about how, instead of betting everything on one big idea and risking it all, you need to start by firing small “bullets”—testing out various ideas on a smaller scale. Similarly, when serving customers, I ensured no single client accounted for most of my business.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

What Is Your Process for Developing New Business Ideas?: 16 Experts Weigh In Sixteen entrepreneurs, from Founders to CEOs, unveil their personal blueprints for birthing a business concept. I never care about competition because I know potential competitors can’t do bottom-of-funnel targeting the way I can.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

What advice would you give your past self? He was at a low point: overwhelmed, sleep deprived, stressed… I listened, nodded, and said, “I remember those days.” The question I asked them was this: If you could go back in time and give your younger self some advice just as you were starting your founder journey, what would you say?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While the pandemic has created numerous obstacles for entrepreneurs, some of the best and most inventive ideas have been born out of adverse circumstances. January is the perfect time to re-evaluate what worked and what didn’t work over the course of the past 12 months in order to set new intentions for your business.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2023

As a side benefit, my parents might have some idea of what I actually do for work. Growth is one of those silicon valley business terms that has made it into the general business lexicon, yet most people don’t know what it actually means. To start, let’s talk about the traditional marketing funnel. What is Growth?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

A Very Honest Guide to Writing Your Fundraise Pitch Deck How to optimise yours for success Congratulations! You’ve started a company, assembled a super squad of founders, and built out the MVP of your product. It’s going pretty well, and you think it’s the right time to speed up your growth by raising some money.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

I was starting Senior year at Northwestern, only had a few classes left, and decided to find a program where I could formally learn the ins and outs of VC. What has been your biggest challenge when it comes to finding the “right deals”? A lot of startups with co-founders only have one of the founders pitching the idea.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

Here’s the advice I wish someone told me when I started. To better understand this societal revolution, start with this video about blockchain technology and then read the whitepapers for Bitcoin , Ethereum , and Terra. on “ The Best Business Show.” Kraken does list less tokens than FTX or Coinbase. Coinbase.com ?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. It did come at the end of 3 marathon weeks of travel to SF, London & NY and I had just gotten back the day before so I’m a bit exhausted as you can probably tell. MARK] I started comp sci.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

As she marks 25 years in business, Renée shared what she’s learned along her entrepreneurial journey. It was my 26 th birthday, and I was officially starting my company, Renée Rouleau Skin Care, in Dallas, Texas (though I would eventually relocate the company headquarters to Austin). Treat Your Vendors as Partners (and With Kindness).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This is advice for people who have done scientific research at a university and are considering starting a company to commercialize it. You can start a company while continuing your academic career. If you are a student graduating soon, you can just wait until you graduate; that’s a perfect time to start a company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

SoftBank is just the latest validation for Miami’s booming startup scene. However, I predict more non-Latin American founders, investors, engineers and operators from cities like New York, LA and San Francisco, will also choose to build their businesses in Miami due to higher quality of life and more attractive tax rates.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

To learn more about how the space has evolved “and when they expect their investments to start paying off,” Karan Bhasin interviewed: Sri Pangulur, partner, and Paul Lee, partner, Tribe Capital. Depending on your business, extending credit to customers can also jump-start growth and lock in financial stability.

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StartupNation

JUNE 25, 2021

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman once said that starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling the airplane on the way down. However, by having all of this well thought out beforehand, you can save your nerves, and instead of coming up with strategies from scratch, you have a base to build from.

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Reforge

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Table of Contents What happens when we lose sight of customers How customer-centricity builds a competitive moat How to know if you’ve left your customers behind How to get back on track Common mistakes to avoid Data shows that customer-centered businesses outperform their competition. As the business grows, the team does, too.

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Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Studying how today’s greatest companies started is a good way to put things in perspective : they all struggled almost terminally at some point in their life, and yet managed to overcome adversity to become the giants they are today. the way business gets conducted has massively changed since the 60s-70s? Nike is a case in point.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

If you exited your last company for airplane money and are now independently wealthy, congratulations! As someone with “founder” on your resume, you have an extra challenge in getting a traditional salaried job. Especially if your life partner and/or bank account are burnt out on the income volatility of startups? .

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