StartupNation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

How are customers, employees and investors able to connect with a business? The best businesses have a story, and the best entrepreneurs know how to weave storytelling into their brand narrative. Here are just five reasons why your business can benefit from brand storytelling: Stories are powerful. Stories help form connections.

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Revolution

MAY 4, 2022

And by all measures, the company was executing well: growing revenue, increasing profits, and an expanding geographic footprint to serve its blue-chip customer base. CEO and co-founder, Ryan Simonetti, had to negotiate with employees, customers, lenders, and landlords.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2023

An ocean of prospective customers awaits. It’s a tenuous approach given that 67% of customers admit their standards for good experiences are higher than ever before. Try these three methods to surprise and delight your customers: 1. Cue tanking stocks and customers running across the street to a competitor.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Because here’s the truth: while you might not pay attention to the competition, your prospective customers are. I don’t care what industry it is, everyone is competing for a certain segment of customers. Yes, that customer pool may be incredibly large, but at the end of the day, you all want the same thing: for people to choose you.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 12, 2023

ROW” as a KPI The traditional measures of startup success — market fit, product innovation, revenue growth — are important, but they only tell part of the story. At the same time, many of us feel we always need to have a ‘face’ on — to employees, customers, and even investors.

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The Seraf Compass

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Before investing in a startup company, early stage investors constantly ask a key question, “Are enough customers ready and willing to try this new product or service?” Ken Rainin, an inspiring serial entrepreneur, successfully confronted this “Is our customer ready?” This story demonstrates one of those times.

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Reforge

MARCH 28, 2023

3 Common User Story Makes Product Managers Make To Use or Not to Use User Stories The Misuse of User Stories – a title like that begs the question: Who misused them, how, and why? Well, user stories may not be literary works of art, but they very well may be the red herrings in their own tale. What is a user story again?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This is why I believe in the power of EO and our members – I’ve witnessed so many real-life stories that prove the extent of our efficacy when we come together; how we can move the world forward by unlocking our full potential as leaders. The post 3 Stories of Entrepreneurial Action in a Year of Great Challenge appeared first on.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca are joined by Matt Rogers , the founder and CEO of Mill, a startup that helps its customers turn their food scraps into farm feed. Subscribe to Found to hear more stories from founders each week.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 18, 2022

Top 3 DIY tactics, according to a former BBC journalist turned media relations troubleshooter Image by author I sifted at least 100,000 story pitches when I worked on the main planning desks for BBC News (radio, tv, and online) and its investigative show Panorama. I’ve both reported on and landed big stories. Or become a customer?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Slides in this deck ANYbotics sent through a lightly redacted deck that only blurs customer logos and financials. A logical evolution [Slide 4] Nothing is inevitable, but this is a very compelling story. Slides like this can do a lot of the heavy lifting when it comes to telling the story. Why are you doing what you do?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 13, 2023

But from a business point of view, it always comes down to concentrating on what the customer wants the most that you can supply with ease and maximum profit — in other words, developing your MVP. Let me give you the story of an MVP development in action. And this process is full of mistruths. Let’s debunk a few. Not enough, probably.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Shorthand , the Australian startup behind a no-code platform that allows publishers and brands to create multimedia stories, has raised $10 million Australian (just under $8 million U.S.) ” Those customers include the BBC, Dow Jones, the University of Cambridge, Nature, Manchester City FC and Peloton.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. In non-book news, there’s a bushel of stories from TechCrunch for ya! Going Backstage : Paul also has a story on how Spotify is planning to monetize its open source Backstage project via premium plugins. to 17 cents.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 5, 2022

As a small business, you may constantly find yourself competing against big brands with loyal customers and marketing budgets that never seem to run out. In a nutshell, your brand is how your customers perceive your business. However, the ongoing effort will result in establishing long-term relationships with your customers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

When I think about AI, the most important thing is how do we leverage the data that we have to actually create that trust environment for our customers. We have to create our own GenAI for the customer. Immad Akhund: We’ve done a couple of things that are customer facing. For our help desk, GenAI is really good for that.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 3, 2023

The story goes that the brothers who distilled the aromatic alcohol worked separately on the bottle and the label for their concoction. Cool story. It’s one thing to slap a label on a bottle that’s too large and an entirely different thing to ship a software product that doesn’t work and doesn’t solve the customer’s problem.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In turn, this information can then be used to craft a story that includes your business. Journalists and reporters like surveys as they can use the results as evidence in a story or article. The survey should be used to help you tell a larger story that relates to your business. Feel-good stories are big hits with the media.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2021

More than ever, people are watching videos, consuming stories, reading posts and scrolling newsfeeds. Use this story, and the many others out there, to inspire you to build an engaged and active community of your own. Live a Great Story is a great example of a brand with user-generated content embedded into its brand.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 19, 2023

So, I tell personal stories to show that we all should look for lessons learned by others. It was simply not acceptable to be backed up in customer service, forcing either a ten-minute wait or a call back from support. Rapid growth=hiring inexperienced customer service reps. Here’s one that is “on me.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In more favorable market conditions, using performance data to articulate a clear story about your company’s potential is a best practice. But in the current volatile environment, using data to tell your story is imperative. The cohort analysis shows that newer groups of customers are larger and more retentive than ever before.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Even contact centers need tech : Customers have lots of questions, and to provide the best experience, you need more than just a friendly voice on the other end of the phone. PDT, subscribe here. Thursdaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Every day, countless new businesses emerge, each vying for attention, customers, and a share of the market. This early traction can attract investors, garner more customer attention, and build a brand reputation. First, you have to deeply understand your customers. Are customers sticking around longer? You have customers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And that was the origin story. And then took us about 5 months total to go over the first customer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Frederic also writes about two additional features, Visual Stories and Knowledge Cards. Another handful of stories worth mentioning: Baby owl, doo do doo do do doo : Natasha M reports that Duolingo is working on a music app.

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Jason Malki

DECEMBER 5, 2023

One such individual is Mohd Qaiser Malik, a trailblazer in the tech industry whose journey from the bustling streets of India to the prestigious halls of Babson College in Boston reflects a story of ambition, innovation, and success. Embrace challenges as opportunities for growth, remain adaptable, and always prioritise customer needs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Congrats to the “GoogleCrunch” team, which wrote something like 28 stories yesterday to cover Google I/O. Now customers can scan their shopping receipts for cashback rewards. PT, subscribe here. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Overheard at a VC/startup conference recently: Product market fit is like a product going around from weirdly shaped customer group to weirdly shaped customer group, like that old kid’s book “ Are you my mommy?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2020

from finding the right partner to opening your first office space (be it a garage, WeWork or a less traditional virtual space ) to securing your first paying customer. Your deck can demonstrate traction via customer numbers, revenue, and future pipeline information.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I love a deck that is able to distill its story to the bare essentials. By leading with traction (characters and videos produced), customers and funding history, along with a screenshot showing how the interface works, this slide goes a long way toward setting the stage. A variety of target customers. Value proposition slide.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Clarity of value proposition [Slide 6] Having a clear value prop helps tell the story. Image Credits : Scrintal Promising a 10x increase in work speed is a hell of a claim, and as a would-be investor I’d want to see some proof — but the story is told very well. The headlines tell another.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Now that a lot of transactions take place in e-commerce, tapping into the community is something merchants are finding is a necessity to continue engaging with customers. We are the first Shopify app to do automatic archival and classification of Instagram stories,” said Woo, who is the company’s chairman. Its app was also the No.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

Everyone has a story, but they all sound a bit similar: A female VC is launching a fund, and she’s either compared to every other female VC with a fund, expected to only invest in female founders or have a diversity, equity and inclusion angle as a core thesis. I shook hands with Jamie Lee Curtis and stole interview tips from Kara Swisher.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

It follows forms of journalism through use of third-party interviews and external expert analysis, researched or reported news, and feature stories. There are two strains of brand journalism: Corporate journalism or corporate media tells the brand's stories. If the brand wants to tell a story, it can publish it itself. (It's

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Facing a tangle of state and federal legislation, inadequate compliance can quickly generate regulatory hassles and undermine customer confidence. PDT, subscribe here. Welcome to Humpday Crunch! Kyle has the deets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

And for the founders of Mexico City-based startup Stori , they spell opportunity. From left to right, Stori founding team Juan Villaseñor, Marlene Garayzar, Bin Chen, Camila Burne. Stori launched its credit card product in Mexico in January 2020 and has so far had more than 1 million customers apply for a card. .

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 17, 2023

Finally, you can use press releases and other traditional forms of media to reach out to local, regional, and national press outlets to get your story out there. By crafting engaging content, potential customers can become more familiar with the product or service being provided by the business.

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