Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Sign up customers who are paying you money for a service you can’t 100% guarantee is going to be operational for the full period that they’re expecting. Apple announced that they’re shutting down your category. I didn’t want to disappoint my customers. And yet you have to. Would they blame me? Far fetched stuff. My employees.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2015

Hungryroot is going after that category--the packaged food category, with a product that takes about 7 minutes from package to mouth. We stayed in touch and reconnected around a blog post that I wrote in 2012 on falling in love with the problem and not getting attached to the solution. All you need is a pan and some olive oil.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Kevin’s team received the Turnaround Management Association’s global best turnaround award in the sub-$50 million revenue category for leading the hyper-turnaround of NASDAQ-listed VivoPower International. That tech talent was then deployed not only to customer-facing projects but, more importantly, to automation of internal processes.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 18, 2020

Home delivery services have been surging in the past decade, but as people are encouraged to avoid crowded supermarkets and big box retailers, you can expect direct-to-consumer providers of clothing, over-the-counter medicines, cleaning supplies, and even home decor to see an influx of new customers. Food Delivery.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

A writer who wants to blog about culture. Do these folks want to be the 100th investor chasing SaaS or do they want to define/invent new categories where they can be the thought leaders? And then only raise VC once they can (or want to) jump from that profitable first customer to a broader goal. A singer who wants to sing.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Many startups struggle with finding and retaining customers. Having a sustainable and systematic customer acquisition strategy is an essential component of success for any organization, especially as a startup. Once you’ve implemented the basics to identify and attract new customers, you need to continue growing.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

When you type in a single word, you get a huge amount of data in various forms, such as dictionary definitions, videos, and blogs. Today, however, services that simplify search results and provide customized information that users actually want are growing rapidly. but these categories are limited.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 22, 2024

We gathered 30 invaluable strategies from SEO Analysts, Founders, and other experts, ranging from optimizing content with targeted keywords to crafting blog posts that answer key questions. The advantage of Web Stories is that you can condense existing blog content or other content for easy sharing on various social media platforms.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 27, 2023

The longer it takes for your e-commerce web pages to load, the poorer your customer experience and your conversion rates. Gosia Hytry, Head of Content, Spacelift A Lack of Customer Feedback On Products One of the most common SEO errors in e-commerce websites is little to no product reviews.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 11, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. And all of this is within an elegant, unobtrusive design.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

You may want to offer a free 30-day trial to new potential customers. What if some customers want to move to a different pricing tier? Subramanian has credited reading blog posts by Joel Spolsky, founder of Trello, as an early inspiration to start his own venture. “He Tiger Global goes super aggressive in India. and Europe.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Unfortunately, our current linear economy produces enormous amounts of waste—and electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing categories to address. The post Embracing the Circular Economy: One EO Entrepreneur’s Story appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Content is the core of customer experience. A company’s product or service can be phenomenal, but if the enterprise content — marketing, messaging, customer service communications, product documentation or even brand voice and style — is poorly written or unfocused, you’ll have a difficult time attracting and retaining customers.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Customization options.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Pryor High School’s “Creative Spark Industries” team, consisting of seniors Cayden Knight, Johnathan Stevers and Faith Buford, and school advisor David Day, won first place in the Best Overall category for “LocalEyes,” an application and website designed to connect citizens in communities and boost customer engagement among local businesses.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

It mostly comprises the tools that use customer data to generate and deliver the best-targeted messages at the best times possible. But it also encompasses everything from AI creating blog outlines to chatbots that learn from their interactions. The better you can meet your customers' needs, the happier they'll be.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For instance, SKU #L122UV from Bausch+Lomb was categorized as Intraocular Lens (also called “IOL,” one of the test categories our customer assigned us) and had the following attributes: Optic Shape, Optic Material, Haptic Material, Pieces, Optic Diameter, Overall Diameter, Power, Haptic Design, A-Constant, AC Depth and Haptic Angle.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Can your customers tell they're reading something created by your brand without seeing your name? Consistency in brand representation when speaking to your customers is crucial, and a style guide solidifies your brand impression at scale. How else would your company's workers give customers what they want ?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What is Product-Market Fit The product-market fit describes the stage of a startup company where they have successfully identified a target customer and serve them with the right product. You might find another audience or market, but usually, you need to work on your product and improve the value you deliver to your customer.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Quality of life improvements. Which is better?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. Much more data in the full post. Not so fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Sign up customers who are paying you money for a service you can’t 100% guarantee is going to be operational for the full period that they’re expecting. Apple announced that they’re shutting down your category. I didn’t want to disappoint my customers. And yet you have to. Far fetched stuff. My employees.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 11, 2021

An AI copywriting software can help in this regard by automating and speeding up parts of the content creation process, such as writing blog posts, emails, landing pages, Pin titles and descriptions, and Instagram captions. Let’s say you have a nutrition startup and want to write a blog post about vegan protein powders. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

The startup quadrupled its revenue, tripled its customer base and doubled the size of its team during the course of the 12-month period. It has an impressive list of customers, including PayPal, HubSpot, Drift and ZoomInfo. million since its inception. 2020 was a good year for Casted.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Idea Generation If you’ll entertain a huge generalization, a business’s primary objective is to solve customer problems. It surfaces these customer development conversations for you and analyzes them for common patterns. You offer your solution and engage with a potential customer. Next step — go talk to people!

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Calendar syncing. Some even require it.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

SecondMeasure if a unique company that also boasts a unique customer set. SecondMeasure’s technology empowers its customers to drill into consumer spending behaviors from a number of angles. With over 150 customers now, they range from financial institutions such as VC and PE firms, consumer product companies, and media organizations.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 20, 2018

Old misconceptions are long dead and buried, and CEOs know that many customers will first encounter them at the top of a search engine results page. With the right SEO strategy, you can genuinely change your business’ fortunes—bringing in new, relevant customers with clockwork regularity. This is a mistake. Then I learned about SEO.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Floodgate exists to invest in prime movers - entrepreneurs who build movements that become category defining companies - before the rest of the world believes in them. She will translate this to enterprise corporations who seek to empower their organizations to have hard conversations with customers, between employees and with partners.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

There are a few key features we believe products in this category will have: Generation tools that kill the “blank page” problem. Users input their company name, segment, and location, and Durable will spit out a site for them to customize. What can be abstracted away with AI? And where are the highest points of leverage?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2021

could it be a blog post, or a tweet? When you’re building a company, one of your first tasks is to convince potential investors, partners, customers, and employees that your company is “real.” and why it’s better than just publishing the news on your blog?—?is They might feel like a holdover from days gone by.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This is known as intent marketing, and it’s what we’ll be exploring in this article, along with the two categories of purchase intent and, of course, the reasons why intention is essential in marketing. Besides studying their own customer intent data, marketers should also track broader trends like intent indicators in search.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

The final clip is Fred & I talking about whether “the best product wins” and my assertion that the bias in today’s Silicon Valley dominated tech world there is probably too much emphasis on tech at the expense of how to sell, implement and service customers. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. This is classic Fred.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

As they continue investing, Infina’s users see information about the risk and return profile of each asset category and the issuer’s profile, investment strategy and historical performance. Like other investment apps with many newer investors, Infina also creates its own educational content, like blog posts, daily newsletters and videos. “We

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

To conduct market research, the platform looks at billions of tweets, posts, discussion forum threads, reviews and blog posts over a two-year period and then filters for roughly 400,000 distinct concepts (e.g. The answer isn’t clear. That’s perhaps why King is careful to note Black Swan doesn’t replace human judgement.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

You need a great concept in which you will build something that is truly unique and that will be valued by your customers. His blog is even called SaaStr (a bit too close to Suster if you ask me ;-)). You need a set of innate skills that differentiate you from the thousands of others who set out on your similar journey.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Machine learning models predict code, synthesize images, author blog posts reducing composition time by a factor of 2 or 3. Most categories slow down meaningfully, including Defi. This foundation leads to more halcyon days when the promise of technology is realized & the market rewards both customers & founders.

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